On 4/17/05, D. D. Brierton <darren@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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@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 > > -- Nope. No blue screen at all. It just plays the audio.
