[mythtvnz] mplayer missing

Stephen Worthington stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Sun Jun 28 17:01:28 BST 2009


On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:45:47 +1000, you wrote:

>Hi
>
>2009/6/29 Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>:
>> I am running Jean-Yves' "testing" patches on Mythbuntu 9.04 64 bit.  I
>> initially upgraded to the 185 Nvidia driver, and that is the last time
>> I can remember trying mplayer.  Since, I have done the downgrade back
>> to the 180 driver, and tonight when I tried to play a .flv file, I was
>> having problems with the internal player (unable to skip forward), so
>> I tried to use mplayer.  But it was not installed - it must have been
>> uninstalled in the downgrade process.  So I tried to use Synaptic to
>> install it, but was told that the only version of mplayer available
>> was built for the 185 drivers.  So I tried to go back to the 185
>> drivers, and Synaptic told me that if I did that, it would uninstall
>> all of MythTV as all those packages were built for 180 only.  Is there
>> any way around this?  Either an mplayer package built for 180, or
>> MythTV packages built for 185?  Or have I just screwed up my
>> repository settings somewhere?
>
>Disable the testing repository.
>Testing uses 185.xx
>Release uses 180.xx

Thank you, that has fixed it.  Mplayer is back again.



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