[Wolves] Mplayer

[Peter Cannon]

Hi Dan

On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 14:58, Old Dan wrote:
> 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
Sorry to seem thick but was this answer or an observation? Whats a
Kludge? Perhaps I should have said I am trying to run Mplayer in GUI,
not risen to the higher plane of text mode yet.  

Regards

Peter Cannon

peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk