[MPlayer-users] Re: KDE & MPlayer
Anssi Saari
as at sci.fi
Tue May 14 13:06:02 CEST 2002
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 12:33:40PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
>
> > Couldn't find free Xvideo port - maybe other applications keep open it
> > Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device!
>
> anyone has idea to better wording this error message?
> it seems it confuses many users
How's this:
Error: Xvideo not available. Try mplayer -vo help for other
video output devices.
Could mplayer perform a check like xvinfo to actually determine
if Xvideo is even available in the driver? If not, then it could
just say there's no Xvideo support and point to the docs...
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