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6 <CENTER>MPlayer - Movie Player for LINUX (C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy (A'rpi/ESP-team)<BR>
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8 http://mplayer.sourceforge.net (or http://mplayer.dev.hu)</CENTER><BR>
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14 Table of Contents
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17 <P><HR></P>
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19 <PRE>
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20 <P>
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21 <A HREF="#1">1. Introduction</A>
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22 </P>
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23 <P>
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24 <A HREF="#1.1">1.1 Overview +speed</A>
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25 <A HREF="#1.2">1.2 History</A>
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26 <A HREF="#1.3">1.3 Installation</A>
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27 <A HREF="#1.3.1">1.3.1 Codecs</A>
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28 <A HREF="#1.3.2">1.3.2 Drivers</A>
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29 <A HREF="#1.3.3">1.3.3 Player</A>
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30 <A HREF="#1.3.4">1.3.4 Matrox G400 DualHead Tools</A>
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31 <A HREF="#1.3.5">1.3.5 Fonts</A>
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32 <A HREF="#1.4">1.4 What about the GUI?</A>
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33 </P>
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34 <P>
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35 <A HREF="#2">2. Features</A>
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36 </P>
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37 <P>
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38 <A HREF="#2.1">2.1 Video Formats, Audio & Video Codecs</A>
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39 <A HREF="#2.1.1">2.1.1 Supported input formats</A>
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40 <A HREF="#2.1.2">2.1.2 Supported audio & video codecs</A>
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41 <A HREF="#2.1.2.1">2.1.2.1 OpenDivX</A>
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42 <A HREF="#2.1.2.2">2.1.2.2 ffmpeg's DivX/libavcodec</A>
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43 <A HREF="#2.1.4">2.1.4 Codec importing howto</A>
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44 <A HREF="#2.1.4.1">2.1.4.1 VFW codecs</A>
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45 <A HREF="#2.1.4.2">2.1.4.2 DirectShow codecs</A>
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46 </P>
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47 <P>
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48 <A HREF="#2.2">2.2 Video & Audio output devices</A>
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49 <A HREF="#2.2.1">2.2.1 Video output devices</A>
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50 <A HREF="#2.2.1.1">2.2.1.1 Xv</A>
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51 <A HREF="#2.2.1.2">2.2.1.2 DGA</A>
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52 <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.1">2.2.1.2.1 Summary</A>
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53 <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.2">2.2.1.2.2 What is DGA</A>
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54 <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.3">2.2.1.2.3 Resolution switching</A>
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55 <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.4">2.2.1.2.4 DGA & MPlayer</A>
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56 <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.5">2.2.1.2.5 Features of the DGA driver</A>
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57 <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.6">2.2.1.2.6 Speed issues</A>
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58 <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.7">2.2.1.2.7 Known bugs</A>
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59 <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.8">2.2.1.2.8 Future work</A>
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60 <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.A">2.2.1.2.A Some modelines</A>
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61 <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.B">2.2.1.2.B Bug Reports</A>
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62 <A HREF="#2.2.1.3">2.2.1.3 SDL</A>
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63 <A HREF="#2.2.1.4">2.2.1.4 SVGAlib</A>
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64 <A HREF="#2.2.1.5">2.2.1.5 Framebuffer output (FBdev)</A>
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65 <A HREF="#2.2.1.6">2.2.1.6 Matrox framebuffer (mga_vid)</A>
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66 <A HREF="#2.2.1.7">2.2.1.7 SiS 6326 framebuffer (sis_vid)</A>
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67 <A HREF="#2.2.1.8">2.2.1.8 3dfx YUV support</A>
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68 <A HREF="#2.2.1.9">2.2.1.9 OpenGL output</A>
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69 <A HREF="#2.2.2">2.2.2 Audio output devices</A>
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70 +SOUNDCARDS
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71 </P>
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72 <P>
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73 <A HREF="#2.3">2.3 Subtitles and OSD</A>
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74 </P>
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75 <P>
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76 <A HREF="#3">3. Usage</A>
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77 </P>
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78 <P>
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79 <A HREF="#3.1">3.1 Control from keyboard</A>
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80 <A HREF="#3.2">3.2 Control from LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control)</A>
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81 <A HREF="#3.3">3.3 Streaming from network or pipes</A>
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83 <P>
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84 <A HREF="#4">4. TV-out support</A>
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85 </P>
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86 <P>
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87 <A HREF="#4.1">4.1 Matrox cards</A>
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88 </P>
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89 <P>
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90 <A HREF="#5">5. Tuning</A>
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91 </P>
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92 <P>
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93 <A HREF="#5.1">5.1 CD drives</A>
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94 <A HREF="#5.2">5.2 DVD drives</A>
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95 <A HREF="#5.3">5.3 MTRR</A>
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96 </P>
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97 <P>
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98 <A HREF="#6">6. FAQ section</A>
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99 </P>
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100 <P>
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101 <A HREF="#6.10">6.10 DVD FAQ</A>
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102 </P>
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103 <P>
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104 <A HREF="#7">7. Misc OS'es</A>
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105 </P>
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106 <P>
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107 <A HREF="#7.1">7.1 Debian packaging</A>
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108 <A HREF="#7.2">7.2 FreeBSD</A>
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109 <A HREF="#7.3">7.3 Solaris 8</A>
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110 </P>
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111 <P>
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112 <A HREF="#A">A. Authors</A>
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113 </P>
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114 <P>
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115 <A HREF="#B">B. Mailing lists</A>
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116 </P>
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117 <P>
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118 <A HREF="#C">C. How to report bugs</A>
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119 </P>
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120 <P>
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121 License+standard disc, maintainers
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122 </P></PRE>
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125 <P><PRE>
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126 <A NAME=1>1. Introduction
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129 <A NAME=1.1>1.1. Overview
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131 MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX. It plays most MPEG, AVI and ASF files,
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132 supported by many native and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VCD, DVD and
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133 even DivX movies too. The another big feature of mplayer is the wide range of
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134 supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev,
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135 but you can use SDL (and this way all drivers of SDL, for example AAlib) and
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136 some lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox) too! Most of them supports
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137 software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. And what
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138 about the nice big antialiased shaded subtitles (7 supported types!!!) with
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139 hungarian, english, cyrillic, czech, korean fonts, and OSD?
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141 I didn't write any codecs, just some players. I spent
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142 a lot of time finding the best way to parse bad damaged input files
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143 (both MPEG and AVI) and to do perfect A-V sync with seeking ability.
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144 My player is rock solid playing damaged MPEG files (useful for some VCDs),
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145 and it plays bad AVI files which are unplayable with the famous
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146 windows media player. Even AVI files without index chunk are playable, and
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147 you can rebuild their indexes with the -idx option, thus enabling seeking!
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148 As you see, stability and quality are the most important things for me,
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149 but the speed is also amazing.
