On Monday 25 April 2011 23:38:04 Indi wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:50:01PM +0200, Indi wrote: > > ...using the directfb for vo gives > > sterling results, with the worst files playing happily in sync just like > > I always dreamed -- but only as root! > > > > Obviously there's a permissions issue somewhere... > > Oh jeepers, I've made a silly error -- the reason videos were playing so > well as root is that root had no .mplayer/config, :) > Apparently I just needed to clean up my config file and now it works > just fine again with x11 driver. Didn't realize defining a couple of audio > and video filters would impact performance that much but apparently it > really does, at least with avi and mkv files. Sorry for the noise! > > For other reasons though it might still be nice to know how to give a > user directfb permission. > > :)
Just an idea. Not sure if it uses svgalib - in which case setuid it to root before you fire it up as a plain user. Alternatively, run strace as a plain user and see at what point it fails to access the files it needs. -- Regards, Mick
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