Hi,

I have been trying for ages to get Mplayer or Xine to work in SuSe 9.0
I have installed packman's MPlayer and get VO output error on trying to play DVDs.
The DVD spins and I get the title text on the scroll marque
I have tried playing around with the different codec settings. Also DVDs try to open with Kaffiene by default so I uninstalled that which didn'y do any good.
I tried Xine from varous sources too and it only locks-up with the DVD stuck inside.

I think the problem must be in SuSE configuration somewhere.
Frustrated as the SuSE list folks got theirs (xine or mplayer)working.

Thanks for any help in getting me to watch a dvd. worked fine in 8.2.

if you get a -vo error, use a different -vo option....

please try to use mplayer from a terminal and if you can not get it to work provide the FULL output from mplayer.... we can't relly help if we have no information to go on

your problem is that you are lookign for packages, packages are system specific and chances are these ones are made by the makers for there use and made available for recognition. d-load the sources and compiel them, 5 commands and you done.

Thanks.
It runs from the command prompt with /dev/dvd.
The gui I invoke with gmplayer crahes though: here is the output-I'm not sure about compiled with runtime cpu detection.

Thanks a bunch.
I need to study mplayer docs some. Is mplayer preferred to xine? I need to take screenshots from a movie to print-out.

linux:~ # gmplayer
MPlayer 0.92-3.3.1 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices (Family: 6, Stepping: 0)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with Runtime CPU Detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection
Reading config file /etc/MPlayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config
[cfg] read config file: /root/.mplayer/gui.conf
Reading config file /root/.mplayer/gui.conf
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /etc/MPlayer/codecs.conf: 50 audio & 136 video codecs
font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/share/MPlayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).
Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Input config file /etc/MPlayer/input.conf parsed: 52 binds
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such device
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: Connection refused
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
SKIN dir 1: '/root/.mplayer/Skin'
SKIN dir 2: '/usr/share/MPlayer/Skin'

Playing /dev/dvd
Reading disc structure, please wait...
There are 3 titles on this DVD.
There are 1 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
DVD successfully opened.
MPEG-PS file format detected.
MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound.
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 2) 29.97 fps 8000.0 kbps (1000.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Trying to force video codec driver family cinepak ...
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vop scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder v2.0
libmpeg2: Using MMXEXT for IDCT transform
libmpeg2: Using MMXEXT for motion compensation
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 720x480 => 720x540 Planar YV12
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
V: 0.0 1 0% 0% 0.0% 0 0 0%

MPlayer can't play DVD right out of a distro box (liscens restrictions). Go to www.mplayerhq.hu and download the latest MPlayer source

First, uninstall MPlayer you have on your machine

compile it like this

./configure --enable-gui
make
(change to root)
make install

download the Blue Skin
as root type
cp -R Blue /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default
then exit from root shell
type: gmplayer

And you are all set to run DVD's
Inser a DVD, right click on MPlayer, click open, then click PlayDVD

Thanks that worked.
I also got xine to work by downloading averything xine from pacman.

Cheers!

i encounter problems when i try to install mplayer on suse 9,here is the output when i run ./configure --enable-gui
Detected operating system: Linux
Detected host architecture: i386
Checking for gcc version ... 3.3.1, ok
Checking for CPU vendor ... GenuineIntel (15:2:7)
Checking for CPU type ... Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz
Checking for GCC & CPU optimization abilities ... pentium4
Checking for kernel support of mmx ... yes
Checking for kernel support of mmx2 ... yes
Checking for kernel support of sse ... yes
Checking for kernel support of sse2 ... yes
Checking for mtrr support ... yes
Checking for assembler (/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.1/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/as 2.14.90.0.5) ... ok
Checking for Linux kernel version ... 2.4.21-99-default, ok
Checking for awk ... gawk
Checking for extra headers ... none
Checking for extra libs ... none
Checking for i18n ... yes
Checking for setlocale() ... yes
Checking for language ... using en (man pages: en)

Error: help/help_mp-en.h not found
what's wrong with the package? where can i find the file?
i need your help urgently. thanks

download the tarball again, it seems to be missing a file.