[MPlayer-users] Re: Running Mplayer as Normal User

[Matthias Wieser]

Am Freitag, 9. Dezember 2005 09:51 schrieb Ko Ko:
>   mplayer -frames 3 -vo jpeg:outdir=/home/www/avicap:quality=100
> -contrast 20 /home/www/webmovie.avi

Btw.: You know that jpeg is always lossy, even with "quality=100"?


> File not found: '/home/www/webmovie.avi'
> Failed to open /home/www/webmovie.avi
>
> I really don't know why. The same command run fine when I run as root.
> But now I need to run this same command as normal user. I am kinda
> lost.

When you are logged in as a normal user, try the following command:

head /home/www/webmovie.avi

If it does *not* show some strange characters, your permissions are wrong.
Otherwise it's mplayer's fault.

Regards,
  Matthias