Re: [Freevo-users] "broken mplayer"

[Elizabeth D. <ed...@bi...>]

On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, Fabrizio Ferraro wrote:
> Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> >>> I can play recorded tv satisfactorily with
> >>> mplayer -vo x11 -framedrop /path/to/the/file.ts
> >>> 
> >>> but attempts to force x11 through local_conf.py result in an error that
> >>> the video output is not suited to the card
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> MPLAYER_VO_DEV_OPTS = 'x11'              # e.g.: ':some_var=vcal'
> 
> try with
> MPLAYER_VO_DEV = 'x11'
> in your local_conf.py
> 
> BTW, which video card are you using in your system?
> Looks quite strange you have no XVideo support, maybe you messed up
> something in your xorg.conf file.
> 
> Cheers,
> izio
> 

thanks izio, that works
the video card is whatever is built into the eeebox, some intel card.
the xorg.conf is running vesa at present ( i think)