[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/man/en mplayer.1,1.1170,1.1171

[Paul TT]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:41:58 -0500
Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 05:16:07PM -0800, Corey Hickey wrote:
> > Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > >>>>mplayer /dev/hda -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo fps=10:w=640:h=480
-fs
> > >>>
> > >>>It's amazing how much green I get. I'd think it'd be the random
noise most of
> > >>>the time :-)
> > >>
> > >>Actually, I was amazed at the total opposite, I got too much
random noise, 
> > >>I was expecting green.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I'm jealous of you guys right now, all I get is
> > > 
> > > File not found: '/dev/hda4'
> > > Failed to open /dev/hda4
> > 
> > If /dev/hda4 actually exists on your system, then the error message
is
> > erroneous: it's a permissions issue. Try it as root, or grant your
> > normal user read access to the device.
> 
> I know Diego isn't stupid enough to do this, but please never
> recommend something as idiotic as changing permissions on /dev/hda*.
> Some luser might actually do it....

<ironic>
uh why? i have them 0777, other hd* and sd* too, is it wrong?
</ironic>