On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 15:57, François Patte wrote: > > 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. The video_out device is the driver mplayer uses to display the video on the X screen. Try "mplayer -vo help" for a list of drivers available in mplayer. Then try e.g. "mplayer -vo xv movie.avi" to use the xv driver. Once you found you best working driver, you can put it as option into the ~/.mplayer/config file. HaJo -- HaJo Schatz <hajo@xxxxxxxx> http://www.HaJo.Net PGP-Key: http://www.hajo.net/hajonet/keys/pgpkey_hajo.txt
