Selon Michael Sullivan <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I know this is probably a question for an mplayer mailing list, but I > thought I would run it by here first. I installed the mplayer packages > using apt-get and I think I've got them right, but whenever I try to > watch a movie file with mplayer I get an error message "Error > opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device" > I don't know what this means. Do you have a /dev/dvd or whatever of the like according to debian achitecture? If not, just make symbolic link /dev/dvd ---> /dev/the-device-of-your-dvd-reader (mostly /dev/hdc) -- François Patte Inde : Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient Deccan College Pune 411006 Tél : (00 91) (0) 20 26 69 39 04 France : Université René Descartes - Paris 5 UFR de mathématiques et informatique http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte