MPLAYER -vo question

[ioan123]

"mplayer -vo x11 my_file.avi" or "mplayer -vo xvidix my_file.avi" work properly on my Red hat 8, but "mplayer -vo xv my_file.avi" crash with the error message "X11 error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)"

Any idea why ???

Thanks

ioan

[sharth]

try as root, it might be a dev device that you don't have write access to.

The only thing i have ever used the vo option for is when playing mplayer in a terminal. mplayer -vo svga <file>.

[ioan123]

I already ran everything as root - must be something else.

By the way, how do you run mplayer ? Not from a terminal window ???

[doublec16]

Try gmplayer, the GUI version of mplayer. It loads the codecs automatically. You might have to get the skins and put them in the proper directory and also put a default font and put it in the mplayer fonts directory. It'll tell you with popups which files it needs in which directories.

[sharth]

Originally posted by ioan123
By the way, how do you run mplayer ? Not from a terminal window ??? Phoenix links to gmplayer, so sometimes i use that, but for saved files, i do mplayer -framedrop <file>

[ioan123]

When I run gmplayer, I get the message "Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 38 (Function not implemented)"

Any idea ?

thanks

Ioan