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I can't get mpeg's, avi's, mov's, or any other videos to work using Mplayer. There is a popup that tells me "Error opening/initializing the slected video_out(-vo) device," and in the ...
  1. 06-13-2004 #1
    mjordan2nd
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    Movies with Mplayer

    I can't get mpeg's, avi's, mov's, or any other videos to work using Mplayer. There is a popup that tells me "Error opening/initializing the slected video_out(-vo) device," and in the terminal I get a message that says:

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    It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read DOCS/HTML/en/devices.html#xv!
See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. Try -vo x11
    I run xvinfo, and get the following message:

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    [root@localhost root]# xvinfo
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
 no adaptors present
    I'm not sure how to fix this. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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  2. 06-14-2004 #2
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    what graphics/video card do you have?
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  3. 06-14-2004 #3
    mjordan2nd
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    nVidia RIVA TNT2
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  4. 06-14-2004 #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by mjordan2nd
    nVidia RIVA TNT2
    check ob the nvidia website to see if you can find any updated drivers for linux. your drivers could be the problem
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  5. 06-21-2004 #5
    mjordan2nd
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    I updated my drivers, yet I still get the same message.
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  6. 06-21-2004 #6
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    reinstall mplayer but do not use the version that came with redshat which is broken
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