[packman] MPlayer broken for .flv files

[Erwin Lam]

On Sunday 24 April 2011 20:15:04 Olaf Hering wrote:
> For me mplayer does not play flv files anymore. This happend after the
> packman repo reorganisation from a flat directory to the
> Essentials,Extra,Games,etc. subdirs. I dont have a specific date when it
> broke. The first version that did not work is this, todays version does
> not work either:
> 
> ...
> Name        : MPlayer                      Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 1.0rc4_r33179                     Vendor:
> http://packman.links2linux.de Release     : 1.pm.1.1                     
> Build Date: Fr 01 Apr 2011 23:23:32 CEST Install Date: Mi 20 Apr 2011
> 10:05:00 CEST      Build Host: eckhaus Group       :
> Productivity/Multimedia/Video/Players   Source RPM:
> MPlayer-1.0rc4_r33179-1.pm.1.1.src.rpm ...
> 
> Hopefully this is not a rude form of forcing me to upgrade to 11.3 or
> newer. However, I just checked on a 11.3 installation and it does not work
> there either.
> 
> Olaf
> 
> 
> 
>  $  mplayer fvXgL6B_ZGM.flv

Please try

mplayer -vo xv fvXgL6B_ZGM.flv

It looks like vdpau is not (completely) supported by your video card. I had 
similar problems.

Erwin