No video with mplayer and mplayer-plugin

[D. D. Brierton]

On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 12:52 -0400, R L wrote:
> For some reason, I get no video - but I do get sound - when I play
> videos with mplayer and mplayer plug-in for firefox.  I did before. 
> What could be causing this?  Here are my versions:
> 
> [fedora at dell Desktop]$  rpm -qa | grep -i mplayer
> mplayer-1.0-0.15.pre6a.1.fc3.rf
> mplayerplug-in-2.80-13.1.fc3.rf
> mplayer-fonts-1.1-2.0.rf

When you say no video, do you mean that you see a blue screen instead? I
get that occasionally with mplayer, and I have no idea what causes it.
The problem seems to be caused by mplayer, but once it's occurred no
other video player (xine, gstreamer) works either. The only solution I
have found is rebooting, which is absurd, but I haven't found any other
way of getting it to work again. Logging out and logging back in again
doesn't work, and neither does restarting X.

Best, Darren

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