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.