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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 07:17:44PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> 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. ^_^

I don't know how to fix dhahelper, it sucks really bad. But
svgalib_helper mostly works... I have some patches for it that I'll
commit sometime...

Rich