Sure ? At the very least -vo x11 should work with X11 :-) What does it complain about for that one ?
After running (as root): mplayer -vo x11 Happy_Gilmore.avi Here's the output: ------------------------------------------------- Using GNU internationalization Original domain: messages Original dirname: /usr/share/locale Current domain: mplayer Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale MPlayer 0.90pre9-3.2 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS) CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon TB Thunderbird (Family: 6, Stepping: 2) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 38 audio & 110 video codecs font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz) Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf : No such file or directory Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config Playing Happy_Gilmore.avi Detected AVI file format! VIDEO: [DIV3] 512x384 24bpp 23.98 fps 859.6 kbps (104.9 kbyte/s) ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 16000->192000 (128.0 kbit) Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) ========================================================================== Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device! Exiting... (End of file) any ideas?? ===== Brian Kreulen __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2