There *were* a few other threads with users stating similar problems, in this forum and others, but I was unable to find one that had been resolved.
I installed Debian Sarge a few days ago and have been enjoying the ease and convenience of apt-get. However, when no packages were found for MPlayer, I went to the project's website and installed the program from source, and the essential codecs package. I quickly downloaded a short video to test the new program, but was presented with a few error messages. They were:
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Can't open /dev/fb0: No such device
[fbdev2] Can't open /dev/fb0: No such device
vo_cvidix: No vidix driver name provided, probing available ones (-v option for details)!
vosub_vidix: Couldn't find working VIDIX driver
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Sound worked fine, but there was no video to be seen.
I thought maybe it could've had something to do with /dev/fb0's permissions, so I checked them, and its group owner was 'video', and I'm in that group. video's permissions are rw-. Others had recommended passing "-vo x11" and "-vo xv" as arguments to mplayer, so I tried those, as well as the options listed in "-vo help", all to no avail. As root, mplayer played incredibly choppy video with extremely out of place colors for about a second or two (in fullscreen I'll add, which I couldn't get to do otherwise) before completely crashing, causing a reboot.
At this point I'm absolutely stumped as to what could be the problem as I'm relatively new to Linux. Since I'm here, I look forward to participating in the community! Thanks in advance.
Edit: I forgot to mention that totem worked fine when viewing the clip.
