Getting MPlayer to work over VNC. Maverick 10.10 on VMWare Fusion 4

[defferoo]

I'm having trouble getting MPlayer to play videos over VNC on Maverick. The OS is installed on VMWare (this is for a research project).

I'm running vnc using vncserver.

When I try to open MPlayer on a VNC display, i get the following error. I'm trying to use XVideo as the video output.

mplayer -display :1 mplayer/corolla.mpeg
MPlayer 1.0rc4-4.4.5 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing mplayer/corolla.mpeg.
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG1 352x288 (aspect 25.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
[VO_TDFXFB] Can't open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory.
[VO_3DFX] Unable to open /dev/3dfx.
Xlib: extension "XFree86-VidModeExtension" missing on display ":1.0".
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1
[VO_XV] It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
[VO_XV] Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read
[VO_XV] DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv!
[VO_XV] See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers.
[VO_XV] Try -vo x11.
[gl] no GLX support present
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffmpeg1] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-1)
================================================== ========================
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 96.0 kbit/6.80% (ratio: 12000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
================================================== ========================
AO: [pulse] Init failed: Connection refused
Failed to initialize audio driver 'pulse'
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [x11] 352x288 => 384x288 Planar YV12
X server image format not supported, please contact the developers
FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.

FATAL: Could not initialize video filters (-vf) or video output (-vo).


Exiting... (End of file)

I know you can specify -vo xv, but that doesn't work either, if nothing is specified, it tries other drivers as well.

When I run xvinfo to see if I have any adaptors, I get

xvinfo -display :1
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
no adaptors present

However, I believe the XVideo module is loaded, since running xdpyinfo gives me

xdpyinfo -display :1
name of display: :1.0
version number: 11.0
vendor string: The XFree86 Project, Inc
vendor release number: 40300000
XFree86 version: 4.3.0
maximum request size: 4194300 bytes
motion buffer size: 256
bitmap unit, bit order, padding: 32, LSBFirst, 32
image byte order: LSBFirst
number of supported pixmap formats: 2
supported pixmap formats:
depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
depth 16, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
keycode range: minimum 8, maximum 255
focus: window 0x40000f, revert to PointerRoot
number of extensions: 24
BIG-REQUESTS
DEC-XTRAP
DOUBLE-BUFFER
Extended-Visual-Information
FontCache
GLX
LBX
MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
MIT-SHM
MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
RANDR
RECORD
SECURITY
SGI-GLX
SHAPE
SYNC
TOG-CUP
VNC-EXTENSION
X-Resource
XC-APPGROUP
XC-MISC
XFree86-Bigfont
XTEST
XVideo
default screen number: 0
number of screens: 1... etc etc

I've installed VMWare tools, but I'm running a custom kernel so I don't have a window manager running, just CLI.

Does anybody know how to fix this so I can get MPlayer working?

[Rubberman]

Are you connecting to a virtual desktop, or the "physical" one? In any case, I'm not sure that VNC will route sound back to your remote terminal. I haven't tried that myself. Most of the time it will simple use the hardware (or virtual hardware) of the system/VM that it is running in, therefor getting output to the host system. As I said, I haven't tried this, so I am just swagging it at this point...