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5 <TITLE>Documentation - MPlayer - The Movie Player for Linux</TITLE>
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12 <H1 ALIGN="center">MPlayer - The Movie Player for LINUX</H1>
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14 <H2 ALIGN="center">&copy; 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (A'rpi/ESP-team)<BR>
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15 <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu">http://www.mplayerhq.hu</A></H2>
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17 <P ALIGN="center">[ English ]
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18 <A HREF="Hungarian/documentation.html">[ Hungarian ]</A>
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19 <A HREF="German/documentation.html">[ German ]</A>
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20 <A HREF="French/documentation.html">[ French ]</A>
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21 <A HREF="Polish/documentation.html">[ Polish ]</A>
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23 <A HREF="Chinese/documentation.html">[ Chinese ]</A></P>
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31 <UL>
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32 <LI><A HREF="#reading">0. How to read this documentation</A></LI>
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33 <LI><A HREF="#introduction">1. Introduction</A>
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34 <UL>
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35 <LI><A HREF="#history">1.1 History</A></LI>
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36 <LI><A HREF="#installation">1.2 Installation</A></LI>
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37 <LI><A HREF="#gui">1.3 What about the GUI?</A></LI>
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38 <LI><A HREF="#subtitles_osd">1.4 Subtitles and OSD</A>
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39 <UL>
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40 <LI><A HREF="#mpsub">1.4.1 MPlayer's own subtitle format (MPsub)</A></LI>
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41 <LI><A HREF="#install_osd">1.4.2 Installing OSD and subtitles</A></LI>
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42 <LI><A HREF="#menu">1.4.3 OSD Menu</A></LI>
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45 <LI><A HREF="#rtc">1.5 RTC</A></LI>
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48 <LI><A HREF="#features">2. Features</A>
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49 <UL>
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50 <LI><A HREF="formats.html">2.1 Supported formats</A>
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52 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#video_formats">2.1.1 Video formats</A>
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54 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#mpeg">2.1.1.1 MPEG files</A></LI>
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56 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#asf">2.1.1.3 ASF/WMV files</A></LI>
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57 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#mov">2.1.1.4 QuickTime/MOV files</A></LI>
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58 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#vivo">2.1.1.5 VIVO files</A></LI>
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59 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#fli">2.1.1.6 FLI files</A></LI>
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60 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#real">2.1.1.7 RealMedia (RM) files</A></LI>
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61 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#nuppelvideo">2.1.1.8 NuppelVideo files</A></LI>
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62 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#yuv4mpeg">2.1.1.9 yuv4mpeg files</A></LI>
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63 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#film">2.1.1.10 FILM files</A></LI>
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65 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#ogg">2.1.1.12 OGG/OGM files</A></LI>
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67 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#pva">2.1.1.14 PVA files</A></LI>
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70 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#audio_formats">2.1.2 Audio formats</A>
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72 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#mp3">2.1.2.1 MP3 files</A></LI>
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73 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#wav">2.1.2.2 WAV files</A></LI>
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77 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#cdda">2.1.2.6 CD audio</A></LI>
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82 <LI><A HREF="codecs.html">2.2 Supported codecs</A>
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84 <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#video_codecs">2.2.1 Video codecs</A>
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86 <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#divx">2.2.1.1 DivX4/DivX5</A></LI>
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87 <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#libavcodec">2.2.1.2 FFmpeg DivX/libavcodec</A></LI>
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88 <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#xanim">2.2.1.3 XAnim codecs</A></LI>
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89 <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#vivo_video">2.2.1.4 VIVO video</A></LI>
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90 <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#mpeg">2.2.1.5 MPEG 1/2 video</A></LI>
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91 <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#ms_video1">2.2.1.6 MS Video1</A></LI>
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92 <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#cinepak">2.2.1.7 Cinepak CVID</A></LI>
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93 <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#realvideo">2.2.1.8 RealVideo</A></LI>
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95 <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#sorenson">2.2.1.10 Sorenson</A></LI>
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101 <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#hardware_ac3">2.2.2.2 Hardware AC3 decoding</A></LI>
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103 <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#vivo_audio">2.2.2.4 VIVO audio</A></LI>
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104 <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#realaudio">2.2.2.5 RealAudio</A></LI>
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105 <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#qdesign">2.2.2.6 QDesign codecs</A></LI>
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106 <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#qclp">2.2.2.7 Qualcomm codec</A></LI>
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109 <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#importing">2.2.3 Win32 codec importing HOWTO</A>
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112 <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#importing_directshow">2.2.3.2 DirectShow codecs</A></LI>
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119 <LI><A HREF="video.html">2.3.1 Video output devices</A>
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121 <LI><A HREF="video.html#mtrr">2.3.1.1 Setting up MTRR</A></LI>
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122 <LI><A HREF="video.html#normal">2.3.1.2 Video outputs for traditional video cards</A>
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124 <LI><A HREF="video.html#xv">2.3.1.2.1 Xv</A>
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129 <LI><A HREF="video.html#xv_ati">2.3.1.2.1.4 ATI cards</A></LI>
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131 <LI><A HREF="video.html#xv_trident">2.3.1.2.1.6 Trident cards</A></LI>
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134 <LI><A HREF="video.html#dga">2.3.1.2.2 DGA</A>
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135 <UL>
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136 <LI><A HREF="video.html#dga_summary">2.3.1.2.2.1 Summary</A></LI>
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137 <LI><A HREF="video.html#dga_whatis">2.3.1.2.2.2 What is DGA</A></LI>
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237 <LI><A HREF="#controls_configuration">3.2.1 Controls configuration</A>
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247 <LI><A HREF="#streaming">3.3 Streaming from network or pipes</A></LI>
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262 <LI><A HREF="faq.html#driver">5.4 Video/audio driver problems (vo/ao)</A></LI>
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265 <LI><A HREF="faq.html#encoding">5.7 Encoding</A></LI>
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280 <LI><A HREF="#qnx">6.6 QNX</A></LI>
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281 <LI><A HREF="#cygwin">6.7 Cygwin</A></LI>
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282 </UL>
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283 </LI>
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284 <LI><A HREF="#mailing_lists">Appendix A - Mailing lists</A></LI>
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285 <LI><A HREF="bugreports.html">Appendix B - How to report bugs</A>
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286 <UL>
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287 <LI><A HREF="tech/patches.txt">Appendix B2 - How to send patches</A></LI>
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288 </UL>
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289 </LI>
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290 <LI><A HREF="#known_bugs">Appendix C - Known bugs</A></LI>
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291 <LI><A HREF="skin-en.html">Appendix D - MPlayer skin format</A></LI>
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292 <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html">Appendix E - Developer Cries</A>
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293 <UL>
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294 <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#gcc">GCC 2.96</A></LI>
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295 <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#binary">Binary distribution</A></LI>
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296 <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#nvidia">nVidia</A></LI>
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297 <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#barr">Joe Barr</A></LI>
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298 </UL>
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299 </LI>
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300 </UL>
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302 <HR>
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306 <H1><A NAME="reading">0. How to read this documentation</A></H1>
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307
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308 <P>If you are a first-time installer: be sure to read everything from here to
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309 the end of the Installation section, and follow the links you will find. If
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310 you have any other questions, return to the Table of Contents and
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311 search for the topic, read the <A HREF="faq.html">FAQ</A>, or try grepping
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312 through the files.</P>
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314 <P>The main rule of this documentation: if it's not documented, it
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315 <U>does not exist</U>. If I don't say you encode audio from TV tuner, you
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316 can't. A healthy quantity of combining ability is welcomed, though.
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317 Good luck. You'll need it :) And for another good advice, let me quote
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318 Chris Phillips from the
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319 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/">mplayer-users</A>
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320 mailing list:</P>
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321
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322 <BLOCKQUOTE>
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323 I said a while ago that there is such a difference between a newbie and
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324 a dumbass. No matter what you actually know about a system (linux, cars,
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325 girls :D) you should ALWAYS be able to take a step back and be objective,
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326 otherwise, you're just dumb IMHO. A girl i live with assumed the vacuum
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327 cleaner was broken because it didn't suck things up. never thought to change
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328 the bag, becasue she'd never done it before... now that's just stupid, not a
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329 case of simply not knowing what to do... Simply not being that familiar with
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330 your surroundings is no excuse for a) laziness and b) ignorance. So many
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331 people seem to see the word "error" and then stop... few seem to actually
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332 read the words on the OTHER side of the colon.
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333 </BLOCKQUOTE>
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335
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336
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337 <H1><A NAME="introduction">1. Introduction</A></H1>
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338
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339
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340 <P>MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices, and
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341 <B>non-x86</B> CPUs, see the <A HREF="#ports">ports section</A>). It plays most
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342 MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg,
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343 FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and
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344 Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch <B>VideoCD</B>, <B>SVCD</B>, <B>DVD</B>,
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345 <B>3ivx</B>, <B>RealMedia</B>, and <B>DivX</B> movies too (and you don't need
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346 the avifile
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347 library at all!). Another big feature of MPlayer is the wide range of
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348 supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev,
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349 AAlib, DirectFB, but you can also use GGI and SDL (and this way all their
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350 drivers) and some lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon,
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351 Mach64, Permedia3) too! Most
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352 of them supports software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in
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353 fullscreen. MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG
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354 decoder boards, such as the <B><A HREF="video.html#dvb">DVB</A></B> and
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355 <B><A HREF="video.html#dxr3">DXR3/Hollywood+</A></B>. And what about the nice big antialiased
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356 shaded subtitles (<B>10 supported types</B>) with European/ISO 8859-1,2
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357 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic, Korean fonts, and the onscreen
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358 display (OSD)?</P>
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360 <P>The player is rock solid playing damaged MPEG files (useful for some VCDs),
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361 and it plays bad AVI files which are unplayable with the famous
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362 windows media player. Even AVI files without index chunk are playable, and
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363 you can temporarily rebuild their indexes with the <CODE>-idx</CODE> option, or
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364 permanently with MEncoder, thus enabling seeking!
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365 As you see, stability and quality are the most important things,
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366 but the speed is also amazing.</P>
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368 <P>MEncoder (MPlayer's Movie Encoder) is a simple movie encoder,
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369 designed to encode MPlayer-playable movies
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370 (<B>AVI/ASF/OGG/DVD/VCD/VOB/MPG/MOV/VIV/FLI/RM/NUV/NET/PVA</B>) to other
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371 MPlayer-playable formats (see below). It can encode with various codecs, like
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372 <B>DivX4</B> (1 or 2 passes), libavcodec,
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373 <B>PCM</B>/<B>MP3</B>/<B>VBR MP3</B> audio. Also has powerful plugin system
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374 for video manipulation.</P>
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375
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376 <H4>MEncoder features</H4>
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377
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378 <UL>
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379 <LI>encoding from the wide range of fileformats and decoders of MPlayer</LI>
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380 <LI>encoding to all the codecs of ffmpeg's
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381 <A HREF="codecs.html#libavcodec">libavcodec</A></LI>
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382 <LI>video encoding from <B>V4L compatible TV tuners</B></LI>
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383 <LI>encoding/multiplexing to interleaved AVI files with proper index</LI>
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384 <LI>creating files from external audio stream</LI>
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385 <LI>1, 2 or 3 pass encoding</LI>
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386 <LI><B>VBR</B> MP3 audio - <B>IMPORTANT NOTE:</B> VBR MP3 audio doesn't
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387 always play nicely on Windows players! On the other hand, currently
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388 MEncoder's CBR encoding is totally broken on Win32 players :)</LI>
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389 <LI>PCM audio</LI>
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390 <LI>stream copying</LI>
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391 <LI>input A/V synchronizing (PTS-based, can be disabled with -mc 0 option)</LI>
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392 <LI>FPS correction with <CODE>-ofps</CODE> option (useful when encoding
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393 29.97fps VOB to 24fps AVI)</LI>
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394 <LI>using our very powerful plugin system (crop, expand, flip, postprocess,
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395 rotate, scale, rgb/yuv conversion)</LI>
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396 <LI>can encode DVD/VOBsub <B>AND</B> text subtitles into the output file</LI>
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397 <LI>can rip DVD subtitles to Vobsub format</LI>
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398 </UL>
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399
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400 <H4>Planned features</H4>
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401
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402 <UL>
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403 <LI>even wider variety of available en/decoding formats/codecs
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404 (creating VOB files with DivX4/Indeo5/VIVO streams :)</LI>
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405 <LI>audio encoding from v4l (DONE for FreeBSD ?)</LI>
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406 </UL>
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407
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408 <P>MPlayer and MEncoder can be distributed under the terms of the GNU General
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409 Public License Version 2.</P>
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410
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412 <H2><A NAME="history">1.1 History</A></H2>
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414 <P>This began a year ago...
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415 I (A'rpi) have tried lots of players under linux (mtv,xmps,dvdview,livid/oms,videolan,
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416 xine,xanim,avifile,xmmp) but they all have some problem. Mostly with special
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417 files or with audio/video sync. Most of them is unable to play both MPEG1,
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418 MPEG2 and AVI (DivX) files. Many players have image quality or speed problems
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419 too. So I've decided to write/modify one...</P>
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421 <UL>
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422 <LI><B>mpg12play v0.1-v0.3:</B> Sep 22-25, 2000<BR>
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423 The first try, hacked together in a half hour!
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424 I've used libmpeg3 from www.heroinewarrior.com up to the version 0.3,
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425 but there were image quality and speed problems with it.</LI>
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426 <LI><B>mpg12play v0.5-v0.87:</B> Sep 28-Oct 20, 2000<BR>
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427 Mpeg codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was a great stuff,
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428 but it was slow and was written in C++ (I hate C++!!!)</LI>
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429 <LI><B>mpg12play v0.9-v0.95pre5:</B> Oct 21-Nov 2, 2000<BR>
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430 Mpeg codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman &amp; Michel Lespinasse.
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431 It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect image quality and
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432 100% MPEG standard conformance.</LI>
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433 <LI><B>MPlayer v0.01:</B> Nov 11, 2000<BR>
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434 The first MPlayer.</LI>
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435 <LI><B>MPlayer v0.3-v0.9:</B> Nov 18-Dec 4, 2000<BR>
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436 It was a pack of two programs: mpg12play v0.95pre6 and my new simple AVI
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437 player 'avip' based on avifile's Win32 DLL loader.</LI>
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438 <LI><B>MPlayer v0.10:</B> Jan 1, 2001<BR>
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439 The MPEG and AVI player in a single binary!</LI>
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440 <LI><B>MPlayer v0.11pre series:</B><BR>
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441 Some new developers joined and from 0.11 the mplayer project is a team-work!
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442 Added .ASF file support, and OpenDivX (see www.projectmayo.com) en/decoding.</LI>
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443 <LI><B>MPlayer v0.17a "The IdegCounter"</B> Apr 27, 2001<BR>
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444 The release version of the 0.11pre after 4 months of heavy development!
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445 Try it, and be amazed! Thousands of new features added... and of course
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446 old code was improved too, bugs removed etc.</LI>
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447 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.18 "The BugCounter"</B> Jul 9, 2001<BR>
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448 2 months since 0.17 and here's a new release.. Completed ASF support,
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449 more subtitle formats, introduced libao (similar to libvo but to audio),
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450 even more stable than ever, and so on. It's a MUST!</LI>
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451 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.50 "The Faszom(C)ounter"</B> Oct 8, 2001<BR>
2002
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452 Hmm. Release again. Tons of new features, beta GUI version, bugs fixed,
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453 new vo and ao drivers, ported to many systems, including opensource DivX
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454 codecs and much more. Try it!</LI>
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455 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.60 "The RTFMCounter"</B> Jan 3, 2002<BR>
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456 MOV/VIVO/RM/FLI/NUV fileformats support, native CRAM, Cinepak, ADPCM codecs,
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457 and support for XAnim's binary codecs; DVD subtitles support, first
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458 release of MEncoder, TV grabbing, cache, liba52, countless fixes.</LI>
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459 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.90pre10 "The BirthdayCounter"</B> Nov 11, 2002<BR>
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460 Although this is not a release, I am going to mention it because it
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461 came out 2 years after MPlayer v0.01. Happy birthday, MPlayer!</LI>
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462 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.90rc1 "The CodecCounter"</B> Dez 7, 2002<BR>
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463 Again not a release, but after adding Sorenson 3 (QuickTime) and Windows
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464 Media 9 support, MPlayer is the world's first movie player with support
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465 for all known video formats!</LI>
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466 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.90 "?"</B> Date yet unknown</LI>
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467 </UL>
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468
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469
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470 <H2><A NAME="installation">1.2 Installation</A></H2>
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471
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472 <P>In this chapter I'll try to guide you through the compiling and
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473 configuring process of MPlayer. It's not easy, but it won't necessarily
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474 be hard. If you experience a different behavior than what I explain, please
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475 search through this documentation and you'll find your answers. If you
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476 see links, please follow them and read carefully what they contain. It
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477 will take some time, but it DOES worth it.</P>
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478
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479 <P>You need a fairly recent system. On Linux, 2.4.x kernels are recommended.</P>
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480
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481 <H4>Software requirements:</H4>
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482
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483 <UL>
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484 <LI><B>binutils</B> - suggested version is <B>2.11.x</B> . This program is
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485 responsible for generating MMX/3DNow!/etc instructions, thus very important.</LI>
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486 <LI><B>gcc</B> - suggested versions are: <B>2.95.3</B>, <B>2.95.4</B> and <B>3.1</B>.
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487 <B>NEVER</B> use 2.96 or 3.0.x! They generate faulty code for MPlayer.
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488 If you decide to change gcc from 2.96, then don't decide in favor of 3.0.x
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489 just because it's newer! Early releases of 3.0.x were even more buggy than
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490 2.96. So downgrade to 2.95.x (downgrade libstdc++ too, other programs may
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491 need it) or don't up/downgrade at all (but in this case, be prepared for
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492 runtime problems). If you vote for 3.x.x, try to use the latest version,
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493 early releases had various bugs, so be sure you use at least 3.1, it's
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494 tested and working. For detailed information about gcc 2.96's bugs (that are
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495 still NOT fixed, they have been WORKED AROUND in MPlayer!), see the
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496 <A HREF="users_against_developers.html#gcc">gcc 2.96</A> section and the
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497 <A HREF="faq.html">FAQ</A>.</LI>
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498 <LI><B>XFree86</B> - suggested version is <B>always the newest (4.2.1)</B>.
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499 Normally, everyone wants this, as starting with XFree86 4.0.2, it contains
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500 the <A HREF="video.html#xv">XVideo</A> extension (somewhere referred to
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501 as <B>Xv</B>) which is needed to enable the hardware YUV acceleration (fast
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502 image display) on cards that support it.<BR>
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503 Make sure its <B>development package</B> is installed, too, otherwise
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504 it won't work.<BR>
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505 For some video cards you don't need XFree86. See list below.</LI>
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506 <LI><B>make</B> - suggested version is <B>always the newest</B> (at least 3.79.x). This
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507 usually isn't important.</LI>
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508 <LI><B>SDL</B> - it's not mandatory, but can help in some cases (bad audio,
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509 video cards that lag strangely with the xv driver). Always use the newest
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510 (beginning from 1.2.x).</LI>
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511 <LI><B>libjpeg</B> - optional JPEG decoder, used by -mf and some QT MOV files.
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512 Useful for both MPlayer and MEncoder if you plan to work with jpeg files.</LI>
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513 <LI><B>libpng</B> - recommended and default (M)PNG decoder. Required for GUI.
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514 Useful for both MPlayer and MEncoder.</LI>
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515 <LI><B>lame</B> - recommended, needed for encoding MP3 audio with MEncoder,
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516 suggested version is <B>always the newest</B> (at least 3.90).</LI>
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517 <LI><B>libogg</B> - optional, needed for playing OGG file format.</LI>
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518 <LI><B>libvorbis</B> - optional, needed for playing OGG Vorbis audio.</LI>
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519 <LI><B><A HREF="http://www.live.com/mplayer/">LIVE.COM Streaming Media</A></B>
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520 - optional, needed for playing RTSP/RTP streams.</LI>
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521 <LI><B>directfb</B> - optional, from
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522 <A HREF="http://www.directfb.org">http://www.directfb.org</A></LI>
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523 <LI><B>cdparanoia</B> - optional, for CDDA support</LI>
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524 <LI><B>libfreetype</B> - optional, for TTF fonts support. At least 2.0.9 is
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525 required.</LI>
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526 </UL>
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527
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528 <H4>Codecs:</H4>
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529
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530 <UL>
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531 <LI><B>libavcodec</B>: This codec package is capable of decoding
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532 H263/MJPEG/RV10/DivX3/DivX4/DivX5/MP41/MP42/WMV1 encoded video streams and
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533 WMA (Windows Media Audio) v1/v2 audio streams, on
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534 multiple platforms. It is also known to be the fastest for this task.
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535 See the <A HREF="codecs.html#libavcodec">libavcodec</A> section for details.
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536 Features:<BR>
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537 <UL>
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538 <LI>gain decoding of videos mentioned above, on non-x86 machines</LI>
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539 <LI>encoding with most of the mentioned codecs</LI>
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540 <LI>this codec is the <B>fastest codec available</B> for DivX/3/4/5 and
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541 other MPEG4 types. Recommended!</LI>
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542 </UL>
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543 </LI>
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544 <LI><B>Win32 codecs</B>: If you plan to use MPlayer on x86
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545 architecture, you will possibly need them. Download and unzip w32codecs.zip
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546 to /usr/lib/win32 <B>BEFORE</B> compiling MPlayer, otherwise no Win32
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547 support will be compiled!<BR>
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548 <B>Note:</B> the avifile project has a similar codecs package, but it differs
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549 from ours. If you want to use all supported codecs, then install our package
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550 (do not worry, avifile works with it without problems). Features:<BR>
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551 <UL>
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552 <LI>you need this if you want to play or encode for example movies recorded
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553 with various hardware compressors, like tuner cards, digital cameras
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554 (example: DV, ATI VCR, MJPEG)</LI>
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555 <LI>needed if you want to play <B>WMV8, WMV9/WMA9 movies</B>.</LI>
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556 <LI>Not needed for old
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557 ASF's with MP41 or MP42 video (though VoxWare audio is frequent for these
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558 files - it's done by the Win32 codec), or WMV7. Also not needed
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559 for WMA (Windows Media Audio), libavcodec has opensource decoder
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560 for that.</LI>
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561 </UL>
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562 </LI>
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563 <LI><B>QuickTime codecs</B>: on x86 platforms these codecs can be used
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564 to decode Sorenson v1/v3, RPZA, and other QuickTime video, and
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565 QDesign audio streams. Installation instructions can be found in the
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566 <A HREF="codecs.html#sorenson">Sorenson video codec</A> section.</LI>
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567 <LI><B>DivX4/DivX5</B>: information about this codec is available in the
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568 <A HREF="codecs.html#divx">DivX4/DivX5</A> section. You possibly don't want
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569 this codec as <B>libavcodec</B> (see above) is much faster and has better
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570 quality than this, for both decoding and encoding.<BR>
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571 Features:
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572 <UL>
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573 <LI>1 pass or 2 pass encoding with
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574 <A HREF="encoding.html">MEncoder</A></LI>
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575 <LI>can play old <B>DivX3</B> movies much faster than the Win32 DLL but
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576 slower than <B>libavcodec</B>!</LI>
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577 <LI>it's closed-source, and only an x86 version is available.</LI>
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578 </UL>
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579 </LI>
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580 <LI><B>XviD</B>: Open source encoding alternative to Divx4Linux<BR>
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581 Features:
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582 <UL>
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583 <LI>1 pass or 2 pass encoding with
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584 <A HREF="encoding.html">MEncoder</A></LI>
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585 <LI>it's open-source, so it's multiplatform.</LI>
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586 <LI>it's about 2 times faster than DivX4 when encoding - about the same
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587 quality</LI>
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588 </UL>
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589 </LI>
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590 <LI>The <A HREF="codecs.html#xanim">XAnim codecs</A> are the best (full
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591 screen, hardware YUV zoom) for decoding <B>3ivx</B> and Indeo 3/4/5 movies,
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592 and some old formats. And they are multiplatform, so this is the only way to
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593 play Indeo on non-x86 platforms (well, apart from using XAnim:). But for
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594 example Cinepak movies are best played with MPlayer's own Cinepak
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595 decoder!</LI>
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596 <LI>For <B>Ogg Vorbis</B> audio decoding you need to install
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597 <CODE>libvorbis</CODE> properly. Use deb/rpm packages if available, or
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598 compile from
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599 <A HREF="http://ogg.org/ogg/vorbis/download/vorbis_nightly_cvs.tgz">source</A>
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600 (this is a nightly updated tarball of Vorbis CVS).</LI>
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601 <LI>MPlayer can use the libraries of RealPlayer 8 or RealONE to play
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602 files with <B>RealVideo 2.0 - 4.0</B> video, and Sipro/Cook audio. See
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603 <A HREF="formats.html#real">RealMedia file format</A> section for
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604 installation instructions and more information.</LI>
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605 </UL>
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606
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607 <H4>Video Cards</H4>
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608
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609 <P>There are generally two kind of video cards. One kind (the newer cards) has
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610 <B>hardware scaling and YUV acceleration</B> support, the other cards don't.</P>
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611
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612 <H4>YUV cards</H4>
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613
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614 <P>They can display and scale (zoom) the picture to any size that fits in
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615 their memory, with <B>small CPU usage</B> (even when zooming), thus
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616 fullscreen playing is nice and very fast.</P>
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617
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618 <UL>
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619 <LI><B>Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 cards</B>: although a
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620 <A HREF="video.html#vidix">Vidix driver</A> is provided, it is recommended
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621 to use the mga_vid kernel module instead, for it works much better.
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622 Please see the <A HREF="video.html#mga_vid">mga_vid</A> section about its
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623 installation and usage. It is important to do these steps <I>before</I>
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624 compiling MPlayer, otherwise no mga_vid support will be built. Also
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625 check out the <A HREF="video.html#tv-out_matrox">Matrox TV-out</A> section.
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626 <U><B>If you don't use Linux</B></U>, your only possibility is the VIDIX
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627 driver: read the <A HREF="video.html#vidix">VIDIX</A> section.</LI>
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628 <LI><B>3Dfx Voodoo3/Banshee cards</B>: please see the
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629 <A HREF="video.html#tdfxfb">tdfxfb</A> section in order to gain big
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630 speedup. It is important to do these steps <B>before</B> compiling
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631 MPlayer, otherwise no 3Dfx support will be built. Also see the <A
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632 HREF="video.html#tv-out_voodoo">3dfx TV-out section</A>. If you use X, use
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633 <B>at least 4.2.0</B>, as the 3dfx Xv driver was broken in 4.1.0 and earlier
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634 releases.</LI>
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635 <LI><B>ATI cards</B>: <A HREF="video.html#vidix">Vidix driver</A> is
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636 provided for the following cards:
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637 <B>Radeon</B>, <B>Rage128</B>, <B>Mach64</B> (Rage XL/Mobility, Xpert98).
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638 Also see the <A HREF="video.html#tv-out_ati">ATI cards
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639 section</A> of the TV-out documentation, to know if you card's TV-out is
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640 supported under Linux/MPlayer.</LI>
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641 <LI><B>S3 cards</B>: the Savage and Virge/DX chips have hardware acceleration.
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642 Use as new XFree86 version as possible, older drivers are buggy. Savage chips
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643 have problems with YV12 display, see <A HREF="video.html#xv_s3">S3 Xv
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644 section</A> for details. Older, Trio cards have no, or slow hardware
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645 support.</LI>
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646 <LI><B>nVidia cards</B>: may or may not be good choice for video playing.
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647 If you do not have a GeForce2 (or newer) card, it's not likely to work
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648 without bugs.
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649 <B>The built-in nVidia driver in XFree86 does not support hardware YUV
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650 acceleration on all nVidia cards.</B> You have to download nVidia's
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651 closed-source drivers from nVidia.com. See the
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652 <A HREF="video.html#xv_nvidia">nVidia Xv driver</A> section for
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653 details. Please also check the <A HREF="video.html#tv-out_nvidia">nVidia
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654 TV-out section</A> if you wish to use a TV.</LI>
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655 <LI><B>3DLabs GLINT R3 and Permedia3</B>: a VIDIX driver is provided
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656 (pm3_vid). Please see the <A HREF="video.html#vidix">VIDIX</A> section for
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657 details.</LI>
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658 <LI><B>Other cards</B>: None of the above?
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659 <UL>
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660 <LI>Try if the XFree86 driver (and your card) supports hardware
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661 acceleration. See the <A HREF="video.html#xv">Xv section</A> for
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662 details.</LI>
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663 <LI>If it doesn't, then your card's video features aren't supported under
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664 your operating system :(<BR>
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665 If hardware scaling works under Windows, it doesn't mean it will work
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666 under Linux or other operating systems: it depends on the drivers. Most
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667 manufacturers neither make Linux drivers nor release specifications
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668 for their chips, so you are unlucky using their cards.
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669 See 'Non-YUV cards'.</LI>
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670 </UL>
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671 </LI>
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672 </UL>
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673
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674 <H4>Non-YUV cards</H4>
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675
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676 <P>Fullscreen playing can be achieved by either enabling <B>software scaling</B>
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677 (use the <CODE>-zoom</CODE> or <CODE>-vop scale</CODE>
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678 option, but I warn you: this is slow), or switching to a small resolution
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679 video mode, for example 352x288. If you don't have YUV acceleration, the
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680 latter method is recommended. Video mode switching can be enabled by
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681 using the <CODE>-vm</CODE> option and it works with the following drivers:</P>
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682
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683 <UL>
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684 <LI><B>using</B> XFree86: see the
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685 <A HREF="video.html#dga">DGA driver</A> and
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686 <A HREF="video.html#x11">X11 driver</A> sections for details. DGA is
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687 recommended! Also try DGA via SDL, sometimes it's better.</LI>
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688 <LI><B>not using</B> XFree86: try the drivers in the following order:
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689 <A HREF="video.html#vesa">vesa</A>,
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690 <A HREF="video.html#fbdev">fbdev</A>,
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691 <A HREF="video.html#svgalib">svgalib</A>,
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692 <A HREF="video.html#aalib">aalib</A>.</LI>
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693 </UL>
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694
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695 <H4>Some cards:</H4>
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696
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697 <UL>
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698 <LI><B>Cirrus Logic cards</B>:
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699 <UL>
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700 <LI>GD 7548: present on-board and tested in Compaq Armada 41xx notebook
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701 series.
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702 <UL>
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703 <LI>XFree86 3: works in 8/16bpp modes. However, the driver is
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704 dramatically slow and buggy in 800x600@16bpp.
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705 <B>Recommended: 640x480@16bpp</B></LI>
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706 <LI>XFree86 4: the Xserver freezes soon after start unless
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707 acceleration is disabled, but then the whole thing gets
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708 slower than XFree86 3. No XVideo.</LI>
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709 <LI>FBdev: framebuffer can be turned on with the <CODE>clgenfb</CODE>
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710 driver in the kernel, though for me it worked only in 8bpp, thus
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711 unusable. The clgenfb source had to be extended with the 7548 ID
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712 before compilation.</LI>
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713 <LI>VESA: the card is only VBE 1.2 capable, so VESA output can't be
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714 used. Can't be workarounded with UniVBE.</LI>
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715 <LI>SVGAlib: detects an older Cirrus chip. Usable but slow with
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716 <CODE>-bpp 8</CODE>.</LI>
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717 </UL>
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718 </LI>
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719 </UL>
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720 </LI>
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721 </UL>
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722
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723
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724 <H4>Sound cards:</H4>
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725
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726 <UL>
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727 <LI><B>Soundblaster Live!</B>: with this card you can use 4 or 6 (<B>5.1</B>)
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728 channels AC3 decoding instead of 2. Read the
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729 <A HREF="codecs.html#software_ac3">Software AC3 decoding</A> section.
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730 For hardware AC3 passthrough you <B>must</B> use ALSA 0.9 with OSS emulation!</LI>
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731 <LI><B>C-Media with SP/DIF out</B>: hardware AC3 passthrough is possible
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732 with these cards, see
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733 <A HREF="codecs.html#hardware_ac3">Hardware AC3 decoding</A> section.</LI>
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734 <LI>Features of <B>other cards</B> aren't supported by MPlayer.
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735 <U>It's very recommended to read the <A HREF="sound.html">sound card
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736 section</A>!</U></LI>
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737 </UL>
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738
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739 <H4>Features:</H4>
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740
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741 <UL>
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742 <LI>Decide if you need GUI. If you do, see the <A HREF="#gui">GUI section</A>
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743 before compiling.</LI>
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744 <LI>If you want to install MEncoder (our great all-purpose encoder),
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745 see the <A HREF="encoding.html">MEncoder section</A>.</LI>
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746 <LI>If you have a V4L compatible <B>TV tuner</B> card, and wish to watch/grab
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747 and encode movies with MPlayer, read the <A HREF="#tv">TV input</A>
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748 section.</LI>
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749 <LI>There is a neat <B>OSD Menu</B> support ready to be used. Check the
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750 <A HREF="#menu">OSD Menu</A> section.</LI>
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751 </UL>
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752
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753 <P>Then build MPlayer:</P>
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754
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755 <PRE>
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756 ./configure
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757 make
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758 make install
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759 </PRE>
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760
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761 <P>At this point, MPlayer is ready to use. The directory
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762 <CODE>$PREFIX/etc/mplayer</CODE> contains the <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE>
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763 file, which is used to tell the program all the codecs and their
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764 capabilities. This file should always be kept up to date together with the
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765 main binary.<BR>
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766 Check if you have <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE> in your home directory
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767 (<CODE>~/.mplayer/codecs.conf</CODE>) left from old MPlayer versions, and remove it.</P>
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768
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769 <P><B>Debian users</B> can build a <CODE>.deb</CODE> package for themselves,
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770 it's very simple. Just exec <CODE>fakeroot debian/rules binary</CODE> in
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771 MPlayer's root directory. See
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772 <A HREF="documentation.html#debian">Debian packaging</A> for detailed
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773 instructions.</P>
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774
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775 <P><B>Always browse the output of <CODE>./configure</CODE></B>, and the
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776 <CODE>configure.log</CODE> file, they contain information about what will be
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777 built, and what will not. You may also want to view <CODE>config.h</CODE> and
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778 <CODE>config.mak</CODE> files.<BR>
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779 If you have some libraries installed, but not detected by
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780 <CODE>./configure</CODE>, then check if you also have the proper header files
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781 (usually the -dev packages) and their version matches. The
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782 <CODE>configure.log</CODE> file usually tells you what is missing.</P>
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783
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784 <P>Though not mandatory, the fonts should be installed in order to gain OSD,
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785 and subtitle functionality. The recommended method is installing a TTF
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786 font file and telling MPlayer to use it. See the
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787 <A HREF="#install_osd">Subtitles and OSD</A> section for details.</P>
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788
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789
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790
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791 <H2><A NAME="gui">1.3 What about the GUI?</A></H2>
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792
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793 <P>The GUI needs GTK (it isn't GTK, but the panels are). The skins are stored
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794 in PNG format, so gtk, libpng (and their devel stuff) has to be installed.
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795 You can build it by specifying <CODE>--enable-gui</CODE> during
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796 <CODE>./configure</CODE>. Then, to turn on GUI mode, you either</P>
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797 <UL>
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798 <LI>specify <CODE>gui=yes</CODE> in your config file</LI>
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799 <LI><CODE>ln -s $PREFIX/bin/mplayer $PREFIX/bin/gmplayer</CODE> ,
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800 and call <CODE>gmplayer</CODE> instead.</LI>
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801 </UL>
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802
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803 <P>Currently you can't use the <CODE>-gui</CODE> option on the command line,
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804 due to technical reasons.</P>
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805
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806 <P>As MPlayer doesn't have a skin included, you have to download them if
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807 you want to use the GUI. See the
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808 <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html">download page</A>.
