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[SOLVED] Debian-multimedia breaks mplayer .mov playback on Lenny?



On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Mark <mamarcac@gmail.com> wrote:
Has anyone else experienced mplayer generating Fatal Error "Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device" after adding debian-multimedia.org to sources.list and performing the subsequent Smart Upgrades?  I'm trying to figure out if that's the cause; since other machines I have without debian-multimedia.org in the sources.list tab play the same .mov files fine I'm suspecting this.  I've tried various tweaks I found on-line to the /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf file for the vo section but nothing worked.  I'll be re-doing the installation for a friend and wanted to avoid breaking mplayer if possible.

 
I have confirmed one of the Smart Upgrades contained in debian-multimedia on Lenny does in fact cause this Fatal Error.  I reinstalled Lenny on the same machine tonight, without adding debian-multimedia to /etc/apt/sources.list, and mplayer plays the .mov files just fine.

Wanted to share in case anyone else has this problem.

Mark

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