[MPlayer-users] mplayer install interferes with RealPlayer10?

[Philip Walden]

Philip Walden wrote:

> I am setting up a Fedora FC4 laptop.
>
> I installed the RealPlayer 10.0.4.750 and confirmed it worked.
>
> I then installed mplayer CVS-060526 and then added the mplayerplug-in 
> from the Firefox plugin site.
>
> mplayer and its plugin worked well and I see that it handles most of 
> the realplayer media.
>
> However, when I went back to run RealPlayer in native mode, I could 
> get sound but no video.
>
> I rebooted and RealPlayer worked again, showing sound and video. I 
> then ran mplayer in native mode, it worked, but then RealPlayer 
> stopped showing video again.
>
> Are there any conflicting files or settings that prevent these two 
> applications from working with each other?
>
> Philip

I am thinking that the mplayer leaves an older real codec library in 
memory and then the RealPlayer has problems with it?

Philip