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Added new syncengine thanks to a new previously undocumented feature of the em8300, this might fix playback on both slow and fast machines (more testing needed). This also requires users to get the em8300 driver from cvs until the next version is released (will probably happen this weekend)
Added lots of comments, should be pretty easy to understand most of the internals now
Added lots of brackets to if's for's while's etc, this is not a cosmetical thing but rather due to the fact I got some very odd bugs with else's since I didn't properly use brackets (and it's the K&R standard to have brackets everywhere)
Fixed some bugs that would occur when disabling libmp1e
Switched to default to the new naming scheme of device nodes, the driver will slowly switch over to this state, if it can't find devices under the new name it will try the old naming scheme
I stopped opening devices in non-blocking mode, it would break the new syncengine which tries to burst data to the device (alot of times meaning it will fill the fifo pretty fast which would previously result in jerkyness on fast machines)
The device now sets the initial state of the pts and speed (probably not needed, but assumption is the mother of all fuckups =)
Keep the control interface open during the entire duration of the libvo device, we might need this to flush video buffers on seeking (currently not implemented, therefore seeking is broken)
This is beta stuff to the driver, I will get some users to test it for me and do my best to fix seeking as soon as possible...
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| date | Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:33:47 +0000 |
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| 4 <FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2> | |
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| 1682 | 6 <P><B><A NAME=5>5. FAQ section</A></B></P> |
| 7 | |
| 8 <TABLE BORDER=0 WIDTH=100% ALIGN=left> | |
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| 1987 | 10 <TD COLSPAN=3><P><B><A NAME=5.1><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.1 Compilation</A></B></P> |
| 1682 | 11 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 1987 | 13 <TD> </TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 3290 | 14 configure ends with this text, and MPlayer won't compile !<BR> |
| 15 <CODE>Your gcc does not support even i386 for '-march' and '-mcpu'.</CODE> | |
| 16 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 17 Your gcc isn't installed correctly, check <CODE>config.log</CODE> file | |
| 18 for details. | |
| 19 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 20 | |
| 21 <TD> </TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 2117 | 22 What does "No such file or directory" means ? |
| 23 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 24 Probably there is no such file or directory. | |
| 25 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 26 | |
| 27 <TD> </TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 1682 | 28 What's the problem with gcc 2.96 ? |
| 1987 | 29 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 2954 | 30 To be short: <B><I>DO NOT USE gcc 2.96 !!!</I></B><BR> |
| 3053 | 31 Check <A HREF="gcc-2.96-3.0.html">this</A> and <A HREF="users_against_developers.html">this</A> texts! |
| 2954 | 32 If you still really really want to do so, be sure to use the latest release. |
| 33 <BR> | |
| 1682 | 34 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 1612 | 35 |
| 1987 | 36 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 37 Great, I have gcc 3.0.1 from RedHat/Mandrake, then I'm fine--! |
| 1987 | 38 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 2954 | 39 No, since there have been/are issues with those compilers.<BR> |
| 40 Use 2.95.x series for reliability (not <A HREF="gcc-2.96-3.0.html">2.96</A>). | |
| 41 Use the latest gcc 3.0.x (starting at 3.0.2) if you want to use a 3.0.x version. | |
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46 <PRE> |
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47 In file included from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/std_cwchar.h:42, |
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60 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 2097 | 61 Upgrade your glibc to the newest. On Mandrake, use 2.2.4-8mdk . |
| 1682 | 62 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 1612 | 63 |
| 1987 | 64 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 2137 | 65 ...gcc 2.96... (yes, some people are STILL flaming about their gcc 2.96!!) |
| 66 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 67 <P>But we has idegs (the word 'ideg' is described further in the FAQ). And our | |
| 68 idegcounters overflow again and again.</P> | |
| 69 | |
| 70 <P>Unfortunately MPlayer is out of our control. It's used by lamers, Linux users | |
| 71 who can't even use windows, and never tried to compile a kernel. They installed | |
| 72 (with default options) Mandrake or RedHat or Suse, and without RTFM'ing they | |
| 73 send messages saying 'it doesn't work! help me! please! i'm new to the linux! | |
| 74 help! oh! help me!'. We can't stop them, but at least we try to force them RTFM | |
| 3857 | 75 and to read messages of ./configure and mplayer.</P> |
| 2137 | 76 |
| 77 <P>And you clever guys come and flame us with gcc 2.96 and binary packages. | |
| 78 Instead of helping users or making patches to help solve problems.</P> | |
| 79 | |
| 80 <P>Half of our spare/free time is spent by answering silly mails here and | |
| 81 making newer tricks and checks to configure to avoid such mails.</P> | |
| 82 | |
| 83 <P>And there is a balance. On one hand are you, clever guys, saying we are very | |
| 84 bad because we don't like buggy gcc 2.96, and at the other hand there are the | |
| 85 'new to linux' guys who are showing us gcc 2.96 is buggy.</P> | |
| 86 | |
| 2954 | 87 <P>Conclusion: we can't be good. Half of people always will say we are bad.</P> |
| 2137 | 88 |
| 89 <P>Maybe we should close the project, make it closed source, commercial, and | |
| 90 provide install support for it. then we could leave current work, so | |
| 91 development could go faster, and we earn lots of money with it and buy a big | |
| 92 house, etc etc. Do you really want it? It seems.</P> | |
| 93 | |
| 94 <P ALIGN=RIGHT>Arpi (a mail on the mplayer-users list)</P> | |
| 95 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 96 | |
| 97 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 2488 | 98 Where can I find information about gcc 2.96 bugs ? |
| 99 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 3053 | 100 In <A HREF="gcc-2.96-3.0.html">this</A> documentation. And <A HREF="users_against_developers.html">this</A> |
| 101 documentation describes why RedHat released 2.96 and other interesting things. | |
| 2488 | 102 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 103 | |
| 104 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 1682 | 105 SDL output doesn't work or compile. Problem is .... |
| 1987 | 106 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 107 It is tested with newest SDL (probably runs on 1.1.7+). |
| 2954 | 108 It does NOT work with any previous version, so don't ask. |
| 1682 | 109 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 1612 | 110 |
| 1987 | 111 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 112 I am still having trouble compiling with SDL support. gcc says something |
| 113 about "undefined reference to `SDL_EnableKeyRepeat'" What's now? | |
| 1987 | 114 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 115 Where did you install the SDL library? If you installed in /usr/local |
| 116 (the default) then edit the top level config.mak and add | |
| 117 "-L/usr/local/lib " after "X_LIBS=" Now type make. You're done! | |
| 118 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 119 | |
| 1987 | 120 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 121 It doesn't compile, and it misses uint64_t inttypes.h and similar things... |
| 1987 | 122 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 123 copy etc/inttypes.h to <B>MPlayer</B> directory (cp etc/inttypes.h .) |
| 1774 | 124 try again... |
| 1682 | 125 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 1612 | 126 |
| 1987 | 127 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 128 I have Pentium III but ./configure doesn't detect SSE |
| 1987 | 129 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 130 Only kernel versions 2.4.x supports SSE (or try latest 2.2.19 or newer, but |
| 131 be prepared for problems) | |
| 132 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 133 | |
| 1987 | 134 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 135 I have G200/G400, how to compile/use mga_vid driver? |
| 1987 | 136 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 137 Read all this documentation. |
| 138 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 139 | |
| 1987 | 140 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 141 Are there rpm/deb/... packages of <B>MPlayer</B>? |
| 1987 | 142 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 143 You can make a .deb package for yourself, check section <A HREF="documentation.html#6.1">6.1</A>. |
| 144 It's _STRONGLY_ discouraged to use precompiled packages | |
| 145 of <B>MPlayer</B>, since it (currently) _highly_ depends on compile-time | |
| 146 options and optimizations! | |
| 147 Precompiled packages are COMPLETELY unsupported by the <B>MPlayer</B> team! | |
| 148 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 1612 | 149 |
| 1987 | 150 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 151 During 'make', MPlayer complains about X11 libraries. I don't understand, |
| 152 I DO have X installed!? | |
| 1987 | 153 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 154 ...but you don't have the X development package installed. Or not |
| 155 correctly. It's called XFree86-devel* under RedHat, and xlib6g-dev* under | |
| 156 Debian. Also check if the /usr/X11 symlink exists (this can be a problem on | |
| 157 Mandrake systems). It can be created with the<BR> | |
| 158 <CODE>$ ln -sf /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11</CODE><BR> | |
| 159 command. Also check the /usr/include/X11 link :<BR> | |
| 160 <CODE>$ ln -sf /usr/X11R6/include/X11 /usr/include/X11</CODE><BR> | |
| 161 Your distribution may differ from the Linux Filesystem Standard. | |
| 162 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 163 | |
| 1987 | 164 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 165 What about DGA driver? I can't find it!!! |
| 1987 | 166 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 167 ./configure autodetects your DGA driver. If -vo help doesn't show |
| 168 DGA, then there's a problem with your X installation. | |
| 1785 | 169 Try ./configure --enable-dga (and RTFM) |
| 1682 | 170 Alternatively, try SDL's DGA driver with '-vo sdl:dga' options. |
| 171 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 1612 | 172 |
| 1987 | 173 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 174 I can't compile SVGAlib.. I'm using 2.3/2.4 kernel. |
| 1987 | 175 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 176 You have to edit SVGAlib's Makefile.cfg and comment "BACKGROUND = y" out. |
| 177 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 178 | |
| 1987 | 179 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 2001 | 180 I compiled MPlayer with libdvdcss/libdivxdecore support, but when |
| 1682 | 181 I try to start it, it says:<BR> |
| 2001 | 182 <CODE>> error while loading shared libraries: lib*.so.0: cannot load |
| 1682 | 183 shared object file: No such file or directory</CODE><BR> |
| 184 I checked up on the file and it IS there in /usr/local/lib. | |
| 1987 | 185 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 3668 | 186 Add /usr/local/lib to <B>/etc/ld.so.conf</B> and run <B>ldconfig</B> . |
| 1682 | 187 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 188 | |
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190 MPlayer doesn't seem to find my libcss. What am I doing wrong ? |
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| 2954 | 192 It's normal. <B>MPlayer</B> no longer depends on libcss to play a DVD. You |
| 2955 | 193 have to install <B>libdvdread</B> and <B>libdvdcss</B>. Check for DVD Playback |
| 2954 | 194 part <A HREF="cd-dvd.html">here</A>. libcss is to be used for example when you |
| 195 want to play encrypted VOB files from hard disk (not for general users). | |
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199 Hmm, strange. When loading the mga_vid.o kernel module, I found this in the logs:<BR> |
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200 <CODE>Warning: loading mga_vid.o will taint the kernel: no license</CODE> |
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| 2954 | 202 The latest kernels modules needs require a flag indicating its license (mainly |
| 203 to avoid kernel hackers' debugging closed sources drivers). | |
| 204 Upgrade your kernel and your modutils and <B>MPlayer</B>. | |
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| 2772 | 207 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 208 When compiling <B>MEncoder</B>, it segfaults at linking !!! | |
| 209 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 3438 | 210 Dunno, upgrading binutils should help (2.11.92.* or newer should be good). Not our fault, do NOT report! |
| 2772 | 211 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 212 | |
| 3053 | 213 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 214 I'd like to compile <B>MPlayer</B> on Minix ! | |
| 215 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 3774 | 216 Me too. :) |
| 3053 | 217 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 1987 | 220 <TD COLSPAN=3><B><A NAME=5.2><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.2. General questions</A></B> |
| 1682 | 221 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 1612 | 222 |
| 1987 | 223 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1785 | 224 What about DVD playing ? |
| 1987 | 225 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 2954 | 226 Read the CD/DVD section in <A HREF="cd-dvd.html">this page</A>. |
| 1682 | 227 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 228 | |
| 1987 | 229 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
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| 1987 | 231 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
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| 1682 | 235 Make sure you have the right Modelines in your XF86Config file, and |
| 236 try if the DGA driver (and SDL's DGA driver, see RTFM) works for you. | |
| 237 It's much faster. If SDL's DGA works too, use that, it'll be EVEN faster! | |
| 238 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 1612 | 239 |
| 1987 | 240 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 241 What is the meaning of numbers in the status line? |
| 1987 | 242 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 243 See: <CODE><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A: 2.1 V: 2.2 A-V: -0.167 ct: 0.042 57 41% 0% 2.6% 0 4</CODE><BR> | |
| 1682 | 244 <UL> |
| 1987 | 245 <LI><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A: audio position in seconds |
| 1682 | 246 <LI>V: video position in seconds |
| 247 <LI>A-V: audio-video difference in seconds (delay) | |
| 248 <LI>ct: total A-V sync correction done | |
| 249 <LI>frames played (counting from last seek) | |
| 250 <LI>video codec cpu usage in percent (for mpeg it includes video_out too!) | |
| 251 <LI>video_out cpu usage for avi, 0 for mpg (see above) | |
| 252 <LI>audio codec cpu usage in percent | |
| 253 <LI>frames needed to drop to maintain A-V sync | |
| 1864 | 254 <LI>current level of image postprocessing (when using -autoq) |
| 1682 | 255 </UL> |
| 256 <I>Most of them are for debug purposes, and will be removed soon.</I> | |
| 257 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 1612 | 258 |
| 1987 | 259 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1864 | 260 What if I don't want them to appear? |
| 1987 | 261 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1864 | 262 Then you use the -quiet option, and read the manpage. |
| 263 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 264 | |
| 1987 | 265 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 266 Why is video_out cpu usage zero (0%) for mpeg files? |
| 1987 | 267 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 268 It's not zero, but it's built in into codec, so can't be measured separated. |
| 269 You should try to play the file using -vo null and then -vo ... and check | |
| 270 the difference to see video_out speed... | |
| 271 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 272 | |
| 1987 | 273 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 274 What's XMMP? (is it XMMS or XMPS but mispelled?) |
| 1987 | 275 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 276 It's a new project, see http://frozenproductions.com for details |
| 277 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 278 | |
| 1987 | 279 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 280 There are error messages about file not found /usr/lib/win32/.... |
| 1987 | 281 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 2954 | 282 Download <A HREF="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/w32codec.zip">w32codec.zip</A> |
| 283 from *our* FTP (avifile's codec package has different DLL set). | |
| 284 Install it. | |
| 1682 | 285 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 1612 | 286 |
| 1987 | 287 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 288 Are there any mailing lists on MPlayer? |
| 1987 | 289 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 290 Yes! See RTFM on how to subscribe them! |
| 291 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 292 | |
| 1987 | 293 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 294 I've found a nasty bug when I tried to play my favourite video!! |
| 295 Who should I inform? | |
| 1987 | 296 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 297 See Appendix <A HREF="bugreports.html">C</A>. |
| 298 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 299 | |
| 1987 | 300 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 301 I have problems playing files with ... codec. Can I use'em? |
| 1987 | 302 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1731 | 303 Check <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html">http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html</A>, |
| 1682 | 304 if it doesn't contain your codec, read |
| 2561 | 305 <A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.3">section 2.1.3</A>, and contact us. |
