[MPlayer-users] Playing a movie without X windows

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 03:23:50PM -0600, Green, Shaun wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> Yeah, I tried that, but it said I also needed sdl. So I did;
> 
> mplayer -vo help
> 
> but sdl wasn't one of my options. So what's the full command?

You should compile sdl support in ...

> 
> mplayer -zoom 1024 foo.avi
> 
> Should this work w/o X Windows?? Maybe I need to recompile MPlayer w/ sdl

X Window, NOT Windows! This is a very common fault. Windows is MS Windows.
X Window or X Windowing System.

Try to specify a -vo ...

- Gábor (larta'H)