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| 1371 | 1 <HTML> |
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| 3 <BODY> | |
| 4 | |
| 5 <P> | |
| 6 <CENTER>MPlayer - Movie Player for LINUX (C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy (A'rpi/ESP-team)<BR> | |
| 7 <BR> | |
| 1389 | 8 <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu">http://www.mplayerhq.hu</A></CENTER><BR> |
| 1371 | 9 </P> |
| 10 | |
| 11 <P><HR></P> | |
| 12 | |
| 13 <P> | |
| 14 Table of Contents | |
| 15 </P> | |
| 16 | |
| 17 <P><HR></P> | |
| 18 | |
| 19 <PRE> | |
| 20 <P> | |
| 21 <A HREF="#1">1. Introduction</A> | |
| 22 </P> | |
| 23 <P> | |
| 1389 | 24 <A HREF="#1.1">1.1 Overview</A> |
| 1371 | 25 <A HREF="#1.2">1.2 History</A> |
| 26 <A HREF="#1.3">1.3 Installation</A> | |
| 27 <A HREF="#1.4">1.4 What about the GUI?</A> | |
| 28 </P> | |
| 29 <P> | |
| 30 <A HREF="#2">2. Features</A> | |
| 31 </P> | |
| 32 <P> | |
| 33 <A HREF="#2.1">2.1 Video Formats, Audio & Video Codecs</A> | |
| 34 <A HREF="#2.1.1">2.1.1 Supported input formats</A> | |
| 35 <A HREF="#2.1.2">2.1.2 Supported audio & video codecs</A> | |
| 36 <A HREF="#2.1.2.1">2.1.2.1 OpenDivX</A> | |
| 37 <A HREF="#2.1.2.2">2.1.2.2 ffmpeg's DivX/libavcodec</A> | |
| 38 <A HREF="#2.1.4">2.1.4 Codec importing howto</A> | |
| 39 <A HREF="#2.1.4.1">2.1.4.1 VFW codecs</A> | |
| 40 <A HREF="#2.1.4.2">2.1.4.2 DirectShow codecs</A> | |
| 41 </P> | |
| 42 <P> | |
| 43 <A HREF="#2.2">2.2 Video & Audio output devices</A> | |
| 44 <A HREF="#2.2.1">2.2.1 Video output devices</A> | |
| 45 <A HREF="#2.2.1.1">2.2.1.1 Xv</A> | |
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46 <A HREF="#2.2.1.1.1">2.2.1.1.1 3dfx cards</A> |
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47 <A HREF="#2.2.1.1.2">2.2.1.1.2 S3 cards</A> |
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48 <A HREF="#2.2.1.1.3">2.2.1.1.3 nVidia cards</A> |
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49 <A HREF="#2.2.1.1.4">2.2.1.1.4 ATI cards</A> |
| 1371 | 50 <A HREF="#2.2.1.2">2.2.1.2 DGA</A> |
| 51 <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.1">2.2.1.2.1 Summary</A> | |
| 52 <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.2">2.2.1.2.2 What is DGA</A> | |
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53 <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.3">2.2.1.2.3 Installing DGA support for MPlayer</A> |
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54 <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.4">2.2.1.2.4 Resolution switching</A> |
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55 <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.5">2.2.1.2.5 DGA & MPlayer</A> |
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56 <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.6">2.2.1.2.6 Features of the DGA driver</A> |
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57 <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.7">2.2.1.2.7 Speed issues</A> |
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58 <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.8">2.2.1.2.8 Known bugs</A> |
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59 <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.9">2.2.1.2.9 Future work</A> |
| 1371 | 60 <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.A">2.2.1.2.A Some modelines</A> |
| 61 <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.B">2.2.1.2.B Bug Reports</A> | |
| 62 <A HREF="#2.2.1.3">2.2.1.3 SDL</A> | |
| 63 <A HREF="#2.2.1.4">2.2.1.4 SVGAlib</A> | |
| 64 <A HREF="#2.2.1.5">2.2.1.5 Framebuffer output (FBdev)</A> | |
| 65 <A HREF="#2.2.1.6">2.2.1.6 Matrox framebuffer (mga_vid)</A> | |
| 66 <A HREF="#2.2.1.7">2.2.1.7 SiS 6326 framebuffer (sis_vid)</A> | |
| 67 <A HREF="#2.2.1.8">2.2.1.8 3dfx YUV support</A> | |
| 68 <A HREF="#2.2.1.9">2.2.1.9 OpenGL output</A> | |
| 1514 | 69 <A HREF="#2.2.1.10">2.2.1.10 AAlib - text mode displaying</A> |
| 1371 | 70 <A HREF="#2.2.2">2.2.2 Audio output devices</A> |
| 1386 | 71 <A HREF="#2.2.2.1">2.2.2.1 Soundcard experiences, recommendations</A> |
| 1371 | 72 </P> |
| 73 <P> | |
| 74 <A HREF="#3">3. Usage</A> | |
| 75 </P> | |
| 76 <P> | |
| 77 <A HREF="#3.1">3.1 Control from keyboard</A> | |
| 78 <A HREF="#3.2">3.2 Control from LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control)</A> | |
| 79 <A HREF="#3.3">3.3 Streaming from network or pipes</A> | |
| 80 </P> | |
| 81 <P> | |
| 82 <A HREF="#4">4. TV-out support</A> | |
| 83 </P> | |
| 84 <P> | |
| 85 <A HREF="#4.1">4.1 Matrox cards</A> | |
| 86 </P> | |
| 87 <P> | |
| 88 <A HREF="#5">5. Tuning</A> | |
| 89 </P> | |
| 90 <P> | |
| 91 <A HREF="#5.1">5.1 CD drives</A> | |
| 92 <A HREF="#5.2">5.2 DVD drives</A> | |
| 93 <A HREF="#5.3">5.3 MTRR</A> | |
| 94 </P> | |
| 95 <P> | |
| 96 <A HREF="#6">6. FAQ section</A> | |
| 97 </P> | |
| 98 <P> | |
| 1386 | 99 <A HREF="#6.1">6.1 Compilation</A> |
| 100 <A HREF="#6.2">6.2 General questions</A> | |
| 101 <A HREF="#6.3">6.3 File playing problems</A> | |
| 102 <A HREF="#6.4">6.4 Video/audio driver problems</A> | |
| 103 <A HREF="#6.5">6.5 Feature requests</A> | |
| 104 <A HREF="#6.6">6.6 DVD FAQ</A> | |
| 1371 | 105 </P> |
| 106 <P> | |
| 107 <A HREF="#7">7. Misc OS'es</A> | |
| 108 </P> | |
| 109 <P> | |
| 110 <A HREF="#7.1">7.1 Debian packaging</A> | |
| 111 <A HREF="#7.2">7.2 FreeBSD</A> | |
| 112 <A HREF="#7.3">7.3 Solaris 8</A> | |
| 1389 | 113 <A HREF="#7.4">7.4 StrongARM</A> |
| 1371 | 114 </P> |
| 115 <P> | |
| 116 <A HREF="#A">A. Authors</A> | |
| 117 </P> | |
| 118 <P> | |
| 119 <A HREF="#B">B. Mailing lists</A> | |
| 120 </P> | |
| 121 <P> | |
| 122 <A HREF="#C">C. How to report bugs</A> | |
| 123 </P> | |
| 1386 | 124 </PRE> |
| 1371 | 125 <P><HR></P> |
| 126 | |
| 127 <P><PRE> | |
| 128 <A NAME=1>1. Introduction | |
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131 <A NAME=1.1>1.1. Overview |
| 1371 | 132 |
| 1379 | 133 <B>MPlayer</B> is a movie player for LINUX. It plays most MPEG, AVI and ASF files, |
| 1371 | 134 supported by many native and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VCD, DVD and |
| 135 even DivX movies too. The another big feature of mplayer is the wide range of | |
| 136 supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, | |
| 1514 | 137 AAlib, but you can use SDL (and this way all drivers of SDL) and some |
| 138 lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox) too! Most of them supports | |
| 1371 | 139 software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. And what |
| 140 about the nice big antialiased shaded subtitles (7 supported types!!!) with | |
| 141 hungarian, english, cyrillic, czech, korean fonts, and OSD? | |
| 142 | |
| 143 I didn't write any codecs, just some players. I spent | |
| 144 a lot of time finding the best way to parse bad damaged input files | |
| 145 (both MPEG and AVI) and to do perfect A-V sync with seeking ability. | |
| 146 My player is rock solid playing damaged MPEG files (useful for some VCDs), | |
| 147 and it plays bad AVI files which are unplayable with the famous | |
| 148 windows media player. Even AVI files without index chunk are playable, and | |
| 149 you can rebuild their indexes with the -idx option, thus enabling seeking! | |
| 150 As you see, stability and quality are the most important things for me, | |
| 151 but the speed is also amazing. | |
| 152 | |
| 153 | |
| 154 <A NAME=1.2>1.2. History | |
| 155 | |
| 156 This began a year ago... | |
| 157 I've tried lots of players under linux (mtv,xmps,dvdview,livid/oms,VideoLAN, | |
| 158 xine,xanim,avifile,xmmp) but they all have some problem. Mostly with special | |
| 159 files or with audio/video sync. Most of them is unable to play both MPEG1, | |
| 160 MPEG2 and AVI (DivX) files. Many players have image quality or speed problems | |
| 161 too. So I've decided to write/modify one... | |
| 162 | |
| 163 - mpg12play v0.1-v0.3: | |
| 164 The first try, hacked together in a half hour! | |
| 165 I've used libmpeg3 from www.heroinewarrior.com up to the version 0.3, | |
| 166 but there were image quality and speed problems with it. | |
| 167 - mpg12play v0.5-v0.87: | |
| 168 Mpeg codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was a great stuff, | |
| 169 but it was slow and was written in C++ (I hate C++!!!) | |
| 170 - mpg12play v0.9-v0.95pre5: | |
| 171 Mpeg codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman & Michel Lespinasse. | |
| 172 It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect image quality and | |
| 173 100% MPEG standard conformance. | |
| 1379 | 174 - <B>MPlayer</B> v0.3-v0.9: |
| 1371 | 175 It was a pack of two programs: mpg12playv0.95pre6 and my new simple AVI |
| 176 player 'avip' based on avifile's Win32 DLL loader. | |
| 1379 | 177 - <B>MPlayer</B> v0.10: |
| 1371 | 178 The MPEG and AVI player in a single binary! |
| 1379 | 179 - <B>MPlayer</B> v0.11: |
| 1371 | 180 Some new developers joined and from 0.11 the mplayer project is a team-work! |
| 181 Added .ASF file support, and OpenDivX (see www.projectmayo.com) en/decoding. | |
| 1379 | 182 - <B>MPlayer</B> v0.17 "The IdegCounter" |
| 1371 | 183 The release version of the 0.11pre after 4 months of heavy development! |
| 184 Try it, and be amazed! Thousands of new features added... and of course | |
| 185 old code was improved too, bugs removed etc. | |
| 1379 | 186 - <B>MPlayer</B> 0.18 "The BugCounter" |
| 1371 | 187 2 months since 0.17 and here's a new release.. Completed ASF support, |
| 188 more subtitle formats, introduced libao (similar to libvo but to audio), | |
| 189 even more stable than ever, and so on. It's a MUST ! | |
| 190 | |
| 191 | |
| 192 <A NAME=1.3>1.3. Installation | |
| 193 | |
| 1379 | 194 If you plan to use <B>MPlayer</B> on x86 architecture, you possibly want to use |
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195 Win32 codecs. Download and unzip w32codecs.zip to /usr/lib/win32 . |
| 1371 | 196 Note: the avifile project has similar codecs package, but it differs |
| 197 from our, so if you want to use all supported codecs, then use | |
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198 our package! However, you can use our codecs package with avifile. |
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200 If you own a Matrox G200/G400/G450 card, then please see the <A HREF="#2.2.1.6">2.2.1.6</A> |
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201 section in order to gain big speedup. It is important to do these steps |
| 1379 | 202 _before_ compiling <B>MPlayer</B>, otherwise no Matrox-specific support will be |
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| 1500 | 205 If you plan to use the ProjectMayo's <B>OpenDivX</B> codec, check the |
| 206 <A HREF="#2.1.2.1">2.1.2.1</A> section before compiling. | |
| 207 | |
| 1379 | 208 Then build <B>MPlayer</B>: |
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211 ./configure |
| 1371 | 212 make |
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217 about what will be built, and what won't. You may also want to view |
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218 config.h and config.mak files. |
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220 Though not mandatory, the fonts should be installed in order to gain |
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221 OSD, and subtitle functionality. Download mp_font3.zip (and optional |
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222 language updates) and optional (if exists) language updates. |
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225 mkdir ~/.mplayer/font |
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226 cd ~/.mplayer/font |
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| 1371 | 231 <A NAME=1.4>1.4. What about the GUI ? |
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| 233 I'm not a GUI programmer. I hate GUIs, I like the pure black 80x25 console. | |
