[Wolves] Mplayer

[Old Dan]

Peter Cannon wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> Can anyone help before I throw this machine across the room! I loaded
> Mplayer three days ago using the Linux Format HOT Picks disk.
> 
> I can start the player (Looks slick) but can't play a bloody thing. I
> tried looking at the AVI file posted yesterday and got:
> Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-VO) device.
> 
> OK lets put watching dodgy films on one side for a minute.
> 
> I then tried the LUG Radio file now this is playing but with no sound
> output (I can see the progress bar moving counter increasing) the VOL
> control will not slide (jumps back to the start) and under the menu
> panel MUTE is greyed out so I take it that my sound card is not detected
> the sound card is an ESS Maestro 2E the graphics is an ATI Mobility
> 
> I have looked at the website, downloaded the manual (page by page I
> might add) but I still cant get my head round the problem is there a
> kind soul can help?
Try various -vo options (mplayer -vo help will give you a list) from the 
command line.

For audio it may be that artsd is interfering - I certainly have found 
that in the past with some applications - running mplayer through 
artsdsp (as in 'artsdsp mplayer -vo sdl 
dodgy_file_I_have_downloaded.avi'  :) ) may do the trick, but last I 
knew artsdsp was a kludge...

HTH
-- 
Dan