[MPlayer-users] quicktime, fedora core 1, mplayer 0.92

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 03:34:29PM -0800, Sean Kennedy wrote:
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> Hi folks, hope this isn't a repeat.
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> I just installed mplayer .92 with the full codec pack per the
> instructions.  When I try to view a quicktime movie ( @1280x1024 ), I
> get a completely blue/green screen, but it seems to be playing the
> video.  Now, I had a hunch, so I dropped down to 640x480, and I found
> some oddness.  The movie was playing, and at this res I could see it,
> but the bottom half of the screen was blue/green, while the top half
> was the video, all be it the lower half of it, wrapped around from
> right to left.

The problem is that fedora is broken. Read the mailing list archives
or the FAQ (in latest CVS or the website). And speaking of CVS, you
should use 1.0pre3 or latest CVS, not the ancient 0.92...

Rich