[MPlayer-users] Re: Mplayer crashes with wmv-files

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 04:48:27PM -0800, Alex Eskin wrote:
>     This is not an athlon problem,  but a fedora problem.
> 
>    There is a bad interaction on Fedora between exec-shield, prelink,
>    and anything which uses windows dll's (i.e. wine, but also 
>    mplayer and xine). The immediate symptom I was seeing was a 
>    segmentation fault when trying to play windows media 9 files 
>    in mplayer.

Is it possible to disable this idiotic stuff (exec-shield, prelink
etc.) in Fedora? If not then IMO we need a new section in
users-against-developers.html... :)

Rich