On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:09:49 -0400, C.Beamer wrote:
> Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>
>> Post the output of mplayer, maybe we'll guess what's wrong. It
>> usually complains if it can't do something. Does xine/ffmpeg/totem
>> work? Then it's an mplayer bug.
>>
>>
>>
> 1) How do I get the output from mplayer? Running mplayer from the
> command line doesn't complain about anything.
>
> 2) I don't have totem installed - I removed it because I thought it
> might be conflicting with mplayer.
>
> Regards,
>
> Colleen
You must be running mplayer from some menu maybe? Open a shell (right
click on the background and choose "open terminal"), then type at the
prompt
mplayer your_movie.wmv # or whatever clip you have
You will see something like
MPlayer 1.0pre7-4.0.0 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 9)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
66 audio & 176 video codecs
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing ellipse_prior.mpeg.
Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) MPEG-ES file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG2 256x256 (aspect 1) 25.000 fps 3145.6 kbps (393.2 kbyte/s)
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
etc...
