diff --git a/conf/intel/portage/package.mask b/conf/intel/portage/package.mask
index 47aea7e5..8d0c6d8d 100644
--- a/conf/intel/portage/package.mask
+++ b/conf/intel/portage/package.mask
@@ -158,8 +158,6 @@ sci-chemistry/pymol::gentoo
 
 # 2013-01-13 Fabio Erculiani: we use media-video/libav
 media-video/ffmpeg
-# also, latest versions of mplayer pull in ffmpeg directly, mask them
->media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20110322-r1
 
 # 2013-01-23 Fabio Erculiani: app-misc/pax-utils-0.6 breaks genkernel initramfs generation
 # See Gentoo bug #450688, mask pax-utils for now