| 1682 | 306 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 307 | |
| 1987 | 308 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 309 Umm, what is "IdegCounter"? |
| 1987 | 310 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 311 A mixture of a hungarian and an english word. In english, "Ideg" means |
| 312 "nerve", and is pronounced as something like "ydaegh" . It was first used | |
| 313 to measure the nervousness of A'rpi, after some (umm) "mystic" disappearance | |
| 314 of CVS code ;) | |
| 315 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 316 | |
| 1987 | 317 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
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| 1682 | 325 LIRC doesn't work, because ... |
| 1987 | 326 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 327 Are you sure you use "mplayer_lirc" instead of "mplayer"? |
| 328 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 329 | |
| 1987 | 330 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 331 Subtitles are very nice, the most beautiful I've ever seen, but they slow |
| 332 down the playing! I know it's unlikely... | |
| 1987 | 333 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 2248 | 334 After running ./configure , edit config.h and replace <CODE>#undef FAST_OSD</CODE> with |
| 1682 | 335 <CODE>#define FAST_OSD</CODE>. Then recompile. |
| 336 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 1612 | 337 |
| 1987 | 338 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 339 The OSD is flickering! |
| 1987 | 340 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 341 You use a vo driver with single buffering (x11,xv). With xv, |
| 342 use -double option. | |
| 343 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 344 | |
| 1987 | 345 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 346 What exactly is this libavcodec? |
| 1987 | 347 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
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| 1682 | 349 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 350 | |
| 1987 | 351 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 352 But configure tells me "Checking for libavcodec ... no"! |
| 1987 | 353 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 354 You need to get libavcodec from FFmpeg's CVS. Read the instructions in |
| 355 the <A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.2.2">ffmpeg section</A>. | |
| 356 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
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| 3857 | 361 Known, icewm is dictatoric. Unsolvable. In detail: |
| 362 its taskbar overrides GUI's window resize queries. If it asks for | |
| 2061 | 363 resize to 800x600, then it resizes window to 800x(600-taskbar_size). It's bad. |
| 3857 | 364 Very bad. |
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| 2972 | 367 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 368 I can't access the GUI menu. I press right click, but I can't access any | |
| 369 menu items ! | |
| 370 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 371 Are you using FVWM ? Try the following :<BR> | |
| 372 Start -> Settings -> Configuration -> Base Configuration<BR> | |
| 373 <BR> | |
| 374 Set "Use Applications position hints" to Yes. | |
| 375 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 376 | |
| 1682 | 377 <TD COLSPAN=3> |
| 1987 | 378 <B><A NAME=5.3><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.3. File playing problems</A></B> |
| 1682 | 379 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 380 | |
| 1987 | 381 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 382 ...... works with avifile/aviplay while doesn't with MPlayer. |
| 1987 | 383 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 384 <B>MPlayer</B> != avifile |
| 385 The only common thing between these players is the Win32 DLL loader. | |
| 386 The codecs (dll) sets, syncronization, demultiplexing etc is totaly | |
| 387 different and shouldn't be compared. | |
| 388 If something works with aviplay it doesn't mean that <B>MPlayer</B> should do | |
| 389 it and vice versa. | |
| 390 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 391 | |
| 1987 | 392 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 393 Audio goes out of sync playing .avi file. |
| 1987 | 394 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 395 Try with -bps or -nobps option |
| 396 if still bad, send me (upload to ftp) that file, I'll check. | |
| 397 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 1612 | 398 |
| 1987 | 399 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 400 Indeo 3.x/4.x movies are viewed upside-down!!!? |
| 1987 | 401 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 402 It's a known bug (really it's a bug/limitation of the DLL codec) |
| 403 Try if your vo driver supports the -flip switch. | |
| 404 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 405 | |
| 1987 | 406 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 407 Indeo 3.x,4.x video doesn't work at 32bpp resolutions (16,24 bpp are ok). |
| 1987 | 408 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 409 It's a known bug (really it's a bug/limitation of the DLL codec). |
| 410 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 411 | |
| 1987 | 412 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 413 MPlayer exits with something error when using l3codeca.acm. |
| 1987 | 414 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 415 Check 'ldd /usr/local/bin/mplayer' output. If it contains<BR> |
| 416 <CODE>libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4???????)</CODE><BR> | |
| 417 where "?" is any number then it's ok, the error is not here. If it is:<BR> | |
| 418 <CODE>libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00??????)</CODE><BR> | |
| 419 then there is problem with your kernel/libc. Maybe you are using some | |
| 420 security patches (for example Solar Designer's OpenWall patch) which | |
| 421 forces loading libraries to very low addresses. | |
| 422 Because l3codeca.acm is a non-relocatable DLL, it must be loaded to | |
| 423 0x00400000, we can't change this. You should use non-patched kernel, | |
| 424 or use <B>MPlayer</B>'s -afm 1 option to disable using l3codeca.acm. | |
