mplayer vs realvideo

Les hlhowell at pacbell.net
Fri Jan 18 22:47:08 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 14:02 -0800, Les wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 05:43 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > Les wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 18:05 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > >> mplayer -playlist http://www.kozt.com/koztlive.ram
> > > Since I have had some issues with video, I tried this, and got the
> > > following with both command lines:
> > > 
> > > [user at localhost ~]$ mplayer http://www.kozt.com/koztlive.ram
> > > MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
> > > CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping:
> > > 9)
> > > CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> > > Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
> > > Option vo-x11 needs a parameter at line 3
> > > [user at localhost ~]$ mplayer -playlist http://www.kozt.com/koztlive.ram
> > > MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
> > > CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping:
> > > 9)
> > > CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> > > Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
> > > Option vo-x11 needs a parameter at line 3
> > > 
> > > What file would it be talking about here, and what should that line
> > > read?
> > 
> > It is probably talking about ~/.mplayer/config.  List out what is in there. 
> >   My config is rather simple and only contains:
> > 
> > vo=xv,x11
> > ao=arts,esd,oss
> > 
> > It is a bit early for me to search the docs to see what a vo-x11 should 
> > contain.  So, you may want to search or you can try to comment out the line 
> > and see what results.
> > 
> > Need more zzz's  :-)
> > 
> > -- 
> > Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi:
> > 	The Force will be with you, always.
> > 
> Chalk that one up to old age and DUHH ness.  I should have thought of
> that... Thanks.
> I'll research the rest of it now.
> Regards,
> Les H
> 
The line it was complaining about was supposed to be this one
vo=xv,x11, but was actually xv-x11.  It must have gotten corrupted
during the install or during one of my (many) forays looking at various
scripts.  Any way, it is sorted for me now.  Thank you Obi-Wan (Ben
Kenobi).

Regards,
Les H




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