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151
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152 <A NAME=1.2>1.2. History
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154 This began a year ago...
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155 I've tried lots of players under linux (mtv,xmps,dvdview,livid/oms,VideoLAN,
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156 xine,xanim,avifile,xmmp) but they all have some problem. Mostly with special
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157 files or with audio/video sync. Most of them is unable to play both MPEG1,
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158 MPEG2 and AVI (DivX) files. Many players have image quality or speed problems
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159 too. So I've decided to write/modify one...
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160
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161 - mpg12play v0.1-v0.3:
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162 The first try, hacked together in a half hour!
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163 I've used libmpeg3 from www.heroinewarrior.com up to the version 0.3,
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164 but there were image quality and speed problems with it.
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165 - mpg12play v0.5-v0.87:
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166 Mpeg codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was a great stuff,
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167 but it was slow and was written in C++ (I hate C++!!!)
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168 - mpg12play v0.9-v0.95pre5:
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169 Mpeg codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman & Michel Lespinasse.
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170 It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect image quality and
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171 100% MPEG standard conformance.
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172 - MPlayer v0.3-v0.9:
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173 It was a pack of two programs: mpg12playv0.95pre6 and my new simple AVI
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174 player 'avip' based on avifile's Win32 DLL loader.
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175 - MPlayer v0.10:
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176 The MPEG and AVI player in a single binary!
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177 - MPlayer v0.11:
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178 Some new developers joined and from 0.11 the mplayer project is a team-work!
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179 Added .ASF file support, and OpenDivX (see www.projectmayo.com) en/decoding.
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180 - MPlayer v0.17 "The IdegCounter"
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181 The release version of the 0.11pre after 4 months of heavy development!
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182 Try it, and be amazed! Thousands of new features added... and of course
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183 old code was improved too, bugs removed etc.
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184 - MPlayer 0.18 "The BugCounter"
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185 2 months since 0.17 and here's a new release.. Completed ASF support,
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186 more subtitle formats, introduced libao (similar to libvo but to audio),
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187 even more stable than ever, and so on. It's a MUST !
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190 <A NAME=1.3>1.3. Installation
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193 <A NAME=1.3.1>1.3.1. The Codecs (w32codecs.zip)
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195 Download and unzip w32codecs.zip to /usr/lib/win32
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196 Note: the avifile project has similar codecs package, but it differs
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197 from our, so if you want to use all supported codecs, then use
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198 our package!
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201 <A NAME=1.3.2>1.3.2. Drivers (mga_vid.o)
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204 cd drivers
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206 mknod /dev/mga_vid c 178 0
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207 chmod go+rw /dev/mga_vid
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210 <A NAME=1.3.3>1.3.3. The Player (mplayer)
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212 ./configure
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213 [* read messages printed by ./configure, it may be very usefull! *]
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214 [* check config.h and config.mak files! *]
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215 make
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216 [* check for errors! of none, you should have the ./mplayer binary *]
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217 make install
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218
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220 <A NAME=1.3.4>1.3.4. Matrox G400 DH TV-out tools
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222 cd TVout
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223 ./compile.sh
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226 <A NAME=1.3.5>1.3.5. Fonts
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228 Download mp_font3.zip (and optional language updates) and
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229 unpack to ~/.mplayer/font/ :
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231 cd ~/.mplayer
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232 mkdir font
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233 cd font
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234 unzip mp_font3.zip
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235 unzip mp_font3_hu.zip
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237
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238 <A NAME=1.4>1.4. What about the GUI ?
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240 I'm not a GUI programmer. I hate GUIs, I like the pure black 80x25 console.
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241 So the player has only keyboard control from the controlling console/xterm now.
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242 There is a GUI development for the player, coordinated by Pontscho/Fresh!
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243 It's still under development, but it will be merged and released real soon.
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244 BTW he needs some nice skins, if you are a good graphician, contact him!!!
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246
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247 <A NAME=2>2. Features
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250 <A NAME=2.1>2.1. Video Formats, Audio & Video Codecs
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253 <A NAME=2.1.1>2.1.1. Supported input formats
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255 - VCD (Video CD) directly from CD-ROM or from CDRwin's .bin image file
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256 - DVD, directly from your DVD disk, using optional libcss for decryption
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257 - MPEG 1/2 System Stream (PS/PES/VOB) and Elementary Stream (ES) file formats
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258 - RIFF AVI file format
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259 - ASF 1.0 file format
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260 - supports reading from file, stdin, DVD drive or network via HTTP
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261
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262 Note: about quicktime (.mov/.qt) and realmedia (.ra/.rm) support read the FAQ!
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263
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264
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265 <A NAME=2.1.2>2.1.2. Supported audio & video codecs
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267 See http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/DOCS/codecs.html for the complete,
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268 daily updated list!!!
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270 The most important video codecs:
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271 - MPEG1 (VCD) and MPEG2 (DVD) video
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272 - DivX, OpenDivX and other MPEG4 variants
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273 - Windows Media Video 7 (WMV1) used in .wmv files
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274 - Intel Indeo codecs (3.1,3.2,4.1,5.0)
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275 - MJPEG, ASV2 and other hardware formats
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276
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277 The most important audio codecs:
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278 - MPEG layer 2, and layer 3 (MP3) audio (native code, with 3dnow optimization)
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279 - AC3 dolby audio (native code, with 3dnow optimization)
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280 - Voxware audio
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281 - alaw, msgsm, pcm and other simple old audio formats
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282
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283 If you have a codec not listed here, and not supported yet, just
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284 read http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/DOCS/codecs.html and DOCS/CODECS
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285 to get info about its status and about how to help us adding support for it!
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286
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288 <A NAME=2.1.2.1>2.1.2.1. OpenDivX
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291 <A NAME=2.1.2.2>2.1.2.2. ffmpeg's DivX/libavcodec
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294 <A NAME=2.1.4>2.1.4. Codec importing howto
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297 <A NAME=2.1.4.1>2.1.4.1. VFW codecs
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298
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299 VfW (Video for Windows) is the old Video API for Windows. Its codecs have
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300 the .DLL or (rarely) .DRV extension.
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301 If MPlayer fails with your AVI:
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302
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303 UNKNOWN video codec: HFYU (0x55594648)
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305 It means your AVI is encoded with a codec which has the HFYU fourcc (HFYU =
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306 HuffYUV codec, DIV3 = DivX Low Motion, etc...). Now that we know this, we'll
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307 have to find out which DLL Windows loads in order to play this file. In our
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308 case, the system.ini contains this (with many others):
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309 VIDC.HFYU=huffyuv.dll
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310 So we'll need the huffyuv.dll file. Note that the audio codecs are specified
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311 with the MSACM prefix :
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312 msacm.l3acm=L3codeca.acm
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313 This is the MP3 codec.
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314
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315 So, now we have all the info needed (fourcc, codec file, sample AVI), submit
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316 your codec support request in mail, and upload these files to the FTP:
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317 ftp://thot.banki.hu/MPlayer/incoming/<codecname>/
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320 <A NAME=2.1.4.2>2.1.4.2. DirectShow codecs
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322 DirectShow is the newer Video API, which is even worse than its predecessor.
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323 Things are harder with DirectShow, since
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324 - system.ini doesn't contain the needed information, instead it's stored in
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325 the registry :(
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326 - we'll need the GUID of the codec.
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327
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328 So let's search that goddamn registry..
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329 - Start 'regedit'
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330 - press ctrl-f, disable the first two checkbox, and enable the third. Type
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331 the fourcc of the codec. (for ex.: TM20)
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332 - you should see a field which contains the path and filename
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333 (for ex. : C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\TM20DEC.AX)
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334 - now that we have the file, we'll need the GUID. Try searching again, but
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335 now we'll search for the codec's name, not the fourcc. Its name can be acquired
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336 when Media Player is playing that file, by checking File/Properties/Advanced.
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337 If not, bad luck ;) Try guessing.
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338 (for ex. search for : TrueMotion)
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339 - if found (in registry), there should be a FriendlyName field, and a CLSID
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340 field. Write down that 16 byte of CLSID, this is the GUID required by us.
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341
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342 NOTE : if searching fails, try to enable all the checkboxes.. you may have
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343 false hits, but maybe you'll have the right, too...
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344 NOTE : dump that M$ shit.
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345
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346 So, now we have all the info needed (fourcc, GUID, codec file, sample AVI),
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347 submit your codec support request in mail, and upload these files to the FTP:
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348 ftp://thot.banki.hu/MPlayer/incoming/<codecname>/
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349
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350
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351 <A NAME=2.2>2.2. Video & Audio output devices
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352
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353
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354 <A NAME=2.2.1>2.2.1. Video output devices
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355
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356 General:
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357 - x11: X11 with optional SHM extension
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358 - xv: X11 using overlays with the Xvideo extension (hardware YUV & scaling)
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359 - gl: OpenGL renderer, so far works only with :
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360 - all cards with Utah-GLX
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361 - Matrox cards with X/DRI >=4.0.3
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362 - Radeon with X/DRI CVS
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363 - dga: X11 DGA extension
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364 - fbdev:Output to general framebuffers
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365 - svga: Output to SVGAlib
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366 - sdl: 1.1.7 : supports software scaling
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367 1.1.8 : supports Xvideo (hardware scaling/fullscreen)
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368 1.2.0 : supports aalib (textmode rendering, very funny!)
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369 - ggi: similar to SDL
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370
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371 Card specific:
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372 - mga: Matrox G200/G400 hardware YUV overlay via the mga_vid device
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373 - xmga: Matrox G200/G400 overlay (mga_vid) in X11 window
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374 (Xv emulation on X 3.3.x !)
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375 - syncfb: Matrox G400 YUV support on framebuffer (obsoleted, use mga/xmga)
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376 - 3dfx: Voodoo2/3 hardware YUV (/dev/3dfx) support (not yet tested, maybe
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377 broken)
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378
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379 Special:
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380 - png: PNG files output (use -z switch to set compression)
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381 - pgm: PGM files output (for testing purposes or ffmpeg encoding)
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382 - md5: MD5sum output (for MPEG conformance tests)
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383 - odivx:OpenDivX AVI File writer (use -br to set encoding bitrate)
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384 - null: Null output (for speed tests/benchmarking)
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385
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386 NOTE: check DOCS/VIDEOCARDS for details and requirements!
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387
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388
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389 <A NAME=2.2.1.1>2.2.1.1. Xv
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390
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391 I. Under XFree86 4.0.2 or newer, using the XVideo extension:
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392 this is what the option '-vo xv' uses.
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393
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394 In order to make this work, be sure to check the following:
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395
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396 1. You use XFree86 4.0.2 or newer (former versions don't have XVideo)
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397
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398 2. Your card actually supports harware acceleration (modern cards do)
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399
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400 3. X loads the XVideo extension, it's something like this:
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401 (II) Loading extension XVideo
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402 in /var/log/XFree86.0.log
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403 NOTE : this loads only the XFree86's extension. In a good install, this is
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404 always loaded, and doesn't mean that the _card's_ XVideo support is
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405 loaded!
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406
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407 4. Your card has Xv support under Linux. To check, try 'xvinfo', it is the
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408 part of the XFree86 distribution. It should display a long text, similar
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409 to this:
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410
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411 X-Video Extension version 2.2
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412 screen #0
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413 Adaptor #0: "Savage Streams Engine"
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414 number of ports: 1
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415 port base: 43
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416 operations supported: PutImage
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417 supported visuals:
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418 depth 16, visualID 0x22
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419 depth 16, visualID 0x23
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420 number of attributes: 5
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421 (...)
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422 Number of image formats: 7
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423 id: 0x32595559 (YUY2)
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424 guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
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425 bits per pixel: 16
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426 number of planes: 1
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427 type: YUV (packed)
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428 id: 0x32315659 (YV12)
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429 guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
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430 bits per pixel: 12
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431 number of planes: 3
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432 type: YUV (planar)
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433 (...etc...)
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434
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435 It must support YUY2 packed, and YV12 planar pixel formats to be
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436 usable with MPlayer.
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437
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438 I.1.
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439 a, If xvinfo doesn't show these, but XVideo extension is loaded and you're
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440 sure your card can do YUV conversion,
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441 - 3dfx voodoo3/banshee users download a new DRI from
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442 http://dri.sourceforge.net (or possibly use X 4.1.0)
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443 - S3 Savage4 users download XFree86 >= 4.0.3 (4.1.0 preferred)
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444 - nVidia users sell their card.. or download the nVidia driver from
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445 nVidia's website
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446 b, The GATOS driver (for ATI cards) has VSYNC enabled by default. It means
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447 that decoding speed (!) is synced to the monitor's refresh rate. If
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448 playing seems to be slow, try disabling VSYNC somehow, or set refresh
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449 rate to n*(fps of the movie) Hz.
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450
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451 5. Be sure MPlayer is compiled with the "xv" target. "./configure" should say:
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452 Checking for Xv ... yes
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453
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454 6. If all is fine, try the option '-vo xv' . It should work.
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455 (if it doesn't, send us a bugreport. See the BUGREPORTS on how to do this.)
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456
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457
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458
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459 <A NAME=2.2.1.2>2.2.1.2. DGA
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460
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461 1. Make sure X loads the DGA extension:
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462 (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
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463 (you see, XFree86 4.0.x or greater is VERY RECOMMENDED!)
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464 2. MPlayer's DGA driver is autodetected on ./configure, or you can force it
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465 with --enable-dga.
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466 3. If the driver couldn't switch to a smaller resolution, experiment with
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467 switches -vm (only with X 3.3.x), -fs, -bpp, -zoom to find a video mode that
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468 the movie fits in. There is no converter right now.. :(
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469 4. Become ROOT. DGA needs root access to be able to write directly video memory.
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470 If you want to run it as user, then install MPlayer SUID root:
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471 'chown root /usr/local/bin/mplayer'
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472 'chmod 750 /usr/local/bin/mplayer'
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473 'chmod +s /usr/local/bin/mplayer'
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474 Now it works as a simple user, too.
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475 !!!! BUT STAY TUNED !!!!
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476 This is a BIG security risk! Never do this on a server or on a computer
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477 can be accessed by more people than only you because they can gain root
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478 privilegies through suid root mplayer.
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479 !!!! SO YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ... !!!!
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480 5. Use '-vo dga' option, and there you go! (hope so:)
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481 6. Try if the '-vo sdl:dga' options work for you! It's much faster!!!
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482
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483
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484 <A NAME=2.2.1.2.1>2.2.1.2.1. Summary
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485
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486 This document tries to explain in some words what DGA is in general and
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487 what the DGA video output driver for mplayer can do (and what it can't).
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488
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489
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490 <A NAME=2.2.1.2.2>2.2.1.2.2. What is DGA
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491
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492 DGA is short for Direct Graphics Access and is a means for a program to
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493 bypass the X-Server and directly modifying the framebuffer memory.
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494 Technically spoken this happens by mapping the framebuffer memory into
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495 the memory range of your process. This is allowed by the kernel only
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496 if you have superuser privileges. You can get these either by logging in
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497 as root or by setting the suid bit on the mplayer excecutable (NOT
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498 recommended!).
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499
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500 There are two versions of DGA: DGA1 is used by XFree 3.x.x and DGA2 was
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501 introduced with XFree 4.0.1.
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502
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503 DGA1 provides only direct framebuffer access as described above. For
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504 switching the resolution of the video signal you have to rely on the
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505 XVidMode extension.
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506
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507 DGA2 incorporates the features of XVidMode extension and also allows
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508 switching the depth of the display. So you may, although basically
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509 running a 32 bit depth XServer, switch to a depth of 15 bits and vice
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510 versa.
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511
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512 However DGA has some drawbacks. It seems it is somewhat dependent on the
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513 graphics chip you use and on the implementation of the XServer's video
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514 driver that controls this chip. So it does not work on every system ...
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515
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516
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517 <A NAME=2.2.1.2.3>2.2.1.2.3. Resolution switching
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518
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519 The DGA driver allows for switching the resolution of the output signal.
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520 This avoids the need for doing (slow) software scaling and at the same
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521 time provides a fullscreen image. Ideally it would switch to the exact
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522 resolution (except for honouring aspect ratio) of the video data, but the
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523 XServer only allows switching to resolutions predefined in
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524 /etc/X11/XF86Config (/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 for XFree 4.0.X respectively).
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525 Those are defined by so-called modelines and depend on the capabilites
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526 of your video hardware. The XServer scans this config file on startup and
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527 disables the modelines not suitable for your hardware. You can find
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528 out which modes survive with the X11 log file. It can be found at:
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529 /var/log/XFree86.0.log
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530 See appendix A for some sample modeline definitions.
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531
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532
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533 <A NAME=2.2.1.2.4>2.2.1.2.4. DGA & MPlayer
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534
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535 DGA is used in two places with MPlayer: The SDL driver can be made to make
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536 use of it (-vo sdl:dga) and within the DGA driver (-vo dga).
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537 The above said is true for both; in the following sections I'll explain
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538 how the DGA driver for MPlayer works.
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539
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540
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541 <A NAME=2.2.1.2.5>2.2.1.2.5. Features of the DGA driver
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542
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543 The DGA driver is invoked by specifying -vo dga at the command line.
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544 The default behaviour is to switch to a resolution matching the original
|
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545 resolution of the video as close as possible. It deliberately ignores the
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546 -vm and -fs switches (enabling of video mode switching and fullscreen) -
|
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547 it always tries to cover as much area of your screen as possible by switching
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548 the video mode, thus refraining to use a single additional cycle of your CPU
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|
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549 to scale the image.
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550 If you don't like the mode it chooses you may force it to choose the mode
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551 matching closest the resolution you specify by -x and -y.
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552 By providing the -v option, the DGA driver will print, among a lot of other
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553 things, a list of all resolutions supported by your current XF86-Config
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554 file.
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555 Having DGA2 you may also force it to use a certain depth by using the -bpp
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556 option. Valid depths are 15, 16, 24 and 32. It depends on your hardware
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557 whether these depths are natively supported or if a (possibly slow)
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558 conversion has to be done.
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559
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560 If you should be lucky enough to have enough offscreen memory left to
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561 put a whole image there, the DGA driver will use doublebuffering, which
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562 results in much smoother movie replaying. It will tell you whether double-
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563 buffering is enabled or not.
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564
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565 Doublebuffering means that the next frame of your video is being drawn in
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566 some offscreen memory while the current frame is being displayed. When the
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567 next frame is ready, the graphics chip is just told the location in memory
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568 of the new frame and simply fetches the data to be displayed from there.
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569 In the meantime the other buffer in memory will be filled again with new
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570 video data.
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571
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572 Doublebuffering may be switched on by using the option -double and may be
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573 disabled with -nodouble. Current default option is to disable
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574 doublebuffering. When using the DGA driver, onscreen display (OSD) only
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575 works with doublebuffering enabled. However, enabling doublebuffering may
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576 result in a big speed penalty (on my K6-II+ 525 it used an additional 20% of
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577 CPU time!) depending on the implementation of DGA for your hardware.
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578
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579
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580 <A NAME=2.2.1.2.6>2.2.1.2.6. Speed issues
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581
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582 Generally spoken, DGA framebuffer access should be at least as fast as using
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583 the X11 driver with the additional benefit of getting a fullscreen image.
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584 The percentage speed values printed by mplayer have to be interpreted with
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585 some care, as for example, with the X11 driver they do not include the time
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586 used by the X-Server needed for the actual drawing. Hook a terminal to a
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587 serial line of your box and start top to see what is really going on in your
|
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588 box ...
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589
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590 Generally spoken, the speedup done by using DGA against 'normal' use of X11
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591 highly depends on your graphics card and how well the X-Server module for it
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592 is optimized.
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593
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594 If you have a slow system, better use 15 or 16bit depth since they require
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595 only half the memory bandwidth of a 32 bit display.
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596
|
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597 Using a depth of 24bit is even a good idea if your card natively just supports
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598 32 bit depth since it transfers 25% less data compared to the 32/32 mode.
