[MPlayer-users] mplayer can't play WMV3 files

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 06:11:46PM +0100, Anders Misfeldt wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 18:05:42 +0100
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> wrote:
> 
> > This is a known problem with Fedora default setup (exec-shield) and
> > Windows DLLs. Search the archives for explanation and solution.
> 
> I've tried doing:
> 
> echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield
> 
> but I still just get the same errors. This is the only solution I was ablo to find, but it doesn't work :-(
> 
> Anyone with a different solution?

Just disabling exec-shield is not enough. Fedora also has some broken
library-address randomization mess with prelink, which you also need
to disable. I have no idea how to do that, but you can probably find
discussions in the archives.

Rich