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[Remix]

I try and play an .asf file that works (pourly) with totem

error reads: Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device

what did i do wrong ??

[kitche]

your either starting it wrong or your not in the video group I tedn to add myself to a video group so I do not have ot emss around with configuring and such

[LUCKY_FUCKIN_CHARMS]

just use vlc problem solved

[ragweed]

Never mind.

Edited by ragweed, 20 June 2007 - 06:28 PM.

[serious putty]

mplayer doesnt support all codecs.. in which case u do use something else like vlc.... altho i think you can download other codecs for mplayer, so you might want to check that out

[BoBo]

I know this is a little bit off topic here but..... Has anyone gotten DiVX web player to work on linux?? I got the new DIVX codec for linux that was released but could never get the web player to work.

[epoise]

If you're getting an error on the video output device, mplayer probably has support for the codec, but wants you to specify the video out device.

Here's the output of "mplayer -vo help"

MPlayer dev-SVN-r23599-3.4.6 © 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ (Family: 15, Model: 75, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2
Available video output drivers:
xv X11/Xv
x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm )
xover General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers
gl X11 (OpenGL)
gl2 X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version
dga DGA ( Direct Graphic Access V2.0 )
sdl SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!)
svga SVGAlib
aa AAlib
caca libcaca
xvidix X11 (VIDIX)
cvidix console VIDIX
null Null video output
mpegpes Mpeg-PES file
yuv4mpeg yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
png PNG file
jpeg JPEG file
gif89a animated GIF output
tga Targa output
pnm PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
md5sum md5sum of each frame

You can try some of these on the command line and don't be afraid of reading the documentation!