MPlayer does not play DVD: Error Message: Fatal Error! Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device

Hello,

I installed libdvdcss and MPlayer from the installationsource
packman.iu-bremen.de sucessfully.

Unfortunatly I can not play original DVD films with MPlayer (even with xine
and Kaffeine it is not possible).

If I open a DVD film file with MPlayer from the DVD disk (for example
VIDEO_TS.VOB) i get the following fatal error message displayed by MPlayer:

Fatal Error! Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (vo) device

Please help me to be possible to play DVD films with Suse 10.1.

Thank you.

regards,

Dirk Lehmann

Dirk,

you do have libdvdcss installed, don't you?

Uwe


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Hi,

> If I open a DVD film file with MPlayer from the DVD disk (for example
> VIDEO_TS.VOB) i get the following fatal error message displayed by MPlayer:
>
> Fatal Error! Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (vo) device

Go to MPlayer settings and try a different video_out device. Just go to
Preferences -> Video and choose a different driver; that's the way I got it
working. If you have a good opengl graphics card, try out the "gl" driver.

hope it helped.