Open mplayer, go to the preferences, select video, and select something different under available drivers. Xv usually works for me, but your system could be different. One of them will work for you. The rest of that stuff you posted is cruft. It's looking for a remote control, a joystick etc. that's not a big deal. -- Jim Perrin On 7/1/05, Dominik Składanowski <dominik.skladanowski at ch.pw.edu.pl> wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed MPlayer from dag repo on my CentOS 4.1 and codecs from > MPlayer site. > When I try to watch some movie file I get an error: > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > When I start MPlayer from console (gmplayer movie.mpeg &), there is: > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > [dominik at localhost]$ gmplayer movie.mpeg & > [1] 4102 > [dominik at localhost]$ Using GNU internationalization > Original domain: messages > Original dirname: /usr/share/locale > Current domain: mplayer > Current dirname: /usr/share/locale > > MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.4.3 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team > CPU: Intel (Family: 6, Stepping: 6) > Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes > CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 > > > vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local > display) > Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied > Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system > startup scripts. > Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0 > Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory > Can't init input joystick > Setting up LIRC support... > mplayer: could not connect to socket > mplayer: No such file or directory > Failed to open LIRC support. > You will not be able to use your remote control. > libpng warning: Incomplete compressed datastream in iCCP chunk > libpng warning: Profile size field missing from iCCP chunk > libpng warning: Incomplete compressed datastream in iCCP chunk > libpng warning: Profile size field missing from iCCP chunk > libpng warning: Incomplete compressed datastream in iCCP chunk > libpng warning: Profile size field missing from iCCP chunk > libpng warning: Incomplete compressed datastream in iCCP chunk > libpng warning: Profile size field missing from iCCP chunk > libpng warning: Incomplete compressed datastream in iCCP chunk > libpng warning: Profile size field missing from iCCP chunk > libpng warning: Incomplete compressed datastream in iCCP chunk > libpng warning: Profile size field missing from iCCP chunk > libpng warning: Incomplete compressed datastream in iCCP chunk > libpng warning: Profile size field missing from iCCP chunk > libpng warning: Incomplete compressed datastream in iCCP chunk > libpng warning: Profile size field missing from iCCP chunk > libpng warning: Incomplete compressed datastream in iCCP chunk > libpng warning: Profile size field missing from iCCP chunk > libpng warning: Incomplete compressed datastream in iCCP chunk > libpng warning: Profile size field missing from iCCP chunk > libpng warning: Incomplete compressed datastream in iCCP chunk > libpng warning: Profile size field missing from iCCP chunk > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Regards. > -- > ____________________________________________________________________ > D o m i n i k S k ł a d a n o w s k i > > e-mail: dominik.skladanowski at ch.pw.edu.pl > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >