On Thursday 16 November 2006 15:07, Mike A. Harris wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > I have mplayer-1.0-0.66.rc1.lvn6 and mplayerplug-in-3.31-2.lvn6 > > installed, but for some reason I can't get it to play either audio or > > video. Xmms will play mp3s. Xine will play videos. Mplayer just sits > > there. > > > > Is there some magic in getting this working? > > One of the libraries that mplayer links to causes SElinux to throw > a fit. The long term solution for the problem would be for the > developers of the offending library to fix it securely as per > recommendations of SElinux/glibc/etc. developers. Some short > term workarounds, both of which reduce the security provided > by SElinux would be: > > 1) modify SElinux policy to permit the library to do what it is trying > to do, which SElinux considers to be insecure > > or > > 2) disable SElinux Not guilty on this occasion, Mike. I'm still not sure why, but after I launched from the CLI it seems to be fine. Mind you, I'm still finding things that were very different in FC4. I'm not sure why, but in FC4 I played my DVDs with /dev/hdc, but now I have to put them into /dev/hdd. Perhaps that's all that was wrong before, in fact it probably is. Anne
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