Can't install any media player - pacman can't find all the files

I'm quite new to Linux. At the moment I can't view any videos or listen to music.
I tried installing mplayer using pacman - several files downloaded successfully, I watched the progress bars... but others couldn't be found. When I try again using a different mirror, from the output you can see that pacman requests 36 installation files for mplayer but it can't locate 14 of them.
I've tried three mirrors in the UK and one in Belgium. I get a similar problem trying to install VLC. Pacman has never failed me before, although admittedly last time I used him was to download firefox in December 2009.
This is what I get if I try again to install mplayer now:
pacman -S mplayer
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (36): libmad-0.15.1b-4 cdparanoia-10.2-2 sdl-1.2.14-1 lame-3.98.2-2
libogg-1.1.4-1 libtheora-1.1.1-1 xvidcore-1.2.2-1
libmng-1.0.10-2 scrnsaverproto-1.2.0-1 libxss-1.2.0-1
libsasl-2.1.23-2 libldap-2.4.21-1 tdb-1.2.0-1 talloc-2.0.1-1
smbclient-3.4.4-1 aalib-1.4rc5-6 flac-1.2.1-2
libvorbis-1.2.3-1 libsndfile-1.0.21-1
jack-audio-connection-kit-0.116.2-2 libid3tag-0.15.1b-3
imlib2-1.4.2-3 libcaca-0.99.beta16-1 x264-20100107-1
libmp4v2-1.6-1 faac-1.28-1 libftdi-0.16-1 lirc-utils-0.8.6-3
libxvmc-1.0.5-1 recode-3.6-3 enca-1.12-1 libvdpau-0.3-2
opencore-amr-0.1.2-1 a52dec-0.7.4-4 libdca-0.0.5-2
mplayer-30325-1
Total Download Size: 34.58 MB
Total Installed Size: 126.33 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
error: failed retrieving file 'lame-3.98.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.lividpenguin.com : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'libmng-1.0.10-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.lividpenguin.com : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'tdb-1.2.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.lividpenguin.com : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'smbclient-3.4.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.lividpenguin.com : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'jack-audio-connection-kit-0.116.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.lividpenguin.com : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'libid3tag-0.15.1b-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.lividpenguin.com : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'imlib2-1.4.2-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.lividpenguin.com : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'libcaca-0.99.beta16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.lividpenguin.com : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'x264-20100107-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.lividpenguin.com : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'libmp4v2-1.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.lividpenguin.com : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'faac-1.28-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.lividpenguin.com : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'enca-1.12-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.lividpenguin.com : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'libvdpau-0.3-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.lividpenguin.com : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'mplayer-30325-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mirror.lividpenguin.com : Not Found
warning: failed to retrieve some files from extra
error: failed to commit transaction (Not Found)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
Confusingly, if I now try to clean up the mess and remove the mplayer files that I did download, I get:
pacman -R mplayer
mplayer not found, searching for group...
error: 'mplayer': not found in local db
Thanks for reading

I am having the same or similar problem. I am unable to install vlc, ffmpeg, and several of their respective dependencies, with the same error
[joshua@desktop ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
archlinuxfr is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
there is nothing to do
[joshua@desktop ~]$ sudo pacman -S ffmpeg
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (10): faad2-2.7-1 libmp4v2-1.9.1-1 faac-1.28-2 xvidcore-1.2.2-1 opencore-amr-0.1.2-1 libvdpau-0.4-1 orc-0.4.4-1
schroedinger-1.0.9-1 libvpx-0.9.1-1 ffmpeg-23619-1
Total Download Size: 3.35 MB
Total Installed Size: 31.32 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
error: failed retrieving file 'ffmpeg-23619-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirrors.easynews.com : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'ffmpeg-23619-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from ftp.archlinux.org : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'ffmpeg-23619-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'ffmpeg-23619-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirrors.hosef.org : Service not available, closing control connection
error: failed retrieving file 'ffmpeg-23619-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from ibiblio.org : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'ffmpeg-23619-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirrors.xmission.com : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
warning: failed to retrieve some files from extra
error: failed to commit transaction (File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access))
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
Checking on the mirrors manually, I see that the package versions are incorrect. For example, http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/ffmpeg/ has ffmpeg at version 23792-1 but pacman is looking for 23619-1.
Any ideas?
EDIT: this is an install from this morning, from the 2010.05 core disk. Post install, I ran pacman -Syu and then installed some packages without issue.
Last edited by joshdmiller (2010-06-28 00:05:21)

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