mplayer problems

[oldman]

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 at 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