[PLUG] Unable to play .WMV files.

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 08/02/2009 11:05 PM, vaibhav wrote:
> Dear All,
>                 I'm using Fedora 10 on my P4 machine. I have 2 queries.
> a) I use 'startx' when logged in as root, and then i'm unable to open vlc
> player. It works well when logged in by any other user. Can't it be opened
> using 'root' ? 

No. VLC does not run as root. You should never use root for non
administrative tasks. For installing other software such as mplayer refer to

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f11.html

Rahul