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  1. Bug #65165
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Comment 1 for bug 65165

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Piotr Morgwai Kotarbiński (morgwai) wrote : Re: default video output is xmga

I've noticed the same problem on edgy (mplayer package version 2:0.99+1.0pre8-0ubuntu8) and tried to examine it a bit:

Problem exists only when mplayer is started with gui (as gmplayer) the tail of the output in terminal looks like this:

----begin quotation----
AVI file format detected.
VIDEO: [divx] 480x320 24bpp 30.000 fps 918.5 kbps (112.1 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
open: No such file or directory
vo_mga: Couldn't open /dev/mga_vid
----end quotation----

and the window with message about error in opening video_out (-vo) device appears.

However when started without gui (as mplayer) the problem does not exist.

I've tried to downgrade to version 2:0.99+1.0pre7try2+cvs20060117-0ubuntu8 which used to work on dapper, but unexpectedly problem still appeared! It also appeared when I tried by my self compiled version 1.0rc1 downloaded from mplayerhq.hu. So I suspect that this is something wrong with edgy environment, not with mplayer it self, that makes it not work properly when started with gui.