On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 02:15:20PM +0200, Niki Kovacs enlightened us: > I'm running CentOS 4.3 with the rpmforge and kbs repos enabled. I just > installed MPlayer and tried it. It has a small problem. > > When I want to view myfile.wmv, Mplayer displays the following error > message: "Error opening/initialising the selected video_out (-vo) > device." > > So I opened a console, took a peek at the various options (mplayer -vo > help), and then the movie worked just fine with mplayer -vo x11. > > Q: how do I make this option my default, so that when I double-click on > a .wmv or .avi in Nautilus, it gets opened with the -vo x11 option? I > thought about creating an alias, but there must be some more orthodox > way to do that. > man mplayer Toward the bottom of most man pages is a section called "FILES". Usually listed here are files that are important to the command. There's your clue-by-four for the day :-) Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263