mplayer not playing films in console
 

Hello all!

I'm having a bit of a problem with mplayer. Everything was working fine until I ceased using my root account as my primary one and switched to a regular user account. It was everything alright before, and now...
When I attempt to start a movie with mplayer I get the following information:

Error opening/initialising the selected video_out (-vo) device.

I guess the problem is in access rights to some video device files, but which one/s? I know I can start mplayer as a superuser, however I would like to change the permission of a file in a way that I could freely use mplayer without the necessity of logging in as "su" or doing "sudo".

Is there a way to do it?

Regards,
Sebastian

if your trying to play it in the console then the device will most likely be /dev/fb0 unless your using devfs. mplayer should state which device its failing to open.

i cant play my movies in fullscreen mode with mplyer , i dont know what to do , i just want to watch my movies :S this is getting complicated, i try to use vidix and doesnt work , the only output that works for me is x11 and cant use it full screen :S what should i do?

You can download the gmplayer, which is a more graphical plug-in for mplayer, which will be easy to control ,as the controls are graphical.

or run it with the -fs switch to go fullscreen