Re: mplayer problems

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 11:33 -0700, oldman wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
> > A day or so back i hit a web site that needed mplayer, which went thru 
> > the motions of downloading the file, but when it tried to play it, 
> > stopped immediately, several times.
> >
> > Today I thought I'd see if yumex could help and told it to install a 
> > few more skins and other mplayer accessories.
> >
> > It starts process the queue, and fails because it can't find mplayer, 
> > but if I goto the removal screen, mplayer shows as installed and I 
> > can't uninstall it because of all the other dependencies.
> >
> > rpm says this version is installed:
> > [root diablo ~]# rpm -q mplayer
> > mplayer-1.0pre8-0.6.20060406
> > but yumex reports this
> > Missing Dependency: mplayer = 1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5 is needed by 
> > package mplayer-gui
> > So obviously thats a livna item, but its not shown as being available.
> >
> > Which magic twanger do I need folks?
> >
> >
>     Not much help, but I found the same problem.  Nothing changed in 
> mplayer lately, so it might be the new firefox?  I think I didn't see 
> the problem before that one.  Keep an eye out for a new mplayerplug-in, 
> maybe in sourceforge.
> 
> Scott
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