| 425 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 1612 | 426 |
| 1987 | 427 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 428 My computer plays M$ DivX AVIs with resolutions ~ 640x300 and stereo mp3 |
| 429 sound too slow. When I use -nosound switch, everything is ok (but quiet). | |
| 1987 | 430 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1774 | 431 Ok son, your machine is too slow. RTFM or anything. |
| 1682 | 432 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 1987 | 434 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 435 MPlayer dies with "MPlayer interrupted by signal 4 in module: decode_video". |
| 1987 | 436 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 437 Try running <B>MPlayer</B> on the machine you compiled on. Or recompile. Don't |
| 438 use <B>MPlayer</B> on different CPU than it was compiled on. | |
| 439 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 1612 | 440 |
| 1987 | 441 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 442 I have problems with [your window manager] and fullscreen xv/xmga/sdl/x11 modes.. |
| 1987 | 443 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 444 Use the -fsmode switch. See example.conf or manpage. |
| 445 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 446 | |
| 1987 | 447 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 448 But it works with avifile! |
| 1987 | 449 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 450 So what? |
| 451 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 1612 | 452 |
| 1987 | 453 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 454 Then avifile is better! |
| 1987 | 455 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 456 Then use avifile, it has nice GUI and nice C++ code :) |
| 457 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 458 | |
| 1987 | 459 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 460 I got this playing mpeg files: Can't find codec for video format 0x10000001! |
| 1987 | 461 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
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| 1682 | 465 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 466 | |
| 1987 | 467 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
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468 After starting mplayer under KDE(1/2) I just get a black screen and nothing |
| 1682 | 469 happens, after about one minute the video starts playing. |
| 1987 | 470 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 471 The KDE arts sound daemon is blocking the sound device, either wait the time |
| 472 until video starts or you disable the arts-daemon in kontrollcenter. | |
| 473 If you want to use arts sound, specify audio output via SDL (ao=sdl), and | |
| 474 make sure your SDL can handle arts sound. Yet another option is to start | |
| 475 mplayer with artsdsp. | |
| 476 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 477 | |
| 1987 | 478 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 479 I have an AVI that plays with grey screen with -vc odivx, and green with -vc divx4 . |
| 1987 | 480 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 481 It's not a DivX file, but an M$ MPEG4v3 . Update your codecs.conf. |
| 482 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 483 | |
| 1987 | 484 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1892 | 485 There this movie is, and when I play it I get video-audio desync and/or MPlayer crashes with the following:<BR> |
| 486 <CODE>DEMUXER: Too many (945 in 8390980 bytes) video packets in the buffer!</CODE> | |
| 1987 | 487 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1892 | 488 This can have multiple reasons.<BR> |
| 489 <LI>your CPU <B>and/or</B> video card <B>and/or</B> bus is too SLOW. <B>MPlayer</B> | |
| 490 displays a message if this is the case. (and the dropped frames counter is going up fast)</LI> | |
| 3857 | 491 <LI>if it is an AVI, maybe it has bad interleaving. Try the <I>-ni</I> option.</LI> |
| 492 <LI>your sound driver is buggy, or you use ALSA 0.5 with <I>-ao oss</I>. See the <A HREF="sound.html">soundcards section</A>.</LI> | |
| 493 <LI>the AVI has bad header, try with the <I>-nobps</I> option, and/or <I>-mc 0</I> .</LI> | |
| 1892 | 494 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 495 | |
| 2606 | 496 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 497 I have an MJPEG file which works with other players but displays only black | |
| 498 image in MPlayer. | |
| 499 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 500 Disable the Windows DLL in <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE>, or use <CODE>-vc ffmjpeg</CODE> option (you have to | |
| 501 compile MPlayer with libavcodec). | |
| 502 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 503 | |
| 3030 | 504 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 505 When I try to grab from my tuner, it works, but colors are strange. It's ok | |
| 506 with other applications. | |
| 507 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 508 Your card probably misreports its colorspace capacity. Try with YUY2 instead | |
| 509 of default YV12 (see TV input documentation). | |
| 510 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 511 | |
| 3053 | 512 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 513 When I try to start playing, I get this message, but playing is good :<BR> | |
| 514 <CODE>Linux RTC init: ioctl (rtc_pie_on): Permission denied</CODE> | |
| 515 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 516 See the <A HREF="documentation.html#1.3">Installation section</A>. The part | |
| 517 about new sync code. | |
| 518 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 519 | |
| 3162 | 520 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 521 I have A/V sync problems. Some of my AVIs play fine, but some play with | |
| 522 double speed ! | |
| 523 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 524 You have buggy soundcard/driver. Most likely it's fixed at 44100Hz, and | |
| 525 you try to play a file which has 22050Hz audio. Try the <CODE>-ao sdl</CODE> | |
| 526 driver. | |
| 527 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 528 | |
| 3192 | 529 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 530 All the WMV (or other..) files I play gives green/gray window and there is | |
| 531 only sound! It prints:<BR> | |
| 532 <CODE>Detected video codec: [null] drv:0 (NULL codec (no decoding))</CODE> | |
| 533 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 534 Update your <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE> | |
| 535 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 536 | |
| 3053 | 537 |
| 1682 | 538 <TD COLSPAN=3> |
| 1987 | 539 <B><A NAME=5.4><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.4. Video/audio driver problems (vo/ao)</A></B> |
| 1682 | 540 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 1612 | 541 |
| 542 | |
| 1987 | 543 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 544 Ok, -vo help shows DGA driver, but it is babbling about permissions! |
| 545 Help me! | |
| 1987 | 546 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 547 It works only if running as root! It's a DGA limitation. |
| 548 You should become to root (su -), and try again. | |
| 549 Another solution is making mplayer SUID root, but its NOT RECOMMENDED!<BR> | |
| 550 <CODE>chown root /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE><BR> | |
| 551 <CODE>chmod 750 /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE><BR> | |
| 552 <CODE>chmod +s /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE><BR> | |
| 553 <B>!!!! BUT STAY TUNED !!!!</B><BR> | |
| 554 This is a *BIG* security risk! *NEVER* do this on a server or on a computer | |
| 555 can be accessed by more people than only you because they can gain root | |
| 556 privilegies through suid root mplayer!!!<BR> | |
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| 1682 | 558 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 1612 | 559 |
| 1987 | 560 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 561 When using Xvideo, my Voodoo 3/Banshee says:<BR> |
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| 1682 | 563 Major opcode of failed request: 147 (MIT-SHM)<BR> |
| 564 Minor opcode of failed request: 1 (X_ShmAttach)<BR> | |
| 565 Serial number of failed request: 26<BR> | |
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| 1987 | 567 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 568 Your driver is old, update it. Either download (at least) DRI version 0.6 |
| 569 from <A HREF="http://dri.sourceforge.net">http://dri.sourceforge.net</A>, | |
| 570 or use the DRI cvs. | |
| 571 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 1612 | 572 |
| 1987 | 573 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 574 When using Xvideo, I can't play DivX avis with my Voodoo 3/Banshee! |
| 575 It says:<BR> | |
| 576 ...<BR> | |
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| 1682 | 579 ... |
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| 1682 | 581 See the previous answer. |
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| 1682 | 583 Since 0.18pre4 we support libavcodec from the ffmpeg package. It contains |
| 584 a C language DivX and OpenDivX decoder. The DivX decoder uses YV12 format | |
| 585 for output, thus it should work for you. Compile in libavcodec support. | |
| 586 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 1612 | 587 |
| 1987 | 588 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 589 OpenGL (-vo gl) output doesn't work (hangup/black window/X11 errors/...). |
| 1987 | 590 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 591 Your opengl driver doesn't support dynamic texture changes (glTexSubImage) |
| 3858 | 592 It's known not to work with nVidia's binary mess. |
| 1682 | 593 It's known to work with Utah-GLX/DRI and Matrox G400 card. Also with |
| 594 DRI and Radeon card. It won't work with DRI others than these. | |
| 595 it will not work with 3DFX cards because the 256x256 texture size limit. | |
| 596 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 1612 | 597 |
| 1987 | 598 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 599 I have an nVidia TNT/TNT2 card, and I have a band with strange colours, |
| 600 right under the movie! Whose fault is this? | |
| 1987 | 601 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1682 | 602 It's the nVidia X driver's. These bugs are ONLY with the TNT/TNT2 cards, |
| 2064 | 603 and we can't do anything about it, it's not our bug. UPDATE : it's fixed |
| 604 in newest drivers, at last.. | |
| 1682 | 605 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 1612 | 606 |
| 2065 | 607 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 608 I have an nVidia XYZ card, and when I click on the GUI's diplay window to toggle | |
| 609 displaying the GUI panel, a black square appears where I clicked. I have | |
| 610 the newest driver. | |
| 611 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 612 Yes, nvidia corrected a previous bug (above), and implemented a new one. Let's | |
| 3938 | 613 congratule them. UPDATE : according to |
| 614 <A HREF="users_against_developers.html#nvidia">NVidia</A>, this is already | |
| 615 corrected. | |
| 2065 | 616 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 617 | |
| 3343 | 618 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 619 When I use the GUI with SDL video output, a second video window is created. | |
| 620 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 621 Known, don't use SDL for GUI yet. | |
| 622 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 623 | |
| 1682 | 624 <TD COLSPAN=3> |
| 1987 | 625 <B><A NAME=5.5><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.5. Feature requests</A></B> |
| 1682 | 626 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 1612 | 627 |
| 1987 | 628 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 2153 | 629 Is there a hint on how to watch RealMedia movies in MPlayer? |
| 1987 | 630 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 2153 | 631 There's no way to do it. Therefore this format deserves to die in flames. |
| 1682 | 632 Theoretically you can reverse engineer Real codecs built for Linux (they |
| 633 are available as .so files), but in practice that's really difficult, even | |
| 634 if you know how the compiler used by Real is making assembler code. | |
| 635 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 1612 | 636 |
| 1987 | 637 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1898 | 638 When will be <your favourite video feature> (like subtitle placement) implemented? |
| 1987 | 639 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 1898 | 640 Wait for libvo2. |
| 641 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 642 | |
| 1987 | 643 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 2593 | 644 I want to play MP3 files with MPlayer ! |
| 645 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 646 This feature is not planned. There are much better players (mpg123, 3pm, xmms) | |
| 2954 | 647 for this task, use them. BTW, MPlayer stands for Movie Player. |
| 1898 | 648 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 649 | |
| 2859 | 650 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 651 I'd like to seek +/- 1 frames, instead of 10 seconds. | |
| 652 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 3857 | 653 This won't be done. It was, but then it messed up A/V sync. Feel free to |
| 2859 | 654 implement it, and send a patch. Don't ask for it. |
| 655 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 656 | |
| 3053 | 657 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 658 Where is the Windows version ? | |
| 659 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 660 It's not released, and won't be. Look around the windows scene (opensource | |
| 661 ASF parsers, opensource ASF encoders, etc) and you'll know why. We don't | |
| 662 want to go to jail. | |
| 663 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 664 | |
| 3489 | 665 |
| 666 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 667 What card you may suggest me to buy?</font></font></b></td> | |
| 668 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A0:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 669 It's for your opinion only but our issues are:</font></font> | |
| 670 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A1:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 671 Speed:</font></font> | |
| 672 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>This | |
| 673 parameter can be computed very easy:</font></font> | |
| 674 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>a)</b> | |
| 675 which movies do you plan to watch:</font></font> | |
| 676 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>- | |
| 677 MPEG1:</b> 320x200@32=256000</font></font> | |
| 678 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>so | |
| 679 you need only 256*25fps=6.4Mb/sec bandwidth (This format can be played | |
| 680 in real-time on any PC since P-100 + S3Virge)</font></font> | |
| 681 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>- | |
| 682 MPEG4:</b> 640x480@32=1228800</font></font> | |
| 683 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>you | |
| 684 need videobandwidth 1.2*25fps=30Mb/sec To watch such movie in real-time | |
| 685 you need enough power PC: (Celeron-450+DIMM based video card)</font></font> | |
| 686 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>- | |
| 687 MPEG2 (aka DVD or SDTV):</b> 1024x768@32=3145728</font></font> | |
| 688 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>you | |
| 689 need videobandwidth 3*30fps=90Mb/sec In extremal cases (if your video card | |
| 690 supports IDCT decoding) this can be played on the same PC as for MPEG4</font></font> | |
| 691 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>- | |
| 692 HDTV (HighData TeleVision):</b> 2000x2000@32=16000000</font></font> | |
| 693 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>i.e. | |
| 694 videobandwidth = 16*30fps=480Mb/sec (This means also that you need at least | |
| 695 32Mb of video memory to watch this stream: 16Mb for RGB area and 16Mb for | |
| 696 YUV area)</font></font> | |
| 697 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>b)</b> | |
| 698 Bandwidth of PCI slot is: 33Mhz*32bit=132Mb/sec And PCI2.1 has 66MHz*32bit=265Mb/sec | |
| 699 that is far enough for any movie playback (except HDTV streams which really | |
| 700 require AGP bus).</font></font> | |
| 701 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>c)</b> | |
| 702 What memory type should be installed on video card:</font></font> | |
| 703 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>SIMM</b> | |
| 704 - avoid that</font></font> | |
| 705 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>DIMM</b> | |
| 706 - good if your video card has 128-bit memory access.</font></font> | |
| 707 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>DDR</b> | |
| 708 - is far enough for all types.</font></font> | |
| 709 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>Note: | |
| 710 By DGA comparision - there is no any visible difference between video cards | |
| 711 which have installed the same type of video memory.</font></font> | |
| 712 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>Resume:</b> | |
| 713 If you have enough power CPU (Celeron-450 or K6-2-500) it would be enough | |
| 714 to buy any video card which has at least 8Mb of DIMM or DDR memory.</font></font> | |
| 715 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A2:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 716 Quality:</font></font> | |
| 717 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>This | |
| 718 question was investigated in depth at:</font></font> | |
| 719 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.anandtech.com">http://www.anadtech.com</a> | |
| 720 AnandTech - Video Card Roundup - DVD Quality, Features & Performance | |
| 721 (October 2000)</font></font> | |
| 722 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A3:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 723 WORKING features under Linux:</font></font> | |
| 724 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>If | |
| 725 you are win32 user then probably you have support (from driver and DirectX8 | |
| 726 side) for any feature which was introduced in your chip.</font></font> | |
| 727 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>But | |
| 728 for <b>linux </b>users:</font></font> | |
| 729 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>Currently | |
| 730 I know only several vendors which have more or less advanced support under | |
| 731 Linux:</font></font> | |
| 732 <br> | |