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809 They should be extracted to the usual system-wide directory
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810 (<CODE>$PREFIX/share/mplayer/Skin</CODE>), or to
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811 <CODE>$HOME/.mplayer/Skin</CODE>. MPlayer by default looks in these
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812 directories for a directory named <I>default</I>, but you can use the
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813 <CODE>-skin newskin</CODE> option, or the <CODE>skin=newskin</CODE> config
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814 file directive to use the skin in <CODE>*/Skin/newskin</CODE> directory.</P>
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815
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816
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817 <H2><A NAME="subtitles_osd">1.4 Subtitles and OSD</A></H2>
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818
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819 <P>
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820 MPlayer can display subtitles along with movie files. Currently the following
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821 formats are supported:</P>
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822 <UL>
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823 <LI>VobSub</LI>
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824 <LI>Microdvd</LI>
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825 <LI>SubRip</LI>
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826 <LI>SubViewer</LI>
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827 <LI>Sami</LI>
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828 <LI>VPlayer</LI>
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829 <LI>RT</LI>
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830 <LI>SSA</LI>
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831 <LI>MPsub</LI>
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832 <LI>AQTitle</LI>
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833 <LI>JACOsub</LI>
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834 </UL>
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835
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836 <P>MPlayer can dump the previously listed subtitle formats into the following
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837 destination formats, with the given options:</P>
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838
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839 <UL>
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840 <LI>MPsub: <CODE>-dumpmpsub</CODE></LI>
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841 <LI>SubRip: <CODE>-dumpsrtsub</CODE></LI>
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842 <LI>Microdvd: <CODE>-dumpmicrodvdsub</CODE></LI>
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843 <LI>JACOsub: <CODE>-dumpjacosub</CODE></LI>
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844 <LI>Sami: <CODE>-dumpsami</CODE></LI>
8177
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845 </UL>
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846
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847 <P>The command line options differ slightly for the different formats:</P>
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848
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849 <H4>VobSub subtitles</H4>
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850
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851 <P>VobSub subtitles consist of a big (some megabytes) .SUB file, and optional
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852 .IDX and/or .IFO files.<BR>
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853 Usage: If you have files like <CODE>sample.sub</CODE>,
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854 <CODE>sample.ifo</CODE>(optional), <CODE>sample.idx</CODE> - you have to pass
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855 MPlayer the <CODE>-vobsub sample [-vobsubid &lt;id&gt;]</CODE> options (full
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856 path optional). The <CODE>-vobsubid</CODE> option is like <CODE>-sid</CODE>
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857 for DVDs, you can choose between subtitle tracks (languages) with it. In case
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858 that <CODE>-vobsubid</CODE> is omitted, MPlayer will try to use the languages
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859 given by the <CODE>-slang</CODE> option and fall back to the
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860 <CODE>langidx<CODE> item in the .IDX file to set the subtitle language. If
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861 that fails, there will be no subtitles.</P>
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862
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863 <H4>Other subtitles</H4>
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864
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865 <P>The other formats consist of a single text file containing timing,
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866 placement and text information.<BR>
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867 Usage: If you have a file like <CODE>sample.txt</CODE>, you have to pass the
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868 option <CODE>-sub sample.txt</CODE> (full path optional).</P>
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869
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870 <H4>Adjusting subtitle timing and placement:</H4>
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871
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872 <DL>
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873 <DT><CODE>-subdelay &lt;sec&gt;</CODE></DT>
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874 <DD>Delays subtitles by &lt;sec&gt; seconds. Can be negative.</DD>
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875
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876 <DT><CODE>-subfps &lt;rate&gt;</CODE></DT>
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877 <DD>Specify frame/sec rate of subtitle file (float number)</DD>
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878
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879 <DT><CODE>-subpos &lt;0 - 100&gt;</CODE></DT>
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880 <DD>Specify the position of subtitles.</DD>
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881 </DL>
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882
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883 <P>If you experience a growing delay between the movie and the subtitles when
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884 using a MicroDVD subtitle file, most likely the frame rate of the movie and
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885 the subtitle file are different.<BR> Please note that the MicroDVD subtitle
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886 format uses absolute frame numbers for its timing, and therefore the
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887 <CODE>-subfps</CODE> option cannot be used with this format. As
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888 MPlayer has no way to guess the frame rate of the subtitle file, you
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889 have to manually convert the frame rate. There is a little perl script in the
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890 <CODE>contrib</CODE> directory of the MPlayer FTP site to do this conversion
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891 for you.</P>
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892
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893 <P>MPlayer will try to guess the subtitle files you want to use when playing a
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894 movie. If, like in most cases, subtitle and movie files have the same name and
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895 are in the same place, you do not need to set the subtitle options. Just play
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896 the movie, MPlayer will handle the subtitles automatically.</P>
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897
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898 <P>About DVD subtitles, read the <A HREF="cd-dvd.html#dvd">DVD section</A>.</P>
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899
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900
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901 <H3><A NAME="mpsub">1.4.1 MPlayer's own subtitle format (MPsub)</A></H3>
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902
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903 <P>MPlayer introduces a new subtitle format called <B>MPsub</B>. It was
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904 designed by me (Gabucino). Basically its main feature is being
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905 <I>dynamically</I> time-based (although it has frame-based mode too). Example
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906 (from
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907 <A HREF="tech/mpsub.sub">DOCS/tech/mpsub.sub</A>):</P>
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908
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909 <P><CODE><I># first number : wait this much after previous subtitle disappeared<BR>
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910 # second number : display the current subtitle for this many seconds<BR>
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911 <BR>
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912 15 3<BR>
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913 A long long, time ago...<BR>
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914 <BR>
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915 0 3<BR>
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916 in a galaxy far away...<BR>
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917 <BR>
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918 0 3<BR>
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919 Naboo was under an attack.<BR></I></CODE></P>
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920
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921 <P>So you see, the main goal was to <B>make subtitle
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922 editing/timing/joining/cutting easy</B>. And, if you - say - get an SSA
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923 subtitle but it's badly timed/delayed to your version of the movie, you
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924 simply do a <CODE>mplayer dummy.avi -sub source.ssa -dumpmpsub</CODE>.
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925 A <CODE>dump.mpsub</CODE> file will be created in the current directory,
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926 which will contain the source subtitle's text, but in <B>MPsub</B> format.
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927 Then you can freely add/subtract seconds to/from the subtitle.</P>
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928
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929 <P>Subtitles are displayed with a technique called <B>'OSD', On Screen
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930 Display</B>. OSD is used to display current time, volume bar, seek bar
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931 etc.</P>
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932
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933 <H3><A NAME="install_osd">1.4.2 Installing OSD and subtitles</A></H3>
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934
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935 <P>You need an MPlayer font package to be able to use OSD/SUB feature.
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936 There are many ways to get it:</P>
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937
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938 <UL>
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939 <LI>download ready-to-use font packages from MPlayer site.
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940 Note: currently available fonts are limited for iso 8859-1/2 support,
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941 but there are some other (including Korean, Russian, 8859-8 etc) fonts
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942 at contrib/font section of FTP, made by users.<BR>
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943 <BR>
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944 Font should have appropriate font.desc file which maps unicode font
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945 positions to the actual code page of the subtitles text. Other solution is
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946 to have subtitles encoded in utf8 encoding and use <CODE>-utf8</CODE>
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947 option or just name the subtitles file &lt;video_name&gt;.utf and have it
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948 in the same dir as the video file. Recoding from different codepages to
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949 utf8 could be done by using konwert (Debian) or iconv (Red Hat)
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950 programs.<BR>
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951 Some URLs:
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952 <UL>
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953 <LI><A HREF="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/fonts/">ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/fonts/</A> - ISO fonts</LI>
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954 <LI><A HREF="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/fonts/">ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/fonts/</A> - various fonts by users</LI>
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955 <LI><A HREF="http://realtime.ssu.ac.kr/~lethean/mplayer/">http://realtime.ssu.ac.kr/~lethean/mplayer/</A> - Korean fonts &amp; RAW plugin</LI>
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956 </UL>
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957 </LI>
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958 <LI>use the font generator tool at TOOLS/subfont-c
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959 It's a complete tool to convert from TTF/Type1/etc font to mplayer font pkg.
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960 (read TOOLS/subfont-c/README for details)</LI>
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961 <LI>use the font generator GIMP plugin at TOOLS/subfont-GIMP
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962 (note: you must have HSI RAW plugin too, see URL below)</LI>
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963 <LI>using a TrueType (TTF) font, by the means of the <B>freetype</B>
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964 library. Version 2.0.9 or greater is mandatory! You have to pass the
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965 <CODE>--enable-freetype</CODE> option to ./configure. Then you
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966 have two methods:
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967 <UL>
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968 <LI>use the <CODE>-font /path/to/arial.ttf</CODE> option to specify
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969 a TrueType font file on every occassion</LI>
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970 <LI>create a symlink: <CODE>ln -s /path/to/arial.ttf ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf</CODE></LI>
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971 </UL>
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972 </LI>
1987
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973 </UL>
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974
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975 <P>If you chose non-TTF fonts, UNZIP the file you downloaded to <CODE>~/.mplayer</CODE> or
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976 <CODE>$PREFIX/share/mplayer</CODE>. Then rename or symlink one of the extracted directories to
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977 <CODE>font</CODE> (like: <CODE>ln -s ~/.mplayer/arial-24
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978 ~/.mplayer/font</CODE>). Now you have to see a timer at the upper left corner
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979 of the movie (switch it off with the "o" key).</P>
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980
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981
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982 <P>OSD has 3 states: (switch with 'o')</P>
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983
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984 <UL>
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985 <LI>timer + volume bar + seek bar + subtitles</LI>
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986 <LI>volume bar + seek bar + subtitles (default)</LI>
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987 <LI>subtitles only</LI>
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988 </UL>
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989
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990 <P>You can change default behaviour by setting <CODE>osdlevel=</CODE> variable
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991 in config file.</P>
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992
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993
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994 <H3><A NAME="menu">1.4.3 OSD menu</A></H3>
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995
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996 <P>MPlayer has a completely user definiable OSD Menu interface.</P>
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997
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998 <H4>Installation</H4>
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999
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1000 <OL>
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1001 <LI>compile MPlayer by passing the <CODE>--enable-new-conf
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1002 --enable-menu</CODE> parameters to <CODE>./configure</CODE></LI>
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1003 <LI>make sure you have an OSD font installed</LI>
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1004 <LI>copy <CODE>etc/menu.conf</CODE> to your <CODE>.mplayer</CODE>
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1005 directory</LI>
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1006 <LI>copy <CODE>etc/input.conf</CODE> to your <CODE>.mplayer</CODE>
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1007 directory, or to the system-wide MPlayer config dir (default:
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1008 <CODE>/usr/local/etc/mplayer</CODE>)</LI>
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1009 <LI>check and edit <CODE>input.conf</CODE> to enable menu movement
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1010 keys (it is described there).</LI>
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1011 <LI>start MPlayer by the following example:<BR>
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1012 <CODE>$ mplayer -menu file.avi</CODE></LI>
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1013 <LI>push any menu key you defined</LI>
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1014 </OL>
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1015
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1016 <P>
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1017
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1018
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1019 <H2><A NAME="rtc">1.5 RTC</A></H2>
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1020
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1021 There are three timing methods in MPlayer.
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1022
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1023 <UL>
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1024 <LI><B>To use the old method</B>, you don't have to do anything. It uses
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1025 <CODE>usleep()</CODE> to tune A/V sync, with +/- 10ms accuracy. However
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1026 sometimes the sync has to be tuned even finer.</LI>
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1027 <LI><B>The new timer</B> code uses PC's RTC (Real Time Clock) for this task,
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1028 because it has precise 1ms timers. It is automagically enabled when
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1029 available, but requires root privileges, a <I>setuid root</I>
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1030 MPlayer binary or a properly set up kernel.
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1031 <BR>
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1032 If you are running kernel 2.4.19pre8 or later you can adjust the maximum
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1033 RTC frequency for normal users through the <CODE>/proc</CODE> filesystem.
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1034 Use this command to enable RTC for normal users:
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1035 <P>
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1036 <CODE>echo 1024 &gt; /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq</CODE>
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1037 </P>
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1038 If you do not have such a new kernel, you can also change one line in
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1039 <CODE>drivers/char/rtc.c</CODE> and recompile your kernel. Find the
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1040 section that reads
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1041 <PRE>
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1042 * We don't really want Joe User enabling more
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1043 * than 64Hz of interrupts on a multi-user machine.
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1044 */
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1045 if ((rtc_freq &gt; 64) &amp;&amp; (!capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE)))
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1046 </PRE>
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1047 and change the 64 to 1024. You should really know what you are doing, though.
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1048 <BR>
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1049 You can see the new timer's efficiency in the status line.
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1050 <BR>
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1051 The power management functions of some notebook BIOSes with speedstep CPUs
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1052 interact badly with RTC. Audio and video may get out of sync. Plugging the
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1053 external power connector in before you power up your notebook seems to help.
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1054 You can always turn off RTC support with the <CODE>-nortc</CODE> switch.
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1055 In some hardware combinations (confirmed during usage of non-DMA DVD
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1056 drive on an ALi1541 board) usage of the RTC timer causes skippy playback.
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1057 It's recommended to use the third method in these cases.</LI>
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1058 <LI><B>The third timer code</B> is turned on with the <CODE>-softsleep</CODE>
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1059 option. It has the efficiency of the RTC, but it doesn't use RTC. On the other
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1060 hand, it requires more CPU.</LI>
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1061 </UL>
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1062
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1063 <B>Note:</B> <B>NEVER install a setuid root MPlayer binary on a multiuser system!</B>
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1064 It's a clear way for everyone to become root.
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1065
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1066
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1067
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1068 <H1><A NAME="features">2. Features</A></H1>
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1069
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1070
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1071 <H2><A NAME="formats">2.1</A> <A HREF="formats.html">Supported formats</A></H2>
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1072
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1073
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1074 <H2><A NAME="codecs">2.2</A> <A HREF="codecs.html">Supported codecs</A></H2>
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1075
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1076
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1077 <H2><A NAME="output">2.3</A> <A HREF="video.html">Video</A> &amp; <A HREF="sound.html">Audio</A> output devices</H2>
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1078
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1079
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1080 <H2><A NAME="encoding">2.4</A> <A HREF="encoding.html">MEncoder - An All-Purpose Encoder</A></H2>
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1081
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1082
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1083 <H2><A NAME="tv"><B>2.5 TV input</B></A></H2>
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1084
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1085 <P>This section is about how to enable <B>watching/grabbing from V4L compatible
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1086 TV tuner</B>. See the man page for a description of TV options and keyboard
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1087 controls.</P>
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1088
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1089 <H3><A NAME="tv_compilation">2.5.1 Compilation</A></H3>
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1090
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1091 <OL>
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1092 <LI>First, you have to recompile. <CODE>./configure</CODE> will autodetect
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1093 kernel headers of v4l stuff and the existence of <CODE>/dev/video*</CODE>
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1094 entries. If they exist, TV support will be built (see the output of
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1095 <CODE>./configure</CODE>).</LI>
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1096 <LI>Make sure your tuner works with another TV software in Linux, for example
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1097 xawtv.</LI>
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1098 </OL>
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1099
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1100 <H3><A NAME="tv_tips">2.5.2 Usage tips</A></H3>
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1101
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1102 The full listing of the options is available on the manual page. Here
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1103 are just a few tips:
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1104
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1105 <UL>
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1106 <LI>Choose some sane image dimensions. The dimensions of the resulting image
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1107 should be divisible by 16.</LI>
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1108 <LI>If you capture the video with the vertical resolution higher than half of
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1109 the full resolution (i.e. 288 for PAL or 240 for NTSC), make sure you
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1110 turned deinterlacing on. Otherwise you'll get a movie which is distorted
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1111 during fast-motion scenes and the bitrate controller will be probably even
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1112 unable to retain the specified bitrate as the interlacing artifacts produce
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1113 high amount of detail and thus consume lot of bandwidth. You can enable
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1114 deinterlacing with <CODE>-vop pp=DEINT_TYPE</CODE>. Usually
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1115 <CODE>pp=lb</CODE> does a good job, but it can be matter of personal
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1116 preference. See other deinterlacing algorithms in the manual and give it a
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1117 try.</LI>
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1118 <LI>Crop out the dead space. When you capture the video, the areas at the
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1119 edges are usually black or contain some noise. These again consume lots of
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1120 unnecessary bandwidth. More precisely it's not the black areas themselves
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1121 but the sharp transitions between the black and the brighter video image
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1122 which do but that's not important for now. Before you start capturing,
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1123 adjust the arguments of the <CODE>crop</CODE> option so that all the crap
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1124 at the margins is cropped out. Again, don't forget to keep the resulting
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1125 dimensions sane.</LI>
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1126 <LI>Watch out for CPU load. It shouldn't cross the 90% boundary for most of
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1127 the time. If you have a large capture buffer, MEncoder can survive an
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1128 overload for few seconds but nothing more. It's better to turn off the 3D
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1129 OpenGL screensavers and similar stuff.</LI>
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1130 <LI>Don't mess with the system clock. MEncoder uses the system clock for
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1131 doing A/V sync. If you adjust the system clock (especially backwards in
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1132 time), MEncoder gets confused and you will lose frames. This is an
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1133 important issue if you are hooked to a network and run some time
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1134 synchronization software like NTP. You have to turn NTP off during the
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1135 capture process if you want to capture reliably.</LI>
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1136 <LI>Don't change the <CODE>outfmt</CODE> unless you know what you are doing
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1137 or your card/driver really doesn't support the default (YV12 colorspace).
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1138 In the older versions of MPlayer/MEncoder it was necessary to specify the
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1139 output format. This issue should be fixed in the current releases and
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1140 <CODE>outfmt</CODE> isn't required anymore, and the default suits the most
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1141 purposes. For example, if you are capturing into DivX using libavcodec and
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1142 specify <CODE>outfmt=RGB24</CODE> in order to increase the quality of the
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1143 captured images, the captured image will be actually later converted back
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1144 into YV12 so the only thing you achieve is a massive waste of CPU power.
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1145 </LI>
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1146 <LI>To specify the I420 colorspace (<CODE>outfmt=i420</CODE>), you have to
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1147 add an option <CODE>-vc rawi420</CODE> due to a fourcc conflict with an
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1148 Intel Indeo video codec.</LI>
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1149 <LI>There are several ways of capturing audio. You can grab the sound either
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1150 using your soundcard via an external cable connection between video card
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1151 and line-in, or using the built-in ADC in the bt878 chip. In the latter
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1152 case, you have to load the <b>btaudio</b> driver. Read the
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1153 <CODE>linux/Documentation/sound/btaudio</CODE> file (in the kernel tree,
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1154 not MPlayer's) for some instructions on using this driver.</LI>
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1155 <LI>If MEncoder cannot open the audio device, make sure that it is really
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1156 available. There can be some trouble with the sound servers like arts
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1157 (KDE) or esd (GNOME). If you have a full duplex soundcard (almost any
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1158 decent card supports it today), and you are using KDE, try to check the
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1159 "full duplex" option in the sound server preference menu.</LI>
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1160 </UL>
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1161
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1162 <H3><A NAME="tv_examples">2.5.3 Examples</A></H3>
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1163
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1164 <P>Dummy output, to AAlib :)<BR>
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1165 <CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mplayer -tv on:driver=dummy:width=640:height=480 -vo aa</CODE><BR>
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1166 <BR>
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1167 Input from standard V4L<BR>
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1168 <CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mplayer -tv
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1169 on:driver=v4l:width=640:height=480 -vo xv</CODE><BR>
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1170 <BR>
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1171
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1172 A more sophisticated example. This makes MEncoder capture the full
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1173 PAL image, crop the margins, and deinterlace the picture using
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1174 a linear blend algorithm. Audio is compressed with a constant
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1175 bitrate of 64kbps, using LAME codec. This setup is suitable for
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1176 capturing movies.<BR> <CODE> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mencoder -tv
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1177 on:driver=v4l:width=768:height=576 \<BR>
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1178 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-ovc lavc -lavcopts
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1179 vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=900 \<BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-oac
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1180 mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=64 \<BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-vop
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1181 pp=lb,crop=720:544:24:16 -o output.avi </CODE><BR>
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1182
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1183 <BR>
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1184 This will additionally rescale the image to 384x288 and compresses
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1185 the video with the bitrate of 350kbps in high quality mode. The
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1186 vqmax option looses the quantizer and allows the video compressor to
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1187 actualy reach so low bitrate even at the expense of the
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1188 quality. This can be used for capturing long TV series, where the
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1189 video quality isn't so important.<BR>
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1190 <CODE>
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1191 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mencoder -tv on:driver=v4l:width=768:height=576 \<BR>
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1192 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=350:vhq:vqmax=31:keyint=300 \<BR>
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1193 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=48 \<BR>
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1194 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-vop scale=384:288,pp=tn/lb,crop=720:540:24:18 -sws 1 -o output.avi
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1195 </CODE><BR>
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1196
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1197 It's also possible to specify smaller image dimensions in the
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parents: 7942
diff changeset
1198 <CODE>-tv</CODE> option and omit the software scaling but this
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1199 approach uses the maximum available information and is a little more
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1200 resistant to noise. The bt8x8 chips can do the pixel averaging only
8095
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
diego
parents: 8079
diff changeset
1201 in the horizontal direction due to a hardware limitation.</P>
6766
f7cd3a7aaa13 Applied patch by Fabian Franz <FabianFranz@gmx.de>, adding a note to the TV
diego
parents: 6732
diff changeset
1202
2864
1a710f130a7f TV input documentation begin (examples, options)
gabucino
parents: 2855
diff changeset
1203
8551
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1204 <H2><A NAME="edl">2.6 Edit Decision Lists (EDL)</A></H2>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1205
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1206 <P>The edit decision list (EDL) system allows you to automatically skip or mute
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1207 sections of videos during playback, based on a movie specific EDL
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1208 configuration file.</P>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1209
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1210 <P>This is useful for those who may want to watch a film in "family-friendly"
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1211 mode. You can cut out any violence, profanity, Jar-Jar Binks .. from a movie
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1212 according to your own personal preferences. Aside from this, there are other
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1213 uses, like automatically skipping over commercials in video files you
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1214 watch.</P>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1215
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1216 <P>The EDL file format is pretty bare-bones. Once the EDL system has reached a
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1217 certain level of maturity, an XML-based file format will probably be
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1218 implemented (keeping backwards compatibility with previous EDL formats).</P>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1219
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1220 <P>The maximum number of EDL entries for the current incarnation of EDL is 1000.
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1221 If you happen to need more, change the <CODE>#define MAX_EDL_ENTRIES</CODE>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1222 in the <CODE>edl.h</CODE> file.</P>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1223
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1224 <H3><A NAME="edl_using">2.6.1 Using an EDL file</A></H3>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1225
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1226 <P>Include the <CODE>-edl &lt;filename&gt;</CODE> flag when you run MPlayer,
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1227 with the name of the EDL file you want applied to the video.</P>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1228
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1229 <H3><A NAME="edl_making">2.6.1 Making an EDL file</A></H3>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1230
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1231 <P>The current EDL file format is:</P>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1232
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1233 <CODE>[begin second] [end second] [action]</CODE>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1234
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1235 <P>Where the seconds are floating-point numbers and the action is either
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1236 <CODE>0</CODE> for skip or <CODE>1</CODE> for mute. Example:</P>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1237
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1238 <PRE>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1239 5.3 7.1 0
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1240 15 16.7 1
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1241 420 422 0
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1242 </PRE>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1243
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1244 <P>This will skip from second 5.3 to second 7.1 of the video, then mute at
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1245 15 seconds, unmute at 16.7 seconds and skip from second 420 to second
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1246 422 of the video. These actions will be performed when the playback timer
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1247 reaches the times given in the file.</P>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1248
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1249 <P>To create an EDL file to work from, use the
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1250 <CODE>-edlout &lt;filename&gt;</CODE> flag. During playback, when you want to
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1251 mark the previous two seconds to skip over, hit <CODE>i</CODE>. A
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1252 corresponding entry will be written to the file for that time. You can then go
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1253 back and fine-tune the generated EDL file.</P>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1254
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1255
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1256
7047
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1257 <H1><A NAME="usage">3. Usage</A></H1>
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1258
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1259
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1260 <H2><A NAME="command_line">3.1 Command line</A></H2>
4177
cab4ac1467e4 many small updates
gabucino
parents: 4153
diff changeset
1261
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1262 <P>MPlayer utilizes a complex playtree. It consists of global options
4177
cab4ac1467e4 many small updates
gabucino
parents: 4153
diff changeset
1263 written as first (for example <CODE>mplayer -vfm 5</CODE>), and options
cab4ac1467e4 many small updates
gabucino
parents: 4153
diff changeset
1264 written after filenames, that apply only to the given filename/URL/whatever
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1265 (for example <CODE>mplayer -vfm 5 movie1.avi movie2.avi -vfm 4</CODE>).<BR>
5715
71843ef1a085 video filter layer documentation begun (maybe audio layer should be
gabucino
parents: 5704
diff changeset
1266 You can group filenames/URLs together using { and }. It's useful with
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1267 option -loop: <CODE>mplayer { 1.avi -loop 2 2.avi } -loop 3</CODE>
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1268 will play files in this order: 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 2<BR>
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1269 </P>
4177
cab4ac1467e4 many small updates
gabucino
parents: 4153
diff changeset
1270
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1271 <TABLE BORDER=0>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1272 <TR><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD>file</TD><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] [path/]filename</CODE></TD></TR>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1273 <TR><TD></TD><TD>files</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [default options] [path/]filename1 [options for filename1] filename2 [options for filename2] ...</CODE></TD></TR>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1274 <TR><TD></TD><TD>VCD</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] -vcd trackno [-cdrom-device /dev/cdrom]</CODE></TD></TR>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1275 <TR><TD></TD><TD>DVD</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] -dvd titleno [-dvd-device /dev/dvd]</CODE></TD></TR>
7813
76940a39405a RTSP/RTP documentation, patch by Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com>.
diego
parents: 7792
diff changeset
1276 <TR><TD></TD><TD>WWW</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] http://site.com/file.asf (playlists can be used, too)</CODE></TD></TR>
76940a39405a RTSP/RTP documentation, patch by Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com>.
diego
parents: 7792
diff changeset
1277 <TR><TD></TD><TD>RTSP</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] rtsp://server.example.com/streamName</CODE></TD></TR>
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1278 </TABLE>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1279
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1280 <P>
7813
76940a39405a RTSP/RTP documentation, patch by Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com>.
diego
parents: 7792
diff changeset
1281 Latest versions of MPlayer also accept VCD and DVD tracks in URL style, just like
76940a39405a RTSP/RTP documentation, patch by Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com>.
diego
parents: 7792
diff changeset
1282 xine does: <CODE>mplayer dvd://1</CODE> or <CODE>mplayer vcd://1</CODE></P>
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1283
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1284 <PRE>
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1285 mplayer -vo x11 /mnt/Films/Contact/contact2.mpg
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1286 mplayer -vcd 2
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1287 mplayer -afm 3 /mnt/DVDtrailers/alien4.vob
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1288 mplayer -dvd 1 -dvd-device /dev/hdc
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1289 mplayer -abs 65536 -delay -0.4 -nobps ~/movies/test.avi
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1290 </PRE>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1291
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1292
7047
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1293 <H2><A NAME="control">3.2 Control</A></H2>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1294
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1295 <P>MPlayer has a fully configurable, command driven, control layer which
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1296 lets you control MPlayer with keyboard, mouse, joystick or remote
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1297 control (using LIRC). See the man page for the complete list of keyboard
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1298 controls.</P>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1299
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1300
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1301 <H3><A NAME="controls_configuration">3.2.1 Controls configuration</A></H3>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1302
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1303 <P>MPlayer allows you bind any key/button to any MPlayer command
6493
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1304 using a simple config file. The syntax consist of a key name followed by a
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1305 command. The default config file location is
6593
a2937bae0651 Expanded RTC section. It now explains how to allow RTC via /proc on newer
diego
parents: 6583
diff changeset
1306 <CODE>$HOME/.mplayer/input.conf</CODE> but it can be overridden using the
6493
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1307 <CODE>-input</CODE> conf switch (relative path are relative to
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1308 <CODE>$HOME/.mplayer</CODE>).
