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Entries from January 14th, 2009

Mysql Error 1153: Got a packet bigger than ‘max_allowed_packet’ bytes

January 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Installation

I got this error while importing large database dump from command line. ERROR 1153 (08S01) at line XXX: Got a packet bigger than ‘max_allowed_packet’ bytes I searched and found out that it is related to the default max_allowed_packet which is 16M, so i need to increase this setting from Mysql: 1.) Change setting on my.cnf [...]

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Compile Mplayer/Mencoder with Xvid and H264 codec support

January 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Installation

Default Mplayer installation autodetects Xvid, H264 and other codecs. So if you have Xvid and H264 codecs installed your mencoder and mplayer should support it, unless you disable them during compilation.  In order to have your Mencoder and Mplayer support Xvid and H264 you need to install them first and then compile/re-compile Mencoder/Mplayer. Install Xvid. [...]

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