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how do i play videos in the console?

this is the message I get when I try to run videos in the terminal console...

Code:

necro@Slackware:~$ mplayer -vo aa testmovie.mpg

MPlayer 1.0pre4-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team



CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster 1601 MHz (Family: 8, Stepping: 4)

Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes

CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1

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 /home/necro/.mplayer/config

Reading /home/necro/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 66 audio & 176 video codecs

Font /home/necro/.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)

Using usleep() timing

Input config file /home/necro/.mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds



Playing testmovie.mpg.

Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)    MPEG-PS file format detected.

VIDEO:  MPEG1  320x240  (aspect 1)  30.000 fps  819.2 kbps (102.4 kbyte/s)

==========================================================================

Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3

MP3lib: init layer2&3 finished, tables done

AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 4000->176400 (32.0 kbit)

Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)

==========================================================================

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

before I was getting other error messages, like saying that codecs.conf, font.desc, and input.conf were not found, so i moved those files to my home mplayer folder.

im using a geforce 4 mx 420 64mb video card

-vo vesa is the only way i know. don't worry about he codecs.conf not found stuff.

Works fine here (well, it's ugly, I'd prefer vesa ;})... do normal
users have read/write access to the framebuffer device?

Cheers,
Tink

I tried it and NO, without su'ing to root it wouldnt let me play it in console, couldnt get I/o permissions error.

How does one fix that anyway? Cant be as simple as changing permissions on fb0 could it?

I tried with root, and I tried it using vesa, and I always get "Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device." :(

try this mplayer -vo help then see what it spits out, it will give you a list of available video output options

I tried mplayer -vo vesa movie.avi and it worked

Hmm ... is aalib installed, then?

Cheers,
Tink

I made the video work using caca (ascii mode) and sdl (full screen), but still it wont detect aa or vesa

the latest aalib package is already installed in my comp

I am also having the same problem on a Gentoo box. I have aalib installed and mplayer was supposedly compiled with the aalib use flag on my AMD64 system, but still I cannot use aalib. Setting aside the fact that no one seems to know how to solve this problem, is there anyway I can output a movie in text using libcaca? Anyone know the command to get this working?

Kristian Hermansen