On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:12:02 -0400 bill biggs <kc8pdr at gmail.com> wrote: > I installed the w32codes and mplayer I get fatal error! Error > opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device. Can anyone > help ? try : mplayer -vo xv ... or mplayer -vo help if you're happy with the result put it as default in the mplayer config ~/.mplayer/config HTH