On 26/4/20 4:03 pm, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > MPlayer is no longer developed and largely replaced by mpv. > > I can suggest to try use mpv instead. If you dislike the minimal builtin > user interface, then try one of the frontends gnome-mpv or smplayer. > > I can play the above video just fine with mpv, but your problem might be > related to other parts of your system (graphics driver, X11 or Wayland > setup, etc.).
Right, wasn't aware of mplayer's demise… my use case was to play a full-screen video without sound as the screen saver… so I have the following: stuartl@vk4msl-nb:~$ cat .screensavers/playrandom.sh #!/bin/bash if [ -n "$1" ]; then XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW=$1 fi exec /usr/bin/mplayer -nosound -fs -really-quiet \ ${XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW+-wid} \ $XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW \ -nolirc -nostop-xscreensaver \ -shuffle \ /home/stuartl/.screensavers/*.{mkv,mpeg,mp4} \ /home/stuartl/.screensavers/*/*.{mkv,mpeg,mp4} stuartl@vk4msl-nb:~$ grep -C 3 playrandom.sh .xscreensaver textURL: http://planet.debian.org/rss20.xml programs: \ "Random video" /home/stuartl/.screensavers/playrandom.sh \ $XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW \n\ - maze -root \n\ - GL: superquadrics -root \n\ This works well, with MPEG4 files, it crashes and burns with Ogg/Theora. I'll have to see if mpv can pull off the same trick as mplayer.