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On 20 Sep 2009, at 17:07, Harry Putnam wrote:

> Following my most recent update world of Sept. 13, mplayer only
> produces a black screen when playing quicktime .mov files.

Suggest playing one from the command line - mplayer gives a LOT of  
output, some of which may be useful. You might have to use _something  
like_ "-vo X11" (check the manpage / docs for full vo options).

Stroller.