Sorry, should have said - mplayer works fine for mpeg video and some AVI but not for encrypted DVDs using the x11 driver and X 4.0.1. Decryption _seems_ to work and usually the video_ts.vob file runs, albeit at breakneck speed (blink and it's gone) but for all other VOBs it either reports unsupported format or exits immediately with a segmentation fault after identifying the MPEG2 PS stream. Anybody else seen these symptoms? If it works for other people it can hardly be a bug, or can it? As far as AVIs are concerned whether mplayer works or not appears to depend on the codec (this is all double-Dutch to me). The .dll files are all there but some generate segmentation faults: indeo is OK, Cinepak Video is OK, but not Microsoft Video 1 (cram). The DOCS/CODECS file indicates that playing some formats might require access to the Windows registry for extra data. Since I do not use Windows it is not possible to report any useful information to the authors. On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 11:34, David E. Fox wrote: > > > use GCC 2.96 because it does not support MMX, but in my computer the > > > mplayer works perfectly, eventhough my GCCis 2.96. > > > > They may be referring to the gcc 2.96 built by Red Hat specifically, and > > not a generic build (or mandrake) of 2.96. Mine is 2.96 as well and > > compilation went smoothly. Once I got the win32 codecs installed in the > > right place, it seems to work all right. > > > > It does say not to submit bug reports if you disable the gcc checking, so > > caveat emptor :). > > Red Hat's GCC is _not_, as some will tell you, buggy. It is just fussier and > less forgiving with code. Mandrake's GCC is a pruning from the (then > unfinished) GCC 3.0 tree. It was called 2.96 simply because the number had > been vacated by the GCC developers (to avoid confusion with Red Hat's > version). In other words, Mandrake does not use Red Hat's GCC. MPlayer works > flawlessly in Mandrake 8.0 when configured with the --disable-gcc-checking > flag before compilation. > > -- Len Lawrence @ The Thistle Foundation
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