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) -- Tzafrir Cohen /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
