Hey all:

Maybe this should be in the software forum, but maybe it belongs here.

I recently compiled mplayer, and the mpayer plug-in. Everything works great, but only as root.

As a normal user, it fails with errors reporting improper permissions to the framebuffer device.

I think I could fix this by chaning the permissions on the devices it's complaining about, but I'm wondering what the "correct" or most 'secure' way of doing this? Should I try the SUID thing?

Any pointers?

thanks in advance,
-Charlie

chmod 666 $DEVICE should help.

Hey all:

OK - I figured this one out after mucking around for a while.

I compiled and installed mplayer according to the instructions in the documentation. In short, they ask you to make a directory /usr/lib/win32 and put all your codec dlls in there before compiling. OK, but you need to make sure that the files in that directory are readable by the user that wants to run mplayer using them.

So I just changed the permissions on the files in /usr/lib/win32, and everything is cool.

BTW - if you haven't checked out the mplayer plug-in (sourceforge project), it is simply amazing! I can play just any web content I run into from Mozilla using it. Very cool!

-Charlie