> The following simplified command-line reproduces the problem with the same mplayer output (up to details concerning bmovl which is not included here). It should execute as is on a Linux system: > > mplayer -quiet -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo fps=10:w=2500:h=2000:y8 /dev/zero While waiting for a better answer, have you tried a different vo? The following two commands work here: mplayer -quiet -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo fps=10:w=2500:h=2000:y8 /dev/zero -vo gl mplayer -quiet -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo fps=10:w=2500:h=2000:y8 /dev/zero -vo x11 ========================================================================== > Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video > Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... > Opening video filter: [scale] > Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. > [swscaler @ 0x3151520]using unscaled gray -> yuv420p special converter > VO: [xv] 2500x2000 => 2500x2000 Planar YV12 > Source image dimensions are too high: 2500x2000 (maximum is 2048x2048) > FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver. > VDecoder init failed :( A quick search found: if ((max_width != 0 && max_height != 0) && (image_width > max_width || image_height > max_height)) { mp_msg( MSGT_VO, MSGL_ERR, MSGTR_VO_XV_ImagedimTooHigh, image_width, image_height, max_width, max_height); return -1; } in mplayer/libvo/vo_xv.c , line 191. Giorgio Vazzana