[MPlayer-users] silly question

[Horváth István]

> Hello, friend
>
> I've installed HR8 Linux just a few days ago (i've used only windows before).
> Today I"ve tried mplayer. have read lots of faq, but id did not help. My
> PC is IP200MMX with ATI 3D CHARGER 4MB (mach 64 chip I think). I was
> sure, that mplayer should play at least *.mpg files well. But "mplayer
> xxx.mpg" does nor work at all (xvinfo does not find any adapters, when i
> tried it), "mplayer -vo x11 xx.mpg" works very slowly. I understand that
> something is not configured well. But what?

please be more specific!

maybe you want to playe mpeg2 files?
mpeg1 files should playable on your machine, even with -vo x11