$ mplayer Crazy_Lightning_Strike_.flv MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 6) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing Crazy_Lightning_Strike_.flv. libavformat file format detected. [lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0 [lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1 VIDEO: [FLV1] 320x240 0bpp 29.970 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s) xscreensaver_disable: Could not find XScreenSaver window. GNOME screensaver disabled [VO_XV] It seems there is no Xvideo support for your video card available. [VO_XV] Run 'xvinfo' to verify its Xv support and read [VO_XV] DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#xv! [VO_XV] See 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers. [VO_XV] Try -vo x11. Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device. ========================================================================== Forced audio codec: mad Opening audio decoder: [libmad] libmad mpeg audio decoder AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 64.0 kbit/18.14% (ratio: 8000->44100) Selected audio codec: [mad] afm: libmad (libMAD MPEG layer 1-2-3) ========================================================================== AO: [pulse] 22050Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Video: no video ===== PAUSE ===== A: 29.8 (29.7) of 31.6 (31.5) 0.4%