[MPlayer-users] mplayer Fatal Error

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 09:22:26PM +1000, Craig Hughes wrote:
> I have installed mplayer and all the libraries it requested, all from shrike.freshrpms.net
>  
> All installs fine, when I open mplayer in gui it opens fine and plays mp3s fine. but when i open a movie (mpg or avi) either through the menus or dragging onto the mplayer program. I get a Fatal Error stating "Error opening/initializing the selected video_out -vo device."
>  
> Has anyone got any ideas?

You should select a vo (video output) to display something of course.
It's well written in the manual, please read it.

- Gábor (larta'H)