[MPlayer-users] RE: mplayer through VNC?

[Sycotic Smith]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Network Administrator" <sysadmin at wirefire.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:59:31 -0500 
To: <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
Subject: [MPlayer-users] RE: mplayer through VNC?

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Sorry, I just realized that this topic has already been touched on in the
> Mailing list...
> 
> When I run "mplayer -vo x11 video.mpg"
> 
> I am getting: "FATAL: Couldn't initialize video filters (-vop) or video
> output (-vo)!"
> 
> Does have something to do with the codec?
> 
> -Brett

Try using SDL, it seems to work the best for me when using VNC.  You may need to give a '-display :1' option to mplayer if you already have an X display running on that machine.  It still will be slow, and if you're trying to play the file on a higher-end machine than your VNCclient (redundant?), it will be even slower since the PC will use some (maybe not a large) portion of CPU time on network connection as well.  Have you even TRIED to play the file on your 486?  MPlayer can run even on it, try it, you'll be amazed...

Also, IMHO, you should use TightVNC if you aren't already, it has much cleaner screen refresh for me.
/S. Smith
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