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Well. you could get a TV card working on Linux and then just get a $30 DVD player. :-) Of course, if you just like a challenge....
I did this on a windows side too, a nice DVD software package cost more than a cheap DVD player. Of course, this assumes you have a TV card or graphics card with TV ability (that actually works with Linux) installed or available (which I did).
Originally posted by jtshaw Why would that be? I installed it on my machine using sudo and it works just fine. Not with an RPM mind you, I installed from source, but still.
One, It's part of the instructions. Two, much to my discredit, I did not follow them, and sure enough, mplayer wouldn't work! Woops. This is for SuSE, maybe other Distros are different.
Ya, must be a suse specific thing, and quite frankly, it doesn't make any sense. There shouldn't be a damn bit of difference between using su to be root and logging in as root to begin with on a system that is set up well.
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