[MPlayer-users] Problem with mplayer 1.0pre8 and xawtv 3.95 on RH9

[RC]

On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 22:42:56 +0100
Holger Mueller <xmr004 at euhm.de> wrote:

> I just compiled and installed mplayer-1.0pre8-0.4.20051128 on my RH9 
> system. 

There's no such thing as 1.0pre8 yet.

> After first start of gmplayer the xawtv screen stays black (can't see
> any  picture). 
> Does anybody know whats going wrong here? I already searched the list
> but  I did not find an answer to this problem ...

I'm surprised you couldn't find anything.  This exact question (xawtv)
was asked just a week or so ago.  Use xawtv CVS, or use "-vo
xv:ck-method=auto" with mplayer.