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599
|
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600 I've seen some avi files already be replayed on a Pentium MMX 266. AMD K6-2
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601 CPUs might work at 400 MHZ and above.
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602
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603
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604 <A NAME=2.2.1.2.7>2.2.1.2.7. Known bugs
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605
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606 Well, according to some developpers of XFree, DGA is quite a beast. They
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607 tell you better not to use it. Its implementation is not always flawless
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608 with every chipset driver for XFree out there.
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609
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610 o with XFree 4.0.3 and nv.o there is a bug resulting in strange colors
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611 o ATI driver requires to switch mode back more than once after finishing
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612 using of DGA
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613 o some drivers simply fail to switch back to normal resolution (use
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614 Ctrl-Alt-Keypad +, - to switch back manually)
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615 o some drivers simply display strange colors
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616 o some drivers lie about the amount of memory they map into the process's
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617 address space, thus vo_dga won't use doublebuffering (SIS?)
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618 o some drivers seem to fail to report even a single valid mode. In this
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619 case the DGA driver will crash telling you about a nonsense mode of
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620 100000x100000 or the like ...
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621 o OSD only works with doublebuffering enabled
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622
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623
|
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624 <A NAME=2.2.1.2.8>2.2.1.2.8. Future work
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625
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626 o use of the new X11 render interface for OSD
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|
627 o where is my TODO list ???? :-(((
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628
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629
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630 <A NAME=2.2.1.2.A>2.2.1.2.A. Some modelines
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631
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632 Section "Modes"
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633 Identifier "Modes[0]"
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634 Modeline "800x600" 40 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628
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635 Modeline "712x600" 35.0 712 740 850 900 400 410 412 425
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636 Modeline "640x480" 25.175 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525
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637 Modeline "400x300" 20 400 416 480 528 300 301 303 314 Doublescan
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638 Modeline "352x288" 25.10 352 368 416 432 288 296 290 310
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639 Modeline "352x240" 15.750 352 368 416 432 240 244 246 262 Doublescan
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640 Modeline "320x240" 12.588 320 336 384 400 240 245 246 262 Doublescan
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641 EndSection
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642
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643
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644 These entries work fine with my Riva128 chip, using nv.o XServer driver
|
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645 module.
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646
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647
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648 <A NAME=2.2.1.2.B>2.2.1.2.B. Bug Reports
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649
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650 If you experience troubles with the DGA driver please feel free to file
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651 a bug report to me (e-mail address below). Please start mplayer with the
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652 -v option and include all lines in the bug report that start with vo_dga:
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653
|
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654 Please do also include the version of X11 you are using, the graphics card
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655 and your CPU type. The X11 driver module (defined in XF86-Config) might
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656 also help. Thanks!
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657
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658
|
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659 Acki (acki@acki-netz.de, www.acki-netz.de)
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660
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661
|
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|
662 <A NAME=2.2.1.3>2.2.1.3. SDL
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663
|
|
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664 Here are some notes about SDL out in MPlayer.
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|
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665
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666 There are several commandline switches for sdl:
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667 -vo sdl:<name> specifies sdl video driver to use (ie. aalib,
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668 dga, x11)
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669 -ao sdl:<name> specifies sdl audio driver to use (ie. dsp, esd)
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670 -noxv disables Xvideo hardware acceleration
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671 -forcexv tries to force Xvideo acceleration
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672
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673 SDL Keys:
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|
674 F toggles fullscreen/windowed mode
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675 C cycles available fullscreen modes
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676 W/S mappings for * and / (mixer control)
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677
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678 KNOWN BUGS:
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679 - Keys pressed under aalib console driver repeat forever.
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680 It's bug in SDL, I can't change it (tested with SDL 1.2.1).
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681
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682
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683 <A NAME=2.2.1.4>2.2.1.4. SVGAlib
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684
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685 a, If you don't have X...
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686 ...use the SVGAlib target! Be sure not to use the -fs switch, since it
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687 toggles the usage of the software scaler, and it's SLOOOW now, unless you
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688 have a real fast CPU (and/or MTRR?). :(
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689
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690 Of course you'll have to install svgalib and its development package in
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691 order for MPlayer build its SVGAlib driver (autodetected, but can be
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692 forced), and don't forget to edit /etc/vga/libvga.config to suit your
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693 card & monitor.
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694
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695
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696 <A NAME=2.2.1.5>2.2.1.5. Framebuffer output (FBdev)
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697
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698 b, You want to use framebuffer...
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699 ... Whether to build the FBdev target is autodetected during ./configure .
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700 Read the framebuffer documentation in the kernel sources
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701 (Documentation/fb/*) for info on how to enable it, etc.. !
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702
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703 ... but your card doesn't support VBE 2.0 standard (older ISA/PCI
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|
704 cards, such as S3 Trio64), only VBE 1.2 (or older?) :
|
|
|
705 Well, VESAfb is still available, but you'll have to load SciTech Display
|
|
|
706 Doctor (formerly UniVBE) before booting Linux. Use a DOS boot disk or
|
|
|
707 whatever. And don't forget to register your UniVBE ;))
|
|
|
708
|
|
|
709 NOTE : FBdev video mode changing _does not work_ with the VESA framebuffer,
|
|
|
710 and don't ask for it, since it's not an MPlayer limitation.
|
|
|
711
|
|
|
712
|
|
|
713 <A NAME=2.2.1.6>2.2.1.6. Matrox framebuffer (mga_vid)
|
|
|
714
|
|
|
715 1. Matrox G200/G400/G450 BES (Back-End Scaler) support -> mga_vid kernel drv.
|
|
|
716 It's active developed by me (A'rpi), and it has hardware VSYNC support
|
|
|
717 with triple buffering. It works on both framebuffer console and under X.
|
|
|
718
|
|
|
719 To use, simply compile the mga_vid.o in the drivers/ subdir (type: make)
|
|
|
720 create /dev/mga_vid device :
|
|
|
721 mknod /dev/mga_vid c 178 0
|
|
|
722 and load the driver with insmod mga_vid.o. You should verify the memory size
|
|
|
723 detection using the 'dmesg' command. If it's bad, use the mga_ram_size
|
|
|
724 option (rmmod mga_vid first), specify card's memory size in MB:
|
|
|
725 insmod mga_vid.o mga_ram_size=16
|
|
|
726 To make it load/unload automatically when needed, insert the following line
|
|
|
727 at the end of /etc/modules.conf :
|
|
|
728 alias char-major-178 mga_vid
|
|
|
729 Then run
|
|
|
730 depmod -a
|
|
|
731
|
|
|
732 Using it from MPlayer: (you should re-compile it with mga_vid support...)
|
|
|
733
|
|
|
734 Use the 'mga' vo driver on framebuffer console (matroxfb): -vo mga
|
|
|
735 and use the xmga driver for X 3.3.x: -vo xmga
|
|
|
736
|
|
|
737 Note: it works under X 4.0.2 too, but it conflicts with the Xv driver,
|
|
|
738 so avoid using both. Usually X restart or reboot needs to get Xv usable
|
|
|
739 again :(
|
|
|
740
|
|
|
741 If you have a dual-head G400, and a TV or second monitor connected to head2,
|
|
|
742 then you can watch movies on it: read DOCS/TVout-G400 for details (big hack)
|
|
|
743
|
|
|
744
|
|
|
745 <A NAME=2.2.1.7>2.2.1.7. SiS 6326 framebuffer (sis_vid)
|
|
|
746
|
|
|
747 2. SiS 6326 YUV Framebuffer driver -> sis_vid kernel driver
|
|
|
748 Its interface should be compatible with the mga_vid, but the driver
|
|
|
749 was not updated after the mga_vid changes, so it's outdated now.
|
|
|
750 Volunteers needed to test it and bring the code up-to-date.
|
|
|
751
|
|
|
752
|
|
|
753 <A NAME=2.2.1.8>2.2.1.8. 3dfx YUV support
|
|
|
754
|
|
|
755 3. 3dfx (which ones?) YUV+scaler support, using /dev/3dfx (tdfx.o driver?)
|
|
|
756 The /dev/3dfx kernel driver exists only for 2.2.x kernels, for use with
|
|
|
757 Glide 2.x Linux ports. It's not tested with MPlayer, and so no more
|
|
|
758 supported. Volunteers needed to test it and bring the code up-to-date.
|
|
|
759
|
|
|
760
|
|
|
761 <A NAME=2.2.1.9>2.2.1.9. OpenGL output
|
|
|
762
|
|
|
763 The old Utah-GLX drivers (for X 3.3.6) have it, with all cards.
|
|
|
764 See http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net for details about how to install it.
|
|
|
765
|
|
|
766 DRI >= 4.0.3 supports it only with Matrox cards, and Radeon.
|
|
|
767 See dri.sourceforge.net for download, and installation instructions.
|
|
|
768
|
|
|
769
|
|
|
770 <A NAME=2.2.2>2.2.2. Audio output devices
|
|
|
771
|
|
|
772 - OSS (ioctl) driver
|
|
|
773 - SDL driver (supports up/downsampling, esd, arts etc)
|
|
|
774 - native ALSA 0.5 driver
|
|
|
775 - native ALSA 0.9 driver (buggy, use OSS emulation!)
|
|
|
776 - native ESD driver (under development?)
|
|
|
777 - SUN audio driver (/dev/audio) for BSD and Solaris8 users
|
|
|
778
|
|
|
779
|
|
|
780 <A NAME=2.3>2.3. Subtitles and OSD (On-Screen Display)
|
|
|
781
|
|
|
782 Yes, mplayer also supports many kinds of subtitles. Currently (2001/06/01)
|
|
|
783 7 kinds of subtitle can be used by the subreader code. To see what are
|
|
|
784 these subtitle formats, see subreader.c, line ~20.
|
|
|
785
|
|
|
786 Subtitles are displayed with a technique called 'OSD', On Screen Display.
|
|
|
787 OSD is used to display current time, volume bar, seek bar etc.
|
|
|
788
|
|
|
789
|
|
|
790 INSTALLING OSD and SUB
|
|
|
791 -------
|
|
|
792
|
|
|
793 NOTE: OSD and SUBTITLES are NOT enabled by default! You have to download
|
|
|
794 fonts from mplayer's download page mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html
|
|
|
795
|
|
|
796 Standard (Central-European, Latin1) font package:
|
|
|
797 http://thot.banki.hu/mp-ftp/releases/mp_font3.zip
|
|
|
798 (it obsoletes mp_font1.zip and mp_font2.zip)
|
|
|
799
|
|
|
800 Cyrillic fonts:
|
|
|
801 http://thot.banki.hu/mp-ftp/releases/bgfont.zip
|
|
|
802
|
|
|
803 And visit this site for korean subtitle support:
|
|
|
804 http://realtime.ssu.ac.kr/~lethean/mplayer
|
|
|
805
|
|
|
806 After that, UNZIP the files to ~/.mplayer/font/
|
|
|
807 Now you have to see a clock at the upper left corner of the movie
|
|
|
808 (switch it off with 'o')
|
|
|
809
|
|
|
810 OSD has 3 states: (switch with 'o')
|
|
|
811 - clock + volume bar + seek bar + sub (default)
|
|
|
812 - volume bar + seek bar + sub
|
|
|
813 - only sub
|
|
|
814
|
|
|
815
|
|
|
816 <A NAME=3>3. Usage
|
|
|
817
|
|
|
818 file: mplayer [options] [path/]filename
|
|
|
819 VCD: mplayer [options] -vcd trackno /dev/cdrom
|
|
|
820 DVD: mplayer [options] -dvdauth /dev/dvd filename.VOB
|
|
|
821 net: mplayer [options] http://site.com/file.[mpg|avi]
|
|
|
822
|
|
|
823 mplayer -vo x11 /mnt/Films/Contact/contact2.mpg
|
|
|
824 mplayer -vcd 2 /dev/cdrom
|
|
|
825 mplayer -afm 3 /mnt/DVDtrailers/alien4.vob
|
|
|
826 mplayer -dvd /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd/matrix.vob
|
|
|
827 mplayer -abs 65536 -delay -0.4 -nobps ~/movies/test.avi
|
|
|
828
|
|
|
829
|
|
|
830 <A NAME=3.1>3.1. Control from keyboard
|
|
|
831
|
|
|
832 <- or -> seek backward/forward 10 seconds
|
|
|
833 up or down seek backward/forward 1 minute
|
|
|
834 p or SPACE pause movie (press any key to continue)
|
|
|
835 q or ^C stop playing and quit program
|
|
|
836 o toggle OSD : none / seek / seek+timer
|
|
|
837 / and * decrease/increase volume
|
|
|
838 m toggle using master/pcm channel for volume setting
|
|
|
839 f toggle fullscreen (only with -vo sdl)
|
|
|
840
|
|
|
841
|
|
|
842 <A NAME=3.2>3.2. Control from LIRC
|
|
|
843
|
|
|
844 Linux Infrared Remote Control - use an easy to build home-brewn IR-receiver,
|
|
|
845 an (almost) arbitrary remote control and control your linux box with it!