| 234 So the player has only keyboard control from the controlling console/xterm now. | |
| 235 There is a GUI development for the player, coordinated by Pontscho/Fresh! | |
| 236 It's still under development, but it will be merged and released real soon. | |
| 237 BTW he needs some nice skins, if you are a good graphician, contact him!!! | |
| 238 | |
| 239 | |
| 240 <A NAME=2>2. Features | |
| 241 | |
| 242 | |
| 243 <A NAME=2.1>2.1. Video Formats, Audio & Video Codecs | |
| 244 | |
| 245 | |
| 246 <A NAME=2.1.1>2.1.1. Supported input formats | |
| 247 | |
| 1379 | 248 <B>MPlayer</B> can read/play from the following devices/formats: |
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249 - VCD (Video CD) directly from CD-ROM or from CDRwin's .bin image file |
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250 - DVD, directly from your DVD disk, using optional libcss for decryption |
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251 - MPEG 1/2 System Stream (PS/PES/VOB) and Elementary Stream (ES) file |
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253 - RIFF AVI file format |
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254 - ASF 1.0 file format |
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255 - supports reading from file, stdin, DVD drive or network via HTTP |
| 1371 | 256 |
| 257 Note: about quicktime (.mov/.qt) and realmedia (.ra/.rm) support read the FAQ! | |
| 258 | |
| 259 | |
| 260 <A NAME=2.1.2>2.1.2. Supported audio & video codecs | |
| 261 | |
| 262 See http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/DOCS/codecs.html for the complete, | |
| 263 daily updated list!!! | |
| 264 | |
| 265 The most important video codecs: | |
| 266 - MPEG1 (VCD) and MPEG2 (DVD) video | |
| 1500 | 267 - DivX, FFmpeg, OpenDivX and other MPEG4 variants |
| 1521 | 268 - Windows Media Video 7 (WMV1) and Windows Media Video 8 used in .wmv files |
| 1371 | 269 - Intel Indeo codecs (3.1,3.2,4.1,5.0) |
| 270 - MJPEG, ASV2 and other hardware formats | |
| 271 | |
| 272 The most important audio codecs: | |
| 273 - MPEG layer 2, and layer 3 (MP3) audio (native code, with 3dnow optimization) | |
| 274 - AC3 dolby audio (native code, with 3dnow optimization) | |
| 275 - Voxware audio | |
| 276 - alaw, msgsm, pcm and other simple old audio formats | |
| 277 | |
| 278 If you have a codec not listed here, and not supported yet, just | |
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279 read http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/DOCS/codecs.html |
| 1371 | 280 to get info about its status and about how to help us adding support for it! |
| 281 | |
| 282 | |
| 283 <A NAME=2.1.2.1>2.1.2.1. OpenDivX | |
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286 <A HREF="http://www.projectmayo.com">ProjectMayo</A>. Their first available alpha version was the OpenDivX 4.0 |
| 1379 | 287 alpha 47 and 48. Support for this was/is included in <B>MPlayer</B>, and built by |
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288 default. We even used its postprocessing code to optionally enhance visual |
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| 1434 | 313 <B>MPlayer</B> autodetects if OpenDivX is (properly) installed, just compile |
| 1500 | 314 as usual. If it doesn't detect it, you didn't install it exactly as above, |
| 315 and/or has fucked up config (see last question of 6.1 section). | |
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| 1379 | 327 and <B>MPlayer</B> (libvo) does colorspace conversion. |
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| 347 <A NAME=2.1.2.2>2.1.2.2. ffmpeg's DivX/libavcodec | |
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| 1389 | 350 which is compatible with the traditional DivX. <B>MPlayer</B> contains this codec, |
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| 1500 | 353 devel tools. It was removed from <B>MPlayer</B>'s cvs tree, you have |
| 354 to download it manually directly from <B>FFmpeg</B>'s tree : | |
| 355 | |
| 356 | |
| 357 cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.ffmpeg.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ffmpeg login | |
| 358 cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.ffmpeg.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ffmpeg co ffmpeg | |
| 359 | |
| 360 | |
| 361 Note: if you copy with CVS subdirs, next time it's enough to do | |
| 362 'cvs update'. | |
| 363 | |
| 364 Now, move the newly downloaded ffmpeg source's <B>libavcodec</B> directory, | |
| 365 (with all it's subdirectories) to <B>MPlayer</B>'s tree, so it will look | |
| 366 like this : | |
| 367 | |
| 368 | |
| 369 main/libavcodec | |
| 370 | |
| 371 | |
| 372 Symlinking is NOT enough, you have to copy it. | |
| 373 | |
| 374 ./configure detects if it can be built. At the moment it doesn't support | |
| 375 postprocessing, and is under optimization (it's faster than the DS/VfW DivX | |
| 376 codec). | |
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| 1371 | 385 |
| 386 | |
| 387 <A NAME=2.1.4.1>2.1.4.1. VFW codecs | |
| 388 | |
| 389 VfW (Video for Windows) is the old Video API for Windows. Its codecs have | |
| 390 the .DLL or (rarely) .DRV extension. | |
| 1379 | 391 If <B>MPlayer</B> fails with your AVI: |
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| 1371 | 394 UNKNOWN video codec: HFYU (0x55594648) |
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| 1371 | 397 It means your AVI is encoded with a codec which has the HFYU fourcc (HFYU = |
| 398 HuffYUV codec, DIV3 = DivX Low Motion, etc...). Now that we know this, we'll | |
| 399 have to find out which DLL Windows loads in order to play this file. In our | |
| 400 case, the system.ini contains this (with many others): | |
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| 1371 | 413 This is the MP3 codec. |
| 414 So, now we have all the info needed (fourcc, codec file, sample AVI), submit | |
| 415 your codec support request in mail, and upload these files to the FTP: | |
| 1500 | 416 ftp://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming/[codecname]/ |
| 1371 | 417 |
| 418 | |
| 419 <A NAME=2.1.4.2>2.1.4.2. DirectShow codecs | |
| 420 | |
| 421 DirectShow is the newer Video API, which is even worse than its predecessor. | |
| 422 Things are harder with DirectShow, since | |
| 423 - system.ini doesn't contain the needed information, instead it's stored in | |
| 424 the registry :( | |
| 425 - we'll need the GUID of the codec. | |
| 426 | |
| 427 So let's search that goddamn registry.. | |
| 428 - Start 'regedit' | |
| 429 - press ctrl-f, disable the first two checkbox, and enable the third. Type | |
| 430 the fourcc of the codec. (for ex.: TM20) | |
| 431 - you should see a field which contains the path and filename | |
| 432 (for ex. : C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\TM20DEC.AX) | |
| 433 - now that we have the file, we'll need the GUID. Try searching again, but | |
| 434 now we'll search for the codec's name, not the fourcc. Its name can be acquired | |
| 435 when Media Player is playing that file, by checking File/Properties/Advanced. | |
| 436 If not, bad luck ;) Try guessing. | |
| 437 (for ex. search for : TrueMotion) | |
| 438 - if found (in registry), there should be a FriendlyName field, and a CLSID | |
| 439 field. Write down that 16 byte of CLSID, this is the GUID required by us. | |
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| 1371 | 442 NOTE : if searching fails, try to enable all the checkboxes.. you may have |
| 443 false hits, but maybe you'll have the right, too... | |
| 444 NOTE : dump that M$ shit. | |
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| 1371 | 447 So, now we have all the info needed (fourcc, GUID, codec file, sample AVI), |
| 448 submit your codec support request in mail, and upload these files to the FTP: | |
| 1500 | 449 ftp://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming/[codecname]/ |
| 1371 | 450 |
| 451 | |
| 452 <A NAME=2.2>2.2. Video & Audio output devices | |
| 453 | |
| 454 | |
| 455 <A NAME=2.2.1>2.2.1. Video output devices | |
| 456 | |
| 457 General: | |
| 458 - x11: X11 with optional SHM extension | |
| 459 - xv: X11 using overlays with the Xvideo extension (hardware YUV & scaling) | |
| 460 - gl: OpenGL renderer, so far works only with : | |
| 461 - all cards with Utah-GLX | |
| 462 - Matrox cards with X/DRI >=4.0.3 | |
| 463 - Radeon with X/DRI CVS | |
| 464 - dga: X11 DGA extension | |
| 465 - fbdev:Output to general framebuffers | |
| 466 - svga: Output to SVGAlib | |
| 467 - sdl: 1.1.7 : supports software scaling | |
| 468 1.1.8 : supports Xvideo (hardware scaling/fullscreen) | |
| 1514 | 469 1.2.0 : supports AAlib (-vo aa is very recommended, see below!) |
| 1371 | 470 - ggi: similar to SDL |
| 1514 | 471 - aa: textmode rendering with AAlib |
| 1371 | 472 |
| 473 Card specific: | |
| 474 - mga: Matrox G200/G400 hardware YUV overlay via the mga_vid device | |
| 475 - xmga: Matrox G200/G400 overlay (mga_vid) in X11 window | |
| 476 (Xv emulation on X 3.3.x !) | |
| 477 - syncfb: Matrox G400 YUV support on framebuffer (obsoleted, use mga/xmga) | |
| 478 - 3dfx: Voodoo2/3 hardware YUV (/dev/3dfx) support (not yet tested, maybe | |
| 479 broken) | |
| 480 | |
| 481 Special: | |
| 482 - png: PNG files output (use -z switch to set compression) | |
| 483 - pgm: PGM files output (for testing purposes or ffmpeg encoding) | |
| 484 - md5: MD5sum output (for MPEG conformance tests) | |
| 485 - odivx:OpenDivX AVI File writer (use -br to set encoding bitrate) | |
| 486 - null: Null output (for speed tests/benchmarking) | |
| 487 | |
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| 1371 | 489 |
| 490 | |
| 491 <A NAME=2.2.1.1>2.2.1.1. Xv | |
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| 1371 | 495 In order to make this work, be sure to check the following: |
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| 1371 | 507 NOTE : this loads only the XFree86's extension. In a good install, this is |
| 508 always loaded, and doesn't mean that the _card's_ XVideo support is | |
| 509 loaded! | |
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| 1371 | 512 part of the XFree86 distribution. It should display a long text, similar |
| 513 to this: | |
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| 1371 | 516 X-Video Extension version 2.2 |
| 517 screen #0 | |
| 518 Adaptor #0: "Savage Streams Engine" | |
| 519 number of ports: 1 | |
| 520 port base: 43 | |
| 521 operations supported: PutImage | |
| 522 supported visuals: | |
| 523 depth 16, visualID 0x22 | |
| 524 depth 16, visualID 0x23 | |
| 525 number of attributes: 5 | |
| 526 (...) | |
| 527 Number of image formats: 7 | |
| 528 id: 0x32595559 (YUY2) | |
| 529 guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 | |
| 530 bits per pixel: 16 | |
| 531 number of planes: 1 | |
| 532 type: YUV (packed) | |
| 533 id: 0x32315659 (YV12) | |
| 534 guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 | |
| 535 bits per pixel: 12 | |
| 536 number of planes: 3 | |
| 537 type: YUV (planar) | |
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| 1371 | 541 It must support YUY2 packed, and YV12 planar pixel formats to be |
| 1379 | 542 usable with <B>MPlayer</B>. |
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| 544 - And finally, check if <B>MPlayer</B> was compiled with 'xv' support. | |
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| 1432 | 561 or greater. As for S3 Virge.. sell it. |
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| 1435 | 571 - Riva128 cards don't have XVideo support even with the nvidia driver :( |
| 572 Complain to NVidia. | |
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| 1371 | 580 |
| 581 | |
| 582 <A NAME=2.2.1.2>2.2.1.2. DGA | |
| 583 | |
| 584 <A NAME=2.2.1.2.1>2.2.1.2.1. Summary | |
| 585 | |
| 586 This document tries to explain in some words what DGA is in general and | |
| 587 what the DGA video output driver for mplayer can do (and what it can't). | |
