mplayer help

[Cole Tuininga]

On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 10:17, Thomas M. Albright wrote:
> mplayer works fine for me from the command line, but when I try using 
> the GUI version, (gmplayer,) which is part of the mplayer installation, 
> I get an error:
>      Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
> 
> Any tips of how I can make this work?

Sounds like your gmplayer isn't picking a default video_out plugin.  Try
starting it up with this:

gmplayer -vo <someplugin>

To get a list of valid plugins, try:

gmplayer -vo help

I usually use the sdl plugin - it seems to work best for me personally. 
YMMV.

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Cole Tuininga
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