playing videos
 

i have an annoying problem that is preventing me from playing any videos. i have only managed to get 1 particular video working with the player pia, and apart from that, no other video works with any other player. to quote mplayer:

'Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device!'

can anyone help me with this please? i'd be most grateful.
thanks!

Re: playing videos
 

Hi there ...

Well, how did you install MPlayer,
and did you check its configuration
file(s) yet to see what's going wrong?
try a
It also might be useful to check
as a means of diagnostic info retrieval.


Cheers,
Tink

It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support, and read Xv section of DOCS/video.html !
See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. Try -vo x11
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device!

ok...any help anyone?

Did you?

From what you copied & pasted it's not
quite clear whether this is still the original
result or whith -vo x11 set...

If x11 isn't working, from where/as who are you
trying to run MPlayer?

Cheers,
Tink

aha. sorry i didn't quite see what we were doing before. anyway, here's the new error when trying to use x11.
the same thing happens whether i try in root or in my standard account.

Reading /home/tim/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/home/tim/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory

Did you install some kind of package, or
from source?

A quick solution would be
to
locate codecs\.conf

and then
cp <most recent file listed above> /home/tim/.mplayer/codecs.conf

Cheers,
Tink