yamq (yet another mplayer question)

[LBmtb]

I keep getting the "Error opening/initializing the selected video_out "

I went here: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html and it says to check

mplayer -vo help

and to select a video output driver and to put that into config and/or gui.conf

This is what I got after -vo. I had to use 'gmplayer -vo' btw.

$ gmplayer -vo help
MPlayer 1.0pre7-RPM-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP/XP-M Barton (Family: 6, Stepping: 0)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.


vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
Available video output drivers:
        xmga    Matrox G200/G4x0/G550 overlay in X11 window (using /dev/mga_vid)        mga     Matrox G200/G4x0/G550 overlay (/dev/mga_vid)
        tdfxfb  3Dfx Banshee/Voodoo3/Voodoo5
        xv      X11/Xv
        x11     X11 ( XImage/Shm )
        xover   General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers
        dga     DGA ( Direct Graphic Access V2.0 )
        sdl     SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!)
        vesa    VESA VBE 2.0 video output
        xvidix  X11 (VIDIX)
        cvidix  console VIDIX
        null    Null video output
        mpegpes Mpeg-PES file
        yuv4mpeg        yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
        png     PNG file
        jpeg    JPEG file
        tga     Targa output
        pnm     PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
        md5sum  md5sum of each frame

Top part of gui.conf...

enable_audio_equ = "no"
vo_driver = "xvidix"
vo_panscan = "0.000000"
vo_doublebuffering = "yes"
vo_direct_render = "no"
v_framedrop = "0"
v_flip = "-1"
v_ni = "no"
v_idx = "-1"
vf_pp = "no"
vf_autoq = "0"
vf_lavc = "no"
ao_volnorm = "no"
softvol = "no"
ao_surround = "no"
ao_extra_stereo = "no"
ao_extra_stereo_coefficient = "1.000000"
dvd_device = "/dev/dvd"
osd_level = "1"
sub_auto_load = "yes"
sub_unicode = "no"
sub_pos = "100"
sub_overlap = "no"
font_factor = "0.750000"
font_text_scale = "5.000000"
font_osd_scale = "6.000000"
font_blur = "2.000000"
font_outline = "2.000000"
font_autoscale = "3"
cache = "no"
cache_size = "2048"
playbar = "yes"
load_fullscreen = "no"
show_videowin = "yes"
stopxscreensaver = "no"
autosync = "no"
autosync_size = "0"
gui_skin = "default"
gui_save_pos = "yes"
gui_main_pos_x = "583"
gui_main_pos_y = "647"
gui_video_out_pos_x = "192"
gui_video_out_pos_y = "144"

and in config...

# Write your default config options here!

vo = "xvidix"

From this page: http://luna.cs.ccsu.edu/dominik/mpla...-optional.html I downloaded the ati vidix radeon driver.

Also tried "vidix" on both fiiles but still get that same error. Help?

[Vergil83]

try X11 and if that doesn't work try xv

[LBmtb]

Woot! XV worked (x11 didnt). Thanks!