Okay! Thanks fir the tip. I'll try it. On Monday, 07 April 2008 11:15 am, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 04/07/2008 12:42 PM, Walt L. Williams wrote: > > Greetings all > > > > I used Mplayer on the SuSE(10) system I used to use > > to play mpg and avi movies. On my former system I merely > > had to do the install it and it was ready to use. Mplayer > > on Debian (etch) seems to be broken. What must I do > > to get Mplayer working on Debian? It gives me to > > following error: > > > > Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device > > > > Any suggestions on how to correct this? > > Go into Mplayer's preferences dialog and select Video-> Available > drivers. Select a video driver that you are confident works, e.g. X11 > (if you're running under XFree86 or Xorg). > > Experiment with the other video output devices if you want possible > better performance.
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