[MPlayer-users] mplayer install interferes with RealPlayer10?

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 02:55:52PM -0700, Philip Walden wrote:
> 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?

No, unlike on windows, processes on unix are entirely independent. The
only way they can interfere with each other is if the libraries *on
disk* conflict, not in memory..

Rich