[MPlayer-users] no video output with video_outgl_nosw

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 10:28:35AM -0700, Yogesh Tyagi wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
> 
> > Yogesh Tyagi <yogesh.bit2006 <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > I am using ubuntu 10.04 as guest OS on virtual box.
> > > I installed mplayer on it.mplayer shows no video if I
> > > give "gl_nosw" as video_out device.
> >
> > I know extremely little about Virtual Boxes, but I would
> > expect that they do not support hardware OpenGL support.
> >
> > Does -vo gl work?
> >
> > > MPlayer 1.0rc4-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
> >
> > If you are a user (and not a distributor), please use
> > current svn head.
> 
> "-vo gl" works but it is extremely slow.

That would mean everything is working as it should and there
is no hardware accelerated OpenGL available.
How to configure that is rather a question specific to your
virtualization solution and guest OS and this isn't really
the best list to get answers to that.