Lugo <lugoteehalt <at> yahoo.co.uk> writes: > But as it happens there is no video: (I assume you have no Nvidia graphic-card. If you have one, please consider installing the binary drivers, they allow hardware-accelerated decoding.) You have to make sure that you can either use xv or gl_nosw - all other drivers (except vdpau, see the Nvidia hint above) are either slow or old/undermaintained (or both). For xv, try something like sudo apt-get install libxv-dev. For gl, I am not sure, but I think that libgl1-mesa-dev does not help you (because it is only a software emulation of OpenGL, if I am correct). Carl Eugen PS: "use" means: mplayer -vo gl or mplayer -vo xv, see also mplayer -vo help
