media player now not working

[kevinstuff]

I downloaded extra decoders and then audio and video no longer worked.
then uninstalled the extra decoders and now no audio or video.
playing audio I get message that unable to play media and format is not supported.
please any ideas how to fix

[fnordianslip]

Does rebooting help? I recall a situation once, when having failed to play an unsupported file, MP refused to play anything else.

[kevinstuff]

Does rebooting help? I recall a situation once, when having failed to play an unsupported file, MP refused to play anything else.


No. Its like uninstalling the extra formats deleted other stuff it shouldn't have. wanting to know how to go about reinstalling media player. for example, trying to reinstall the extra decoders I get the message 'application packages missing: gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-extra'

[starman]

i had the same problem after flashing to the latest firmware, although i do remember that when installing my apps from backup the size of the decoders package was a couple of kb as opossed to the 3.5mb it should be.

mine did uninstall correctly and a reinstall fixed it, i do remember an old thread where the media indexer was causing problems, there was a terminal line used to restart the indexer although i can really search for it now, im supossed to be working lol :)

happy hunting :)

[kevinstuff]

I remembered that I'd also about the same time installed ogg support. I uninstalled this and now my Media Player works again :-)

[azzuri09]

i had the same problem when i installed the software.i tried to play flv files,it wouldnt play flv and after that none of the music or video files would work.so i had to uninstall it and reboot,things were back to normal

[rawutt]

my mplayer widget doesn't work..i've to use it from the menu