mplayer error

**crashandburn0420** · 10-26-2005

i got this error trying to play an avi video in mplayer

Fatel Error! Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.

**variant** · 10-28-2005

try mplayer -vo x11 /path/to/file.avi

**smindinvern** · 10-28-2005

could you post a little more info, like what -vo you used?

**crashandburn0420** · 11-07-2005

i have no clue what -vo i use

**mjman** · 11-07-2005

post what

Code:

emerge -pv mplayer

gives you. I'd like to see what USE flags you have set.

**crashandburn0420** · 11-07-2005

Code:

These are the packages that I would merge, in order&#58;

Calculating dependencies ...done!
&#91;ebuild   R   &#93; media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre7-r1  -3dfx +3dnow* -3dnowext +X -aac -aalib +alsa &#40;-altivec&#41; +arts -bidi -bl -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug -dga -directfb +doc* -dts -dv -dvb +dvd* +dvdread* -edl +encode +esd -fbcon -ggi +gif +gtk -i8x0 +ipv6 +jack* -joystick +jpeg -libcaca -lirc -live -lzo +mad -matroska -matrox +mmx* -mmxext -mythtv +nas* +nls -nvidia +opengl +oss +png -real -rtc +samba* +sdl +sse* -sse2 -svga -tga -theora +truetype -v4l -v4l2 +vorbis +win32codecs* -xanim +xinerama* +xmms +xv +xvid* -xvmc 0 kB

Total size of downloads&#58; 0 kB

**mjman** · 11-07-2005

hmmmm... doesn't seem to be anything wrong there...

have you tried the above suggestion of mplayer -vo x11 file.avi ?

**crashandburn0420** · 11-07-2005

localhost steven # mplayer -vo x11 file.avi
MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.3.6 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Northwood (Family: 8, Stepping: 4)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
MMX supported but disabled
MMX2 supported but disabled
SSE supported but disabled
SSE2 supported but disabled
CPUflags: MMX: 0 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions:

Creating config file: /root/.mplayer/config

85 audio & 196 video codecs
Playing file.avi.
File not found: 'file.avi'
Failed to open file.avi

Exiting... (End of file)

**dylunio** · 11-07-2005

crashandburn0420: You do know to replace file.avi with an .avi file that is on your computer?

**crashandburn0420** · 11-07-2005

yea, i get the same error

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