|
|
|
846 More about it at www.lirc.org.
|
|
|
847
|
|
|
848 If you have installed the lirc-package, you can compile MPlayer with LIRC
|
|
|
849 support using ./configure --enable-lirc
|
|
|
850
|
|
|
851 If everything went fine, MPlayer will print a message like
|
|
|
852 LIRC init was successful.
|
|
|
853 on startup. If an error occurs it will tell you. If it doens't tell you
|
|
|
854 anything about LIRC there's no support compiled in. That's it :-)
|
|
|
855
|
|
|
856 The application name for MPlayer is - oh wonder - mplayer_lirc.
|
|
|
857 It understands the following commands:
|
|
|
858
|
|
|
859 PAUSE - pause playing. Any other keystroke will continue replay.
|
|
|
860 QUIT - exit mplayer
|
|
|
861 RWND - 10 secs back
|
|
|
862 FRWND - 60 secs back
|
|
|
863 FWD - skip 10 secs
|
|
|
864 FFWD - skip 60 secs
|
|
|
865 INCVOL - increase volume one percent
|
|
|
866 DECVOL - decrease volmue one percent
|
|
|
867 MASTER - use master mixer channel
|
|
|
868 PCM - use pcm mixer channel
|
|
|
869
|
|
|
870 Don't forget to enable the repeat flag for RWND/FWD in .lircrc. Here's an
|
|
|
871 excerpt from my .lircrc:
|
|
|
872
|
|
|
873 begin
|
|
|
874 remote = CU-SX070
|
|
|
875 prog = mplayer_lirc
|
|
|
876 button = Tape_Play
|
|
|
877 repeat = 1
|
|
|
878 config = FFWD
|
|
|
879 end
|
|
|
880
|
|
|
881 begin
|
|
|
882 remote = CU-SX070
|
|
|
883 prog = mplayer_lirc
|
|
|
884 button = Tape_Stop
|
|
|
885 config = QUIT
|
|
|
886 end
|
|
|
887
|
|
|
888 If you don't like the standard location for the lirc-config file (~/.lircrc)
|
|
|
889 use the -lircconf <filename> switch to specify another file.
|
|
|
890
|
|
|
891
|
|
|
892 <A NAME=3.3>3.3. Streaming from network or pipes
|
|
|
893
|
|
|
894 wget ftp://micorsops.com/something.avi -O - | mplayer -
|
|
|
895
|
|
|
896
|
|
|
897 <A NAME=4>4. TV-out support
|
|
|
898
|
|
|
899
|
|
|
900 <A NAME=4.1>4.1. Matrox cards
|
|
|
901
|
|
|
902 > What I'd love to see in mplayer is the the same feature that I see in my
|
|
|
903 > windows box. When I start a movie in windows (in a window or in full screen)
|
|
|
904 > the movie is also redirected to the tv-out and I can also see it full screen
|
|
|
905 > on my tv. I love this feature and was wondering how hard it would be to add
|
|
|
906 > such a feature to mplayer.
|
|
|
907
|
|
|
908 It's a driver limitation. BES (Back-End Scaler, it's the overlay generator
|
|
|
909 and YUV scaling engine of G200/G400/G450 cards) works only with CRTC1.
|
|
|
910 Normally, CRTC1 (textmode, every bpp gfx and BES) is routed to HEAD1,
|
|
|
911 and CRTC2 (only 16/32bpp gfx) is routed to HEAD2 (TV-out).
|
|
|
912
|
|
|
913 Under linux, you have two choices to get TV-out working:
|
|
|
914
|
|
|
915 1. Using X 4.0.x + the HAL driver from matrox, so you'll get dual-head
|
|
|
916 support, and you'll be able to redirect second output to the TV.
|
|
|
917 Unfortunately it has Macrovision encryption enabled, so it will
|
|
|
918 only work on directly-connected TV, no through VCR.
|
|
|
919 Other problem is that Xv doesn't work on the second head.
|
|
|
920 (I don't know how Windows solve it, maybe it swaps the CRTCs between
|
|
|
921 the heads, or just uses YUV framebuffer of second DAC with some trick)
|
|
|
922
|
|
|
923 2. Using matroxfb with dual-head support enabled (2.4.x kernels).
|
|
|
924 You'll be able to get a framebuffer console (using CRTC2, so it's
|
|
|
925 slow), and TV-out (using CRTC1, with BES support).
|
|
|
926 You have to forget X while using this kind of TV-out! :(
|
|
|
927
|
|
|
928 - Compile all the matrox-related things to modules in the kernel.
|
|
|
929 (you MUST compile them to modules, at least I couldn't get them
|
|
|
930 working built-in yet)
|
|
|
931 [reboot to new kernel & install modules, but don't load them yet!]
|
|
|
932
|
|
|
933 - Run the 'modules' script from the TV-out directory of mplayer.
|
|
|
934 It will switch your console to framebuffer.
|
|
|
935 Change to tty1 (ALT+F1)!
|
|
|
936 Now run the script 'independent', it will set up your tty's:
|
|
|
937 tty 1,2: fb console, CRTC2, head 1 (monitor)
|
|
|
938 tty 3,4,5...: framebuffer+BES, CRTC1, head 2 (TV-out)
|
|
|
939 You should run the scripts TV-* and Mon-* to set up resolutions:
|
|
|
940 change to tty1 (ALT+F1), and run Mon-* (one of them)
|
|
|
941 change to tty3 (ALT+F3) and then back to tty1 (ALT+F1)
|
|
|
942 (this change will select tty3 on /dev/fb1 - tricky)
|
|
|
943 run TV-* (one of them)
|
|
|
944 (now you'll get a console on your PAL TV - don't know about NTSC)
|
|
|
945
|
|
|
946 Now if you start mplayer (on tty1), the picture will show up on
|
|
|
947 the tty3, so you'll see it on your TV or second monitor.
|
|
|
948
|
|
|
949 Yes, it is a bit 'hack' now. But I'm waiting for the marvel
|
|
|
950 project to be finished, it will provide real TV-out drivers, I hope.
|
|
|
951
|
|
|
952 My current problem is that BES is working only with CRTC1. So picture
|
|
|
953 will always shown up on head routed to CRTC1 (normaly the monitor),
|
|
|
954 so i have to swap CRTC's, but this way your console will framebuffer
|
|
|
955 (CRTC2 can't do text-mode) and a bit slow (no acceleration). :(
|
|
|
956
|
|
|
957
|
|
|
958 > anyway i also just get monochrome output on the tv ...
|
|
|
959 Maybe you have NTSC TV? Or just didn't run one of TV-* scripts.
|
|
|
960
|
|
|
961
|
|
|
962 <A NAME=5>5. Tuning
|
|
|
963
|
|
|
964
|
|
|
965 <A NAME=5.1>5.1. CD-ROM drives
|
|
|
966
|
|
|
967 From Linux documentation:
|
|
|
968
|
|
|
969 Some CDROM drives are capable of changing their head-speed. There are several
|
|
|
970 reasons for changing the speed of a CDROM drive. Badly pressed CDROMs may
|
|
|
971 benefit from less-than-maximum head rate. Modern CDROM drives can obtain very
|
|
|
972 high head rates (up to 24-times is common). It has been reported that these
|
|
|
973 drives can make reading errors at these high speeds, reducing the speed can
|
|
|
974 prevent data loss in these circumstances. Finally, some of these drives can
|
|
|
975 make an annoyingly loud noise, which a lower speed may reduce.
