mplayer works, gmplayer doesn't

Michael Hennebry hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Thu Nov 19 03:12:32 UTC 2009


On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Julian Weißgerber wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 18 November 2009 at 05:58:32, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>> gmplayer only produces audio, a control thingie,
>>> and an error message where the video should be:
>>> Error opening/initializing the selected video_out(-vo) device.
>
> I remembered wrong.
> When I got the error message, I didn't get audio,
> but I did get an inoperable control thingie.
>
> Sometimes, the video window wouldn't show at all.
> In those cases, I got audio and a control thingie.
>
> Sorry about the misinformation.
>
>
>> Try selecting another video output driver in gmplayer's preference's video
>> tab. x11 should always work, although it's slower than xv and causes 
>> tearing.
>> Depending on your video card/drivers xv or opengl may be better choices.
>
> x11 didn't work.
> I'll try the others when I get home.
> Is there a reason the failure would be specific to gmplayer?
> I was under the impression that they both drove the same backend.
> Can I use -vo instead of the tab?

-vo xv, -vo ogl and -vo opengl didn't work either.
My expectation is that I haven't got the right
incantation to make gmplayer skins work.

What works with mplayer should work with gmplayer, right?

> Even with mplayer,
> there was colored flicering crud at the bottom of the window.

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