Mplayer only works as root

[Ivan_Terrible]

Hi,

I downloaded and installed mplayer, and it works perfectly as long as I am root. When I am a mere mortal, I get:

mplayer -vo xvidix:radeon sw1.avi

MPlayer 1.0pre7-SUSE-9.2-i686-Packman-3.3.4 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium M Banias (Family: 6, Stepping: 5)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.


Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Inappropriate ioctl for device
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such device
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: Permission denied
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing sw1.avi.
AVI file format detected.
VIDEO: [XVID] 640x256 24bpp 23.976 fps 990.9 kbps (121.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
AC3: 5.1 (3f+2r+lfe) 48000 Hz 448.0 kbit/s
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 448.0 kbit/29.17% (ratio: 56000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm:liba52 (AC3-liba52)
================================================== ========================
vo: X11 running at 1400x1050 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0" => local display)
vosub_vidix: Couldn't find working VIDIX driver
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.


Exiting... (End of file)

Oh yeah, my graphics chip is a Radeon 9000.

It works if I change the mode of mplayer to suid root, but then gmplayer wonät work anymore.

If I invoke mplayer with -vo xvidix, I get:

================================================== ========================
No vidix driver name provided, probing available ones (-v option for details)!
vo: X11 running at 1400x1050 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0" => local display)
[rage128] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[pm3] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[mga] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[SiS] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[radeon] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[unichrome] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[nvidia_vid] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[mach64] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[mga] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[savage_vid] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
[cyberblade] Error occurred during pci scan: Operation not permitted
vosub_vidix: Couldn't find working VIDIX driver
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Ivan

[Slip]

What groups is your user in?

[Ivan_Terrible]

users, dialout, video.

It's a SuSE 9.2 system btw.

[jaboua]

I am unfamiliar with the vidix video driver... Have you tried changing output driver to for example the XV-driver? First start mplayer without any video or anything, and then change the output settings, and retry.

[Ivan_Terrible]

With -vo xv, it complains it cannot grab port 61 (both as user and root).

Without any options, it runs, but I can't resize the window and go to fullscreen.

[retired1af]

Silly question.. Is port 61 available/open?

[Ivan_Terrible]

I'm just trying to top it with an even sillier question: How do I check?

[Xenon]

Have you used the graphical front end for mplayer, run it by going Alt-F2 (not Ctrl-Alt-F2) then typing "gmplayer" I have had problems running it from the command line, normally it can't seem to find the display.

[Ivan_Terrible]

Hi,

After logging out and logging in again, it suddenly all works. I thought you had to this only in Windows. So thanks to everybody who helped!

BTW: Whitstable, Xenon? I've been there a few times when I was at UKC. Great place. To buy fish.

[Xenon]

Nice to see someone on here has heard of the small place where I live