mplayer problem.

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 15:03 -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
> I had the same problem.  It turns out that there is a copy of faad2 that
> breaks mplayer.  I've heard that it came from a freshrpms repository,
> but I'm sure that mine didn't.  How I got this problem on my pc remains
> a mystery. 
> 
> Anyway... the solution is to download an older copy of faad2, such as
> this one...
> 
> http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/i386/faad2-2.0-19.20050131.lvn6.i386.rpm
> 
> and install it over the current with the following command
> 
> rpm -i --force faad2...rpm
> 
> I am saying this all from memory, so I might not have the details
> exactly right, but that is the jist of it. 
> 
> There are a couple threads on www.fedoraforum.org that discuss it.  
> 
Bingo. You are exactly correct. Thanks, I don't know how many hours I
sent in solving this problem. I wonder how this happened.
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