Problems with mplayer and the framebuffer

dmillard · 2012-01-01 18:24:25

I am having trouble running mplayer in the framebuffer using

mplayer -vo fbdev

or

mplayer -vo fbdev2

fbdev plays sound but says that I was unable to open the requisite video device (I am in the video group). fbdev2 spits error messages to the screen, and plays no sound. Currently, I do not have access to the computer with this problem, and cannot post the error messages.

I did, however get mplayer in the framebuffer to work by installing directfb and recompiling mplayer. This time, even though I am in the video group, I am still not allowed to access directfb unless I run as root (it runs perfectly as root).

I'm sure I've missed something simple, but I cant see it. I've read through what I believe is all of the requisite documentation.

Thanks!

edit: More descriptive title.

Last edited by dmillard (2012-01-03 02:17:31)

stressat · 2012-01-01 18:30:43

#chmod a+rw /dev/fb0

dmillard · 2012-01-01 18:38:50

Unfortunately, I don't think that's the problem.

$ stat -c "%A %U %G" /dev/fb0
crw-rw---- root video
$ groups
... video ...

dmillard · 2012-01-10 20:01:01

Sorry to bump, but can anybody help me with this? I've yet to find a solution.

ConnorBehan · 2012-01-10 20:26:04

There's also the "sdl" video output to try. And mplayer and mplayer2 seem to have slightly different behaviour for me. Out of curiosity, what framebuffer driver are you using?

Arch Linux

#1 2012-01-01 18:24:25

Problems with mplayer and the framebuffer

#2 2012-01-01 18:30:43

Re: Problems with mplayer and the framebuffer

#3 2012-01-01 18:38:50

Re: Problems with mplayer and the framebuffer

#4 2012-01-10 20:01:01

Re: Problems with mplayer and the framebuffer

#5 2012-01-10 20:26:04

Re: Problems with mplayer and the framebuffer

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