Playing .dat ,.mpeg files in fedora 3

[kaliaraj]

How do i play .dat,.mpeg etc files in fedora 3.I have xmms,totem movie player installled

[pradeep_chauhan]

instal xine or mplayer.

[demoninside]

come on guys u can search forum a bit too,

any waay pradeep have given u short & complete install Xine or Mplayer,
find Mplayer source on Digit DVD last month

[kaliaraj]

well guys i have installed mplayer but i get an error while playing files.This is what it shows

MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon Willamette (Family: 8, Stepping: 3)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2


Playing 1.dat.
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG1 352x288 (aspect 8) 25.000 fps 1120.0 kbps (140.0 kbyte/s)
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Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 28000->176400 (224.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
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vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 8 and 8 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available.
Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv!
See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. Try -vo x11
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Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 352 x 288 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
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Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit -> 44100Hz/2ch/16bit...
AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 44100 hz, little endian signed int
AF_pre: 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
alsa-init: got device=0, subdevice=0
alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default
alsa: 44100 Hz/2 channels/4 bpf/57364 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little Endian
AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps)
Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit -> 44100Hz/2ch/16bit...
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 352 x 288 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [x11] 352x288 => 384x288 Planar YV12
No accelerated colorspace conversion found
SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 -> BGR 8-bit special converter
BGR not supported, please contact the developers
FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver.

FATAL: Could not initialize video filters (-vf) or video output (-vo).

alsa-uninit: pcm closed

Exiting... (End of file)




well at first my problem was that my monitor being older LG STUDIOWORKS 440si was not able to work on resolution of 1024x768 at million colours so my colour depth is 256 colours .Is this something related to this problem???????????????????