mplayer and ATI 9550

From: Foxy (foxy_at_foxyhole.me.uk)
Date: 02/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:40:34 +0000

I've bought a new video card and after that mplayer stopped working. When I
try to play an avi file I've got the following:

> vo: X11 running at 1152x864 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local
> display)
> xscreensaver_disable: Could not find xscreensaver window.
> Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (it should be readable by the
> user.)
> Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
> Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such device
> Can't init input joystick
> Setting up LIRC support...
> mplayer: could not connect to socket
> mplayer: Permission denied
> Failed to open LIRC support.
> You will not be able to use your remote control.
> Playing something.avi.
> AVI file format detected.
> VIDEO: [DX50] 640x480 24bpp 25.000 fps 1010.7 kbps (123.4 kbyte/s)
> ==========================================================================
> Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 16000->192000 (128.0 kbit)
> Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
> ==========================================================================
> xscreensaver_disable: Could not find xscreensaver window.
> It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
> Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv!
> See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. Try -vo x11
> Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
>
>
> Exiting... (Exit)
>

I have now problem with kaffeine but it crushes ocasionally and I also get
used to mplayer. I have AVI drivers installed (the latest release).

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