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    A'rpi sent to the
    <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/">mplayer-users</A>
    list (the word 'ideg' is described below):
    <BLOCKQUOTE>
    <P>And we have idegs. And our idegcounter overflowed again and again.</P>
  
    <P>Unfortunately MPlayer is out of our control. It's used by lamers, Linux
    users who can't even use Windows, and never tried to compile a kernel. They
    installed (with default options) Mandrake or Red Hat or SuSE, and without
    RTFM'ing they send messages saying 'it doesn't work! help me! please! i'm
    new to Linux! help! oh! help me!'. We can't stop them, but at least we try
    to force them to RTFM and to read the messages of ./configure and MPlayer.</P>
  
    <P>And you clever guys come and flame us with gcc 2.96 and binary packages.
    Instead of helping users or making patches to help solve problems.</P>
  
    <P>Half of our spare/free time is spent by answering silly mails here and
    making newer tricks and checks to configure to avoid such mails.</P>
  
    <P>And there is a balance. On the one side are you, clever guys, saying we
    are very bad because we don't like buggy gcc 2.96, and on the other side
    there are the 'new to Linux' guys who are showing us gcc 2.96 is buggy.</P>
  
    <P>Conclusion: We can't be good. Half the people will always say we are bad.</P>
  
    <P>Maybe we should close the project, make it closed source, commercial, and
    provide install support for it. then we could leave current work, so
    development could go faster, and we could earn lots of money with it and buy
    a big house, etc etc. Do you really want it? It seems.</P>
    </BLOCKQUOTE>

    <CODE>Warning: loading mga_vid.o will taint the kernel: no license</CODE></DT>
  <DD>A: The latest kernel modutils require a flag indicating the license
    (mainly to avoid kernel hackers debugging closed source drivers).
    Upgrade your kernel, modutils and MPlayer.</DD>
  <DD>&nbsp;</DD>
  
    <DT>Q: When compiling MEncoder, it segfaults at linking!</DT>
    <DD>A: This is a linker problem. Upgrading binutils should help (2.11.92.*
      or newer should be good). Since it is not our fault, please do <B>not</B>
      report!</DD>
    <DD>&nbsp;</DD>
  
    <DT>Q: MPlayer dies with segmentation fault upon pthread check!</DT>
    <DD>A: chmod 644 /usr/lib/libc.so</DD>
    <DD>&nbsp;</DD>
  
    <DT>Q: I'd like to compile MPlayer on Minix!</DT>
    <DD>A: Me too. :)</DD>
  <DD>&nbsp;</DD>

</DL>

  <DD>A: This is again a power management effect (see above). Plug the external
    power connector in <B>before</B> you power on your notebook or use the
    <CODE>-nortc</CODE> option.</DD>
  <DD>&nbsp;</DD>

</DL>


<H2><A NAME="driver">5.4 Video/audio driver problems (vo/ao)</A></H2>

  <DD>A: Use the <CODE>-cache</CODE> option (described in the man page)
    and try enabling DMA for the DVD drive with the hdparm tool (described in
    the <A HREF="cd-dvd.html#cd">CD chapter</A> of the documentation).</DD>
  <DD>&nbsp;</DD>

  <DT>Q: While playing a movie it suddenly gets jerky and I get
    the following message:<BR>
    <CODE>Badly interleaved AVI file detected - switching to -ni
    mode...</CODE>
  <DD>A: Badly interleaved files and <CODE>-cache</CODE> don't work well
    together. Try <CODE>-nocache</CODE>.</DD>
  <DD>&nbsp;</DD>

</DL>


<H2><A NAME="features">5.6 Feature requests</A></H2>

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    A'rpi sent to the
    <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/">mplayer-users</A>
    list (the word 'ideg' is described below):
    <BLOCKQUOTE>
    <P>And we have idegs. And our idegcounter overflowed again and again.</P>

    <P>Unfortunately MPlayer is out of our control. It's used by lamers, Linux
    users who can't even use Windows, and never tried to compile a kernel. They
    installed (with default options) Mandrake or Red Hat or SuSE, and without
    RTFM'ing they send messages saying 'it doesn't work! help me! please! i'm
    new to Linux! help! oh! help me!'. We can't stop them, but at least we try
    to force them to RTFM and to read the messages of ./configure and MPlayer.</P>

    <P>And you clever guys come and flame us with gcc 2.96 and binary packages.
    Instead of helping users or making patches to help solve problems.</P>

    <P>Half of our spare/free time is spent by answering silly mails here and
    making newer tricks and checks to configure to avoid such mails.</P>

    <P>And there is a balance. On the one side are you, clever guys, saying we
    are very bad because we don't like buggy gcc 2.96, and on the other side
    there are the 'new to Linux' guys who are showing us gcc 2.96 is buggy.</P>

    <P>Conclusion: We can't be good. Half the people will always say we are bad.</P>

    <P>Maybe we should close the project, make it closed source, commercial, and
    provide install support for it. then we could leave current work, so
    development could go faster, and we could earn lots of money with it and buy
    a big house, etc etc. Do you really want it? It seems.</P>
    </BLOCKQUOTE>

    <CODE>Warning: loading mga_vid.o will taint the kernel: no license</CODE></DT>
  <DD>A: The latest kernel modutils require a flag indicating the license
    (mainly to avoid kernel hackers debugging closed source drivers).
    Upgrade your kernel, modutils and MPlayer.</DD>
  <DD>&nbsp;</DD>

    <DT>Q: When compiling MEncoder, it segfaults at linking!</DT>
    <DD>A: This is a linker problem. Upgrading binutils should help (2.11.92.*
      or newer should be good). Since it is not our fault, please do <B>not</B>
      report!</DD>
    <DD>&nbsp;</DD>

    <DT>Q: MPlayer dies with segmentation fault upon pthread check!</DT>
    <DD>A: chmod 644 /usr/lib/libc.so</DD>
    <DD>&nbsp;</DD>

    <DT>Q: I'd like to compile MPlayer on Minix!</DT>
    <DD>A: Me too. :)</DD>
  <DD>&nbsp;</DD>

</DL>

  <DD>A: This is again a power management effect (see above). Plug the external
    power connector in <B>before</B> you power on your notebook or use the
    <CODE>-nortc</CODE> option.</DD>
  <DD>&nbsp;</DD>

  <DT>Q: While playing a movie it suddenly gets jerky and I get
    the following message:<BR>
    <CODE>Badly interleaved AVI file detected - switching to -ni
    mode...</CODE>
  <DD>A: Badly interleaved files and <CODE>-cache</CODE> don't work well
    together. Try <CODE>-nocache</CODE>.</DD>
  <DD>&nbsp;</DD>

</DL>


<H2><A NAME="driver">5.4 Video/audio driver problems (vo/ao)</A></H2>

  <DD>A: Use the <CODE>-cache</CODE> option (described in the man page)
    and try enabling DMA for the DVD drive with the hdparm tool (described in
    the <A HREF="cd-dvd.html#cd">CD chapter</A> of the documentation).</DD>
  <DD>&nbsp;</DD>

</DL>


<H2><A NAME="features">5.6 Feature requests</A></H2>