Peter Nijs wrote: >> no problems. what i don't want is people to get their hopes up. this was in >> the context of people asking if they can play vga video and me going "good >> luck!". there is reality - and you can sit and hack away spend lots of time >> and get 1 case to work, and work well. as i said - it will depend on codec, >> bitrate, quality etc. mpeg4 decode in hw is great - but remember it is also >> limiting to just mp4 - all your mpeg1, ogg, etc. videos will not work. also >> as long as mplayer is accessing glamo hardware it must run as root. >> admittedly we run everything as root - but come the day when we don't... >> this is trouble. >> >> Hi.
Can someone clear up for me why everything runs as root? When I heard the iPhone ran everything as root I kinda sneered at it but now I can't be so smug. What are the engineering reasons for this? Rob _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
