[packman] [PM] MPlayer-1.1.1.r37379-1.1.x86_64 (openSUSE 13.2/x86_64)

[Carl E. Hartung]

Hello,

I have run audacious since forever and it was working fine this
morning. After I applied normal updates to my openSUSE 13.2 system
today, including those for MPlayer and gmplayer, launching audacious
instantly locks up the desktop with load average climbing quickly to
~3.9+

updated to:
     MPlayer-1.1.1.r37379-1.1.x86_64
     gmplayer-1.1.1.r37379-1.1.x86_64
from:
     MPlayer-1.1.1.r37373-2.1.x86_64
     gmplayer-1.1.1.r37373-2.1.x86_64

audacious installed:
     audacious-3.6-3.1.x86_64
     audacious-plugins-extra-3.6-2.2.x86_64
     audacious-plugins-lang-3.6-2.2.noarch
     audacious-lang-3.6-3.1.noarch
     audacious-plugins-3.6-2.2.x86_64

I reverted all of the updated packages to their prior versions --
*except* zypper says MPlayer & gmplayer 1.1.1.r37373-2.1 are no longer
available -- and the behavior is unchanged. In addition, while exploring
(hopefully temporary) alternatives to audacious for playing .mp3 files,
I have discovered that gmplayer/MPlayer is unable to play them:

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Playing /home/carlh/Documents/Play/ES_150318_Show.mp3.
libavformat version 56.25.101 (internal)
Audio only file format detected.
Clip info:
 Title: Climate Geoengineering & Chemt
 Artist: Alex Smith
 Album: 
 Year: 
 Comment: 
 Genre: Other
Load subtitles in /home/carlh/Documents/Play/
==========================================================================
Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad...
Opening audio decoder: [libmad] libmad mpeg audio decoder
--> program dies here
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Thank you for everything you do and I would gratefully appreciate any
guidance you may offer!

regards,

Carl

-- 
Carl E. Hartung
http://www.cehartung.com/