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

[Anders Misfeldt]

On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 13:44:36 -0500
D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:

> 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.

Thank you!

The solution was to edit the /etc/sysconfig/prelink file so that you say no to PRELINKING:

PRELINKING=no

Then run the cron.daily/prelink script:

/etc/cron.daily/prelink

and then disabling exec-shild with

echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shild

Now it works again :-)

Anders