playing a video

[Njoku, George O.]

Try another video driver in mplayer "preferences"


George


-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of norman
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 12:28 PM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: playing a video

< snip >
> > 
> > Is there any way I can change any settings so that I can view this
> > video, it is quite important to me?
> > 
> > Norman
> > 
> > 
> No clue about settings change. However each time I am confronted with
> such a problem, I try my two "emergency swiss army knife" player.
First
> vlc and secondly the one and only mplayer. I found that vlc succeeds
in
> about 80% of all the videos that I try to open with it and mplayer up
to
> now has yet to fail, more precisely, anytime it failed, the video was
> defective and after a fresh download, mplayer was king, once again.

Mplayer gave the following:- 'Error opening/initialising video_out (-vo)
device'. Unless I am using Mplayer incorrectly, non of the videos will
play all giving the same error.

Norman


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