OpenSUSE 11.1; KDE4.2.1: Mplayer doesn't work

English Hardware
#1

Since upgrading(?) from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1, Mplayer no longer produces any sound
when I’m trying to listen to a radio station. On selecting “play” it
produces the message “getting playlist” followed almost immediately by
“stopped”. There is another message between these two but it’s only there
for a microsecond.

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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy

#2

I don’t use MPlayer but I find that either Real Player or Kaffeine will play whatever I need; with some streams Real Player produces the same response as you are getting from MPlayer but switching to Kaffeine solves the problem.

#3

john hudson wrote:

>
> I don’t use MPlayer but I find that either Real Player or Kaffeine will
> play whatever I need; with some streams Real Player produces the same
> response as you are getting from MPlayer but switching to Kaffeine
> solves the problem.
>
>

Since updating to KDE 4.2.2 and reloading Mplayer, it now works. Kaffiene
wasn’t a rip-roaring success under 4.2.1 and still isn’t. Some plug-in
missing apparently.

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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy