In the past couple of days there has been an mplayer rollback in Packman.
The current version in Packman is 1.1.1+r36500-3.1
after installing this, when launching smplayer I get a popup window stating
smplayer couldn’t identify the version of mplayer you are using.
Version reported by mplayer
MPlayer -4.7 (C) 2000-2013 MPlayer Team
Please select the correct version of mplayer
then there is a dropdown box with the choices
1.0rc3 or newer
1.0rc2
1.0rc1 or older
Choosing the newest version works and local files play without problem but network files now refuse to play (from my nas drive over smb)
Here are the log files from mplayer
/usr/bin/mplayer -noquiet -nofs -nomouseinput -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -msglevel demux=6 -slave -vo xv -ao pulse -nokeepaspect -nodr -double -input conf=/usr/share/smplayer/input.conf -stop-xscreensaver -wid 75497573 -monitorpixelaspect 1 -ass -embeddedfonts -ass-line-spacing 0 -ass-font-scale 1 -ass-styles /home/farcus/.config/smplayer/styles.ass -font Arial -subfont-autoscale 0 -subfont-osd-scale 20 -subfont-text-scale 20 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -subpos 100 -cache 2048 -osdlevel 0 -prefer-ipv4 -vf-add screenshot -noslices -channels 2 -af equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 -softvol -softvol-max 110 smb://linkstation/share/TV%20Shows/xxxxx/xxxxx.mkv
MPlayer -4.7 (C) 2000-2013 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing smb://linkstation/share/TV%20Shows/xxxxx/xxxxx.mkv.
No stream found to handle url smb://linkstation/share/TV%20Shows/xxxxx/xxxxx.mkv
Exiting… (End of file)
ID_EXIT=EOF
switching to mplayer2 problem is resolved but there is obviously something wrong with the current version of mplayer in packman.