[MPlayer-users] help! mplayer crashes linux

[Szabolcs Nagy]

On 3/10/08, Brian Mueller <neutrino78x at yahoo.com> wrote:
> play a high definition quicktime file, it will open a window as if it is
> starting to play it, then the whole screen will go blank. I can't switch to
> another virtual terminal in Linux, nor can I reboot the machine with
> Control-Alt-Delete. I have to turn off the machine and turn it back on!

try -vo gl,gl2,sdl,.. (so not the default -vo xv)

my guess, it's an nvidia/ati video driver or xorg bug which usually
only affects -vo xv

(btw if you can access the computer via ssh then kill Xorg and chvt 1
will probably allow you to return to the console)