[MPlayer-users] Video not seen

[Oliver Seitz]

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

There are only quite exotic devices in that list. On Linux, you should at
least have x11 compiled in as a "backup". If you e.g. install
ubuntu-package "xserver-xorg-dev", ./configute should find X and x11 as
well as xv should be compiled.

Greets,
Kiste