[MPlayer-users] vo: couldn't open the X11 display ()!

[Kalin Mintchev]

On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Kalin Mintchev wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Kalin Mintchev wrote:
>
> > > You most likely haven't set the DISPLAY variable; try
> > > export DISPLAY=:0
> > > if you're on a local terminal,
> > > export DISPLAY=your.host.ip:0
> > > if you're on remote (which most likely won't work very well, you
> > > propably need to scale down, you might need to use -vo sdl for color
> > > conversion). Other methods work better for remote viewing.
> >
> it's not the display....
>
> ok. i rebuild the mplayer for 4th time... now - after moving codecs to the
> right place and other things like fonts - i see the mplayer window open
> BUT it's frozen - i can hear the audio but the image is frozen...
>
> i think i mentioned i'm on freeBSD 5.0 system. i guess i should mention
> that all this is happening on a t20 ibm laptop where i can not really start
> changing video and audio cards to see which driver works....

now there is now frame around the image - it's still frozen and no frame?!
i found 2 posts about this on this list but nobody answered to either
one....

>
> thanks....
>
>
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