multimedia - Hamradio.my https://hamradio.my/category/multimedia/ Amateur Radio, Tech Insights and Product Reviews Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:03:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://hamradio.my/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/cropped-cropped-image-removebg-preview-3-32x32.png multimedia - Hamradio.my https://hamradio.my/category/multimedia/ 32 32 How To Run VLC As Root https://hamradio.my/2012/03/how-to-run-vlc-as-root/ https://hamradio.my/2012/03/how-to-run-vlc-as-root/#respond Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:03:00 +0000 https://blog.hamradio.my/2012/03/30/how-to-run-vlc-as-root/ “VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry. If you need to use real-time priorities and/or privileged TCP ports you can use vlc-wrapper (make sure it is Set-UID root and cannot be run by non-trusted users first).” This error says straight forward vlc can not be run as root privileged user. Just edit […]

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]]> “VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry.
If you need to use real-time priorities and/or privileged TCP ports
you can use vlc-wrapper (make sure it is Set-UID root and
cannot be run by non-trusted users first).”

This error says straight forward vlc can not be run as root privileged user.

Just edit /usr/bin/vlc

using hexedit (you need to install this app) and search for geteuid and replace it with getppid.

Save file & Exit.

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