Re: mplayer gui can't open dvd or vcd

[peter kostov <fedora light-bg com>]

On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 16:51 +1000, Yuandan Zhang wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I installed mplayer and mplayer-gui 
> 
> mplayerplug-in-2.80-0.lvn.1.4
> mplayer-1.0-0.lvn.0.26.pre7try2.4
> mplayer-docs-1.0-0.16.pre7.2.fc4
> mplayer-mencoder-1.0-0.lvn.0.26.pre7try2.4
> mplayer-fonts-1.1-3.fc
> mplayer-gui-1.0-0.lvn.0.26.pre7try2.4
> 
> i can player dvd or vcd by 
> 
> mplayer dvd://1 or mplayer vcd://1 
> 
> however, if I tried to open DVD or VCD at mplayer-gui (gmplayer), I
> always get error alike:
> 
> Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device
> 
> How to fix it??
> 
> thanks
> 
> Yuandan
> 

Try to change the video driver in the preferences -> video driver. xv
should work...

Peter