[MPlayer-users] Problems with xvidix:mach64_vid.so

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 16 December 2004 at 13:20, Patrick Leslie Polzer wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I am experiencing strange problems with XVIDIX on an ATI Mach64 CT card.
> Running mplayer as root like this:
> 
> sudo mplayer -vo xvidix MOVIEFILE
> 
> it detects the card without problems (mach64 driver takes over),
> but then it says:
> 
> libdha: DHA KernelHelper failed: No such file or directory.
> 
> The docs say the kernel helper is only needed if one wants
> to use DHA without being root - but I am!
> I can't compile the svgalib-helper either, so I'm stuck now.
> 
> Any hints?

Not really. It's a known problem (see bugzilla), but nobody cares enough
or knows enough to fix it. If anyone does know, please come forward and
fix. ^_^

R.

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