[MPlayer-users] Video not seen

[Rodolfo Medina]

Rodolfo wrote:

>> I builded mplayer from svn source, but only audio works:
>> 
>> [...]
>> 



Jairo Sanches <jairosanches at hotmail.com> writes:

> Did you try the option -vo ?
> Try first "mplayer -vo help", then choose the best option to you.
> For example, here I use Linux Ubuntu, so I use the command line:
>
> mplayer -vo x11 maggio-2006.mpg 


Thanks, but unfortunately it didn't work:

$ mplayer -vo help
MPlayer SVN-r29340-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
Available video output drivers:
	fbdev	Framebuffer Device
	fbdev2	Framebuffer Device
	v4l2	V4L2 MPEG Video Decoder Output
	cvidix	console VIDIX
	null	Null video output
	mpegpes	MPEG-PES to DVB card
	yuv4mpeg	yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
	tga	Targa output
	pnm	PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
	md5sum	md5sum of each frame


$ mplayer -vo mpegpes maggio-2006.mpg 
MPlayer SVN-r29340-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

Playing maggio-2006.mpg.
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x576  (aspect 2)  25.000 fps  8000.0 kbps (1000.0 kbyte/s)
Couldn't find a usable dvb video device, exiting
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [dvdpcm] Uncompressed DVD/VOB LPCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16be, 1536.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 192000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [dvdpcm] afm: dvdpcm (Uncompressed DVD/VOB LPCM)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16be (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:   8.9 (08.9) of 563.8 (09:23.8)  0.5%
Exiting... (Quit)



No other video output driver did either work.  What could the problem be?
Rodolfo