[MPlayer-users] Why

[joe]

Kevin DeKorte wrote:

>I'm crossposting this because it is valuable information to both mplayer and 
>mplayerplug-in users... 
>
>Fedora Core 1 can work, but you have to make some changes to the prelinking. 
>This is needed for WINE as well. 
>
>First as root, undo all the prelinking
>
>prelink -u
>
>Then fix the prelinking
>
>prelink -a -m --no-exec-shield
>
>Then edit the file /etc/sysconfig/prelink
>
>and change PRELINK_OPTS to
>PRELINK_OPTS="-m --no-exec-shield"
>  
>

Thanks for the tip, that clears up the one nagging issue I had with 
certain wmv files on P4 systems.

Now mplayer handles everything perfectly on all my systems.

Joe