hi, I have two laptops that use Ubuntu 16.04. I can't use ffplay due to an SDL/$DISPLAY variable error. I never had an issue with Ubuntu 14. When I type echo $DISPLAY I just get :0
Can anyone help? I don't have the issue with the version that comes from apt-get. Clearly i am making some silly mistake here. i installed ffmpeg with linuxbrew. I also tried to install HEAD but got the same error. I've looked at various threads online that suggest entering things like: export DISPLAY=:0.0 but I just get the same error. ffplay - ffplay version 3.3.1 Copyright (c) 2003-2017 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 5.3.0 (Homebrew gcc 5.3.0) configuration: --prefix=/home/io8x/.linuxbrew/Cellar/ffmpeg/3.3.1 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-avresample --cc=gcc-5 --host-cflags= --host-ldflags= --enable-ffplay --enable-libass --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --disable-lzma --enable-libopenjpeg --disable-decoder=jpeg2000 --extra-cflags=-I/home/io8x/.linuxbrew/Cellar/openjpeg/2.1.2_1/include/openjpeg-2.1 --disable-vda libavutil 55. 58.100 / 55. 58.100 libavcodec 57. 89.100 / 57. 89.100 libavformat 57. 71.100 / 57. 71.100 libavdevice 57. 6.100 / 57. 6.100 libavfilter 6. 82.100 / 6. 82.100 libavresample 3. 5. 0 / 3. 5. 0 libswscale 4. 6.100 / 4. 6.100 libswresample 2. 7.100 / 2. 7.100 libpostproc 54. 5.100 / 54. 5.100 Could not initialize SDL - No available video device (Did you set the DISPLAY variable?) $ echo $DISPLAY :0 _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".