--- Michael Sullivan <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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" > -Michael Sullivan- Hello Michael I installed the RPM package from freshrpms.net along with the following dependencies in that order : aalib, faad2, libdvdcss, libdvdread, libfame, libmad, lame, lirc, lzo, xvidcore, & mplayer-fonts. It works well when invoked from the Gnome menu, I mean the GUI-based one.Try out. Murali __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail