[gentoo-user] mplayer directfb permissions?

[Indi <thebeelzebubtrigger@gmail.com>]

Greetings,

My old thinkpad is showing its age lately, especially when using 
mplayer to play avi or mkv files. Fooling around with various options 
and config arguments has revealed that using the directfb for vo gives 
sterling results, with the worst files playing happily in sync just like 
I always dreamed -- but only as root! 

Obviously there's a permissions issue somewhere...

My user is a member of all the appropriate groups (unless I've missed 
something?):

[idd@gh~] $ id
uid=501(indulekha) gid=501(indulekha) groups=501(indulekha),5(tty),
10(wheel),16(cron),17(console),18(audio),19(cdrom),27(video),35(games),
104(crontab),994(vboxusers),998(plugdev)

I've googled quite a bit about it and found a few users with the same problem 
but nowhere have I seen an answer. Is there a solution for this, or should I 
simply resign to watching videos as root?

TIA!

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