[MPlayer-users] mplayer and FC5

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 17 October 2006 at 20:06, Kevin H. Phillips wrote:
> I'm new to Mplayer; I just downloaded and installed from rpms under 
> Fedora Core 5.  I downloaded Mplayer so I could play .wmv files.  I am 
> using Mplayer with the GUI.  When I try to play the file I get the 
> following message:
> 
> Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device  

Well, that's useless.

> I read the part in the documentation about re-setting prelinks.  Would 
> that cure the problem or is this something else?

Most likely not.

> If you need more information, please let me know what else you would 
> need to diagnose this.

Please follow the instructions in bugreporting guidelines in the HTML
docs included with MPlayer or on MPlayer's website.

Regards,
R.

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