[MPlayer-users] video output problem

[Jonathan Rogers]

Bruce Park wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I'm having a hard time trying to get gmplayer to work using GUI. The 
> skin and font have all been installed correctly and load perfectly. 
> However, whenever I try to load a video, I get the following message in 
> a modaless window.
> Fatal Error: Error opening/initializing the selected video_out(-vo) device
> 
> Here's what my config file looks like
> =====================================
> gui=yes
> vo=xv
> ao=oss
> skin=Blue
> cache=1024
> =====================================

Which config file is that a snip from? It seems there are several 
configuration files. From the manpage:

----------------------------------------------------------------
FILES
        /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
               system-wide settings

        ~/.mplayer/config
               user settings

        ~/.mplayer/input.conf
               input bindings (see '-input keylist' for full keylist)

        ~/.mplayer/gui.conf
               GUI configuration file

        ~/.mplayer/gui.pl
               GUI playlist

        ~/.mplayer/font/
               font  directory  (There  must be a font.desc file and 
files with
               .RAW extension.)
------------------------------------------------------------------

So, it would seem that mplayer (started without the GUI) uses settings 
from the "config" file, which gmplayer (started with GUI) uses settings 
from the "gui.conf" file, though I can't seem to find any details. I had 
noticed that starting "gmplayer" had some things set differently from 
starting "mplayer," and that editing "gui.conf" did what I wanted. 
However, I don't know if gmplayer ignores "config," or if it reads both 
files.

Jonathan Rogers