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Hi - I've been having some troubles getting mplayer to work. I've been using gmplayer and there was a time when it did play video files (though the screen was small and wouldn't get any bigger though the black border around the screen could be enlarged). However now when I try to play an av file I get the following -
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) deviceI found a previous thread in the forums with the same error occurring and followed it, like the previous poster when I run xvinfo I get
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
no adaptors presentBut this thread didn't seem to ever resolve the issue... I suspect I have done something horrible to my xorg.conf. My video drivers section looks like this -
# Device configured by xorgconfig:
Section "Device"
Identifier "3"
Driver "vesa"
#VideoRam 16384
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSectionAny help would be much appreciated!
Last edited by otter (2009-01-26 19:50:34)
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If X starts and runs fine then xorg.conf should be configured ok.
If you click on mplayer settings and go to the video tab, what's listed?
Intel i7-920 (stock), ASUS P6TD-Deluxe, AMD R9 270X, RAM: 6GB
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The video tab has
xv X11/Xv
x11 X11 (XImage/Shm)
gl X11 (OpenGL)
gl2 X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version
xvidix X11 (VIDIX)xv is selected.
'Enable double buffering' is ticked
Under 'Movie FPS' it says 0.000
That's pretty much it...
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with the xf86-video-vesa package, you dont get xv. Try the x11 video driver for gmplayer.
With the xf86-video-ati package, you get xv (with a ati video chip) while you don't with the fglrx driver where you get opengl instead.
have fun
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Thanks for that!
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Has it solved the problem?
Intel i7-920 (stock), ASUS P6TD-Deluxe, AMD R9 270X, RAM: 6GB
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Yes - but now I need to do some fiddling I think so as to be able to enlarge the screen...
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