From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why am I seeing only black screen in mplayer
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:03:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200909211603.26690.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873a6hha5q.fsf@newsguy.com>
On Sonntag 20 September 2009, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Following my most recent update world of Sept. 13, mplayer only
> produces a black screen when playing quicktime .mov files.
>
> Ditto in firefox. This was working.
>
> But I'm not sure really what is playing the videos ... I do have gecko
> installed but in the firefox settings/applications it lists:
> quicktime files as being handled by `Use quicktime plugin 7.4.5
>
> All other video formats are listed as being handled by gecko.
>
> I'm not sure if firefox settings were changed by update world.
>
> Can anyone throw some light on what might be the problem here.
>
> Does anyone know if the new version of mplayer(1.0_rc4_p20090919-r1)
> offered in portage (which is not yet available in gentoo repos)...
> might fix the problem?
> Sun Sep 13 07:52:10 2009 >>> media-video/ffmpeg-0.5_p19787
you updated ffmpeg. Please rebuild mplayer. It should works afterwards.
And in the future: revdep-rebuilt. It is your frined.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-21 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-20 16:07 [gentoo-user] Why am I seeing only black screen in mplayer Harry Putnam
2009-09-21 5:38 ` Paul Hartman
2009-09-21 18:17 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2009-09-21 13:06 ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2009-09-21 14:03 ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
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