[MPlayer-users] Help with Mplayer gui

petri.kanerva at surfeu.fi petri.kanerva at surfeu.fi
Sun Jun 22 14:09:43 CEST 2003


> "Error opening/initializing the selected video_out
> (-vo) device."
>
> I mean if I open mplayer in a shell as,
>
> $mplayer <video file>
>
> this command was working okay.
>
> IF I did
>
> $gmplayer
>
> and tried to open a video file from gui, I'd receive
> the obove notice.

It's just tryin to use different video out device that the non-gui
version. Try
 gmplayer -vo xv

Or if that doesn't work, type
 gmpleyer -vo help

and try one of those. mplayer and gmplayer have different default vo's.

  Petri





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