[PLUG] mplayer and SuSE - my ongoing tale of woe

[David Fleck]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, sofar wrote:
> > The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
> 
> this is not good - it looks like your codec to play mpeg files does not 
> like plain X11 output. The codes that come with mplayer have quirks and 
> some don't work with xv, some don't work with sdl etc.
> 
> You should investigate:
> 
> - using -vo xv or -vo sdl to play through a different library/output channel
> - downloading and installing the codec pack that adds other codecs

Thanks - using '-vo x11' on the command line seems to work for most 
formats.  Now, if I can just figure out how to make that the default...


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David Fleck
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