[MPlayer-users] Problems with MPlayer on Debian 2.4 with (ATI Rage Mobility M1 8MB V-RAM) Graphic Controller

[RC]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:42:14 +0100
Eric Gutmann <gutmeric at gmx.ch> wrote:

> No vidix driver name provided, probing available ones (-v option for
> details)!

This is likely caused by the previous instance of mplayer not exiting,
so the new instance can't open your chosen video output method.  You
might want to try running "killall -9 mplayer" in your script, just
before you start mplayer each time, to make sure the previous instance
is killed.