[Mplayer-dev-eng] Support for --prefix switch

[Arpi]

Hi,

> It's the Question that drives us, André Dahlqvist :
> > That also means you have to be root to install mplayer.
> Why?
> 
> strip mplayer
> cp mplayer ~/bin
yes. btw --prefix really needed. anyone want to fix it?

> Also RTFM : MPlayer is STRONGLY discouraged to be use on multiuser server.
this applies only to SUID-root mplayer binary!
non-suid mplayer has no security risks.
at least not yet buffer overflows found in it :)

btw it is possible! people can cerate malformed avi/asf/mpg files
which maybe gets some buffer overflows in mplayer. this way poeople
can get user access on a machine where someone downloaded and played
these files. but leave this for the future, we need some advertisments
on BugTraq too :)


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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