On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote:

>
> Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>
> >Try mplayer, instead. plays a lot more files, though it won't play VCD's.

> It is very impressive in terms of file formats it supports (it supports
> some of the QuickTime formats!!!). It even plays DVDs (the reason I
> installed it to begin with). One problem with it is that it requires
> access to the real time clock in order to keep the picture and sound
> synchronized, and that means SUID it. I would like to use this
> opertunityto solicit responses from you guys - did any of you have any
> trouble with it?

Can't this be handled in terms of device file permissions? (create a
group"mplayer" and either include yourself in it, or make the mplayer
binary belong to it and SGID)

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