mplayer won't work with RIVA TNT2

spikeroo · 01-21-2005, 08:55 PM

When I try to use mplayer to view an mpg I get

It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read DOCS/en/video.html#xv!
See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. Try -vo x11

mplayer 1.0-0.2.pre2
Redhat 2.4.21-4.EL
RIVA TNT2 32M

Has anyone gotten this combo to work?

320mb · 01-22-2005, 12:12 AM

when you compiled mplayer, did you include the win32 codecs??

adz · 01-22-2005, 03:21 AM

The FFmpeg codecs (inbuilt statically) should handle it just fine. How did you install mplayer? Source or binary?

spikeroo · 01-22-2005, 11:03 AM

I installed the binary from http://apt.freshrpms.net/

adz · 01-22-2005, 08:07 PM

Try source. Mplayer works many times better from source as you can get the codecs package the 320mb mentioned. You'll then be able to play just about everything. Also it may tell you something during the compile process that may shed light on your vo problem.

By the way, does x11 work?

spikeroo · 01-22-2005, 08:38 PM

Good idea. I will try the compile route. I tried the lazy way and that way, as usual, may end up taking longer.

I'm running Gnome. Does that answer your X11 question?

Thanks

adz · 01-22-2005, 08:57 PM

Quote:

Does that answer your X11 question?

No. What I meant was try the command mplayer <some file> -vo x11. See if that works.

kozaki · 01-23-2005, 03:53 PM

mplayer [options] file

Well, compiling mplayer is not a "piece of cake". And binaries are way better now than they used to be !

I'd give mplayer video drivers doc a glance before going any further (like trying to compile it), and go on as said by adz with -vo x11 etc. ('mplayer -vo help' will list all the drivers it thinks it's able to play on your machine).

When you now which driver are the best for you, just put them in your order in ~/.mplayer/config (again, 'man mplayer' is your friend)

spikeroo · 01-27-2005, 09:54 PM

That works!

mplayer file -vo x11

The compile route was ugly. It sent me off downloading nvidia drivers, which didn't work.

I can play files.

On to sound!

adz · 01-28-2005, 12:51 AM

You shouldn't need the nvidia drivers to run mplayer with the xv output. Those drivers are only needed for decent 3D graphics. What I mostly wanted to get out of the compile was the very end of your ./configure script. The part that tels you what's enabled and what's not. If you can post that. The xv output driver is vastly superior to x11, IMO.