[MPlayer-users] Option -rootwin

[PASTOR Michel]

Hi,

It's not the problem, 
why this error ?

video_out->init(720x576->720x576,flags=0,'MPlayer',0x32315659)
Xvideo image format: 0x32595559 (YUY2) packed
Xvideo image format: 0x32315659 (YV12) planar
Xvideo image format: 0x59565955 (UYVY) packed
Xvideo image format: 0x30323449 (I420) planar
X11 error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
Type: 0, display: 82d7de0, resourceid: 5c, serial: 2b
Error code: a, request code: 2, minor code: 0

thx for answer


On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 18:57:08 +0200
mplayer-users-request at mplayer.dev.hu wrote:

>>  > On Mon 08 Apr, PASTOR Michel bloviated thus:
>>  > 
>>  > > nop, i run it as root
>>  > 
>>  > And the user that owns the root window is non-root, right?  Try "xhost
>>  > +" as whatever user owns the X server.
>> 
>> Ack, no!  Never ever ever do that.  It gives the entire internet
>> access to your X server, so they can take screenshots, sniff keys,
>> simulate keypresses, etc.  Very bad stuff.
>> 
>> At the most, do "xhost +localhost", which will only give all local
>> users that right.  Even better, root can do 
>> 
>> xauth merge /home/other-user/.Xauthority
>> 
>>> which limits the right to root alone.