mplayer problem.

[Robin Laing]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 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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It may not have been a faad2 update that caused it.  From memory it was 
moving libavcode.so.51 to a different package someplace.  I had this 
problem and read on the freshrpms list to install libmp4v2 to get around 
this issue.


 From the freshrpms mail list.

yum install libmp4v2


I had actually emailed this to work on the weekend so I have it handy.
-- 
Robin Laing