[MPlayer-DOCS] Re: [MPlayer-users] mplayer can't play WMV3 files

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 01 March 2004 at 12:30, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Monday, 01 March 2004 at 09:15, Anders Misfeldt wrote:
> > 
> > Thank you!
> > 
> > The solution was to edit the /etc/sysconfig/prelink file so that you say no to PRELINKING:
> > 
> > PRELINKING=no
> > 
> > Then run the cron.daily/prelink script:
> > 
> > /etc/cron.daily/prelink
> > 
> > and then disabling exec-shild with
> > 
> > echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shild
> > 
> > Now it works again :-)
> 
> This should be added to FAQ, methinks. We're bound to get more of this
> problem.

How about something along these lines? (attached).
It's quick and dirty and I'm not sure how to make it look nicer,
but at least we have a baseline to work on. ;)

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 You have to use <option>-rawaudio on:format=0x50</option>.
 </para></answer>
 </qandaentry>
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question><para>
+<application>MPlayer</application> dies with
+<screen>MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: init_video_codec</screen>
+when playing a WMV3 file on Fedora.
+</para></question>
+<answer><para>
+Edit the <filename>/etc/sysconfig/prelink</filename> file so that you say no
+to PRELINKING:</para>
+<para><option>PRELINKING=no</option></para>
+<para>Then run the cron.daily/prelink script:
+<command>/etc/cron.daily/prelink</command></para>
+<para>and then disable exec-shild with
+<command>echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield</command>.
+</para></answer>
+</qandaentry>
 </qandadiv>