[MPlayer-users] nvidia, mplayer, VIDIX driver

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 10:36:53AM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hi,
> On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 05:40:15PM +0200, Kamil Salem wrote:
> > > Your MPlayer installation is incomplete. Neither libdha nor the 
> > > vidix drivers 
> > > seem to be installed where mplayer expects them. 
> > >  
> > > Regards, 
> > > R. 
> >  
> > I think I installed MPlayer in proper way. How should I do it to 
> > install it completely with libdha and vidix drivers? 
> 
> You probably installed MPlayer into /usr/local, and /usr/local/lib
> probably isn't in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Either set that or
> move/copy/link the libs in /usr/local/lib to /usr/lib or configure
> with --prefix=/usr to install MPlayer below /usr instead of /usr/local.

Most of these are very bad suggestions that break your system. The
correct solution is to fix /etc/ld.so.conf by adding /usr/local/lib to
it, and complain to the stupid vendor who omitted it.

Rich