| 733 <table BORDER COLS=5 WIDTH="100%" NOSAVE > | |
| 734 <tr> | |
| 735 <td> </td> | |
| 736 | |
| 737 <td> | |
| 738 <center>Matrox</center> | |
| 739 </td> | |
| 740 | |
| 741 <td> | |
| 742 <center>ATI</center> | |
| 743 </td> | |
| 744 | |
| 745 <td> | |
| 746 <center>NVidia</center> | |
| 747 </td> | |
| 748 | |
| 749 <td> | |
| 750 <center>S4 Savage</center> | |
| 751 </td> | |
| 752 </tr> | |
| 753 | |
| 754 <tr> | |
| 755 <td>Driver's provider</td> | |
| 756 | |
| 757 <td>enthusiasts</td> | |
| 758 | |
| 759 <td>enthusiasts</td> | |
| 760 | |
| 761 <td>OEM + enthusiasts</td> | |
| 762 | |
| 763 <td>enthusiasts</td> | |
| 764 </tr> | |
| 765 | |
| 766 <tr> | |
| 767 <td>Driver's quality</td> | |
| 768 | |
| 769 <td>Best(X11,kernel)</td> | |
| 770 | |
| 771 <td>Best(X11,GATOS,kernel)</td> | |
| 772 | |
| 773 <td>Buggy(X11 only)</td> | |
| 774 | |
| 775 <td>Best(X11 only)</td> | |
| 776 </tr> | |
| 777 | |
| 778 <tr> | |
| 779 <td>VIDEO OVERLAY</td> | |
| 780 | |
| 781 <td></td> | |
| 782 | |
| 783 <td></td> | |
| 784 | |
| 785 <td></td> | |
| 786 | |
| 787 <td></td> | |
| 788 </tr> | |
| 789 | |
| 790 <tr> | |
| 791 <td>BES and YV2RGB</td> | |
| 792 | |
| 793 <td>YES</td> | |
| 794 | |
| 795 <td>YES</td> | |
| 796 | |
| 797 <td>YES</td> | |
| 798 | |
| 799 <td>YES</td> | |
| 800 </tr> | |
| 801 | |
| 802 <tr> | |
| 803 <td>scaling filters</td> | |
| 804 | |
| 805 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 806 | |
| 807 <td>YES</td> | |
| 808 | |
| 809 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 810 | |
| 811 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 812 </tr> | |
| 813 | |
| 814 <tr> | |
| 815 <td>adaptive deinterlace</td> | |
| 816 | |
| 817 <td>NO</td> | |
| 818 | |
| 819 <td>YES</td> | |
| 820 | |
| 821 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 822 | |
| 823 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 824 </tr> | |
| 825 | |
| 826 <tr> | |
| 827 <td>Video equalizer (hue, contrast, saturation, color correction)</td> | |
| 828 | |
| 829 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 830 | |
| 831 <td>PARTLY (under devel)</td> | |
| 832 | |
| 833 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 834 | |
| 835 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 836 </tr> | |
| 837 | |
| 838 <tr> | |
| 839 <td>Alpha blending, color and video keys</td> | |
| 840 | |
| 841 <td>PARTLY</td> | |
| 842 | |
| 843 <td>PARTLY (under devel)</td> | |
| 844 | |
| 845 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 846 | |
| 847 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 848 </tr> | |
| 849 | |
| 850 <tr> | |
| 851 <td>Video capture</td> | |
| 852 | |
| 853 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 854 | |
| 855 <td>YES(GATOS)</td> | |
| 856 | |
| 857 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 858 | |
| 859 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 860 </tr> | |
| 861 | |
| 862 <tr> | |
| 863 <td>TV-out</td> | |
| 864 | |
| 865 <td>YES</td> | |
| 866 | |
| 867 <td>YES</td> | |
| 868 | |
| 869 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 870 | |
| 871 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 872 </tr> | |
| 873 </table> | |
| 874 | |
| 875 <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>Well | |
| 876 - it's very rude observing of video card. Indeed we should pay our attention | |
| 877 for models of video card:</font></font> | |
| 878 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>For | |
| 879 example if MatroxG400(G450) drivers support TV-out then G550 has no such | |
| 880 support.</font></font> | |
| 881 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>Other | |
| 882 sample: Adaptive deinterlacing exists only since Rage128 chip and isn't | |
| 883 present on Mach64+ ones. Same as 3D features are far different from Mach64 | |
| 884 to Radeon2 8500 with trueform possibilities.</font></font> | |
| 885 <p><b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>ANYWAY | |
| 886 - MPLAYER'S TEAM DOESN'T ACCEPT ANY CLAIMS IF YOU AFTER</font></font></b> | |
| 887 <br><b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>READING | |
| 888 OF THIS MATERIAL WILL BUY CARD WHICH IS UNSUCCESSFUL FOR YOU!!!</font></font></b> | |
| 889 <br><b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>THIS | |
| 890 MATERIAL IS ONLY OUR VISION.</font></font></b> | |
| 891 <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>Q:</b> | |
| 892 If PCI slot is far enough for most types of movies then why S3 Virge</font></font> | |
| 893 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>is | |
| 894 too slow for them?</font></font> | |
| 895 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>A:</b> | |
| 896 Due to its SIMM memory.</font></font> | |
| 897 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 898 | |
| 3192 | 899 <TD COLSPAN=3> |
| 900 <B><A NAME=5.6><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.6. Encoding</A></B> | |
| 901 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 902 | |
| 903 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 904 How can I encode ? | |
| 905 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 906 Check <A HREF="encoding.html">this documentation</A>. | |
| 907 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 908 | |
| 3966 | 909 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 910 My tuner works, with MPlayer I can hear the sound and watch the video, but | |
| 911 MEncoder doesn't encode audio ! | |
| 912 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 913 TV audio encoding is currently unimplemented, we're working on it. | |
| 914 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 915 | |
| 916 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 917 I can't encode DVD subtitles into the AVI ! | |
| 918 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 919 It's currently unimplemented. | |
| 920 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 921 | |
| 4116 | 922 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> |
| 923 MEncoder segfaults on start ! | |
| 924 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 925 Upgrade DivX4Linux. | |
| 926 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 927 | |
| 928 | |
| 1682 | 929 </TABLE> |
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