New mplayer difficulties

[MR ZenWiz]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11 October 2015 at 20:43, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My Xubuntu 14.04.3 laptop began to display an odd problem with mplayer
>> about a week ago.  Seems that the keyboard commands no longer work at
>> all.
>
> What does
> apt-cache policy mplayer2
> show?
>

mar at mar8710w:~ $ apt-cache policy mplayer2
mplayer2:
  Installed: 2.0-701-gd4c5b7f-2ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2.0-701-gd4c5b7f-2ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 2.0-701-gd4c5b7f-2ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status