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.

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