[MPlayer-users] mplayer doesn't recognize radeon

[RC]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:15:17 +0200
Marek Zachara <marek.zachara at telperion.pl> wrote:

> mplayer -vo -fs vesa moviefile.avi

I hope you just typed that incorrectly.

> i can see the movie on the TV, but framerate is unacceptable (probably
> due to the software scaling). 

You can specify different software scalers with -sws.

> [fbdev2] Using device /dev/fb0
> [fbdev2] Can't open /dev/fb0: No such device
> Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
> 
> (although there is a node /dev/fb0)

Having the /dev entry doesn't mean anything.  You have to have fbdev
support compiled in your kernel, and working before you start mplayer. 
Tip, if you don't see a graphic of a penguin when you boot-up, you
don't have fbdev working.

> on the other hand, mplayer -vo cvidix or mplayer -vo vesa:vidix cannot
> 
> recognize the graphics card:

You can specify the driver to use.  eg.  -vo cvidix:radeon

> I have kernel 2.6.8.1 

That might be the problem :-)