[Hoary] Mplayer Installs But does not play !!

[crimsun at fungus.sh.nu]

On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 10:57:58PM -0400, Trevor Nightingale wrote:
> When I start up mplayer from the Application drop down menu, it starts
> up with what I assume is the blue theme and everything looks great.
> However, if I try to play a *.mov or a *.avi file (they are the only two
> I have tried so far) it just locks up. To close it down I have to issue
> the Kill command.

Try executing mplayer -ao esd (if you're using GNOME's sound server),
else you'll need to pkill esd prior to starting mplayer.

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Daniel T. Chen          crimsun at fungus.sh.nu
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