Error Opening Initializing The Selected Video_out Mplayer
ih23 Member Registered: 2010-02-11 Posts: 19 mplayer doesn't play video in text console I am trying to use mplayer in my text-based console/terminal without the X window system. When I play a video, the sound is fine but the video output just shows a few text characters moving and that's it, no video. Is there something I must type after the mplayer command or set a certain preference for graphics/video?My xorg.conf file has:Driver "intel" VendorName "Intel Corporation" BoardName "82810E DC-133 (CGC) Chipset Graphics Controller"And the output for mplayer -vo help is:MPlayer SVN-r30526-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team Available video output drivers: vdpau VDPAU with X11 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 matrixview MatrixView (OpenGL) dga DGA ( Direct Graphic Access V2.0 ) sdl SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!) fbdev Framebuffer Device fbdev2 Framebuffer Device aa AAlib caca libcaca v4l2 V4L2 MPEG Video Decoder Output 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 frame 142 audio & 332 video codecsDoes anyone know what I should do? Last edited by ih23 (2010-02-13 17:39:38) Offline #2 2010-02-13 18:14:43 prasetyams Member From: Jakarta Registered: 2008-04-29 Posts: 74 Re: mplayer doesn't play video in text console Hello,I have tried playing video files in console, no X using mplayer. Here's what I type:mplayer -vo fbdev ringring.flvIt will play the video, and display it on the topleft corner. The output can be scaled (software) so it displays in fullscreen, using mplayer video filter:mplayer -vo fbdev -vf scale=1366:768 ringring.flvMy hardware is Intel GMA950, and I enable KMS on boot. Where's my sig? Offline #3 2010-02-13 19:15:33 ih23 Member Registered: 2010-02-11 Posts: 19 Re: mplayer doesn't play video in text console I've enabled KMS on boot and tried "mplayer -vo fbdev" and "mplayer -vo fbdev -vf scale=1360:768" and I still get the same output. Offline #4 2010-02-13 19:37:11 prasetyams Member From: Jakarta Registered: 2008-04-29 Posts: 74 Re: mplayer doesn't play video in text console What is exactly the output and what codec is the video you're trying to play? Maybe try fbdev2, btw do you have /dev/fb*? As a reference, there are some old topics regarding this one, here, and here.
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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, http://thegreyblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/mplayer-error-openinginitializing.html 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 error opening a platform for video transcoding. I'd like to do that on Solaris but I haven't 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 error opening initializing 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 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