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

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Tue Mar 2 05:14:16 CET 2004


On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:47:32PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> 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. ;)

IMO it needs to explain that this is Fedora's fault for being broken,
and not MPlayer's fault. Never miss a chance to bash Redhat... :)

Rich




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