[MPlayer-users] mplayer and aalib

[Joey Parrish]

On 4/16/07, Markus Laux <markus.laux at arcor.de> wrote:
> i'm working with mplayer 1.0rc1 for linux. i have now downloaded an
> compiled aalib-1.2.
> after entering
> # mplayer -vo aa test.mpg
> "Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device." occurs.
> even after recompiling mplayer with and without "--enable-aa" the
> outputdriver cannot be found under
> # mplayer -vo help
> where is my mistake?
> thanks for advice, kind regards,

Need more info.  That's not nearly enough.  How about the output of
mplayer -vo help?  Or the context surrounding your error message?
Better yet, the entire output of mplayer -vo aa /path/to/video.

Also, you should not use --enable-anything unless you know what you
are doing.  Autodetection is the default.  If it fails, you should not
force it with --enable.

--Joey