Mplayer does not work in Karmic [partly SOLVED]

Clay Weber claydoh at midmaine.com
Sun Dec 27 15:43:00 UTC 2009


On Sunday 27 December 2009 10:17:03 am Perry wrote:
> Le Sunday 27 December 2009 15.20:31 Perry, vous avez écrit (you wrote) :
> > Hi,
> >
> > Mplayer does not work in Karmic (it does in Jaunty)
> > It pops out: "Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo)
> >  device." Clicking OK and sound works but no image.
> > I tried version from normal repos and from
> > <https://launchpad.net/~rvm/+archive/testing> after having read that it
> >  helped someone.
> > I'm not using Dragon Player because I'm looking for a program able to
> >  handle .srt for subtitling.
> >
> > Any suggestion for a cure or another suitable program.
> >
> > Thanks in advance		Perry
> 
> Follow up:
> 
> I got it working directly from a shell.
> Launching the .flv from GUI, even "in a terminal" did not do the trick.
> I will try to downgrade because the testing version suppressed the gui
> controls.
> And then I will have to tackle the encoding problem (for files I exchange
>  with M$ users)...Still some work up front.
> 
> Cheers		Perry
> 
Have you tried going into mplayer's settings and changing the video output to 
xv or x11? Does it work with other  video files?

Running mplayer from the command line does not use the same settings as the 
gui player, so i would look at that


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