i have installed mplayer
but when i i start it i get something about subfont.ttf
is not there and when i try to start a movie this erros showes up
error opening/initializing the selcted video_out (-vo) device

what shall i do ??

cheers

erling

show us the full mplayer output.. everything. also tell us what "mplayer -vo help" says.

mplayer -vo help:
MPlayer 0.90rc5-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Stepping: 10)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory
Reading config file /home/erling/.mplayer/config
Available video output drivers:
xmga Matrox G200/G4x0/G550 overlay in X11 window (using /dev/mga_vid)
mga Matrox G200/G4x0/G550 overlay (/dev/mga_vid)
xv X11/Xv
x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm )
gl X11 (OpenGL)
gl2 X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version
dga DGA ( Direct Graphic Access V2.0 )
sdl SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!)
fbdev Framebuffer Device
svga SVGAlib
aa AAlib
png PNG file
jpeg JPEG file
gif89a animated GIF output
null Null video output
pgm PGM file
md5 MD5 sum
mpegpes Mpeg-PES file
yuv4mpeg yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools (to "stream.yuv")
vesa VESA VBE 2.0 video output
xvidix X11 (VIDIX)


when i had run gmplayer in x and logedout this message came
open: no such device
vo-mga :couldn`t open /dev/mga.vid

I think you just didnt set the vo for your mplayer, do mplayer -vo x11 (later on you might want to fool around with the other ones cuz X11 is the slowest).

or better -vo xv, should be fine.

but i still getting some error messages about subfont-ttf isn there

cheers

erling

you want to create a link from the ttf font you want to use, e.g. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/arial.ttf to either....

/home/user/.mplayer/subfont.ttf
or
/usr/share/mplayer/subfont.ttf

so do this...

ln -s /blah/arial.ttf /otherblah/subfont.ttf

should load fine with the on screen display. you could always temporarily not use the on screen display by setting -osdlevel 0 on the command line.

thx but every time i start mplayer i have to chose -vo is there
any config file i can set xv as default

cheers

erling

i figured it out out thx for all help

was there a spesifc meaning with that i should use xv
beacause when i use xv little whith dots show up some thimes
but in x11 this prob is fixed!!

cheers

erling

X11 is a more generic video output, but it will use at least twice as much CPU time as XV, so just be aware that it may impact your system's performance more than a more optimized video output method

ok