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I have Suse 9.1 and am trying to install Mplayer. Everything compiled fine but when I try to play a video, Mplayer creates a bunch of .png files; the video does not play.
How did you install mplayer? What command if any are you using to play a video? What type of video format is it your playing? Have you tried any others? Do you have any other details that might help since it could be anything causing the problem?
Thanks for the reply. I have been using Mplayer for years and have never seen this behavior before. I compiled it from source after installing the codecs and skins then just did "mplayer <filename>" and it produced .png files; weird.
I found a source for Suse rpm's that installed everything for me and it's working fine now.
you'll be using the png output (obvious but no less true ) try "mplayer -vo xv file.avi" if that works, change the default output in /etc/mplayer.conf to xv
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