FreeBSD 10 - mplayer issue

[Roland Smith]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 10:17:58PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> Yet another problem in the new install saga - thankfully I have a mostly 
> useable machine now.
> 
> This issue hasn't been a high priority on the list - until now. Mplayer 
> won't run and I can't entertain myself :) Actually, its a bit more 
> serious than that as I need it for work, and several other related tools 
> use it too.
> 
> After install I ran umplayer and it gave me nothing; so I ran mplayer at 
> the cli and it did nothing - and I mean absolutely nothing. Even with 
> -vvvv there is not a spot of output after the command is entered.

For playing videos I would recommend using multimedia/mpv as a lightweight
alternative or multimedia/vlc in case you want a full-blown GUI.

Both require multimedia/ffmpeg (2.2 currently) which also works very well as
an mencoder replacement.

Roland
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