linux_jester Posted August 10, 2003 Report Share Posted August 10, 2003 I've just installed mplayer on Mandrake 9.1 which after much poking around I managed to get working along with a nice skin. My problem is that when I now try to play any movies I get a popup saying: Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device. Does anyone know what I should do to get gmplayer to work? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted August 10, 2003 Report Share Posted August 10, 2003 Go to preferences, video and use a different video output. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris z Posted August 10, 2003 Report Share Posted August 10, 2003 basically what devries said to do....... myplayer can be a bugger to set up. open myplayer, right click on the mplayer screen, select preferences. under the audio & video tabs, select different drivers & try playing various video formats (ie: mpg, avi, .....) until you find the drivers that will work for you. different drivers work for different people, depending on what your audio & video set up is like, so there's no "correct" driver that i can tell you to use. also, in preferences, check the "codecs & demuxer" tab & make sure you are using the correct codecs. the codecs that work for me are "video codec family-win32/vfw video codecs" & "audio codec family-win32/direct show codecs". yours may differ, though. (providing you have the codecs installed.......do you?) if not, you can get the wincodecs some others from the myplayer site: http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/homepage/design6/dload.html hope that helps. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linux_jester Posted August 10, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2003 Thanks for your help. As you pointed out, by changing the selected 'Available Drivers' under the video tab of the preferences did the trick. One thing that I have noticed though is that if I try to play a movi in full screen or double the size, I get a window of the movie (which remains its original size) surrounded by black space. Is there another setting that I've missed to fix this? Thanks once again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted August 10, 2003 Report Share Posted August 10, 2003 That too means you have to try different video driver. Best is not too mess to much with the settings. Maybe you should consider removing it and installing it from plf. That will give you the GUI's and the codecs. It shoud work without problems. At least I don't have any. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linux_jester Posted August 10, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2003 Thanks for the suggestion. I'm running the mplayer on Mandrake 9.1 . If I was to follow your advice, how would I go about uninstalling mplayer, and where would I get this plf? Thanks once again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted August 10, 2003 Report Share Posted August 10, 2003 Follow the instructions on this http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php webpage (plf is listed under '3 - add-ons'). Then use the mandrake control center to install the program (install software, choose source, choose plf choose mplayer). To remove the program: if you installed from source, as root, type ' make uninstall' in source directory. If you installed a rpm use the mcc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted August 10, 2003 Report Share Posted August 10, 2003 Just to clarify a bit... If you add PLF as a source as devries said, you will be able to select the all packages/by update availability option in the add software program. Select the new plf mplayer rpm (under "upgradeable") and it will update the old with the new. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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