[MPlayer-users] KDE & MPlayer

[gabor farkas]

most of times this error means that you don't have xvideo on your
computer...

xvideo requires an xv-capable graphics card with an xv-capable driver...

so first thing : try other videou outputs..

use to -vo switch...

like "mplayer -vo help" will list you the available video drivers...

then try some of them ( for examlpe if you use X, then '-vo x11' should
work )..

for xvideo:
you should tell us what graphics card you have...

bye,
gabor

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:57:18AM +0100, Peter Lowe wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hello,
> 
> I've just compiled and installed MPlayer under FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE, and am trying
> to view a movie in KDE 3. Unfortunately, I'm getting this error:
> 
> Couldn't find free Xvideo port - maybe other applications keep open it
> Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device!
> 
> Can anyone help? I'm not sure what could be keeping the Xvideo port open, and
> artsd is turned off.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Peter.
> 
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