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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!
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!
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
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