| 588 | |
| 589 | |
| 590 <A NAME=2.2.1.2.2>2.2.1.2.2. What is DGA | |
| 591 | |
| 592 DGA is short for Direct Graphics Access and is a means for a program to | |
| 593 bypass the X-Server and directly modifying the framebuffer memory. | |
| 594 Technically spoken this happens by mapping the framebuffer memory into | |
| 595 the memory range of your process. This is allowed by the kernel only | |
| 596 if you have superuser privileges. You can get these either by logging in | |
| 597 as root or by setting the suid bit on the mplayer excecutable (NOT | |
| 598 recommended!). | |
| 599 | |
| 600 There are two versions of DGA: DGA1 is used by XFree 3.x.x and DGA2 was | |
| 601 introduced with XFree 4.0.1. | |
| 602 | |
| 603 DGA1 provides only direct framebuffer access as described above. For | |
| 604 switching the resolution of the video signal you have to rely on the | |
| 605 XVidMode extension. | |
| 606 | |
| 607 DGA2 incorporates the features of XVidMode extension and also allows | |
| 608 switching the depth of the display. So you may, although basically | |
| 609 running a 32 bit depth XServer, switch to a depth of 15 bits and vice | |
| 610 versa. | |
| 611 | |
| 612 However DGA has some drawbacks. It seems it is somewhat dependent on the | |
| 613 graphics chip you use and on the implementation of the XServer's video | |
| 614 driver that controls this chip. So it does not work on every system ... | |
| 615 | |
| 616 | |
| 1379 | 617 <A NAME=2.2.1.2.3>2.2.1.2.3. Installing DGA support for <B>MPlayer</B> |
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| 1379 | 626 <B>MPlayer</B>'s DGA driver is autodetected on ./configure, or you can force it |
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630 switches -vm (only with X 3.3.x), -fs, -bpp, -zoom to find a video mode that |
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| 1379 | 634 If you want to run it as user, then install <B>MPlayer</B> SUID root: |
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657 <A NAME=2.2.1.2.4>2.2.1.2.4. Resolution switching |
| 1371 | 658 |
| 659 The DGA driver allows for switching the resolution of the output signal. | |
| 660 This avoids the need for doing (slow) software scaling and at the same | |
| 661 time provides a fullscreen image. Ideally it would switch to the exact | |
| 662 resolution (except for honouring aspect ratio) of the video data, but the | |
| 663 XServer only allows switching to resolutions predefined in | |
| 664 /etc/X11/XF86Config (/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 for XFree 4.0.X respectively). | |
| 665 Those are defined by so-called modelines and depend on the capabilites | |
| 666 of your video hardware. The XServer scans this config file on startup and | |
| 667 disables the modelines not suitable for your hardware. You can find | |
| 668 out which modes survive with the X11 log file. It can be found at: | |
| 669 /var/log/XFree86.0.log | |
| 670 See appendix A for some sample modeline definitions. | |
| 671 | |
| 672 | |
| 1379 | 673 <A NAME=2.2.1.2.5>2.2.1.2.5. DGA & <B>MPlayer</B> |
| 674 | |
| 675 DGA is used in two places with <B>MPlayer</B>: The SDL driver can be made to make | |
| 1371 | 676 use of it (-vo sdl:dga) and within the DGA driver (-vo dga). |
| 677 The above said is true for both; in the following sections I'll explain | |
| 1379 | 678 how the DGA driver for <B>MPlayer</B> works. |
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| 1371 | 682 |
| 683 The DGA driver is invoked by specifying -vo dga at the command line. | |
| 684 The default behaviour is to switch to a resolution matching the original | |
| 685 resolution of the video as close as possible. It deliberately ignores the | |
| 686 -vm and -fs switches (enabling of video mode switching and fullscreen) - | |
| 687 it always tries to cover as much area of your screen as possible by switching | |
| 688 the video mode, thus refraining to use a single additional cycle of your CPU | |
| 689 to scale the image. | |
| 690 If you don't like the mode it chooses you may force it to choose the mode | |
| 691 matching closest the resolution you specify by -x and -y. | |
| 692 By providing the -v option, the DGA driver will print, among a lot of other | |
| 693 things, a list of all resolutions supported by your current XF86-Config | |
| 694 file. | |
| 695 Having DGA2 you may also force it to use a certain depth by using the -bpp | |
| 696 option. Valid depths are 15, 16, 24 and 32. It depends on your hardware | |
| 697 whether these depths are natively supported or if a (possibly slow) | |
| 698 conversion has to be done. | |
| 699 | |
| 700 If you should be lucky enough to have enough offscreen memory left to | |
| 701 put a whole image there, the DGA driver will use doublebuffering, which | |
| 702 results in much smoother movie replaying. It will tell you whether double- | |
| 703 buffering is enabled or not. | |
| 704 | |
| 705 Doublebuffering means that the next frame of your video is being drawn in | |
| 706 some offscreen memory while the current frame is being displayed. When the | |
| 707 next frame is ready, the graphics chip is just told the location in memory | |
| 708 of the new frame and simply fetches the data to be displayed from there. | |
| 709 In the meantime the other buffer in memory will be filled again with new | |
| 710 video data. | |
| 711 | |
| 712 Doublebuffering may be switched on by using the option -double and may be | |
| 713 disabled with -nodouble. Current default option is to disable | |
| 714 doublebuffering. When using the DGA driver, onscreen display (OSD) only | |
| 715 works with doublebuffering enabled. However, enabling doublebuffering may | |
| 716 result in a big speed penalty (on my K6-II+ 525 it used an additional 20% of | |
| 717 CPU time!) depending on the implementation of DGA for your hardware. | |
| 718 | |
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| 1371 | 721 |
| 722 Generally spoken, DGA framebuffer access should be at least as fast as using | |
| 723 the X11 driver with the additional benefit of getting a fullscreen image. | |
| 724 The percentage speed values printed by mplayer have to be interpreted with | |
| 725 some care, as for example, with the X11 driver they do not include the time | |
| 726 used by the X-Server needed for the actual drawing. Hook a terminal to a | |
| 727 serial line of your box and start top to see what is really going on in your | |
| 728 box ... | |
| 729 | |
| 730 Generally spoken, the speedup done by using DGA against 'normal' use of X11 | |
| 731 highly depends on your graphics card and how well the X-Server module for it | |
| 732 is optimized. | |
| 733 | |
| 734 If you have a slow system, better use 15 or 16bit depth since they require | |
| 735 only half the memory bandwidth of a 32 bit display. | |
| 736 | |
| 737 Using a depth of 24bit is even a good idea if your card natively just supports | |
| 738 32 bit depth since it transfers 25% less data compared to the 32/32 mode. | |
| 739 | |
| 740 I've seen some avi files already be replayed on a Pentium MMX 266. AMD K6-2 | |
| 741 CPUs might work at 400 MHZ and above. | |
| 742 | |
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| 1371 | 745 |
| 746 Well, according to some developpers of XFree, DGA is quite a beast. They | |
| 747 tell you better not to use it. Its implementation is not always flawless | |
| 748 with every chipset driver for XFree out there. | |
| 749 | |
| 750 o with XFree 4.0.3 and nv.o there is a bug resulting in strange colors | |
| 751 o ATI driver requires to switch mode back more than once after finishing | |
| 752 using of DGA | |
| 753 o some drivers simply fail to switch back to normal resolution (use | |
| 754 Ctrl-Alt-Keypad +, - to switch back manually) | |
| 755 o some drivers simply display strange colors | |
| 756 o some drivers lie about the amount of memory they map into the process's | |
| 757 address space, thus vo_dga won't use doublebuffering (SIS?) | |
| 758 o some drivers seem to fail to report even a single valid mode. In this | |
| 759 case the DGA driver will crash telling you about a nonsense mode of | |
| 760 100000x100000 or the like ... | |
| 761 o OSD only works with doublebuffering enabled | |
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| 1371 | 765 |
| 766 o use of the new X11 render interface for OSD | |
| 767 o where is my TODO list ???? :-((( | |
| 768 | |
| 769 | |
| 770 <A NAME=2.2.1.2.A>2.2.1.2.A. Some modelines | |
| 771 | |
| 772 Section "Modes" | |
| 773 Identifier "Modes[0]" | |
| 774 Modeline "800x600" 40 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 | |
| 775 Modeline "712x600" 35.0 712 740 850 900 400 410 412 425 | |
| 776 Modeline "640x480" 25.175 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525 | |
| 777 Modeline "400x300" 20 400 416 480 528 300 301 303 314 Doublescan | |
| 778 Modeline "352x288" 25.10 352 368 416 432 288 296 290 310 | |
| 779 Modeline "352x240" 15.750 352 368 416 432 240 244 246 262 Doublescan | |
| 780 Modeline "320x240" 12.588 320 336 384 400 240 245 246 262 Doublescan | |
| 781 EndSection | |
| 782 | |
| 783 | |
| 784 These entries work fine with my Riva128 chip, using nv.o XServer driver | |
| 785 module. | |
| 786 | |
| 787 | |
| 788 <A NAME=2.2.1.2.B>2.2.1.2.B. Bug Reports | |
| 789 | |
| 790 If you experience troubles with the DGA driver please feel free to file | |
| 791 a bug report to me (e-mail address below). Please start mplayer with the | |
| 792 -v option and include all lines in the bug report that start with vo_dga: | |
| 793 | |
| 794 Please do also include the version of X11 you are using, the graphics card | |
| 795 and your CPU type. The X11 driver module (defined in XF86-Config) might | |
| 796 also help. Thanks! | |
| 797 | |
| 798 | |
| 799 Acki (acki@acki-netz.de, www.acki-netz.de) | |
| 800 | |
| 801 | |
| 802 <A NAME=2.2.1.3>2.2.1.3. SDL | |
| 803 | |
| 1379 | 804 Here are some notes about SDL out in <B>MPlayer</B>. |
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| 1371 | 820 |
| 821 KNOWN BUGS: | |
| 1534 | 822 - Keys pressed under sdl:aalib console driver repeat forever. (use -vo aa !) |
| 1371 | 823 It's bug in SDL, I can't change it (tested with SDL 1.2.1). |
| 824 | |
| 825 | |
| 826 <A NAME=2.2.1.4>2.2.1.4. SVGAlib | |
| 827 | |
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| 1379 | 833 order for <B>MPlayer</B> build its SVGAlib driver (autodetected, but can be |
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| 838 <A NAME=2.2.1.5>2.2.1.5. Framebuffer output (FBdev) | |
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844 If your card doesn't support VBE 2.0 standard (older ISA/PCI |
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847 Doctor (formerly UniVBE) before booting Linux. Use a DOS boot disk or |
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| 1500 | 850 The FBdev output takes some additional parameters above the others: |
| 851 | |
| 852 -fb specify the framebuffer device to use (/dev/fd0) | |
| 853 -fbmode mode name to use (according to /etc/fb.modes) | |
| 854 -fbmodeconfig config file of modes (default /etc/fb.modes) | |
| 855 monitor_hfreq | |
| 856 monitor_vfreq IMPORTANT values, see example.conf | |
| 857 monitor_dotclock | |
| 858 | |
| 859 If you want to change to a specific mode, then use | |
| 860 | |
| 861 mplayer -vm -fbmode (NameOfMode) filename | |
| 862 | |
| 863 -vm alone will choose the most suitable mode from /etc/fb.modes . Can be | |
| 864 used together with -x and -y options too. The -flip option is supported only | |
| 865 if the movie's pixel format matches the video mode's pixel format. | |
| 866 Pay attention to the bpp value, fbdev driver tries to use the current, | |
| 867 or if you specify the -bpp option, then that. | |
| 868 -zoom option isn't supported (software scaling is slow). -fs option | |
| 869 isn't supported. You can't use 8bpp (or less) modes. | |
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| 1379 | 872 and don't ask for it, since it's not an <B>MPlayer</B> limitation. |
| 1371 | 873 |
| 874 | |
| 875 <A NAME=2.2.1.6>2.2.1.6. Matrox framebuffer (mga_vid) | |
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877 This section is about the Matrox G200/G400/G450 BES (Back-End Scaler) |
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882 To use it, you first have to compile mga_vid.o : |
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898 insmod mga_vid.o |
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913 alias char-major-178 mga_vid |
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| 1379 | 922 Now you have to (re)compile <B>MPlayer</B>, ./configure will detect /dev/mga_vid |
| 923 and build the 'mga' driver. Using it from <B>MPlayer</B> goes by '-vo mga' if | |
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| 1379 | 928 <B>MPlayer</B> with '-vo mga' . It should fix Xv. |
| 1371 | 929 |
| 930 | |
| 931 <A NAME=2.2.1.7>2.2.1.7. SiS 6326 framebuffer (sis_vid) | |
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933 SiS 6326 YUV Framebuffer driver -> sis_vid kernel driver |
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937 needed to test it and bring the code up-to-date. |
| 1371 | 938 |
| 939 | |
| 940 <A NAME=2.2.1.8>2.2.1.8. 3dfx YUV support | |
| 941 | |
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942 3dfx has native YUV+scaler support, using /dev/3dfx (tdfx.o driver?) |
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| 1379 | 944 Glide 2.x Linux ports. It's not tested with <B>MPlayer</B>, and so no more |
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945 supported. Volunteers needed to test it and bring the code up-to-date. |
| 1371 | 946 |
| 947 | |
| 948 <A NAME=2.2.1.9>2.2.1.9. OpenGL output | |
| 949 | |
| 1379 | 950 <B>MPlayer</B> support displaying movies using OpenGL. Unfortunately, not all |
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| 1371 | 957 |
| 958 | |
| 1514 | 959 <A NAME=2.2.1.10>2.2.1.10. AAlib - text mode displaying |
| 960 | |
| 961 <B>AAlib</B> is a library for displaying graphics in text mode, using powerful | |
| 962 ASCII renderer. There are LOTS of programs already supporting it, like Doom, | |
| 963 Quake, etc. MPlayer contains a very usable driver for it. | |
| 964 If ./configure detects aalib installed, the aalib libvo driver will be built. | |
| 1534 | 965 |
| 966 You can use some keys in the AA Window to change rendering options: | |
| 1552 | 967 1 : decrease contrast |
| 968 2 : increase contrast | |
| 969 3 : decrease brightness | |
| 970 4 : increase brightness | |
| 971 5 : switch fast rendering on/off | |
| 972 6 : set dithering mode (none, error distribution, floyd steinberg) | |
| 973 7 : invert image | |
| 974 a : toggles between aa and mplayer control) | |
| 975 | |
| 1534 | 976 |
| 977 | |
| 978 The following command line options can be used: | |
| 979 -aaosdcolor=V : change osd color | |
| 1542 | 980 -aasubcolor=V : change subtitle color |
| 1534 | 981 where V can be: (0/normal, 1/dark, 2/bold, 3/boldfont, 4/reverse, 5/special) |
| 982 | |
| 983 AAlib itselves provides a large sum of options. | |
| 984 Here are some important: | |
| 985 -aadriver : set recommended aa driver (X11, curses, linux) | |
| 986 -aaextended : use all 256 characters | |
| 987 -aaeight : use eight bit ascii | |
| 988 -aahelp : prints out all aalib options | |
| 989 | |
| 990 | |
| 991 | |
| 992 | |
| 1514 | 993 |
| 994 NOTE: the rendering is very CPU intensive, especially when using AA-on-X | |
| 995 (using aalib on X), and it's least CPU intensive on standard, | |
| 996 non-framebuffer console. Use SVGATextMode to set up a big textmode, | |
| 997 then enjoy! (secondary head Hercules cards rock :)) (anyone can enhance | |
| 1534 | 998 fbdev to do conversion/dithering to hgafb? Would be neat :) |
| 999 | |
| 1000 Use the -framedrop option if your comp isn't fast enough to render all frames! | |
| 1001 | |
| 1002 Playing on terminal you'll get better speed and quality using the linux driver, not | |
| 1003 curses (-aadriver linux). But therefore you need write access on /dev/vcsa<terminal>! | |
| 1004 That isn't autodetected by aalib, bu vo_aa tries to find the best mode. | |
| 1005 See http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/tune/ for further tuning issues. | |
| 1006 | |
| 1514 | 1007 |
| 1371 | 1008 <A NAME=2.2.2>2.2.2. Audio output devices |
| 1009 | |
| 1010 - OSS (ioctl) driver | |
| 1011 - SDL driver (supports up/downsampling, esd, arts etc) | |
| 1012 - native ALSA 0.5 driver | |
| 1013 - native ALSA 0.9 driver (buggy, use OSS emulation!) | |
| 1513 | 1014 - ESD (through SDL) |
| 1015 - ARTS (through SDL) | |
| 1371 | 1016 - SUN audio driver (/dev/audio) for BSD and Solaris8 users |
| 1017 | |
| 1018 | |
| 1386 | 1019 <A NAME=2.2.2.1>2.2.2.1. Soundcard experiences, recommendations |
| 1020 | |
| 1021 Aureal Vortex 2: | |
| 1022 OSS/Free: no driver | |
| 1023 OSS : OK | |
| 1024 ALSA : no driver | |
| 1025 Max kHz : 48 | |
| 1026 Driver : <A HREF="http://aureal.sourceforge.net">aureal.sourceforge.net</A> | |
| 1027 Driver2 : from <A HREF="http://makacs.poliod.hu/~pontscho/aureal/au88xx-1.1.3.tar.bz2">here</A> | |
| 1028 (buffer size increased to 64k) | |
| 1029 | |
| 1030 GUS PnP: | |
| 1031 OSS/Free: no driver | |
| 1032 OSS : OK | |
| 1033 ALSA : OK | |
| 1034 Max kHz : 48 | |
| 1035 | |
| 1036 SB Live!: | |
| 1037 OSS : OK | |
| 1038 ALSA : (?) | |
| 1039 Max kHz : 48 | |
| 1040 | |
| 1041 SB AWE 64 OSS : max 44kHz | |
| 1042 ALSA : 48kHz sounds shit | |
| 1043 Max kHz : 48 | |
| 1044 | |
| 1045 Gravis UltraSound ACE: | |
| 1046 OSS : max 44Khz. Also has problems with the | |
| 1047 new sound code. | |
| 1048 ALSA : OK | |
| 1049 Max kHz : 48 | |
| 1050 | |
| 1051 Gravis UltraSound MAX: | |
| 1052 OSS : OK | |
| 1053 ALSA : OK (?) | |
| 1054 Max kHz : 48 | |
| 1055 | |
| 1056 ESS 688: | |
| 1057 OSS : OK | |
| 1058 ALSA : OK (?) | |
| 1059 Max kHz : 48 | |
| 1060 | |
| 1389 | 1061 C-Media cards (which ones?) |
| 1062 OSS : not OK (hissing) (?) | |
| 1063 ALSA : OK (?) | |
| 1064 Max kHz : ? | |
| 1065 | |
| 1386 | 1066 PC Speaker or DAC: |
| 1513 | 1067 OSS : OK (use the SDL driver : -ao sdl) |
| 1386 | 1068 ALSA : no driver |
| 1513 | 1069 Max kHz : the driver emulates 44.1 maybe more |
| 1386 | 1070 Driver : <A HREF="ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/pcsp">ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/pcsp</A> |
| 1071 | |
| 1072 - use at least 2.4 if possible, 2.2 isn't tested | |
| 1073 - if sound clicks when playing from CD-ROM, turn on IRQ unmasking ! | |
| 1074 for example "hdparm -u1 /dev/cdrom" (see "man hdparm" !!!) | |
| 1075 This is recommended anyways... (for XMMS, etc...) | |
| 1076 Read section <A HREF="#5.1">5.1</A> . | |
| 1077 - don't use your soundcard by other application ( for ex. XMMS ) ! | |
| 1078 if you use ESD, start MPlayer with the esddsp utility ! | |
| 1079 - Please tell us how MPlayer and your soundcard(s) worked together! | |
| 1080 | |
| 1081 | |
| 1371 | 1082 <A NAME=3>3. Usage |
| 1083 | |
| 1084 file: mplayer [options] [path/]filename | |
| 1085 VCD: mplayer [options] -vcd trackno /dev/cdrom | |
| 1086 DVD: mplayer [options] -dvdauth /dev/dvd filename.VOB | |
| 1087 net: mplayer [options] http://site.com/file.[mpg|avi] | |
| 1088 | |
| 1089 mplayer -vo x11 /mnt/Films/Contact/contact2.mpg | |
| 1090 mplayer -vcd 2 /dev/cdrom | |
| 1091 mplayer -afm 3 /mnt/DVDtrailers/alien4.vob | |
| 1092 mplayer -dvd /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd/matrix.vob | |
| 1093 mplayer -abs 65536 -delay -0.4 -nobps ~/movies/test.avi | |
| 1094 | |
| 1095 | |
| 1096 <A NAME=3.1>3.1. Control from keyboard | |
| 1097 | |
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| 1371 | 1107 |
| 1108 | |
| 1109 <A NAME=3.2>3.2. Control from LIRC | |
| 1110 | |
| 1111 Linux Infrared Remote Control - use an easy to build home-brewn IR-receiver, | |
| 1112 an (almost) arbitrary remote control and control your linux box with it! | |
| 1113 More about it at www.lirc.org. | |
| 1114 | |
| 1379 | 1115 If you have installed the lirc-package, you can compile <B>MPlayer</B> with LIRC |
| 1371 | 1116 support using ./configure --enable-lirc |
| 1117 | |
| 1379 | 1118 If everything went fine, <B>MPlayer</B> will print a message like |
| 1371 | 1119 LIRC init was successful. |
| 1120 on startup. If an error occurs it will tell you. If it doens't tell you | |
| 1121 anything about LIRC there's no support compiled in. That's it :-) | |
| 1122 | |
| 1379 | 1123 The application name for <B>MPlayer</B> is - oh wonder - mplayer_lirc. |
| 1371 | 1124 It understands the following commands: |
| 1125 | |
| 1126 PAUSE - pause playing. Any other keystroke will continue replay. | |
| 1127 QUIT - exit mplayer | |
| 1128 RWND - 10 secs back | |
| 1129 FRWND - 60 secs back | |
| 1130 FWD - skip 10 secs | |
| 1131 FFWD - skip 60 secs | |
| 1132 INCVOL - increase volume one percent | |
| 1133 DECVOL - decrease volmue one percent | |
| 1134 MASTER - use master mixer channel | |
| 1135 PCM - use pcm mixer channel | |
| 1136 | |
| 1137 Don't forget to enable the repeat flag for RWND/FWD in .lircrc. Here's an | |
| 1138 excerpt from my .lircrc: | |
| 1139 | |
| 1140 begin | |
| 1141 remote = CU-SX070 | |
| 1142 prog = mplayer_lirc | |
| 1143 button = Tape_Play | |
| 1144 repeat = 1 | |
| 1145 config = FFWD | |
| 1146 end | |
| 1147 | |
| 1148 begin | |
| 1149 remote = CU-SX070 | |
| 1150 prog = mplayer_lirc | |
| 1151 button = Tape_Stop | |
| 1152 config = QUIT | |
| 1153 end | |
| 1154 | |
| 1155 If you don't like the standard location for the lirc-config file (~/.lircrc) | |
| 1500 | 1156 use the -lircconf [filename] switch to specify another file. |
| 1371 | 1157 |
| 1158 | |
| 1159 <A NAME=3.3>3.3. Streaming from network or pipes | |
| 1160 | |
| 1379 | 1161 <B>MPlayer</B> can play media from network, by using the HTTP protocol, and even |
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| 1379 | 1163 Configuring it is simple, just recompile <B>MPlayer</B> with |
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| 1379 | 1169 <B>MPlayer</B> can read from stdin (NOT named pipes). This can be for example |
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| 1371 | 1173 wget ftp://micorsops.com/something.avi -O - | mplayer - |
| 1174 | |
| 1175 | |
| 1176 <A NAME=4>4. TV-out support | |
| 1177 | |
| 1178 | |
| 1179 <A NAME=4.1>4.1. Matrox cards | |
| 1180 | |
| 1181 > What I'd love to see in mplayer is the the same feature that I see in my | |
| 1182 > windows box. When I start a movie in windows (in a window or in full screen) | |
| 1183 > the movie is also redirected to the tv-out and I can also see it full screen | |
| 1184 > on my tv. I love this feature and was wondering how hard it would be to add | |
| 1185 > such a feature to mplayer. | |
| 1186 | |
| 1187 It's a driver limitation. BES (Back-End Scaler, it's the overlay generator | |
| 1188 and YUV scaling engine of G200/G400/G450 cards) works only with CRTC1. | |
| 1189 Normally, CRTC1 (textmode, every bpp gfx and BES) is routed to HEAD1, | |
| 1190 and CRTC2 (only 16/32bpp gfx) is routed to HEAD2 (TV-out). | |
| 1191 | |
| 1192 Under linux, you have two choices to get TV-out working: | |
| 1193 | |
| 1194 1. Using X 4.0.x + the HAL driver from matrox, so you'll get dual-head | |
| 1195 support, and you'll be able to redirect second output to the TV. | |
| 1196 Unfortunately it has Macrovision encryption enabled, so it will | |
| 1197 only work on directly-connected TV, no through VCR. | |
| 1198 Other problem is that Xv doesn't work on the second head. | |
| 1199 (I don't know how Windows solve it, maybe it swaps the CRTCs between | |
| 1200 the heads, or just uses YUV framebuffer of second DAC with some trick) | |
| 1201 | |
| 1202 2. Using matroxfb with dual-head support enabled (2.4.x kernels). | |
| 1203 You'll be able to get a framebuffer console (using CRTC2, so it's | |
| 1204 slow), and TV-out (using CRTC1, with BES support). | |
| 1205 You have to forget X while using this kind of TV-out! :( | |
| 1206 | |
| 1207 - Compile all the matrox-related things to modules in the kernel. | |
| 1208 (you MUST compile them to modules, at least I couldn't get them | |
| 1209 working built-in yet) | |
| 1210 [reboot to new kernel & install modules, but don't load them yet!] | |
| 1211 | |
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| 1371 | 1215 - Run the 'modules' script from the TV-out directory of mplayer. |
| 1216 It will switch your console to framebuffer. | |
| 1217 Change to tty1 (ALT+F1)! | |
| 1218 Now run the script 'independent', it will set up your tty's: | |
| 1219 tty 1,2: fb console, CRTC2, head 1 (monitor) | |
| 1220 tty 3,4,5...: framebuffer+BES, CRTC1, head 2 (TV-out) | |
| 1221 You should run the scripts TV-* and Mon-* to set up resolutions: | |
| 1222 change to tty1 (ALT+F1), and run Mon-* (one of them) | |
| 1223 change to tty3 (ALT+F3) and then back to tty1 (ALT+F1) | |
| 1224 (this change will select tty3 on /dev/fb1 - tricky) | |
| 1225 run TV-* (one of them) | |
| 1226 (now you'll get a console on your PAL TV - don't know about NTSC) | |
| 1227 | |
| 1228 Now if you start mplayer (on tty1), the picture will show up on | |
| 1229 the tty3, so you'll see it on your TV or second monitor. | |
| 1230 | |
| 1231 Yes, it is a bit 'hack' now. But I'm waiting for the marvel | |
| 1232 project to be finished, it will provide real TV-out drivers, I hope. | |
| 1233 | |
| 1234 My current problem is that BES is working only with CRTC1. So picture | |
| 1235 will always shown up on head routed to CRTC1 (normaly the monitor), | |
| 1236 so i have to swap CRTC's, but this way your console will framebuffer | |
| 1237 (CRTC2 can't do text-mode) and a bit slow (no acceleration). :( | |
| 1238 | |
| 1239 | |
| 1240 > anyway i also just get monochrome output on the tv ... | |
| 1241 Maybe you have NTSC TV? Or just didn't run one of TV-* scripts. | |
| 1242 | |
| 1243 | |
| 1244 <A NAME=5>5. Tuning | |
| 1245 | |
| 1246 | |
| 1247 <A NAME=5.1>5.1. CD-ROM drives | |
| 1248 | |
| 1249 From Linux documentation: | |
| 1250 | |
| 1251 Some CDROM drives are capable of changing their head-speed. There are several | |
| 1252 reasons for changing the speed of a CDROM drive. Badly pressed CDROMs may | |
| 1253 benefit from less-than-maximum head rate. Modern CDROM drives can obtain very | |
| 1254 high head rates (up to 24-times is common). It has been reported that these | |
| 1255 drives can make reading errors at these high speeds, reducing the speed can | |
| 1256 prevent data loss in these circumstances. Finally, some of these drives can | |
| 1257 make an annoyingly loud noise, which a lower speed may reduce. | |
| 1258 | |
| 1259 The recommended way to do it is with a program called 'setcd' . It's kinda | |
| 1531 | 1260 old, but won't be too hard to find on the Net. (UPDATE : new hdparm |
| 1261 has an option for this !) | |
| 1371 | 1262 Use it with : |
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| 1371 | 1267 |
| 1268 Also you can try : | |
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| 1371 | 1280 for 2MB prefetched reading from the file (it's useful for scratched CDROMs). |
| 1281 It's recommended that you tuneup your CDROM drive also with hdparm : | |
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| 1500 | 1284 hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 (cdrom device) |
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| 1371 | 1287 to enable using DMA access, readahead, and IRQ unmasking. |
| 1288 (if you don't understand these, *read the hdparm manpage*) | |
| 1289 | |
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| 1371 | 1291 CDROM. |
| 1292 | |
| 1293 | |
| 1294 <A NAME=5.2>5.2. DVD drives | |
| 1295 | |
| 1296 IMPORTANT NOTE: please _DO_NOT_ require further features for DVD playback. This | |
| 1297 is extremly experimental hack. Maybe it won't work for you. If you're | |
| 1298 capable of helping us do it now! First we would like to fix existing problems. | |
| 1299 Then we can start implementing advanced DVD playback functions of course. | |
| 1300 | |
| 1301 This means current DVD functions are mainly for developers and not for users! | |
| 1302 | |
| 1303 First, you must compile and install libcss on your system. | |
| 1379 | 1304 Second, you have to recompile <B>MPlayer</B> with libcss support. There is |
| 1371 | 1305 autodetection of libcss, but if it fails, see below : |
| 1306 | |
| 1379 | 1307 Call ./configure script of <B>MPlayer</B> with these options: |
| 1371 | 1308 |
| 1309 ./configure --enable-css --with-csslibdir=/usr/local/lib --with-cssincdir=/usr/local/include | |
| 1310 | |
| 1311 (of course you can append your favourite options as well) | |
| 1312 | |
| 1313 --with-csslibdir=/usr/local/lib | |
| 1314 Directory contains libcss.so shared library. This directory should | |
| 1315 be in your /etc/ld.so.conf as well. | |
| 1316 | |
| 1317 --with-cssincdir=/usr/local/include | |
| 1318 Directory contains header file 'css.h' of libcss. | |
| 1319 | |
| 1320 mplayer -dvdauth /dev/dvd /mnt/cdrom/video_ts/vts_01_1.vob | |
| 1321 | |
| 1322 where, | |
| 1323 | |
| 1379 | 1324 '-dvdauth /dev/dvd' tells <B>MPlayer</B> the device name of your DVD drive. |
| 1371 | 1325 it's used in disc authentication process |
| 1326 | |
| 1327 the filename is simply a VOB file path on the disc | |
| 1328 | |
| 1329 Note that according to my experiences, disc authentication requires root | |
| 1379 | 1330 privileges so you must run <B>MPlayer</B> as root! (see section 'Problems'). |
| 1371 | 1331 |
| 1332 NOTE about the sound: | |
| 1379 | 1333 It seems that <B>MPlayer</B> sometimes fails to find the first audio stream. |
| 1371 | 1334 You can specify it with the '-aid 128' option, for example. |
| 1335 Please experience with 128,129 and similar values. See section | |
| 1336 'Problems'. | |
| 1337 | |
| 1338 On my AMD K6-2 with using hw scaling and colorspace conversion | |
| 1339 capability of my G400 it's possible to watch DVD with about 70% | |
| 1340 CPU usage with '-nosound'. Unfortunately with sound my machine is | |
| 1341 not enough :( Maybe it can be improved somewhat ... | |
| 1342 Guess, it's not so bad ... According to reports from my friends | |
| 1343 xine uses 80-90% CPU to play DVD on much more powerful machines | |
| 1344 like 1GHz Athlon systems (as far as I know, it's said that about | |
| 1345 300MHz celeron is the minimum to watch DVDs ... using windows | |
| 1346 DVD viewers). | |
| 1347 | |
| 1348 Hint: I commented out downmix functions from libac3 (of course in this way I | |
| 1349 can't get sound) and audio decoding CPU usage became 11% instead of 24 on | |
| 1350 my machine. This clearly indicates that we should optimize downmix functions | |
| 1351 (KNI code is no use for my k6-2). | |
| 1352 | |
| 1353 HOT NEWZ: | |
| 1354 We have got 3Dnow optimized libac3. Wow ;-) | |
| 1355 | |
| 1356 | |
| 1357 Problems (TODO) | |
| 1358 | |
| 1359 * disc authentication (the FIBMAP ioctl) requires root privilegies. | |
| 1360 this is strange since OMS can do it as user too. | |
| 1379 | 1361 * sound. I'm using my only DVD disc (The Matrix) to test <B>MPlayer</B>. |
| 1371 | 1362 some VOB file have English sound, some have Spanish and some have |
| 1363 no sound at all. | |
| 1364 IT SEEMS that if I give '-aid 128' everything works with English sound ... | |
| 1365 * strange effects but only with SOME vob files (it looks like some interlacing | |
| 1366 effect, eg: every 2nd line on the screen is from the last frame). | |
| 1367 | |
| 1368 | |
| 1369 Feature TODO | |
| 1370 | |
| 1371 * chapter scanner | |
| 1372 * audio stream scanner and allow to select one on runtime as well | |
| 1373 (in stage#1 it would be enough to select one on the startup, see | |
| 1374 'Problems' above) | |
| 1375 * DVD menu | |
| 1376 I found (at least on disc 'The Matrix') the menu VOB but I don't | |
| 1377 know how can it be used. | |
| 1378 (after some eyeballing on the source of OMS, it seems we would have to | |
| 1379 parse *.ifo files) | |
| 1380 * subtitle support | |
| 1381 * OSD/GUI (?) support for select chapter, subtitle and audio stream | |
| 1382 * getting some documentation on DVD format, eg: which is the 'root' VOB | |
| 1383 file on the disc in video_ts directory, which is the menu and so on. | |
| 1384 * improve performance (see 'Performance' above) | |
| 1385 | |
| 1386 | |
| 1387 No sound problem (from Matrix DVD, the menu VOB) | |
| 1388 | |
| 1389 End of packet while searching for PCM header | |
| 1390 | |
| 1391 DEMUXER: Too many (2048 in 4131540 bytes) video packets in the buffer! | |
| 1392 (maybe you play a non-interleaved stream/file or video codec failed) | |
| 1393 MPEG: No Audio stream found... ->nosound | |
| 1394 | |
| 1395 However this does not occur if you specify '-aid 128'. | |
| 1396 | |
| 1397 | |
| 1398 <A NAME=5.3>5.3. MTRR | |
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| 1371 | 1402 You have 3 ways to find it: |
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| 1371 | 1406 (--) SVGA: PCI: Matrox MGA G400 AGP rev 4, Memory @ 0xd8000000, 0xd4000000 |
| 1407 (--) SVGA: Linear framebuffer at 0xD8000000 | |
| 1408 | |
| 1409 - from /proc/pci (use lspci -v command): | |
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| 1412 Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) | |
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| 1414 - from mga_vid kernel driver messages (use dmesg): | |
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| 1371 | 1444 |
| 1386 | 1445 |
| 1446 <A NAME=6.1>6.1. Compilation | |
| 1447 | |
| 1448 <B>Q: What's the problem with gcc 2.96 ? | |
| 1449 </B>A: gcc 2.96 is RedHat's UNOFFICIAL (it can be found only on RedHat sites, or | |
| 1450 RedHat distributions) and BUGGY gcc release. gcc 2.96 is TOTALLY | |
| 1500 | 1451 unsupported by <B>MPlayer</B>, because it simply SKIPS MMX codes, it just does |
| 1452 not compile it. Important: this is NOT an <B>MPlayer</B>-specific problem, | |
| 1453 numerous other projects (DRI, avifile, etc..) have problems with this shit | |
| 1454 too. | |
| 1386 | 1455 ** DO NOT USE gcc 2.96 !!! ** |
| 1381 | 1456 |
| 1500 | 1457 <B>Q: Great, I have gcc 3.0.1 from RedHat/Mandrake, then I'm fine--! |
| 1458 </B>A: No :) Their gcc 3.0.1 was compiled with gcc 2.96, so they are | |
| 1459 buggy shit too. | |
| 1460 | |
| 1461 <B>Q: Now then. What should I use? | |
| 1462 </B>A: Any of gcc 2.95 series. | |
| 1463 | |
| 1381 | 1464 <B>Q: SDL output doesn't work or compile. Problem is .... |
| 1465 </B>A: It is tested with newest SDL (probably runs on 1.1.7+). | |
| 1466 It does NOT work with 1.1.6, 1.1.5 1.1.4 1.1.3 1.0.4 etc, don't ask. | |
| 1467 | |
| 1468 <B>Q: I am still having trouble compiling with SDL support. gcc says something | |
| 1469 about "undefined reference to `SDL_EnableKeyRepeat'" What's now? | |
| 1470 </B>A: Where did you install the SDL library? If you installed in /usr/local | |
| 1471 (the default) then edit the top level config.mak and add | |
| 1472 "-L/usr/local/lib " after "X_LIBS=" Now type make. You're done! | |
| 1473 | |
| 1474 <B>Q: It doesn't compile, and it misses uint64_t inttypes.h and similar things... | |
| 1475 </B>A: copy DOCS/inttypes.h to <B>MPlayer</B> directory (cp DOCS/inttypes.h .) | |
| 1476 try again... if fail, contact us | |
| 1477 | |
| 1478 <B>Q: I have Pentium III but ./configure doesn't detect SSE | |
| 1479 </B>A: Only kernel versions 2.4.x supports SSE (or try latest 2.2.19 or newer, but | |
| 1480 be prepared for problems) | |
| 1481 | |
| 1386 | 1482 <B>Q: I have G200/G400, how to compile/use mga_vid driver? |
| 1483 </B>A: Read all this documentation. | |
| 1484 | |
| 1485 <B>Q: Are there rpm/deb/... packages of <B>MPlayer</B>? | |
| 1486 </B>A: You can make a .deb package for yourself, check section <A HREF="#7.1">7.1</A> . | |
| 1487 It's _STRONGLY_ discouraged to use precompiled packages | |
| 1488 of <B>MPlayer</B>, since it (currently) _highly_ depends on compile-time | |
| 1489 options and optimizations! | |
| 1490 Precompiled packages are COMPLETELY unsupported by the <B>MPlayer</B> team! | |
| 1491 | |
| 1492 <B>Q: During 'make', <B>MPlayer</B> complains about X11 libraries. I don't understand, | |
| 1493 I DO have X installed!? | |
| 1494 </B>A: ...but you don't have the X development package installed. Or not | |
| 1495 correctly. It's called XFree86-devel* under RedHat, and xlib6g-dev* under | |
| 1496 Debian. Also check if the /usr/X11 symlink exists (this can be a problem on | |
| 1497 Mandrake systems). It can be created with the | |
| 1498 $ ln -sf /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11 | |
| 1499 command. Also check the /usr/include/X11 link : | |
| 1500 $ ln -sf /usr/X11R6/include/X11 /usr/include/X11 | |
| 1501 Your distribution may differ from the Linux Filesystem Standard. | |
| 1502 | |
| 1503 <B>Q: What about DGA driver? I can't find it!!! | |
| 1504 </B>A: ./configure autodetects your DGA driver. If -vo help doesn't show | |
| 1505 DGA, then there's a problem with your X installation. | |
| 1506 Try ./configure --enable-dga (and read VIDEOCARDS) | |
| 1507 Alternatively, try SDL's DGA driver with '-vo sdl:dga' options. | |
| 1508 | |
| 1509 <B>Q: I can't compile SVGAlib.. I'm using 2.3/2.4 kernel. | |
| 1510 </B>A: You have to edit SVGAlib's Makefile.cfg and comment "BACKGROUND = y" out. | |
| 1511 | |
| 1500 | 1512 <B>Q: I compiled <B>MPlayer</B> with libcss/libdivxdecore support, but when |
| 1513 I try to start it, it says : | |
| 1426 | 1514 > error while loading shared libraries: libcss.so.0: cannot load |
| 1515 > shared object file: No such file or directory | |
| 1516 I checked up on the file and it IS there in /usr/local/lib. | |
| 1517 </B>A: What are you doing on Linux? Can't you install a library? Why do | |
| 1518 we get these questions? It's not <B>MPlayer</B> specific at all! Add | |
| 1519 /usr/local/lib to <B>/etc/ld.so.conf</B> and run <B>ldconfig</B> . | |
| 1500 | 1520 Or install it to /usr/lib , because if you can't solve the /usr/local |
| 1521 problem, you are careless enough to do such things. | |
| 1426 | 1522 |
| 1386 | 1523 <A NAME=6.2>6.2. General questions |
| 1524 | |
| 1525 <B>Q: What about DVD playback? | |
| 1526 </B>A: Read files 'DVD' and 'DVD-FAQ'. | |
| 1527 | |
| 1381 | 1528 <B>Q: -xy option doesn't work with x11 driver (-vo x11) |
| 1529 </B>A: x11 driver doesn't support scaling, but XF86VidMode support is now | |
| 1530 used: you must specify the -vm and the -fs switch, and you're done. | |
| 1531 Make sure you have the right Modelines in your XF86Config file, and | |
| 1532 try if the DGA driver (and SDL's DGA driver, see VIDEOCARDS) works for you. | |
| 1533 It's much faster. If SDL's DGA works too, use that, it'll be EVEN | |
| 1534 faster! | |
| 1535 | |
| 1536 <B>Q: what is the meaning of numbers in the status line? | |
| 1537 </B>A: see: | |
| 1538 </B>A: 2.1 V: 2.2 A-V: -0.167 ct: 0.042 57 41% 0% 2.6% 0 | |
| 1539 - </B>A: audio position in seconds | |
| 1540 - V: video position in seconds | |
| 1541 - A-V: audio-video difference in seconds (delay) | |
| 1542 - ct: total A-V sync correction done | |
| 1543 - frames played (counting from last seek) | |
| 1544 - video codec cpu usage in percent (for mpeg it includes video_out too!) | |
| 1545 - video_out cpu usage for avi, 0 for mpg (see above) | |
| 1546 - audio codec cpu usage in percent | |
| 1547 - frames needed to drop to maintain A-V sync | |
| 1548 Most of them are for debug purposes, and will be removed soon. | |
| 1549 | |
| 1550 <B>Q: Why is video_out cpu usage zero (0%) for mpeg files? | |
| 1551 </B>A: It's not zero, but it's built in into codec, so can't be measured separated. | |
| 1552 You should try to play the file using -vo null and then -vo ... and check | |
| 1553 the difference to see video_out speed... | |
| 1554 | |
| 1555 <B>Q: What's XMMP? (is it XMMS or XMPS but mispelled?) | |
| 1556 </B>A: It's a new project, see http://frozenproductions.com for details | |
| 1557 | |
| 1558 <B>Q: There are error messages about file not found /usr/lib/win32/.... | |
| 1559 </B>A: Download & install w32codec.zip from *our* FTP | |
| 1560 (avifile's codec package has different DLL set) | |
| 1561 | |
| 1386 | 1562 <B>Q: Are there any mailing lists on <B>MPlayer</B>? |
| 1563 </B>A: Yes! See README on how to subscribe them! | |
| 1564 | |
| 1565 <B>Q: I've found a nasty bug when I tried to play my favourite video!! | |
| 1566 Who should I inform? | |
| 1567 </B>A: See Appendix <A HREF="#C">C</A> . | |
| 1568 | |
| 1569 <B>Q: I have problems playing files with ... codec. Can I use'em? | |
| 1570 </B>A: Check http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/DOCS/codecs.html, | |
| 1571 if it doesn't contain your codec, read | |
| 1572 http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/DOCS/CODECS, and contact us. | |
| 1573 | |
| 1574 <B>Q: Umm, what is "IdegCounter" ? | |
| 1575 </B>A: A mixture of a hungarian and an english word. In english, "Ideg" means | |
| 1576 "nerve", and is pronounced as something like "ydaegh" . It was first used | |
| 1577 to measure the nervousness of A'rpi, after some (umm) "mystic" disappearance | |
| 1578 of CVS code ;) | |
| 1579 | |
| 1580 <B>Q: LIRC doesn't work, because ... | |
| 1581 </B>A: Are you sure you use "mplayer_lirc" instead of "mplayer" ? | |
| 1582 | |
| 1583 <B>Q: Subtitles are very nice, the most beautiful I've ever seen, but they slow | |
| 1584 down the playing! I know it's unlikely... | |
| 1585 </B>A: After running ./configure , edit config.h and replace #undef FAST_OSD with | |
| 1586 #define FAST_OSD . Then recompile. | |
| 1587 | |
| 1588 <B>Q: The OSD is flickering! | |
| 1589 </B>A: You use a vo driver with single buffering (x11,xv). With xv you can change | |
| 1590 the number of buffers in libvo/vo_xv.c : | |
| 1591 Increase #define NUM_BUFFERS 1 | |
| 1592 | |
| 1593 <B>Q: What exactly is this libavcodec? | |
| 1594 </B>A: It's from Gerard Lantau's ffmpeg package (http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net). | |
| 1595 It has C language DivX ;-) and OpenDivX codec. Some benchmarks | |
| 1596 showed that its DivX seems to be even faster than DirectShow codec without | |
| 1597 preprocessing, and only a few percent slower than ProjectMayo's OpenDivX | |
| 1598 decoder. It uses YV12 pixel format, so old Voodoo users can use it for YUV. | |
| 1599 Also, open the possibility to play DivX on virtually every computer that | |
| 1600 has a C compiler. Kinda great stuff, isn't it? | |
| 1601 | |
| 1556 | 1602 <B>Q: But configure tells me "Checking for libavcodec ... no"! |
| 1603 </B>A: You need to get libavcodec from FFmpeg's CVS. Read the instructions in | |
| 1604 the <A HREF="#2.1.2.2">ffmpeg section</A> . | |
| 1605 | |
| 1386 | 1606 |
| 1607 <A NAME=6.3>6.3. File playing problems | |
| 1608 | |
| 1381 | 1609 <B>Q: ...... works with avifile/aviplay while doesn't with <B>MPlayer</B> |
| 1610 </B>A: <B>MPlayer</B> != avifile | |
| 1611 The only common thing between these players is the Win32 DLL loader. | |
| 1612 The codecs (dll) sets, syncronization, demultiplexing etc is totaly | |
| 1613 different and shouldn't be compared. | |
| 1614 If something works with aviplay it doesn't mean that <B>MPlayer</B> should do | |
| 1615 it and vice versa. | |
| 1616 | |
| 1386 | 1617 <B>Q: audio goes out of sync playing .avi file |
| 1618 </B>A: try with -bps or -nobps option | |
| 1619 if still bad, send me (upload to ftp) that file, I'll check. | |
| 1620 | |
| 1381 | 1621 <B>Q: Indeo 3.x/4.x movies are viewed upside-down!!!? |
| 1622 </B>A: It's a known bug (really it's a bug/limitation of the DLL codec) | |
| 1623 Try if your vo driver supports the -flip switch. | |
| 1624 | |
| 1625 <B>Q: Indeo 3.x,4.x video doesn't work at 32bpp resolutions (16,24 bpp are ok) | |
| 1626 </B>A: It's a known bug (really it's a bug/limitation of the DLL codec) | |
| 1627 | |
| 1628 <B>Q: I've got '<B>MPlayer</B> interrupted by signal 11' in module audio_setup or | |
| 1629 decode_audio. | |
| 1630 </B>A: This is highly unlikely, since the mp3lib rewrite. Contact us, it may be | |
| 1631 a bug. Possibly it's a damaged file, try with -afm 4 . | |
| 1632 | |
| 1386 | 1633 <B>Q: <B>MPlayer</B> exits with something error when using l3codeca.acm |
| 1634 </B>A: Check 'ldd /usr/local/bin/mplayer' output. If it contains | |
| 1635 libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4???????) | |
| 1636 where "?" is any number then it's ok, the error is not here. If it is: | |
| 1637 libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00??????) | |
| 1638 then there is problem with your kernel/libc. Maybe you are using some | |
| 1639 security patches (for example Solar Designer's OpenWall patch) which | |
| 1640 forces loading libraries to very low addresses. | |
| 1641 Because l3codeca.acm is a non-relocatable DLL, it must be loaded to | |
| 1642 0x00400000, we can't change this. You should use non-patched kernel, | |
| 1643 or use <B>MPlayer</B>'s -afm 1 option to disable using l3codeca.acm. | |
| 1644 | |
| 1645 <B>Q: My computer plays M$ DivX AVIs with resolutions ~ 640x300 and stereo mp3 | |
| 1646 sound too slow. When I use -nosound switch, everything is ok (but quiet). | |
| 1647 </B>A: Those files probably have 48Khz audio, and your soundcard/driver can't play | |
| 1648 it correctly. Audio downsampling isn't implemented in <B>MPlayer</B> (yet). | |
| 1649 | |
| 1650 <B>Q: <B>MPlayer</B> dies with "<B>MPlayer</B> interrupted by signal 4 in module: decode_video". | |
| 1651 </B>A: Try running <B>MPlayer</B> on the machine you compiled on. Or recompile. Don't | |
| 1652 use <B>MPlayer</B> on different CPU than it was compiled on. | |
| 1653 | |
| 1654 <B>Q: I have problems with [your window manager] and fullscreen xv/xmga/sdl/x11 | |
| 1655 modes.. | |
| 1656 </B>A1: Use the -fsmode switch. See example.conf or manpage. | |
| 1657 | |
| 1658 <B>Q: But it works with avifile ! | |
| 1659 </B>A: So what? | |
| 1660 | |
| 1661 <B>Q: Then avifile is better ! | |
| 1662 </B>A: Then use avifile, it has nice GUI and nice C++ code :) | |
| 1663 | |
| 1664 <B>Q: I got this playing mpeg files: Can't find codec for video format 0x10000001 ! | |
| 1665 </B>A: You have old version of codecs.conf at ~/.mplayer/. Upgrade it from DOCS/ | |
| 1666 | |
| 1667 <B>Q: After starting mplayer under KDE(1/2) I just get a black screen and nothing | |
| 1668 happens, after about one minute the video starts playing. | |
| 1669 </B>A: The KDE arts sound daemon is blocking the sound device, either wait the time | |
| 1670 until video starts or you disable the arts-daemon in kontrollcenter. | |
| 1480 | 1671 If you want to use arts sound, specify audio output via SDL (ao=sdl), and |
| 1672 make sure your SDL can handle arts sound. Yet another option is to start | |
| 1673 mplayer with artsdsp. | |
| 1386 | 1674 |
| 1519 | 1675 <B>Q: I have an AVI that plays with grey screen with -vc odivx, and green |
| 1676 with -vc divx4 . | |
| 1677 </B>A: It's not a DivX file, but an M$ MPEG4v3 . Update your codecs.conf. | |
| 1678 | |
| 1386 | 1679 |
| 1680 <A NAME=6.4>6.4. Video/audio driver problems (vo/ao) | |
| 1381 | 1681 |
| 1682 <B>Q: Ok, -vo help shows DGA driver, but it is babbling about permissions! | |
| 1683 Help me! | |
| 1684 </B>A: It works only if running as root! It's a DGA limitation. | |
| 1685 You should become to root (su -), and try again. | |
| 1371 | 1686 |
| 1687 Another solution is making mplayer SUID root, but its NOT RECOMMENDED! | |
| 1381 | 1688 |
| 1689 chown root /usr/local/bin/mplayer | |
| 1690 chmod 750 /usr/local/bin/mplayer | |
| 1691 chmod +s /usr/local/bin/mplayer | |
| 1692 | |
| 1693 !!!! BUT STAY TUNED !!!! | |
| 1694 This is a *BIG* security risk! *NEVER* do this on a server or on a computer | |
| 1695 can be accessed by more people than only you because they can gain root | |
| 1696 privilegies through suid root mplayer!!! | |
| 1697 !!!! SO YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ... !!!! | |
| 1698 | |
| 1699 <B>Q: When using Xvideo, my Voodoo 3/Banshee says: | |
| 1700 X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource | |
| 1701 denied) | |
| 1702 Major opcode of failed request: 147 (MIT-SHM) | |
| 1703 Minor opcode of failed request: 1 (X_ShmAttach) | |
| 1704 Serial number of failed request: 26 | |
| 1705 Current serial number in output stream:27 | |
| 1706 </B>A: Your driver is old, update it. Either download (at least) DRI version 0.6 | |
| 1707 from http://dri.sourceforge.net , or use the DRI cvs. | |
| 1708 | |
| 1709 <B>Q: When using Xvideo, I can't play DivX avis with my Voodoo 3/Banshee ! | |
| 1710 It says: | |
| 1711 ... | |
| 1712 Xvideo image format: 0x32315659 (YV12) planar | |
| 1713 Xvideo image format: 0x30323449 (I420) planar | |
| 1714 ... | |
| 1715 </B>A1: See the previous answer. | |
| 1716 A2: Since 0.18pre4 we include libavcodec from the ffmpeg package. It contains | |
| 1717 a C language DivX and OpenDivX decoder. The DivX decoder uses YV12 format | |
| 1718 for output, thus it should work for you. Compile in libavcodec support. | |
| 1719 | |
| 1386 | 1720 <B>Q: OpenGL (-vo gl) output doesn't work (hangup/black window/X11 errors/...) |
| 1721 </B>A: your opengl driver doesn't support dynamic texture changes (glTexSubImage) | |
| 1722 it's known not to work with nVidia's binary shit. | |
| 1723 it's known to work with Utah-GLX/DRI and Matrox G400 card. Also with | |
| 1724 DRI and Radeon card. It won't work with DRI others than these. | |
| 1725 it will not work with 3DFX cards because the 256x256 texture size limit. | |
| 1726 | |
| 1727 <B>Q: I have an nVidia TNT/TNT2 card, and I have a band with strange colours, | |
| 1728 right under the movie! Whose fault is this? | |
| 1729 </B>A: It's the nVidia X driver's. These bugs are ONLY with the TNT/TNT2 cards, | |
| 1730 and we can't do anything about it, it's not our bug. | |
| 1731 | |
| 1732 | |
| 1733 <A NAME=6.5>6.5. Feature requests | |
| 1734 | |
| 1735 <B>Q: Is there a hint on how to watch QuickTime and RealMedia movies in MPlayer? | |
| 1381 | 1736 </B>A: There's no way to do it. Therefore these formats deserve to die in flames. |
| 1737 Theoretically you can reverse engineer Real codecs built for Linux (they | |
| 1738 are available as .so files), but in practice that's really difficult, even | |
| 1739 if you know how the compiler used by Real is making assembler code. | |
| 1740 As for QuickTime, it's possible to play some old movies and this | |
| 1741 capability will be added to mplayer soon, but newer clips are all Sorenson | |
| 1742 encoded, and that codec is built-in deep in the QT executable, there's | |
| 1743 no way to use it. | |
| 1744 | |
| 1386 | 1745 |
| 1746 <A NAME=6.6>6.6. DVD FAQ | |
| 1379 | 1747 |
| 1381 | 1748 <B>Q: I have some problem not mentioned here ... |
| 1749 </B>A: Read file 'DVD' as well. | |
| 1750 | |
| 1751 <B>Q: How can I actually watch DVD with MPlayer? | |
| 1752 </B>A: Ehh. Go on reading this file as well as 'DVD' (hint: you must have libcss) | |
| 1753 | |
| 1754 <B>Q: So MPlayer can play DVDs? Then it must use DeCSS! You are under arrest | |
| 1755 under the XYZ#$ paragraph of the-- | |
| 1756 </B>A: Get back asshole, there is no DeCSS code in MPlayer. It links to libcss. | |
| 1757 | |
| 1758 <B>Q: Seems to work but no sound. | |
| 1759 </B>A: Use '-aid 128' (or try: 128,129,...) command line switch | |
| 1760 | |
| 1761 <B>Q: I have got Spanish audio instead of English (or similar problems) | |
| 1762 </B>A: See the last question/answer. | |
| 1763 | |
| 1764 <B>Q: MPlayer complains about FIBMAP or something. | |
| 1765 </B>A: Try to run MPlayer as root. | |
| 1766 | |
| 1767 <B>Q: some strange effect (interlace like thing) especially when fast moving | |
| 1768 objects are shown in the movie | |
| 1769 </B>A: known problem, we try to fix it later | |
| 1770 | |
| 1771 <B>Q: DVD support in MPlayer is a piece of shit! | |
| 1772 </B>A: You're probably right :) However please contact us if you can improve it! | |
| 1773 | |
| 1774 <B>Q: Where can I get libcss package from? | |
| 1775 </B>A: Maybe from the source of OMS (www.linuxvideo.org). | |
| 1776 | |
| 1777 <B>Q: How can I ... (insert some expectable DVD player feature here) | |
| 1778 </B>A: The current implementation is only for viewing VOB files from DVD. | |
| 1779 Nothing more, like subtitles, menus and so on. | |
| 1780 | |
| 1781 <B>Q: How can I set the region code of my DVD-Drive ? I don't have windows! | |
| 1782 </B>A: Use the 'regionset' tool : | |
| 1783 http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvd/dvd_disc_20000215.tar.gz | |
| 1784 | |
| 1785 <B>Q: MPlayer complains about some renamed option? | |
| 1786 </B>A: For future development, old '-dvd' option was replaced by '-dvdauth'. | |
| 1787 Option '-dvd' *WILL* do the 'full disk movie' mplaying mode. | |
| 1788 But until that, '-dvd' does nothing only prints error message. | |
| 1379 | 1789 |
| 1790 | |
| 1371 | 1791 <A NAME=7>7. Misc OS'es |
| 1792 | |
| 1793 | |
| 1794 <A NAME=7.1>7.1. Debian packaging | |
| 1795 | |
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1817 (Reading database ... 26946 files and directories currently installed.) |
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| 1371 | 1821 |
| 1822 | |
| 1823 <A NAME=7.2>7.2. FreeBSD | |
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| 1379 | 1828 To run <B>MPlayer</B> you will need to re-compile the kernel with |
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1829 "options USER_LDT" (unless you are running -CURRENT, where this is default). |
| 1556 | 1830 If you have a CPU with SSE also use "options CPU_ENABLE_SSE" to use it |
| 1831 (FreeBSD-STABLE required, or use kernel patches). | |
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| 1379 | 1833 If <B>MPlayer</B> complains about "CD-ROM Device '/dev/cdrom' not found!" make a |
| 1500 | 1834 symbolic link : ln -s /dev/(your_cdrom_device) /dev/cdrom |
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| 1371 | 1838 |
| 1839 | |
| 1840 <A NAME=7.3>7.3. Solaris 8 | |
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| 1371 | 1853 |
| 1854 % /usr/ccs/bin/make | |
| 1855 make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 25: Unexpected end of line seen | |
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1862 compiler, configured to use the GNU assembler! The mplayer code on |
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| 1891 "(stdin)", line 3567 : Syntax error | |
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| 1371 | 1901 |
| 1902 - The sd(7D) driver on solaris 8 x86 driver has bug when accessing a | |
| 1903 disk block >4GB on a device using a logical blocksize != DEV_BSIZE | |
| 1904 (i.e. CDROM and DVD media). Due to a 32bit int overflow, a disk | |
| 1905 address modulo 4GB is accessed. | |
| 1906 (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22516) | |
| 1907 | |
| 1908 - The similar bug is present in the hsfs(7FS) filesystem code (aka | |
| 1909 ISO9660), hsfs currently does not support partitions/disks >4GB, | |
| 1910 all data is accessed modulo 4GB | |
| 1911 (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22592) | |
| 1912 | |
| 1913 | |
| 1389 | 1914 <A NAME=7.4>7.4. StrongARM |
| 1915 | |
| 1916 MPlayer is reported to compile on StrongARM. Use the following command line: | |
| 1917 | |
| 1918 | |
| 1919 ./configure --target=arm-linux --disable-css --with-x11libdir=/usr/arm/lib | |
| 1920 --with-x11incdir=/usr/arm/lib --disable-gcc-checking | |
| 1921 | |
| 1922 | |
| 1371 | 1923 <A NAME=A>Appendix A - Authors |
| 1924 | |
| 1925 NOTE: Do *NOT* send bugreports, help & feature requests directly to the authors! | |
| 1386 | 1926 ===== Read Appendix <A HREF="#C">C</A> and subscribe to mplayer-users mailing lists. |
| 1371 | 1927 |
| 1379 | 1928 ========================== The <B>MPlayer</B> project: =============================== |
| 1371 | 1929 |
| 1930 Árpád Gereöffy (A'rpi/ESP-team): <arpi@thot.banki.hu> | |
| 1931 - player code (mpeg stream demultiplexer and avi/asf parser, A-V sync, seek...) | |
| 1932 - mp3lib, based on mpglib sources [MP3 audio decoder] | |
| 1933 - getch2 [keyboard handler] | |
| 1934 - some changes in libmpeg2 code (progressive frames, bitrate & fps support) | |
| 1935 - libvo improvements: adding OpenGL support, bugfix in mga driver... | |
| 1936 - triple buffering & YUY2 support (for DivX/MPEG4) into mga_vid driver | |
| 1386 | 1937 - scripts in the TVout directory (TVout on Matrox G400DH, read documentation) |
| 1371 | 1938 - hacking DivX/Mpeg4 VfW codecs to get YUV output |
| 1939 - opendivx decoder speed optimizations (see opendivx/ChangeLog) | |
| 1940 - OSD & SUB display code | |
| 1374 | 1941 - ffmpeg/libavcodec integration |
| 1942 - DivX4Linux (ProjectMayo) support (see documentation) | |
| 1371 | 1943 |
| 1944 Zoltán Ponekker (Pontscho/Fresh!): <pontscho@makacs.poliod.hu> | |
| 1945 - configure script and Makefiles for easy compile | |
| 1946 - GUI system (near complete!?) | |
| 1947 - 3DNow! support into mp3lib | |
| 1948 - 3DNow! support into fastmemcpy.h | |
| 1949 - various X11 driver changes (keyboard handling, fullscreen, bpp detect, etc) | |
| 1950 - libvo: adding xmga driver, and fullscreen support to xv | |
| 1951 - audio mixer (volume) support | |
| 1952 | |
| 1953 Gábor Lénárt (LGB): <lgb@lgb.hu> | |
| 1954 - ./configure script improvements | |
| 1955 - Makefile improvements | |
| 1956 - prelimenary DVD support | |
| 1957 - another GUI code (is that so..?) | |
| 1958 - various X11 cleanups and fixes | |
| 1959 | |
| 1960 Gábor Bérczi (Gabucino): <gabucino@k2.jozsef.kando.hu> | |
| 1961 - documentation maintainer | |
| 1962 - hungarian translation of documentation | |
| 1963 - second webpage design&gfx | |
| 1964 - webpage maintainer | |
| 1965 - testing, codecs quality & speed comparsions | |
| 1379 | 1966 - IRC channel #<B>MPlayer</B> operator |
| 1541 | 1967 (devel channel, users earn kickban) |
| 1371 | 1968 - experimental MINIX port |
| 1969 | |
| 1970 Szabolcs Berecz (Szabi): <szabi@inf.elte.hu> | |
| 1971 - codecs.conf file parser | |
| 1972 - config file and command line parser | |
| 1973 - mga_vid fixes, module option etc. | |
| 1974 - fbdev support in libvo | |
| 1975 - type #7 subtitle support | |
| 1976 | |
| 1977 László Megyer (Lez, Laaz): <lez@sch.bme.hu> | |
| 1978 - SUB reader | |
| 1979 - screensaver+DPMS disable for libvo | |
| 1980 | |
| 1981 Gyula László (Chass, Tégla): <chass-@freemail.hu> | |
| 1982 - first fonts (mp_font1.zip) | |
| 1983 - third (current) homepage design&gfx | |
| 1984 | |
| 1985 Zoltán Márk Vicián (Se7en): <se7en@sch.bme.hu> | |
| 1986 - SVGAlib support in libvo | |
| 1987 | |
| 1988 Alex Beregszaszi (Al3x): <alex@naxine.org> | |
| 1989 - ALSA output driver in libao2 | |
| 1990 - vo_ggi output driver in libvo (www.ggi-project.org) | |
| 1991 | |
| 1992 Andreas Ackermann (Acki): <asackerm@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> | |
| 1386 | 1993 - LIRC support (see documentation) |
| 1371 | 1994 - DGA support in libvo |
| 1995 | |
| 1996 Felix Bünemann (Atmos): <atmosfear@users.sourceforge.net> | |
| 1997 - SDL driver maintainer | |
| 1998 - Additional YUV formats fixes | |
| 1999 - New font (mp_font2.zip) | |
| 2000 - PNG file output support in libvo | |
| 2001 - flipping support (for Indeo 3/4, etc) | |
| 2002 - SDL audio driver in libao2 | |
| 2003 - RAW PCM/WAVE file writer for libao2 | |
| 2004 | |
| 2005 TeLeNiEkO: <telenieko@telenieko.com> | |
| 2006 - spanish translation of documentation | |
| 2007 | |
| 2008 Michael Graffam: <mgraffam@idsi.net> | |
