mplayer question.

François Patte Francois.Patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr
Sat Jun 26 07:57:21 UTC 2004


Selon Michael Sullivan <michael at espersunited.com>:

> I know this is probably a question for an mplayer mailing list, but I
> thought I would run it by here first.  I installed the mplayer packages
> using apt-get and I think I've got them right, but whenever I try to
> watch a movie file with mplayer I get an error message "Error
> opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device"
> I don't know what this means.

Do you have a /dev/dvd or whatever of the like according to debian achitecture?

If not, just make symbolic link /dev/dvd ---> /dev/the-device-of-your-dvd-reader

(mostly /dev/hdc)
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