Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why am I seeing only black screen in mplayer
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:03:36
Message-Id: 200909211603.26690.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Why am I seeing only black screen in mplayer by Harry Putnam
1 On Sonntag 20 September 2009, Harry Putnam wrote:
2 > Following my most recent update world of Sept. 13, mplayer only
3 > produces a black screen when playing quicktime .mov files.
4 >
5 > Ditto in firefox. This was working.
6 >
7 > But I'm not sure really what is playing the videos ... I do have gecko
8 > installed but in the firefox settings/applications it lists:
9 > quicktime files as being handled by `Use quicktime plugin 7.4.5
10 >
11 > All other video formats are listed as being handled by gecko.
12 >
13 > I'm not sure if firefox settings were changed by update world.
14 >
15 > Can anyone throw some light on what might be the problem here.
16 >
17 > Does anyone know if the new version of mplayer(1.0_rc4_p20090919-r1)
18 > offered in portage (which is not yet available in gentoo repos)...
19 > might fix the problem?
20
21 > Sun Sep 13 07:52:10 2009 >>> media-video/ffmpeg-0.5_p19787
22
23
24 you updated ffmpeg. Please rebuild mplayer. It should works afterwards.
25
26 And in the future: revdep-rebuilt. It is your frined.