On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 19:10 -0600, Peter Horst wrote: > On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 01:13 -0600, Peter Horst wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 21:14 -0900, gary wrote: > > > > > > > 1. With mplayer - it appears you need to get into Mplayer> Preferences> > > > Video and setup driver (maybe X11 xv?) vo=video output. Make sure you > > > have the necessary codecs. Also =Mplayer> prefences> misc - indentify > > > your dvd or cdplayer with /dev/xxx > > > > > > 2. I did not have a dependency issue when I installed vlc using the > > > livna and fedora extras repos. > > > > Thanks. The strange this is that in Mplayer/Preferences/Video, all of > > the potential video drivers are greyed out (xmga, xv, etc.). So this I > > totally do not understand. :-) > > For the record, mplayer works when I feed the launcher the name of a > video driver, as 'gmplayer -vo xv', but not otherwise. And the > "Configure driver" button in Preferences is still greyed out. Some > things were just not meant to be understood by me. > 1.I have no idea why you can't set preferences. 2.You will get a vo error if you don't have the proper codecs. 3. vlc - Are you certain you have the Fedoro repos enabled when trying to install vlc from freshrpms? ( try livna instead) -----gary