Derek Jennings wrote:
>On Thursday 25 Jul 2002 10:27 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
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>>OK, so I now have a screen resolution that compares with the windblows
>>screen resolution using geforce3 video card.
>>
>>Much improved it is too.
>>
>>But none of my video display programmes will load.
>>Starting with MPlayer, this is a typical load sequence failure:-
>>...........................................................................
>>....................................................... MPlayer
>>CVS-020707-18:52-3.0.4 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)
>>
>>CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 PM Palomino/Athlon MP
>>Multiprocessor/Athlon XP eXtreme Performance (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
>>CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
>>Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE
>>
>>vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 8 and 8 bpp (":0.0" => local
>>display)
>>Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open
>>'/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No
>>such file or directory
>>Reading /usr/local/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 36 audio & 101 video codecs
>>font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
>>font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
>>Using Linux's hardware RTC timing (1024Hz)
>>Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or
>>directory
>>Can't open input config file /usr/local/share/mplayer/input.conf : No
>>such file
>>or directory
>>Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
>>SKIN dir 1: '/root/.mplayer/Skin'
>>SKIN dir 2: '/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin'
>>[ws] sorry, this color depth is not enough.
>>...........................................................................
>>.....................................................
>>
>>
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>Well, near the beginning it says your X session is running with 8 bit colour
>depth. That is not going to be enough for MPlayer, hence the warning. Set
>your default colour depth to be at least 16 bit.
>
How do I do reset colour depth at 16 bit or more (shouldn't it be 32 bit ?)
>
>Also, you are not running mplayer as root are you? I just wonder why it is
>looking for /root/.mplayer etc instead of ~/.mplayer
>
I set it all up and get it working as root then worry about users.
John
>
>John Richard Smith
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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