Error Opening Initializing Mplayer
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opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) deviceNow, I had not chose one. I even deleted my ~/.mplayer folder but nothing, it got stucked there. It's strange, because mplayer should have chosen automatically a video_out device on startup and I swear I never had this problem before on my Debian/testing.In fact, I had just reinstalled a Debian/testing distribution on Sun xVM VirtualBox on a Solaris Express Community Edition host, because I'm using it as a platform for video transcoding. I'd like to do that on Solaris but I haven't https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1378057 found the time to recompile at least ffmpeg, if not mplayer and all of its dependencies. Blastwave's ffmpeg, indeed, is way too old and I found some bugs that prevented it doing its job. Until then, and thanks to VirtualBox, I'll use Debian/testing instead.Now, the solution's pretty easy but I'd like to rely on autoprobing... Anyway:enrico@debian:~$ gmplayer -vo helpMPlayer dev-SVN-r29241Available video output http://thegreyblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/mplayer-error-openinginitializing.html drivers: xmga Matrox G200/G4x0/G550 overlay in X11 window (using /dev/mga_vid) mga Matrox G200/G4x0/G550 overlay (/dev/mga_vid) tdfxfb 3Dfx Banshee/Voodoo3/Voodoo5 s3fb S3 Virge over fbdev xv X11/Xv x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm ) xover General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers gl X11 (OpenGL) gl2 X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version dga DGA ( Direct Graphic Access V2.0 ) sdl SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!) ggi General Graphics Interface (GGI) output fbdev Framebuffer Device fbdev2 Framebuffer Device svga SVGAlib aa AAlib caca libcaca dxr3 DXR3/H+ video out v4l2 V4L2 MPEG Video Decoder Output directfb Direct Framebuffer Device dfbmga DirectFB / Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 xvidix X11 (VIDIX) cvidix console VIDIX null Null video output xvmc XVideo Motion Compensation mpegpes MPEG-PES to DVB card yuv4mpeg yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools png PNG file jpeg JPEG file gif89a animated GIF output tga Targa output pnm PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file md5sum md5sum of each frameIf you're using gmplayer or another mplayer front-end you can probably access some video preferences menu, such as the following, and set your preference there. It will be remembered the next time you launch mplayer.In my
communities company blog Stack Exchange Inbox Reputation and Badges sign up log in tour help Tour Start here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might http://askubuntu.com/questions/491471/mplayer-aalib-missing-vo-aa-not-working have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Ask Ubuntu Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Ask Ubuntu is a question and answer site for Ubuntu users and developers. Join them; it error opening only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top mplayer aalib missing (“-vo aa” not working) up vote 2 down vote favorite 1 I've just figured out that I'm unable to use aalib to render video output error opening initializing in mplayer. For those who do not know, aalib is the library for rendering videos in ASCII. Before upgrading to 14.04 it worked perfectly (I don't remember setting-up something, it had been working "out of the box"). Here is what it does: $ mplayer -vo aa * MPlayer2 2.0-701-gd4c5b7f-2ubuntu2 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team Cannot open file '/home/crysman/.mplayer/input.conf': No such file or directory Failed to open /home/crysman/.mplayer/input.conf. Cannot open file '/etc/mplayer/input.conf': No such file or directory Failed to open /etc/mplayer/input.conf. Playing TPB.AFK.2013.480p.h264-SimonKlose.mp4. Detected file format: QuickTime / MOV (libavformat) [lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0 [lavf] stream 1: audio (mp3), -aid 0, -alang eng Clip info: major_brand: mp42 minor_version: 0 compatible_brands: mp42isomavc1 creation_time: 2013-02-08 13:49:43 encoder: HandBrake 0.9.8 2012071700 Load subtitles in . SUB: Added subtitle file (1): ./TPB.AFK.2013.480p.h264-SimonKlose.srt Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device. Selected audio codec: MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III [mpg123] AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000) AO: [pulse] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Video: no