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1309
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1310 <P>Example:</P>
6493
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1311
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1312 <PRE>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1313 ##
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1314 ## MPlayer input control file
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1315 ##
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1316
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1317 RIGHT seek +10
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1318 LEFT seek -10
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1319 - audio_delay 0.100
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1320 + audio_delay -0.100
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1321 q quit
7076
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1322 &gt; pt_step 1
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1323 &lt; pt_step -1
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1324 ENTER pt_step 1 1
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1325 </PRE>
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1326
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1327
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1328 <H4><A NAME="key_names">3.2.1.1 Key names</A></H4>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1329
6493
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1330 <P>You can have a full list by running <CODE>mplayer -input keylist</CODE></P>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1331
7099
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7093
diff changeset
1332 <H4>Keyboard:</H4>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1333
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1334 <UL>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1335 <LI>Any printable character</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1336 <LI>SPACE</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1337 <LI>ENTER</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1338 <LI>TAB</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1339 <LI>CTRL</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1340 <LI>BS</LI>
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diego
parents: 6970
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1341 <LI>DEL</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1342 <LI>INS</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1343 <LI>HOME</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1344 <LI>END</LI>
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parents: 6970
diff changeset
1345 <LI>PGUP</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1346 <LI>PGDWN</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1347 <LI>ESC</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1348 <LI>RIGHT</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1349 <LI>LEFT</LI>
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diego
parents: 6970
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1350 <LI>UP</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1351 <LI>DOWN</LI>
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a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1352 </UL>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1353
7099
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7093
diff changeset
1354 <H4>Mouse (only supported under X):</H4>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1355
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a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1356 <UL>
6974
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parents: 6970
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1357 <LI>MOUSE_BTN0 (Left button)</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1358 <LI>MOUSE_BTN1 (Right button)</LI>
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diego
parents: 6970
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1359 <LI>MOUSE_BTN2 (Middle button)</LI>
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diego
parents: 6970
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1360 <LI>MOUSE_BTN3 (Wheel)</LI>
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diego
parents: 6970
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1361 <LI>MOUSE_BTN4 (Wheel)</LI>
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diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1362 <LI>...</LI>
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parents: 6970
diff changeset
1363 <LI>MOUSE_BTN9</LI>
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a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1364 </UL>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1365
7099
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7093
diff changeset
1366 <H4>Joystick (support must be enabled at compile time):</H4>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1367
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a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1368 <UL>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1369 <LI>JOY_RIGHT or JOY_AXIS0_PLUS</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1370 <LI>JOY_LEFT or JOY_AXIS0_MINUS</LI>
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diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1371 <LI>JOY_UP or JOY_AXIS1_MINUS</LI>
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diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1372 <LI>JOY_DOWN or JOY_AXIS1_PLUS</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1373 <LI>JOY_AXIS2_PLUS</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1374 <LI>JOY_AXIS2_MINUS</LI>
7099
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7093
diff changeset
1375 <LI>...</LI>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1376 <LI>JOY_AXIS9_PLUS</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1377 <LI>JOY_AXIS9_MINUS</LI>
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1378 </UL>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1379
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1380
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1381 <H4><A NAME="commands">3.2.1.2 Commands</A></H4>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1382
6493
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1383 <P>You can have a full list of known commands by running "mplayer -input cmdlist"</P>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1384
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1385 <UL>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1386 <LI><B>seek</B> (int) val [(int) type=0]
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1387 <P>Seek to some place in the movie.<BR>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1388 Type 0 is a relative seek of +/- val seconds.<BR>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1389 Type 1 seek to val % in the movie.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1390 <LI><B>audio_delay</B> (float) val
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1391 <P>Adjust the audio delay of val seconds</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1392 <LI><B>quit</B>
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1393 <P>Quit MPlayer</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1394 <LI><B>pause</B>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1395 <P>Pause/unpause the playback</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1396 <LI><B>grap_frames</B>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1397 <P>Somebody know ?</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1398 <LI><B>pt_step</B> (int) val [(int) force=0]
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1399 <P>Go to next/previous entry in playtree. Val sign tell the direction.<BR>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1400 If no other entry is available in the given direction it won't do anything
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1401 unless force is non 0.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1402 <LI><B>pt_up_step</B> (int) val [(int) force=0]
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1403 <P>Like pt_step but it jump to next/previous in the parent list. It's useful
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1404 to break inner loop in the playtree.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1405 <LI><B>alt_src_step</B> (int) val
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1406 <P>When more than one source is available it select the next/previous one
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1407 (only supported by asx playlist).</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1408 <LI><B>sub_delay</B> (float) val [(int) abs=0]
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1409 <P>Adjust the subtitles delay of +/- val seconds or set it to val seconds
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1410 when abs is non zero.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1411 <LI><B>osd</B> [(int) level=-1]
7076
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1412 <P>Toggle osd mode or set it to level when level &gt; 0.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1413 <LI><B>volume</B> (int) dir
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1414 <P>Increase/decrease volume</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1415 <LI><B>contrast</B> (int) val [(int) abs=0]</LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1416 <LI><B>brightness</B> (int) val [(int) abs=0]</LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1417 <LI><B>hue</B> (int) val [(int) abs=0]</LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1418 <LI><B>saturation</B> (int) val [(int) abs=0]
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1419 <P>Set/Adjust video parameters. Val range from -100 to 100.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1420 <LI><B>frame_drop</B> [(int) type=-1]
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1421 <P>Toggle/Set frame dropping mode.</P></LI>
7628
d6608342591d This patch adds the functionality to disable/enable subtitles while playing
arpi
parents: 7455
diff changeset
1422 <LI><B>sub_visibility</B>
d6608342591d This patch adds the functionality to disable/enable subtitles while playing
arpi
parents: 7455
diff changeset
1423 <P>Toggle subtitle visibility.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1424 <LI><B>sub_pos</B> (int) val
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1425 <P>Adjust subtitles position.</P></LI>
8548
b29982e68d8c Subtitle usage updated by hephooey@fastmail.fm.
diego
parents: 8474
diff changeset
1426 <LI><B>vobsub_lang</B>
b29982e68d8c Subtitle usage updated by hephooey@fastmail.fm.
diego
parents: 8474
diff changeset
1427 <P>Change the language of VobSub subtitles.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1428 <LI><B>vo_fullscreen</B>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1429 <P>Switch fullscreen mode.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1430 <LI><B>tv_step_channel</B> (int) dir
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1431 <P>Select next/previous tv channel.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1432 <LI><B>tv_step_norm</B>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1433 <P>Change TV norm.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1434 <LI><B>tv_step_chanlist</B>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1435 <P>Change channel list.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1436 <LI><B>gui_loadfile</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1437 <LI><B>gui_loadsubtitle</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1438 <LI><B>gui_about</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1439 <LI><B>gui_play</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1440 <LI><B>gui_stop</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1441 <LI><B>gui_playlist</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1442 <LI><B>gui_preferences</B></LI>
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1443 <LI><B>gui_skinbrowser</B>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1444 <P>GUI actions</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1445 </UL>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1446
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1447
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1448 <H3><A NAME="lirc">3.2.2 Control from LIRC</A></H3>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1449
2848
33c32f3d9f1f many small updates, fixes (some/more to be completed soon)
gabucino
parents: 2761
diff changeset
1450 <P>Linux Infrared Remote Control - use an easy to build home-brewn IR-receiver,
6998
83a386e88f9e Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday at varoshaza . nagyatad . hu>
diego
parents: 6981
diff changeset
1451 an (almost) arbitrary remote control and control your Linux box with it!
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1452 More about it at <A HREF="http://www.lirc.org">www.lirc.org</A>.</P>
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1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1453
5969
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1454 <P>If you have installed the lirc-package, configure will autodetect it. If
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1455 everything went fine, MPlayer will print a message like "Setting up
5969
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1456 lirc support..." on startup. If an error occurs it will tell you. If it
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1457 doesn't tell you anything about LIRC there's no support compiled in. That's
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1458 it :-)</P>
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1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1459
7942
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1460 <P>The application name for MPlayer is - oh wonder - <CODE>mplayer</CODE>.
5969
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1461 You can use any mplayer commands and even pass more than one command by
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1462 separating them with \n. Don't forget to enable the repeat flag in .lircrc
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1463 when it make sense (seek, volume, etc). Here's an excerpt from my
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1464 .lircrc:</P>
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1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1465
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1466 <PRE>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1467 begin
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1468 button = VOLUME_PLUS
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1469 prog = mplayer
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1470 config = volume 1
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1471 repeat = 1
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1472 end
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1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1473
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1474 begin
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1475 button = VOLUME_MINUS
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1476 prog = mplayer
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1477 config = volume -1
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1478 repeat = 1
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1479 end
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1480
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1481 begin
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1482 button = CD_PLAY
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1483 prog = mplayer
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1484 config = pause
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1485 end
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1486
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1487 begin
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1488 button = CD_STOP
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1489 prog = mplayer
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1490 config = seek 0 1\npause
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1491 end
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1492 </PRE>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1493
2848
33c32f3d9f1f many small updates, fixes (some/more to be completed soon)
gabucino
parents: 2761
diff changeset
1494 <P>If you don't like the standard location for the lirc-config file (~/.lircrc)
6960
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1495 use the -lircconf &lt;filename&gt; switch to specify another file.</P>
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1496
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1497
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a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
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1498 <H3><A NAME="slave">3.2.3 Slave mode</A></H3>
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1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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1499
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1500 <P>The slave mode allow you to build simple frontend to MPlayer. When
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
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parents: 7813
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1501 enabled (with the <CODE>-slave</CODE> switch) MPlayer will read
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a2937bae0651 Expanded RTC section. It now explains how to allow RTC via /proc on newer
diego
parents: 6583
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1502 commands separated by new line (\n) from stdin.</P>
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parents: 6468
diff changeset
1503
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1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1504
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1505 <H2><A NAME="streaming">3.3 Streaming from network or pipes</A></H2>
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1506
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1507 <P>MPlayer can play files from network, using the HTTP, MMS or RTSP/RTP
7813
76940a39405a RTSP/RTP documentation, patch by Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com>.
diego
parents: 7792
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1508 protocol.</P>
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1509
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1510 <P>Playing goes by simply using adding the URL to the command line.
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parents: 7813
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1511 MPlayer also honors the http_proxy environment variable, and uses
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1512 proxy if available. Proxy usage can also be forced:</P>
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2bb77282b2a6 streaming with proxy
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1513
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3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
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parents: 5096
diff changeset
1514 <P><CODE>mplayer http_proxy://proxy.micorsops.com:3128/http://micorsops.com:80/stream.asf</CODE></P>
2001
05189dbfb847 more fixes
gabucino
parents: 1994
diff changeset
1515
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parents: 7813
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1516 <P>MPlayer can read from stdin (NOT named pipes). This can be for example
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1517 used to play from FTP:</P>
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1518
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1519 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;wget ftp://micorsops.com/something.avi -O - | mplayer -</CODE></P>
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1520
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1521 <P>Note: it's also recommended to enable CACHE when playback from network:</P>
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parents: 6849
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1522
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1523 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;wget ftp://micorsops.com/something.avi -O - | mplayer -cache 8192 -</CODE></P>
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1524
6496
9c4fb5264e43 more fix
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diff changeset
1525
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
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diff changeset
1526
7076
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1527 <H1><A NAME="faq">4.</A> <A HREF="faq.html">FAQ section</A></H1>
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
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parents: 7061
diff changeset
1528
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1529
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1530
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1531 <H1><A NAME="cd/dvd">5.</A> <A HREF="cd-dvd.html">CD/DVD section</A></H1>
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diego
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diff changeset
1532
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
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parents: 7043
diff changeset
1533
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1534
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1535 <H1><A NAME="ports">6. Ports</A></H1>
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1536
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1537
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1538 <H2><A NAME="debian">6.1 Debian packaging</A></H2>
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1539
1682
dba45a1aafad *** empty log message ***
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1540 <P>To build the package, get the cvs version, or .tgz and uncompress it,
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1541 and cd into programs directory:</P>
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1542
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1543 <PRE>
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
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parents: 6393
diff changeset
1544 cd main
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1545 fakeroot debian/rules binary
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
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parents: 6393
diff changeset
1546 </PRE>
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1547
1682
dba45a1aafad *** empty log message ***
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1548 <P>(... mplayer detects hardware/software, builds itself and.. )
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1549 dpkg-deb: building package `mplayer' in `../mplayer_0.90-1_i386.deb'.</P>
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1550
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1551 <P>And now just become root, and:</P>
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1552
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1553 <PRE>
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diff changeset
1554 dpkg -i ../mplayer_0.90-1_i386.deb as root.
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parents: 6393
diff changeset
1555 </PRE>
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1556
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1557 <P>Here's how it looks like:</P>
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1558
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1559 <PRE>
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diff changeset
1560 eyck@incubus:/src/main$ sudo dpkg -i ../mplayer_0.90-1_i386.deb
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diff changeset
1561 Password:
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
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1562 (Reading database ... 26946 files and directories currently installed.)
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1563 Preparing to replace mplayer 0.50-1 (using ../mplayer_0.90-1_i386.deb)
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parents:
diff changeset
1564 Unpacking replacement mplayer ...
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diff changeset
1565 Setting up mplayer (0.90-1) ...
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parents: 6393
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1566 </PRE>
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1567
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parents:
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1568
7942
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
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1569 <H2><A NAME="bsd">6.2 *BSD</A></H2>
1612
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gabucino
parents:
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1570
8079
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
diego
parents: 8070
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1571 <P>MPlayer runs on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, BSD/OS and Darwin. There are
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
diego
parents: 8070
diff changeset
1572 ports/pkgsrc/fink/etc versions of MPlayer available that are probably easier
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
diego
parents: 8070
diff changeset
1573 to use than our raw sources.</P>
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
diego
parents: 8070
diff changeset
1574
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
diego
parents: 8070
diff changeset
1575 <P>To build MPlayer you will need GNU make (gmake - native BSD make will not
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
diego
parents: 8070
diff changeset
1576 work) and a recent version of binutils.</P>
7942
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1577
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1578 <P>If MPlayer complains about not finding <CODE>/dev/cdrom</CODE> or
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1579 <CODE>/dev/dvd</CODE>, create an appropiate symbolic link:<BR>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1580 <CODE>ln -s /dev/(your_cdrom_device) /dev/cdrom</CODE>.</P>
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parents:
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1581
7942
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
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1582 <P>To use Win32 DLLs with MPlayer you will need to re-compile the kernel with
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1583 "<CODE>option USER_LDT</CODE>" (unless you run FreeBSD -CURRENT, where this
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
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1584 is the default).</P>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1585
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1586 <H3><A NAME="freebsd">6.2.1 FreeBSD</A></H3>
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parents:
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1587
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b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
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1588 <P>If your CPU has SSE, recompile your kernel with "options CPU_ENABLE_SSE" to
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1589 use it (FreeBSD-STABLE or kernel patches required).</P>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1590
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1591 <H3><A NAME="openbsd">6.2.2 OpenBSD</A></H3>
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parents:
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1592
7942
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
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1593 <P>Due to limitations in different versions of gas (relocation vs MMX), you will
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1594 need to compile in two steps: First make sure that the non-native as is first
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1595 in your <CODE>$PATH</CODE> and do a <CODE>gmake -k</CODE>, then make sure that
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1596 the native version is used and do <CODE>gmake</CODE>.</P>
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1597
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diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1598
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diego
parents: 7043
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1599 <H2><A NAME="solaris">6.3 Solaris</A></H2>
1688
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1600
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1601 <P>MPlayer should work on Solaris 2.6 or newer.</P>
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1602
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
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1603 <P>On <B>UltraSPARC</B>s, MPlayer takes advantage of their <B>VIS</B>
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1604 extensions (equivalent to MMX), currently only in <I>libmpeg2</I>,
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parents: 6950
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1605 <I>libvo</I> and <I>libavcodec</I>, but not in mp3lib. You can watch a VOB
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parents: 6950
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1606 file on a 400MHz CPU. You'll need
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1607 <A HREF="http://www.sun.com/sparc/vis/mediaLib.html">mLib</A> installed.</P>
1731
07e2dfca67a3 can't stop commiting :)
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parents: 1716
diff changeset
1608
1682
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1609 <P>To build the package you will need GNU make (gmake, /opt/sfw/gmake), native
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1610 Solaris make will not work. Typical error you get when building with Solaris'
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1611 make instead of GNU make:</P>
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1612
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1613 <PRE>
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1614 % /usr/ccs/bin/make
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diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1615 make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 25: Unexpected end of line seen
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
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parents: 6393
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1616 </PRE>
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1617
1682
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1618 <P>On Solaris SPARC, you need the GNU C/C++ Compiler; it does not matter
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parents: 6950
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1619 if GNU C/C++ compiler is configured with or without the GNU assembler.</P>
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parents: 6950
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1620
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1621 <P>On Solaris x86, you need the GNU assembler and the GNU C/C++ compiler,
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
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parents: 6950
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1622 configured to use the GNU assembler! The mplayer code on the x86 platform
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1623 makes heavy use of MMX, SSE and 3DNOW! instructions that cannot be compiled
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1624 using Sun's assembler <CODE>/usr/ccs/bin/as</CODE>.</P>
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1625
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1626 <P>The configure script tries to find out, which assembler program is used by
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parents: 6950
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1627 your "gcc" command (in case the autodetection fails, use the
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1628 <CODE>--as=/whereever/you/have/installed/gnu-as</CODE> option to tell the
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1629 configure script where it can find GNU "as" on your system).</P>
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1630
1682
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1631 <P>Error message from configure on a Solaris x86 system using GCC
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1632 without GNU assembler:</P>
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1633
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1634 <PRE>
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
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parents: 6393
diff changeset
1635 % configure
1612
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diff changeset
1636 ...
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diff changeset
1637 Checking assembler (/usr/ccs/bin/as) ... , failed
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diego
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diff changeset
1638 Please upgrade(downgrade) binutils to 2.10.1...
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1639 </PRE>
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1640
1682
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1641 <P>(Solution: Install and use a gcc configured with "--with-as=gas")</P>
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parents:
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1642
1682
dba45a1aafad *** empty log message ***
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1643 <P>Typical error you get when building with a GNU C compiler that does
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1644 not use GNU as:</P>
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1645
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1646 <PRE>
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
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parents: 6393
diff changeset
1647 % gmake
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diff changeset
1648 ...
2848
33c32f3d9f1f many small updates, fixes (some/more to be completed soon)
gabucino
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1649 gcc -c -Iloader -Ilibvo -O4 -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -ffast-math
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parents:
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1650 -fomit-frame-pointer -I/usr/local/include -o mplayer.o mplayer.c
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diff changeset
1651 Assembler: mplayer.c
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
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1652 "(stdin)", line 3567 : Illegal mnemonic
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1653 "(stdin)", line 3567 : Syntax error
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1654 ... more "Illegal mnemonic" and "Syntax error" errors ...
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1655 </PRE>
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1656
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1657 <P>For DVD support you must have the patched libcss installed. Patch:
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1658 <A HREF="http://www.tools.de/solaris/mplayer/">http://www.tools.de/solaris/mplayer/</A>.</P>
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1659
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1660 <P>Due to two bugs in Solaris 8 x86, you cannot reliably play DVD discs larger
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1661 than 4 GB:</P>
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1662
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1663 <UL>
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1664 <LI>The sd(7D) driver on Solaris 8 x86 driver has bug when accessing a disk
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1665 block &gt;4GB on a device using a logical blocksize != DEV_BSIZE (i.e. CD-ROM
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1666 and DVD media). Due to a 32Bit int overflow, a disk address modulo 4GB is
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1667 accessed.
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1668 (<A HREF="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22516">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22516</A>)
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1669 </LI>
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1670 <LI>A similar bug is present in the hsfs(7FS) filesystem code (aka
83a386e88f9e Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday at varoshaza . nagyatad . hu>
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1671 ISO9660), hsfs currently does not support partitions/disks larger than 4GB, all data
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1672 is accessed modulo 4GB.
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1673 (<A HREF="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22592">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22592</A>)
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1674 </LI>
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1675 </UL>
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1676
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1677 <P>On Solaris with an UltraSPARC CPU, you can get some extra speed by
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1678 using the CPU's VIS instructions for certain time consuming operations.
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1679 VIS acceleration can be used in MPlayer by calling functions in Sun's
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1680 <A HREF="http://www.sun.com/sparc/vis/mediaLib.html">mediaLib</A>.</P>
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1681
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1682 <P>VIS accelerated operations from mediaLib are used for mpeg2 video
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1683 decoding and for color space conversion in the video output drivers.</P>
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1684
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1685
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1686 <H2><A NAME="strongarm">6.4 StrongARM</A></H2>
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1687
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1688 <P>MPlayer is reported to compile on StrongARM. Use the following command line:</P>
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1689
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1690 <PRE>
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1691 ./configure --target=arm-linux --disable-css --with-x11libdir=/usr/arm/lib
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1692 --with-x11incdir=/usr/arm/lib --disable-gcc-checking
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1693 </PRE>
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1694
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1695
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1696 <H2><A NAME="sgi">6.5 Silicon Graphics / IRIX</A></H2>
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1697
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1698 <P>You can either try to install the GNU install program, and (if you did not
6dd42a044681 a little (my first!) patch to add some info about MPlayer on Irix 6.5 to
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1699 put it in your global path) then point to the location with:</P>
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1700 <PRE>
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arpi
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1701 ./configure --install-path=PATH
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1702 </PRE>
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1703 <P>Or you can use the default install delivered with IRIX 6.5 in which case you
6dd42a044681 a little (my first!) patch to add some info about MPlayer on Irix 6.5 to
arpi
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1704 will have to edit the Makefile a littlebit by hand. Change the following two
6dd42a044681 a little (my first!) patch to add some info about MPlayer on Irix 6.5 to
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1705 lines:</P>
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1706 <PRE>
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arpi
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1707 $(INSTALL) -c -m 644 DOCS/mplayer.1 $(MANDIR)/man1/mplayer.1
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1708
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1709 $(INSTALL) -c -m 644 etc/codecs.conf $(CONFDIR)/codecs.conf
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1710 </PRE>
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1711 <P>to:</P>
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arpi
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1712 <PRE>
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arpi
parents: 8351
diff changeset
1713 $(INSTALL) -m 644 mplayer.1 $(MANDIR)/man1/
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arpi
parents: 8351
diff changeset
1714
6dd42a044681 a little (my first!) patch to add some info about MPlayer on Irix 6.5 to
arpi
parents: 8351
diff changeset
1715 $(INSTALL) -m 644 codecs.conf $(CONFDIR)/
6dd42a044681 a little (my first!) patch to add some info about MPlayer on Irix 6.5 to
arpi
parents: 8351
diff changeset
1716 </PRE>
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arpi
parents: 8351
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1717 <P>And then do (from within the MPlayer source dir):</P>
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arpi
parents: 8351
diff changeset
1718 <PRE>
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arpi
parents: 8351
diff changeset
1719 cp DOCS/mplayer.1 . ; cp etc/codecs.conf .
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arpi
parents: 8351
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1720 </PRE>
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1721 <P>and then go on with building and installing.</P>
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1722
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1723
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parents: 7043
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1724 <H2><A NAME="qnx">6.6 QNX</A></H2>
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parents: 2967
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1725
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diff changeset
1726 <P>Works. You'll need to download SDL for QNX, and install it. Then run
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diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1727 MPlayer with <CODE>-vo sdl:photon</CODE> and <CODE>-ao sdl:nto</CODE>
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c2be8678fdfb QNX updates
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1728 options, and it should be fast.</P>
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1729
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1730 <P>The <CODE>-vo x11</CODE> output will be even slower than on Linux, since
4680
b5d956f0b6ea sok ize, mutyur, bizbasz.
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parents: 4632
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1731 QNX has only X <I>emulation</I> which is VERY slow. Use SDL.</P>
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1732
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1733
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1734 <H2><A NAME="cygwin">6.7 Cygwin</A></H2>
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parents: 5863
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1735
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1736 <P>The Cygwin port is still in its infancy and could use some love,
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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diff changeset
1737 <A HREF="tech/patches.txt">patches</A> are always welcome. You should also
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
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diff changeset
1738 check out the
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1739 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cygwin/">mplayer-cygwin</A>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1740 mailing list for help and latest information.</P>
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arpi
parents: 5863
diff changeset
1741
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diff changeset
1742 <P>To get native DirectX video (<CODE>-vo directx</CODE>), extract the
7942
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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parents: 7814
diff changeset
1743 <A HREF="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/dx7headers.tgz">DirectX 7 header files</A>
8443
ac4162fbfa5f DirectX installation clarified.
