On 2011/08/30 18:11 (GMT+1000) Basil Chupin composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
On 2011/08/29 14:50 (GMT+1000) Basil Chupin composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
It's a mommy knows better than admin program that refuses to run unless mommy's inane prerequisites are all fulfilled or it's recompiled without mommy's reqs. I don't install it any more since that discovery. Smplayer has no such requirements.
Plays *everything*, Files, Discs (DVD, CD, VCD), Devices and Streams
Playing anything requires it first be started, which has a (practically speaking) unfulfillable condition: http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc/2011-June/020179.html
You are being just a bit "sneaky" about all this, aren't you? :-( .
You have a special case of trying to do something with outputting something to your Television set instead of your monitor, aren't you?
Most monitors in stores now are nothing but small TVs without RCA and/or component input sets, without remote controls, and often without speakers. There's definitely no small number of people who use puters to supply programming to their TV sets. Personal puters provide a home for streaming and other content from internet and local network, free satellite TV tuners, OTA TV tuners, and much more, often to replace special purpose puters like satellite receivers, DVRs, or media players.
You have been given suggestions as to how to do it but you publicly, here, say without any qualifications that vlc does not work - vlc which for 99.999% of people, who would use it in a normal way, you are misleading them by suggesting that it will not work for them. Eh :-( .
Doesn't sound like you understand the gist of that thread. Running a program as root is a common test and troubleshoot procedure. If an ordinary user can't do something but root can, the problem is usually one of permissions. Conversely, in a new system a lot of time is saved by creating user(s) only after knowing the system works suitably. Absent recompilation, VLC does not permit these standard practices. OTOH, SMplayer doesn't impose this rather unique limitation. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org