[MPlayer-users] Re: KDE & MPlayer

[Anssi Saari]

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 12:33:40PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> > Couldn't find free Xvideo port - maybe other applications keep open it
> > Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device!
> 
> anyone has idea to better wording this error message?
> it seems it confuses many users

How's this:

Error: Xvideo not available. Try mplayer -vo help for other
video output devices.

Could mplayer perform a check like xvinfo to actually determine
if Xvideo is even available in the driver? If not, then it could
just say there's no Xvideo support and point to the docs...