On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, James Simmons wrote: > The documentation seems to suggest that you need to have root authority > to access the TV card. I haven't tried it myself. See section "2.3.11 > Booting into Freevo" of the Wiki where it says this and suggests using > sudo to start freevo. Maybe the docs need to be corrected? Or maybe > I'm not reading them right. > > "After freevo has been installed correctly and verified to work when run > from the command prompt, the system can be configured for standalone > operation where freevo will startup automatically without the need for > entering a username and password. Standalone operation implies that the > system will be somewhat 'insecure' as freevo needs root priviledges for > mplayer to access TV Capture cards properly." > > James Simmons
I believe I wrote that :) Anyway, I haven't tried using non-sudo or non-root access to run mplayer since the first time I tried it and wrote up the abovementioned paragraph. The root-priviledges requirement came from the mplayer docs due to trying to access vidix or other such drivers (might not be necessary for X11/Xv). Maybe someone can investigate if mplayer 0.90 still needs the root-privs or otherwise. T.C. ---- Wan Tat Chee (Lecturer) School of Computer Science, Univ. of Science Malaysia, 11800 USM, Penang, Malaysia. Rm.625 Ofc Ph: +604 653-3888 x 3617 NRG Lab Admin: +604 659-4757 Rm.601-E Ofc Ph: +604 653-4396 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://nrg.cs.usm.my/~tcwan GPG Key : http://nrg.cs.usm.my/~tcwan/tcw_gpg-20030322.asc F'print : DCF2 B9B2 FA4D 1208 AD59 14CA 9A8F F54D B2C4 63C7 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
