[MPlayer-users] "No Free Xvideo Port"

[M. van de Sanden]

On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, bob smith wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hello,
> I've searched through the mailing list and thumbed
> through the documentation but I still can't find the
> answer to this. When using mplayer I get the error,
> "Couldn't find free Xvideo port - maybe other
> applications keep open it". How can I find out what
> other apps may be keeping it open? Has anyone had a
> similar problem and been able to fix it? I'm using
> mplayer-gtk-0.90.0.4 from the FreeBSD ports tree.

Usualy I don't answer questions on this list, but I've seen this one come 
by a lot. It usualy means that your video driver doesn't support xvideo 
(or the -vo xv switch of mplayer) try -vo x11.

Mart


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