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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Why am I seeing only black screen in mplayer
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:18:34
Message-Id: 87ws3sduxd.fsf@newsguy.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Why am I seeing only black screen in mplayer by Paul Hartman
1 Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> writes:
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3 > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote:
4 >> Following my most recent update world of Sept. 13, mplayer only
5 >> produces a black screen when playing quicktime .mov files.
6 >
7 > It works for me on ~amd64. I'm using mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20090825 with
8 > "quicktime" USE flag enabled. Playing a quicktime movie shows video
9 > codec as ffrpza (from ffmpeg). I use vdpau for video output.
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11 Today is the first time emerge has been able to find anything newer
12 than media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p20090731-r1
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14 In any of the nearly a dozen repos I have set in /etc/make.conf.
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16 Maybe now I'll see a difference.
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18 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> writes:
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20 [...]
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22 >
23 > you updated ffmpeg. Please rebuild mplayer. It should works afterwards.
24 >
25 > And in the future: revdep-rebuilt. It is your frined.
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27 revdep-rebuild didn't help one whit in this case... as reported
28 earlier in this thread.