On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 03:30 +0000, Paul Higgins (U of M) wrote: > It's taken me a month or so to get back to the whole MPlayer issue. As for > the last piece of advice given on this list, all I can say is, no such luck: > > $ cd /usr/bin > $ ./mplayer > MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team > Illegal instruction > > I did make sure that my yum.conf was pointing to the latest rpm repositories > as per the how-to instructions on the YDL site. I also have a couple > alternate sites in yum.conf as well. The MPlayer binary came from the YDL > site. > > I guess I'll be learning to compile from source and/or installing xine, which > sounds like a much less problematic package. (Oh, I might add, the latest > binaries of MPlayer for OS X are also buggy, so this must not be a problem > that is confined to Linux). > > Thanks for everyone's help! > > -PRH
Hi! Unfortunately, that statement "Illegal instruction" refers to a internal programming problem which the Mplayer team missed. So it won't matter what OS the program is run under, if the problem is related to any one of a thousand potential programming errors every line of code will have to be explored to determine what the problem actually is. Which is why I pointed to another application entirely, namely xine, which has acquired quite a list of enthusiasts. Good luck .... _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
