[MPlayer-users] mplayer vidix drivers question

[Stephen Mollett]

Hi,

On Saturday 01 July 2006 08:01, Tom Poe wrote:
> Phil Oleynik wrote:
>> You are not running mplayer with SUID bit set, it merely does not have
>> sufficient permission to access hardware directly. Try running as root.
> the idea was to install and be able to run mplayer as user, not root.

Yes, that's the sensible approach. There's a bit in the documentation about 
how to get VIDIX working as a normal user, via a special kernel helper module 
borrowed from SVGAlib:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/output-trad.html#vidix

Stephen