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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Folks,

> >>> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, David Moberg wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> There is a new mplayer binary available at my geocities site.
> >>
> >> http://us.share.geocities.com/davidjmoberg/mplayer-new.tgz

   After re-naming my existing (working) mplayer, I installed the new one.

   It works OK under X, for avi, mpg, wmv.

   It also works, which is new, from the console, but only when run as root - 
sound and vision.  :)
It did not run from the console when run as user until I changed the mplayer 
binary to set ID on execution, and even then the sound didn't work.   And 
still doesn't, at least not for videos.    :(
I get the error message: cannot open /dev/dsp  permission denied (or words to 
that effect).  Yet it will play mp3s just fine from the commandline as user.

   As it happens, I also cannot get the RealPlayer to make sound in X when 
run as user, either, which may indicate a system permission fault.  Any idea 
where that might be ?

Regards,
         Ron

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Ron Clarke 
AUSREG Consultancy      http://www.ausreg.com
Tadpole Tunes           http://tadpole.mytunebook.de/
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