mplayer wont work on suse 9.2 properly

sephitoh999 · 03-16-2005, 02:11 PM

When i open up a video file using mplayer in suse 9.2, i get 2 small boxes popping up near the top of my screen, both playing the video. However, the colours on both of them are messed up and i dont know what to do :S. If i want to close it, i have to go into console and its realy annoying. The arrow buttons to speed up the video play dont work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

acid_kewpie · 03-16-2005, 04:46 PM

i'd guess this is just using the fbdev or mga_vid output for mlpayer, did you compile it from source? if so you may have neglected to install any X headers which would have been required to build X based video outputs. if you run "mplayer -vo help" what list do you get? if there is no "xv" or "x11" then it's been built without those options. if they are there, try using them explicitly, e.g. "mplayer -vo xv file.avi"

ginda · 03-16-2005, 04:51 PM

I just installed mplayer a few days ago on my suse 9.2 pro. It works fine, did you throw ll the codecs in the right directory before compiling?

acid_kewpie · 03-17-2005, 11:52 AM

what would the reported problem have to do with codecs?