MPlayer problems with new Feisty upgrade

[NoOp]

On 04/19/2007 10:20 PM, Craig Hagerman wrote:
> No replies from anyone yet. I wonder if anyone else is having problems with
> mplayer on Feisty? I thought I would give an update on what I have learned
> and a workaround for this problem in case anyone else is having problems.
> 
> I found this page on launchpad.net detaliing mplayer bugs in ubuntu:
> 
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayer/+bugs
> 
> The first link (Distorted MP3 Sound) is similar to the problems I am having.
> There seems to be a lot of people having problems with the latest version of
> mplayer as contained in Feisty. This new version is 1.0rc1. The problem
> seems to be with the audio. My workaround solution was to download the
> previous (edgy) version of mplayer from here:
> 
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/edgy/i386/mplayer/2:0.99+1.0pre8-0ubuntu8
> 
> install with
> 
> dpkg -i filename.deb
> 
> 
> And then mplayer worked just fine. I will stick with the 0.99 version until
> I see on launchpad that these issues have been resolved.
> 
> Hope this is of help to anyone else who has problems.
> 
> Craig Hagerman
> <http://librarian.launchpad.net/6836858/mencoder>
> 

Interesting... we've just found a problem with a particular .flv file
playing on the Edgy version - works on the Feisty version. See the
"Problems playing Flash Video .flv files on Edgy Eft" thread. That file
plays sound just fine in the Edgy version, but no video. It plays just
fine in the Edgy version.  Unfortunately the Feisty Mplayer version
depends on Feisty libraries that Edgy doesn't have, so I'll have to
compile from source this weekend to install on Edgy to test.

Gary