FC4 : Mplayer error

[Ben Steeves]

On 6/21/05, Ahmed Abdel-Aliem <me2resh at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi
> i installed Mplayer rpms from http://rpm.pbone.net/ and all required
> rpms for it, it is installed successfully, but when i play any movie i
> get this error
> ¨ Erro opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device ¨
> can anyone help me with this problem and tell me what may cause it plz ?
> anyhelp would be appreciated

Does it work if you specify a video out device on the command line:

mplayer -vo xv {file}

If so, put "vo=xv" in your ~/.mplayer/config file.
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