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diff changeset
1744 into <CODE>/usr/include/<CODE> or <CODE>/usr/local/include/<CODE> and
ac4162fbfa5f DirectX installation clarified.
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parents: 8442
diff changeset
1745 recompile. This, together with <CODE>-ao win32</CODE> should give you best
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8368a516019e small updates, ATI TV-out, -vo directx:noaccel
diego
parents: 8330
diff changeset
1746 results. If the image is distorted, try turning off hardware acceleration with
8368a516019e small updates, ATI TV-out, -vo directx:noaccel
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parents: 8330
diff changeset
1747 <CODE>-vo directx:noaccel</CODE>.</P>
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1748
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1749 <P>You will have to go to the MPlayer directory, and copy or symlink
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diff changeset
1750 <CODE>etc/cygwin_inttypes.h</CODE> to <CODE>/usr/include/inttypes.h</CODE> to
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parents: 7813
diff changeset
1751 make MPlayer compile. Otherwise it will complain about missing
8571
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1752 <CODE>inttypes.h</CODE>.</P>
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60211818e5b9 Applied Cygwin patch by Sylvain Petreolle <spetreolle@yahoo.fr>, adjusted
diego
parents: 6436
diff changeset
1753
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parents: 7814
diff changeset
1754 <P>Since there is no support for Win32 DLLs under Cygwin and OpenGL and mpdvdkit
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1755 do not work/compile, you should disable them in configure with
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1756 <CODE>./configure --disable-win32 --disable-gl --disable-mpdvdkit</CODE>.</P>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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parents: 7814
diff changeset
1757
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parents: 8177
diff changeset
1758 <P>Instructions and files for making SDL run under Cygwin can be found on the
4d948b753e9d SDL + Cygwin link added.
diego
parents: 8177
diff changeset
1759 <A HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/extras/win32/cygwin/">libsdl site</A>.</P>
4d948b753e9d SDL + Cygwin link added.
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parents: 8177
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1760
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1761
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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1762
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1763 <H1><A NAME="mailing_lists">Appendix A - Mailing lists</A></H1>
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1764
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1765 <P>There are some public mailing lists on MPlayer. Unless explicitly
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1766 stated otherwise the language of these lists is <B>English</B>. Please do
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
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parents: 7699
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1767 not send messages in other languages or HTML mail! Message size limit is 80k.
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
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parents: 7699
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1768 If you have something bigger put it up for download somewhere. Click the
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1769 links to subscribe. On the mailing lists, the same rules about writing
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
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1770 and quoting apply as on usenet. Please follow them, it makes the life of
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
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parents: 7787
diff changeset
1771 those who read your mails a lot easier. If you do not know them please
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parents: 7700
diff changeset
1772 read <A HREF="http://learn.to/edit_messages">HOWTO edit messages</A> or
05e518badc1b doc fixes part 1 (more will come when i find the time to read the rest)
attila
parents: 7700
diff changeset
1773 (if you are in a hurry)
05e518badc1b doc fixes part 1 (more will come when i find the time to read the rest)
attila
parents: 7700
diff changeset
1774 <A HREF="http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html">
05e518badc1b doc fixes part 1 (more will come when i find the time to read the rest)
attila
parents: 7700
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1775 Quoting HOWTO</A>.</P>
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1776
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1777 <UL>
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diego
parents: 8441
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1778 <LI>MPlayer announce list:
580a06055b6a Entries for the new mailing lists by Alex.
diego
parents: 8441
diff changeset
1779 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-announce">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-announce</A><BR>
8566
97fcaed8d028 use '.' rather than '!' if possible, al3x
gabucino
parents: 8555
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1780 List for MPlayer announcements. Subscribe here if you want to get
8442
580a06055b6a Entries for the new mailing lists by Alex.
diego
parents: 8441
diff changeset
1781 announcements about new features.</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1782 <LI>MPlayer developers list:
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
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1783 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng</A><BR>
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diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1784 This list is about MPlayer development! Talking about interface/API
7700
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diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1785 changes, new libraries, code optimization, configure changes is ontopic
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1786 here. Send patches but <B>not</B> bug reports, user questions, feature
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
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1787 requests or flames here to keep the list traffic low.</LI>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1788 <LI>MPlayer users list:
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1789 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users</A>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1790 <UL>
7700
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1791 <LI>Send bug reports here after reading the <A HREF="#known_bugs">Known Bugs</A>
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1792 and <A HREF="bugreports.html">bug reporting section</A>).</LI>
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1793 <LI>Send feature requests here (after reading the <B>whole</B>
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1794 documentation).</LI>
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
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1795 <LI>Send user questions here (after reading the <B>whole</B>
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1796 documentation).</LI>
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1797 </UL>
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1798 </LI>
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1799 <LI>MPlayer Hungarian users list:
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1800 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-felhasznalok">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-felhasznalok</A>
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1801 <UL>
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1802 <LI>Hungarian language list</LI>
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1803 <LI>Topic? We'll see about it... mostly flame and RTFM questions up to
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1804 now :(</LI>
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1805 </UL>
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1806 </LI>
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1807 <LI>MPlayer &amp; Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 users:
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1808 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-matrox">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-matrox</A><BR>
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1809 Matrox related questions like
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1810 <UL>
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1811 <LI>things about mga_vid</LI>
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1812 <LI>Matrox's official beta drivers (for X 4.x.x)</LI>
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1813 <LI>matroxfb-TVout stuff</LI>
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1814 </UL>
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1815 </LI>
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1816 <LI>MPlayer &amp; DVB card users:
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1817 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dvb">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dvb</A><BR>
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1818 Things related to the hardware decoder card called DVB (<B>not</B> DXR3!).
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1819 </LI>
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1820 <LI>MPlayer CVS-log:
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1821 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog</A><BR>
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1822 All changes in MPlayer code are automatically sent to this list. Only
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1823 questions about these changes belong here (if you do not understand why a
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1824 change is required or you have a better fix or you have noticed a possible
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1825 bug/problem in the commit).
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1826 </LI>
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1827 <LI>MPlayer CygWin-porting list:
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1828 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cygwin">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cygwin</A><BR>
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1829 List for discussion about MPlayer's CygWin port.
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1830 </LI>
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1831 <LI>MPlayer OS/2-porting list:
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1832 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-os2">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-os2</A><BR>
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1833 List for discussion about MPlayer's OS/2 port.
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1834 </LI>
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1835 <LI>MPlayer Weekly News' editors and translators list:
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1836 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-mwn">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-mwn</A><BR>
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1837 List for discussion about the Weekly News releases.
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1838 </LI>
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1839 </UL>
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1840
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1841 <P><B>Note:</B> You can reach the searchable mailing list archives at
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1842 <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch">http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch</A>.
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1843
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1844
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1845
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1846 <H1><A NAME="bug_reports">Appendix B</A> - <A HREF="bugreports.html">How to report bugs</A></H1>
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1847
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1848
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1849
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1850 <H1><A NAME="known_bugs">Appendix C - Known bugs</A></H1>
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1851
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1852 <P>Special system/CPU-specific bugs/problems:</P>
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1853 <UL>
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1854
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1855 <LI>SIGILL (signal 4) on P3 using 2.2.x kernels:<BR>
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1856 Problem: kernel 2.2.x doesn't have proper (working) SSE support<BR>
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1857 Solution: upgrade kernel to 2.4.x<BR>
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1858 Workaround: <CODE>./configure --disable-sse</CODE></LI>
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1859
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1860 <LI>General SIGILL (signal 4):<BR>
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1861 Problem: you compiled and run mplayer in different machines
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1862 (for example compiled on P3 and running on Celeron)<BR>
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1863 Solution: compile MPlayer on the same machine where you will use it!<BR>
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1864 Workaround: <CODE>./configure --disable-sse</CODE> etc. options</LI>
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1865
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1866 <LI>"Internal buffer inconsistency" during MEncoder run:<BR>
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1867 Problem: known problem when lame &lt; 3.90 was compiled with gcc 2.96 or 3.x.<BR>
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1868 Solution: use lame &gt;=3.90.<BR>
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1869 Workaround: compile lame with gcc 2.95.x and remove any already installed
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1870 lame packages, they may have been compiled with gcc 2.96.</LI>
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1871
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1872 <LI>Messed up MP2/MP3 sound on PPC:<BR>
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1873 Problem: known GCC miscompilation bug on PPC platforms, no fix yet.<BR>
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1874 Workaround: use FFmpeg's (slow) MP1/MP2/MP3 decoder (<CODE>-ac ffmpeg</CODE>)</LI>
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1875
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1876 <LI>sig11 in libmpeg2, when scaling+encoding:<BR>
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1877 Problem: known GCC 2.95.2 MMX bug, upgrade to 2.95.3.</LI>
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1878 </UL>
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1879
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1880 <P>Various A-V sync and other audio problems:</P>
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1881
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1882 General audio delay or jerky sound (exists with all or many files):
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1883 <UL>
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1884 <LI>most common: buggy audio driver! - try to use different drivers, try
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1885 ALSA 0.9 OSS emulation with -ao oss, also try -ao sdl, sometimes it helps.
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1886 If your file plays fine with -nosound, then you can be sure it's sound card
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1887 (driver) problem.</LI>
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1888 <LI>audio buffer problems (buffer size badly detected)<BR>
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1889 Workaround: mplayer -abs option</LI>
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1890 <LI>samplerate problems - maybe your card doesn't support the samplerate
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1891 used in your files - try the resampling plugin (-aop)</LI>
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1892 <LI>slow machine (CPU or VGA)<BR>
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1893 try with -vo null, if it plays well, then you have slow VGA card/driver<BR>
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1894 Workaround: buy a faster card or read this documentation about how to speed up<BR>
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1895 Also try -framedrop</LI>
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1896 </UL>
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1897
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1898 Audio delay/de-sync specific to one or a few files:
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1899 <UL>
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1900 <LI>bad file<BR>
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1901 Workaround:
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1902 <UL>
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1903 <LI>-ni or -nobps option (for non-interleaved or bad files)<BR>
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1904 and/or</LI>
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1905 <LI>-mc 0 (required for files with badly interleaved VBR audio)<BR>
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1906 and/or</LI>
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1907 <LI>-delay option or +/- keys at runtime to adjust delay</LI>
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1908 </UL>
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1909 If none of these help, please upload the file, we'll check (and fix).
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1910 </LI>
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1911 <LI>your sound card doesn't support 48kHz playback<BR>
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1912 Workaround: buy a better sound card... or try to decrease fps by 10% (use
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1913 -fps 27 for a 30fps movie) or use the resampler plugin</LI>
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1914 <LI>slow machine<BR>
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1915 (if A-V is not around 0, and the last number in the status line increasing)<BR>
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1916 Workaround: -framedrop</LI>
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1917 </UL>
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1918
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1919 No sound at all:
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1920 <UL>
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1921 <LI>your file uses an unsupported audio codec<BR>
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1922 Workaround: read the documentation and help us adding support for it</LI>
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1923 </UL>
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1924
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1925 No picture at all (just plain grey/green window):
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1926 <UL>
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1927 <LI>your file uses an unsupported video codec<BR>
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1928 Workaround: read the documentation and help us adding support for it</LI>
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1929 <LI>auto-selected codec can't decode the file, try to select another using -vc
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1930 or -vfm options</LI>
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1931 <LI>you try to play DivX 3.x file with OpenDivX decoder or XviD (-vc odivx)
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1932 - install Divx4Linux and recompile player</LI>
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1933 </UL>
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1934
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1935 <P>Video-out problems:</P>
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1936
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1937 <P>First note: options -fs -vm and -zoom are just recommendations, not (yet)
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1938 supported by all drivers. So it isn't a bug if it doesn't work.
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1939 Only a few driver supports scaling/zooming, don't expect this from x11 or dga.</P>
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1940
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1941 <P>OSD/sub flickering:<BR>
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1942 - x11 driver: sorry, it can't be fixed now<BR>
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1943 - xv driver: use -double option</P>
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1944
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1945 <P>Green image using mga_vid (-vo mga / -vo xmga):<BR>
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1946 - mga_vid misdetected your card's RAM amount, reload it using mga_ram_size option</P>
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1947
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1949
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1950 <H1><A NAME="skin">Appendix D</A> - <A HREF="skin-en.html">MPlayer skin format</A></H1>
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1954 <H1><A NAME="flame_wars">Appendix E</A> - <A HREF="users_against_developers.html">Developer Cries</A></H1>
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1957 </BODY>
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