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Shiny new build system by Torinthiel, polished and improved by myself.
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2 <!-- $Revision$ --> |
9675 | 3 |
4 <bookinfo id="toc"> | |
11540 | 5 <title><application>MPlayer</application> - The Movie Player for LINUX</title> |
9675 | 6 <subtitle><ulink url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu"></ulink></subtitle> |
9683 | 7 <date>March 24, 2003</date> |
9675 | 8 <copyright> |
9 <year>2000</year> | |
10 <year>2001</year> | |
11 <year>2002</year> | |
12 <year>2003</year> | |
13 <holder>Arpad Gereoffy (A'rpi/ESP-team)</holder> | |
14 </copyright> | |
15 <!-- | |
16 <legalnotice> | |
17 <title>License</title> | |
18 <para>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
19 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the | |
20 Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your | |
21 option) any later version.</para> | |
22 | |
23 <para>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but | |
24 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY | |
25 or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License | |
26 for more details.</para> | |
27 | |
28 <para>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
29 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, | |
30 Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA, 02111-1307, USA.</para> | |
31 </legalnotice> | |
32 --> | |
33 </bookinfo> | |
34 | |
35 | |
36 <preface id="howtoread"> | |
37 <title>How to read this documentation</title> | |
38 | |
39 <para> | |
40 If you are a first-time installer: be sure to read everything from here to | |
41 the end of the Installation section, and follow the links you will find. If | |
42 you have any other questions, return to the <link linkend="toc">Table of | |
43 Contents</link> and search for the topic, read the <xref linkend="faq"/>, | |
10462 | 44 or try grepping through the files. Most questions should be answered somewhere |
45 here and the rest has probably already been asked on our | |
46 <link linkend="mailinglists">mailing lists</link>. Check the | |
47 <ulink url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch">archives</ulink>, there | |
48 is a lot of valuable information to be found there. | |
9675 | 49 </para> |
50 </preface> | |
51 | |
52 | |
53 <chapter id="intro"> | |
54 <title>Introduction</title> | |
55 | |
56 <para> | |
57 <application>MPlayer</application> is a movie player for Linux (runs on | |
58 many other Unices, and <emphasis role="bold">non-x86</emphasis> CPUs, see | |
59 <xref linkend="ports"/>). It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, | |
10132 | 60 QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, PVA, Matroska files, supported by |
9675 | 61 many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch |
10132 | 62 <emphasis role="bold">VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, RealMedia, Sorenson, Theora</emphasis>, and |
9675 | 63 <emphasis role="bold">DivX</emphasis> movies too (and you don't need the avifile |
64 library at all!). Another big feature of mplayer is the wide range of | |
65 supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, | |
66 fbdev, AAlib, DirectFB, but you can use GGI and SDL (and this way all their | |
67 drivers) and some lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and | |
68 Radeon, Mach64, Permedia3) too! Most of them supports software or hardware | |
69 scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. | |
70 <application>MPlayer</application> supports displaying through some | |
9683 | 71 hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the <link linkend="dvb">DVB</link> and |
72 <link linkend="dxr3">DXR3/Hollywood+</link>. And what about the nice big | |
73 antialiased shaded subtitles (<emphasis role="bold">10 supported types</emphasis>) | |
74 with European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic, Korean | |
75 fonts, and the onscreen display (OSD)? | |
9675 | 76 </para> |
77 | |
78 <para> | |
79 The player is rock solid playing damaged MPEG files (useful for some VCDs), | |