| 2009 - XF86VidMode support to vo_x11 and vo_dga | |
| 2010 - Video mode switching code to vo_dga | |
| 2011 | |
| 2012 Jens Hoffmann: <hoffmajs@gmx.de> | |
| 2013 - Additional YUV formats support | |
| 2014 - found the big BITMAPINFOHEADER problem -> solved ASV2 pixelization | |
| 2015 | |
| 2016 Nick Kurshev: <nickols_k@mail.ru> | |
| 2017 - memcpy optimizations for AMD K7 and Intel Pentium III (fastmemcpy.h) | |
| 2018 - CDROM tune info | |
| 2019 - further 3DNow! optimizations into mp3lib and libac3 | |
| 2020 - russian translation of documentation | |
| 2021 | |
| 2022 German Gomez Garcia: <german@piraos.com> | |
| 2023 - DVD .ifo parser and chapter selection [not yet in the main trunk] | |
| 2024 - SPDIF AC3 output for SBLive! [not yet in the main trunk] | |
| 2025 | |
| 2026 Dariush Pietrzak (Eyck): <eyck@incubus.ar.lublin.pl> | |
| 1386 | 2027 - debian packaging support (see debian/* and this documentation) |
| 1371 | 2028 - support for vplayer subtitle format |
| 2029 - prelimenary support for .RT subtitle format | |
| 2030 | |
| 2031 Jürgen Keil and Marcus Comstedt: <jk@tools.de> <marcus@idonex.se> | |
| 1379 | 2032 - patched <B>MPlayer</B> to work on Solaris 8 x86 |
| 1371 | 2033 - configure fixes |
| 2034 - SUN audio driver in libao2 | |
| 2035 | |
| 2036 Vladimir Kushnir: <vkushnir@Alfacom.net> | |
| 1379 | 2037 - patched <B>MPlayer</B> to work on FreeBSD x86 |
| 1371 | 2038 |
| 2039 Bertrand BAUDET: <bertrand_baudet@yahoo.com> | |
| 2040 - network streaming support | |
| 2041 | |
| 1534 | 2042 Folke Ashberg: <folke@ashberg.de> |
| 1514 | 2043 - native AAlib driver (-vo aa) |
| 2044 | |
| 1371 | 2045 Main testers: |
| 2046 Tibor Balázs (Tibcu) | |
| 2047 Péter Sasi (SaPe) | |
| 2048 Christoph H. Lampert | |
| 2049 Attila Kinali | |
| 2050 Dirk Vornheder | |
| 2051 | |
| 2052 ========================== The codecs, libs: ================================= | |
| 2053 | |
| 2054 Aaron Holtzman: <aholtzma@engr.uvic.ca> | |
| 2055 - ac3dec (and libac3) author [AC3 audio decoder] | |
| 2056 - mga_vid driver [Matrox G200/G400 YUV Back-end Scaler] | |
| 2057 - mpeg2dec [Fast MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, currently used in player] | |
| 2058 | |
| 2059 Michel Lespinasse: <walken@zoy.org> | |
| 2060 - did large libmpeg2 changes for better speed and mpeg conformance | |
| 2061 | |
| 2062 Eugene Kuznetsov: <divx@euro.ru> | |
| 2063 - avifile author [AVI player library for linux, using Win32 VfW/ACM codecs] | |
| 2064 - technical help about AVI and ASF formats, and how to get YUV using VfW... | |
| 2065 - divx4linux techical support | |
| 2066 | |
| 2067 Zdenek Kabelac: <kabi@informatics.muni.cz> | |
| 2068 - current avifile maintainer(?) | |
| 2069 - some technical help about the win32 stuff and timers | |
| 2070 | |
| 2071 Gerard Lantau: <glantau@yahoo.fr> | |
| 2072 - ffmpeg/libavcodec author,maintainer (opensource mpeg & divx en/decoder) | |
| 2073 | |
| 2074 Project Mayo: [http://www.projectmayo.com] | |
| 2075 - the OpenDivX codec authors | |
| 2076 | |
| 2077 Michael Hipp: | |
| 2078 - mpglib author [isn't used directly but some parts in mp3lib] | |
| 2079 | |
| 2080 Mark Podlipec: | |
| 2081 - xa_gsm.c author [MS-GSM audio codec] | |
| 2082 [from a GSM library by Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann] | |
| 2083 | |
| 2084 Their code is not used in current player version, but I've got some ideas or | |
| 2085 other technical help from: | |
| 2086 | |
| 2087 John F. McGowan http://www.jmcgowan.com/ | |
| 2088 - AVI FAQ author/collector. [site with many useful docs on codecs and avi fmt] | |
| 2089 | |
| 2090 Dirk Farin: <farin@ti.uni-mannheim.de> | |
| 2091 - dvdview author [MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, used in v0.5-v0.8] | |
| 2092 | |
| 2093 Adam Williams: <broadcast@earthling.net> | |
| 2094 - libmpeg3 (and xmovie) author [MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, used in v0.1-v0.4] | |
| 2095 | |
| 2096 | |
| 2097 <A NAME=B>Appendix B - Mailing lists | |
| 2098 | |
| 1379 | 2099 There are some public mailing lists on <B>MPlayer</B>. Subscribing can be achieved on |
| 1371 | 2100 the following addresses: |
| 2101 | |
| 1379 | 2102 - <B>MPlayer</B> core/hungarian developers list: |
| 1371 | 2103 http://mp.dev.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-devel |
| 2104 | |
| 2105 I dunno, it is the FLAME list in hungarian language :) | |
| 2106 Also some talking about mplayer core team internals, like mplayer | |
| 2107 party, sponsors etc can be here. | |
| 2108 | |
| 1379 | 2109 - <B>MPlayer</B> developers list: |
| 1371 | 2110 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng |
| 2111 | |
| 2112 This list is about mplayer development! Talking about interface/API changes, | |
| 2113 new libraryes, code optimization, ./configure changes, and send patches here. | |
| 2114 Do NOT send bugreports, user questions, feature requests here! | |
| 2115 This list should be kept low-traffic. | |
| 2116 | |
| 1379 | 2117 - <B>MPlayer</B> users list: |
| 1371 | 2118 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-users |
| 2119 | |
| 1386 | 2120 - send bugreports here (after reading DOCS/BUGS, Appendix <A HREF="#C">C</A>) |
| 1371 | 2121 - send feature requests here (after reading DOCS/TODO) |
| 1386 | 2122 - send user questions here (after reading all this documentation) |
| 1371 | 2123 |
| 1379 | 2124 - <B>MPlayer</B> & Matrox G200/G400/G450 users: |
| 1371 | 2125 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-matrox |
| 2126 | |
| 2127 Send matrox-related questions here, | |
| 2128 - things about mga_vid, | |
| 2129 - matrox's official beta drivers (for X 4.x.x) | |
| 2130 - and about matroxfb-TVout stuff. | |
| 2131 | |
| 2132 - mpg12play-portable developers: | |
| 2133 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-mpg12play | |
| 2134 | |
| 2135 This list is for talking about mplayer ports to non-x86 platforms | |
| 2136 (IRIX, Solaris-SPARC, Alpha, Commodore64, Sharp Calculator, | |
| 2137 Teapot etc...) | |
| 2138 | |
| 1379 | 2139 - <B>MPlayer</B> announce: |
| 1371 | 2140 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-announce |
| 2141 | |
| 2142 Very low traffic list :) | |
| 2143 And it's read-only. I'll post something shit there if a new release | |
| 2144 is done. | |
| 2145 | |
| 1379 | 2146 - <B>MPlayer</B> CVS-log: |
| 1371 | 2147 http://mp.dev.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog |
| 2148 | |
| 2149 Send only questions about CVS changes here. | |
| 2150 (if you don't understand why a change is required or you've better fix) | |
| 2151 Be sure in that your target developer reads this list! | |
| 2152 | |
| 2153 NOTE: language of above lists are ENGLISH, unless explicitly stated otherwise. | |
| 2154 Please do not send messages using other language! | |
| 2155 | |
| 2156 | |
| 2157 <A NAME=C>Appendix C - How to report bugs | |
| 2158 | |
| 2159 How to report bugs? | |
| 2160 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
| 2161 First read DOCS/BUGS, and other docs. If your problem isn't | |
| 2162 known or isn't solved by our instructions, then report the bug: | |
| 2163 | |
| 2164 Where? | |
| 2165 ====== | |
| 2166 Subscribe to the mplayer-users mailing list: | |
| 2167 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-users | |
| 2168 and send your bugreport to: | |
| 2169 mplayer-users@lists.sourceforge.net | |
| 2170 We won't CC: so please subscribe!!! | |
| 2171 | |
| 2172 Don't send bugreports private, directly to author's address!!! | |
| 2173 We are working together on code, so everyone is interested in it. | |
| 2174 BTW many times other users know the solution (system config probs, | |
| 2175 bad drivers etc), even when we think it's a bug in our code. | |
| 2176 The language of this list is ENGLISH ! | |
| 2177 | |
| 2178 Please describe your problem in details, examples etc, and don't | |
| 2179 forget to include these: | |
| 2180 | |
| 2181 What? | |
| 2182 ===== | |
| 2183 | |
| 2184 1. The system info what we always want: | |
| 2185 - linux distribution | |
| 2186 examples: | |
| 2187 RedHat 7.1 | |
| 2188 Slackware 7.0 + devel packs from 7.1 ... | |
| 2189 - kernel version: | |
| 2190 uname -a | |
| 2191 - libc version: | |
| 2192 ls -l /lib/libc[.-]* | |
| 2193 - X version: | |
| 2194 X -version | |
| 2195 - gcc and ld version: | |
| 2196 gcc -v | |
| 2197 ld -v | |
| 2198 - binutils version: | |
| 2199 as --version | |
| 2200 | |
| 2201 2. Hardware & drivers: | |
| 2202 - CPU info: | |
| 2203 cat /proc/cpuinfo | |
| 2204 - video card manufacturer and model | |
| 2205 examples: | |
| 2206 ASUS V3800U chip: nVidia TNT2 Ultra pro 32MB SDRAM | |
| 2207 Matrox G400 DH 32MB SGRAM | |
| 2208 - video driver type&version | |
| 2209 examples: | |
| 2210 X built-in driver | |
| 2211 nvidia 0.9.623 | |
| 2212 Utah-GLX CVS 2001-02-17 | |
| 2213 DRI from X 4.0.3 | |
| 2214 - sound card type & driver | |
| 2215 examples: | |
| 2216 Creative SBLive! Gold with OSS driver from oss.creative.com | |
| 2217 Creative SB16 with OSS drivers of kernel | |
| 2218 GUS PnP with ALSA OSS emulation | |
| 2219 - if you are unsure, attach output of lspci -v | |
| 2220 | |
| 2221 For compiling problems/errors: | |
| 2222 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
| 2223 3. output of configure/make: | |
| 2224 make distclean | |
| 2225 ./configure &>config.log | |
| 2226 ./make &>make.log | |
| 2227 4. these files: | |
| 2228 config.h | |
| 2229 config.mak | |
| 2230 libvo/config.mak | |
| 2231 | |
| 2232 For playback problems: | |
| 2233 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
| 2234 3. Output of mplayer at verbose level 1 (-v) | |
| 2235 mplayer -v [options] filename &> mplayer.log | |
| 2236 | |
| 2237 4. If the problem is specific to one or a few files, | |
| 2238 then please upload that file to: | |
| 1379 | 2239 ftp://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming/ |
| 1371 | 2240 Usually first 1-5 MB of the file is enough to reproduce |
| 2241 the problem, but first you should try it: | |
| 2242 dd if=yourfile of=smallfile bs=1k count=1024 | |
| 2243 (it will cut first 1MB of 'yourfile' and save to 'smallfile') | |
| 2244 Then try again on this small file, and if bug still exists | |
| 2245 then it's enough to upload this small file. | |
| 2246 NEVER send such files via mail! Upload it, and send only | |
| 2247 the path/filename of the file on the FTP. | |
| 2248 If the file is accessible on the net, then sending the | |
| 2249 _exact_ URL is enough! | |
| 2250 | |
| 2251 5. For crashes (segfault, SIGILL, signal 4 etc): | |
| 2252 | |
| 2253 If you have coredump of the crash, see 5.a, else see 5.b: | |
| 2254 | |
| 2255 5.a: Please print us coredump (if it was created). | |
| 2256 Howto: | |
| 2257 please create following command file: | |
| 2258 | |
| 2259 disass $eip-32 $eip+32 | |
| 2260 printf "eax=%08lX\n",$eax | |
| 2261 printf "ebx=%08lX\n",$ebx | |
| 2262 printf "ecx=%08lX\n",$ecx | |
| 2263 printf "edx=%08lX\n",$edx | |
| 2264 printf "esp=%08lX\n",$esp | |
| 2265 printf "ebp=%08lX\n",$ebp | |
| 2266 printf "edi=%08lX\n",$edi | |
| 2267 printf "esi=%08lX\n",$esi | |
| 2268 | |
| 2269 Then simply execute following command line: | |
| 2270 gdb mplayer --core=core -batch --command=command_file >mplayer.bug | |
| 2271 | |
| 1379 | 2272 5.b.: run <B>MPlayer</B> in gdb: |
| 1371 | 2273 [at root/user shell prompt:] |
| 2274 # gdb mplayer | |
| 2275 [at gdb prompt:] | |
| 2276 > run -v [options-to-mplayer] filename | |
| 2277 ... (wait until it will crash) | |
| 2278 > bt | |
| 2279 > disass $eip-32 $eip+32 | |
| 2280 Send us the full output of the above things! | |
| 2281 | |
| 2282 In general: | |
| 2283 ~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
| 2284 If something is big (logs etc) then it's better to upload to the ftp | |
| 2285 (gzipped), and include only path/filename in the bugreport! | |
| 2286 | |
| 2287 </BODY> | |
| 2288 | |
| 2289 </HTML> |