On 8 February 2012, at 15:01, Stroller wrote: > On 8 February 2012, at 13:40, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >>> ... >>> Run mplayer on the command line and see what error it throws. Paste >>> it here. >> >> Unfortunately, that's impossible. >> >> mplayer starts, opens a window and then segfaults, i.e. kills Xorg and >> forces me to reboot the machine. > > Just to be clear: does it segfault when you use "-ao null"?
Ooops. For the record, that should have been "-vo null". ao = audio out vo = video out Stroller.
