[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS/en faq.html,1.126,1.127
Diego Biurrun CVS
diego at mplayerhq.hu
Sun Jun 29 03:03:49 CEST 2003
Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/en
In directory mail:/var/tmp.root/cvs-serv11682
Modified Files:
faq.html
Log Message:
trailing whitespace cosmetics
Moved one Q/A to the 0_90 position
Index: faq.html
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RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/en/faq.html,v
retrieving revision 1.126
retrieving revision 1.127
diff -u -r1.126 -r1.127
--- faq.html 25 May 2003 19:31:21 -0000 1.126
+++ faq.html 29 Jun 2003 01:03:19 -0000 1.127
@@ -101,26 +101,26 @@
list (the word 'ideg' is described below):
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>And we have idegs. And our idegcounter overflowed again and again.</P>
-
+
<P>Unfortunately MPlayer is out of our control. It's used by lamers, Linux
users who can't even use Windows, and never tried to compile a kernel. They
installed (with default options) Mandrake or Red Hat or SuSE, and without
RTFM'ing they send messages saying 'it doesn't work! help me! please! i'm
new to Linux! help! oh! help me!'. We can't stop them, but at least we try
to force them to RTFM and to read the messages of ./configure and MPlayer.</P>
-
+
<P>And you clever guys come and flame us with gcc 2.96 and binary packages.
Instead of helping users or making patches to help solve problems.</P>
-
+
<P>Half of our spare/free time is spent by answering silly mails here and
making newer tricks and checks to configure to avoid such mails.</P>
-
+
<P>And there is a balance. On the one side are you, clever guys, saying we
are very bad because we don't like buggy gcc 2.96, and on the other side
there are the 'new to Linux' guys who are showing us gcc 2.96 is buggy.</P>
-
+
<P>Conclusion: We can't be good. Half the people will always say we are bad.</P>
-
+
<P>Maybe we should close the project, make it closed source, commercial, and
provide install support for it. then we could leave current work, so
development could go faster, and we could earn lots of money with it and buy
@@ -200,17 +200,17 @@
(mainly to avoid kernel hackers debugging closed source drivers).
Upgrade your kernel, modutils and MPlayer.</DD>
<DD> </DD>
-
+
<DT>Q: When compiling MEncoder, it segfaults at linking!</DT>
<DD>A: This is a linker problem. Upgrading binutils should help (2.11.92.*
or newer should be good). Since it is not our fault, please do <B>not</B>
report!</DD>
<DD> </DD>
-
+
<DT>Q: MPlayer dies with segmentation fault upon pthread check!</DT>
<DD>A: chmod 644 /usr/lib/libc.so</DD>
<DD> </DD>
-
+
<DT>Q: I'd like to compile MPlayer on Minix!</DT>
<DD>A: Me too. :)</DD>
<DD> </DD>
@@ -543,6 +543,14 @@
<CODE>-nortc</CODE> option.</DD>
<DD> </DD>
+ <DT>Q: While playing a movie it suddenly gets jerky and I get
+ the following message:<BR>
+ <CODE>Badly interleaved AVI file detected - switching to -ni
+ mode...</CODE>
+ <DD>A: Badly interleaved files and <CODE>-cache</CODE> don't work well
+ together. Try <CODE>-nocache</CODE>.</DD>
+ <DD> </DD>
+
</DL>
@@ -708,14 +716,6 @@
<DD>A: Use the <CODE>-cache</CODE> option (described in the man page)
and try enabling DMA for the DVD drive with the hdparm tool (described in
the <A HREF="cd-dvd.html#cd">CD chapter</A> of the documentation).</DD>
- <DD> </DD>
-
- <DT>Q: While playing a movie it suddenly gets jerky and I get
- the following message:<BR>
- <CODE>Badly interleaved AVI file detected - switching to -ni
- mode...</CODE>
- <DD>A: Badly interleaved files and <CODE>-cache</CODE> don't work well
- together. Try <CODE>-nocache</CODE>.</DD>
<DD> </DD>
</DL>
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