[MPlayer-users] why my mplayer hangs?

[Alexander Roalter]

YP wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 06:37:28PM +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
>> On 10/9/07, Y P <yellow.penguin at edpnet.be> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm using mplayer v. 1.0-rc1svn20070225-0.3etch1 under a Debian Etch o s.
>>> i'm using only the console mode.
>> too old. Use latest SVN or RC2
> 
> The version I'm using on Sarge (now a Very Old Debian distro) is Older than
> the one who comes with Etch .deb packages, and it works.
>  
> The problem isn't probably the version, but a config problem; I'm looking
> for how to resolve it, not how I can upgrade it;
> 
> btw I'm not spending my time with compiling lots of packages just for an
> mplayer.
> 
> Unfortunately, escept sending here my lsmod and lspci output, I don't know
> what I should do since it totally hangs the running console.
> 
> Y P 

So basically you're saying you don't want to upgrade mplayer, but here 
the people at the mplayer mailing list should tell you what's wrong with 
your system (since mplayer cannot be the problem, as you don't want to 
upgrade/fix it).

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cheers,
Alex