80 and it plays bad AVI files which are unplayable with the famous windows | |
81 media player. Even AVI files without index chunk are playable, and you can | |
82 temporarily rebuild their indexes with the <option>-idx</option> option, or | |
83 permanently with <application>MEncoder</application>, thus enabling | |
84 seeking! As you see, stability and quality are the most important things, | |
85 but the speed is also amazing. | |
86 </para> | |
87 | |
88 <para> | |
11540 | 89 <application>MEncoder</application> (<application>MPlayer's</application> Movie |
90 Encoder) is a simple movie encoder, designed to encode | |
91 <application>MPlayer</application>-playable movies | |
9675 | 92 (<emphasis role="bold">AVI/ASF/OGG/DVD/VCD/VOB/MPG/MOV/VIV/FLI/RM/NUV/NET/PVA</emphasis>) |
11540 | 93 to other <application>MPlayer</application>-playable formats (see below). It |
94 can encode with various codecs, like <emphasis role="bold">DivX4</emphasis> | |
95 (1 or 2 passes), libavcodec, <emphasis role="bold">PCM/MP3/VBR MP3</emphasis> | |
96 audio. Also has powerful plugin system for video manipulation. | |
9675 | 97 </para> |
98 | |
99 | |
100 <itemizedlist> | |
11540 | 101 <title><application>MEncoder</application> features</title> |
9675 | 102 <listitem><simpara> |
103 Encoding from the wide range of fileformats and decoders of | |
104 <application>MPlayer</application> | |
105 </simpara></listitem> | |
106 <listitem><simpara> | |
107 Encoding to all the codecs of ffmpeg's <link | |
108 linkend="ffmpeg">libavcodec</link> | |
109 </simpara></listitem> | |
110 <listitem><simpara> | |
111 Video encoding from <emphasis role="bold">V4L compatible TV tuners</emphasis> | |
112 </simpara></listitem> | |
113 <listitem><simpara> | |
114 Encoding/multiplexing to interleaved AVI files with proper index | |
115 </simpara></listitem> | |
116 <listitem><simpara> | |
117 Creating files from external audio stream | |
118 </simpara></listitem> | |
119 <listitem><simpara> | |
120 1, 2 or 3 pass encoding | |
121 </simpara></listitem> | |
122 <listitem><para> | |
123 <emphasis role="bold">VBR</emphasis> MP3 audio | |
124 <important><simpara> | |
125 VBR MP3 audio doesn't always play nicely on windows players! | |
126 </simpara></important> | |
127 </para></listitem> | |
128 <listitem><simpara> | |
129 PCM audio | |
130 </simpara></listitem> | |
131 <listitem><simpara> | |
132 Stream copying | |
133 </simpara></listitem> | |
134 <listitem><simpara> | |
135 Input A/V synchronizing (PTS-based, can be disabled with | |
136 <option>-mc 0</option> option) | |
137 </simpara></listitem> | |
138 <listitem><simpara> | |
139 FPS correction with <option>-ofps</option> option (useful when encoding | |
140 29.97 fps VOB to 24 fps AVI) | |
141 </simpara></listitem> | |
142 <listitem><simpara> | |
143 Using our very powerful plugin system (crop, expand, flip, postprocess, | |
144 rotate, scale, rgb/yuv conversion) | |
145 </simpara></listitem> | |
146 <listitem><simpara> | |
147 Can encode DVD/VOBsub <emphasis role="bold">AND</emphasis> text subtitles | |
148 into the output file | |
149 </simpara></listitem> | |
150 <listitem><simpara> | |
151 Can rip DVD subtitles to Vobsub format | |
152 </simpara></listitem> | |
153 </itemizedlist> | |
154 | |
155 <itemizedlist> | |
156 <title>Planned features</title> | |
157 <listitem><simpara> | |
158 Even wider variety of available en/decoding formats/codecs | |
159 (creating VOB files with DivX4/Indeo5/VIVO streams :). | |
160 </simpara></listitem> | |
161 </itemizedlist> | |
162 | |
163 <!-- FIXME: the license should be in bookinfo --> | |
164 <para> | |
165 <application>MPlayer</application> and <application>MEncoder</application> | |
166 can be distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2. | |
167 </para> | |
168 | |
169 &history.xml; | |
170 &install.xml; | |
171 </chapter> | |
172 | |
173 | |
174 &features.xml; | |
175 &usage.xml; | |
176 &faq.xml; | |
177 &cd-dvd.xml; | |
178 &ports.xml; | |
179 &mencoder.xml; | |
180 &mail-lists.xml; | |
181 &bugreports.xml; | |
182 &bugs.xml; | |
183 &skin.xml; | |
184 &users-vs-dev.xml; | |
185 &patches.xml; |