[MPlayer-users] video output problem

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 12:18:56AM -0400, Bruce Park wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >From: Jonathan Rogers <jonner at teegra.net>
> >Reply-To: "MPlayer user's list." <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
> >To: "MPlayer user's list." <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
> >Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] video output problem
> >Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 22:09:06 -0500
> >
> >[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >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:
> That section was ffrom ~/.mplayer.config.
> >
> >----------------------------------------------------------------
> >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.
> Well, if I remove ~/.mplayer config, it always uses mplayer(w/out the GUI), 
> even if I call gmplayer. Once I put this file back, then GUI is started no 
> matter which binary is called. This is because gmplayer is just a soft link 
> to mplayer.

Something is bogus then, because running the symlink "gmplayer" is
supposed to start the gui...

Rich