On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 16:51 +1000, Yuandan Zhang wrote: > hi, > > I installed mplayer and mplayer-gui > > mplayerplug-in-2.80-0.lvn.1.4 > mplayer-1.0-0.lvn.0.26.pre7try2.4 > mplayer-docs-1.0-0.16.pre7.2.fc4 > mplayer-mencoder-1.0-0.lvn.0.26.pre7try2.4 > mplayer-fonts-1.1-3.fc > mplayer-gui-1.0-0.lvn.0.26.pre7try2.4 > > i can player dvd or vcd by > > mplayer dvd://1 or mplayer vcd://1 > > however, if I tried to open DVD or VCD at mplayer-gui (gmplayer), I > always get error alike: > > Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device > > How to fix it?? > > thanks > > Yuandan > Try to change the video driver in the preferences -> video driver. xv should work... Peter