|
|
|
976
|
|
|
977 The recommended way to do it is with a program called 'setcd' . It's kinda
|
|
|
978 old, but won't be too hard to find on the Net.
|
|
|
979 Use it with :
|
|
|
980 setcd -x <speed> <cdrom device>
|
|
|
981
|
|
|
982 Also you can try :
|
|
|
983 echo current_speed:4 >/proc/ide/<cdrom device>/settings
|
|
|
984 but you'll need root privileges. (It didn't work for me - Gabucino)
|
|
|
985
|
|
|
986 I use following command too :
|
|
|
987 echo file_readahead:2000000 >/proc/ide/<cdrom device>/settings
|
|
|
988 for 2MB prefetched reading from the file (it's useful for scratched CDROMs).
|
|
|
989
|
|
|
990 It's recommended that you tuneup your CDROM drive also with hdparm :
|
|
|
991 hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 <cdrom device>
|
|
|
992 to enable using DMA access, readahead, and IRQ unmasking.
|
|
|
993 (if you don't understand these, *read the hdparm manpage*)
|
|
|
994
|
|
|
995 Please refer to "/proc/ide/<cdrom device>/settings" for fine-tuning your
|
|
|
996 CDROM.
|
|
|
997
|
|
|
998
|
|
|
999 <A NAME=5.2>5.2. DVD drives
|
|
|
1000
|
|
|
1001 IMPORTANT NOTE: please _DO_NOT_ require further features for DVD playback. This
|
|
|
1002 is extremly experimental hack. Maybe it won't work for you. If you're
|
|
|
1003 capable of helping us do it now! First we would like to fix existing problems.
|
|
|
1004 Then we can start implementing advanced DVD playback functions of course.
|
|
|
1005
|
|
|
1006 This means current DVD functions are mainly for developers and not for users!
|
|
|
1007
|
|
|
1008 First, you must compile and install libcss on your system.
|
|
|
1009 Second, you have to recompile MPlayer with libcss support. There is
|
|
|
1010 autodetection of libcss, but if it fails, see below :
|
|
|
1011
|
|
|
1012 Call ./configure script of MPlayer with these options:
|
|
|
1013
|
|
|
1014 ./configure --enable-css --with-csslibdir=/usr/local/lib --with-cssincdir=/usr/local/include
|
|
|
1015
|
|
|
1016 (of course you can append your favourite options as well)
|
|
|
1017
|
|
|
1018 --with-csslibdir=/usr/local/lib
|
|
|
1019 Directory contains libcss.so shared library. This directory should
|
|
|
1020 be in your /etc/ld.so.conf as well.
|
|
|
1021
|
|
|
1022 --with-cssincdir=/usr/local/include
|
|
|
1023 Directory contains header file 'css.h' of libcss.
|
|
|
1024
|
|
|
1025 mplayer -dvdauth /dev/dvd /mnt/cdrom/video_ts/vts_01_1.vob
|
|
|
1026
|
|
|
1027 where,
|
|
|
1028
|
|
|
1029 '-dvdauth /dev/dvd' tells MPlayer the device name of your DVD drive.
|
|
|
1030 it's used in disc authentication process
|
|
|
1031
|
|
|
1032 the filename is simply a VOB file path on the disc
|
|
|
1033
|
|
|
1034 Note that according to my experiences, disc authentication requires root
|
|
|
1035 privileges so you must run MPlayer as root! (see section 'Problems').
|
|
|
1036
|
|
|
1037 NOTE about the sound:
|
|
|
1038 It seems that MPlayer sometimes fails to find the first audio stream.
|
|
|
1039 You can specify it with the '-aid 128' option, for example.
|
|
|
1040 Please experience with 128,129 and similar values. See section
|
|
|
1041 'Problems'.
|
|
|
1042
|
|
|
1043 On my AMD K6-2 with using hw scaling and colorspace conversion
|
|
|
1044 capability of my G400 it's possible to watch DVD with about 70%
|
|
|
1045 CPU usage with '-nosound'. Unfortunately with sound my machine is
|
|
|
1046 not enough :( Maybe it can be improved somewhat ...
|
|
|
1047 Guess, it's not so bad ... According to reports from my friends
|
|
|
1048 xine uses 80-90% CPU to play DVD on much more powerful machines
|
|
|
1049 like 1GHz Athlon systems (as far as I know, it's said that about
|
|
|
1050 300MHz celeron is the minimum to watch DVDs ... using windows
|
|
|
1051 DVD viewers).
|
|
|
1052
|
|
|
1053 Hint: I commented out downmix functions from libac3 (of course in this way I
|
|
|
1054 can't get sound) and audio decoding CPU usage became 11% instead of 24 on
|
|
|
1055 my machine. This clearly indicates that we should optimize downmix functions
|
|
|
1056 (KNI code is no use for my k6-2).
|
|
|
1057
|
|
|
1058 HOT NEWZ:
|
|
|
1059 We have got 3Dnow optimized libac3. Wow ;-)
|
|
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1060
|
|
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1061
|
|
|
1062 Problems (TODO)
|
|
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1063
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|
|
1064 * disc authentication (the FIBMAP ioctl) requires root privilegies.
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|
|
1065 this is strange since OMS can do it as user too.
|
|
|
1066 * sound. I'm using my only DVD disc (The Matrix) to test MPlayer.
|
|
|
1067 some VOB file have English sound, some have Spanish and some have
|
|
|
1068 no sound at all.
|
|
|
1069 IT SEEMS that if I give '-aid 128' everything works with English sound ...
|
|
|
1070 * strange effects but only with SOME vob files (it looks like some interlacing
|
|
|
1071 effect, eg: every 2nd line on the screen is from the last frame).
|
|
|
1072
|
|
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1073
|
|
|
1074 Feature TODO
|
|
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1075
|
|
|
1076 * chapter scanner
|
|
|
1077 * audio stream scanner and allow to select one on runtime as well
|
|
|
1078 (in stage#1 it would be enough to select one on the startup, see
|
|
|
1079 'Problems' above)
|
|
|
1080 * DVD menu
|
|
|
1081 I found (at least on disc 'The Matrix') the menu VOB but I don't
|
|
|
1082 know how can it be used.
|
|
|
1083 (after some eyeballing on the source of OMS, it seems we would have to
|
|
|
1084 parse *.ifo files)
|
|
|
1085 * subtitle support
|
|
|
1086 * OSD/GUI (?) support for select chapter, subtitle and audio stream
|
|
|
1087 * getting some documentation on DVD format, eg: which is the 'root' VOB
|
|
|
1088 file on the disc in video_ts directory, which is the menu and so on.
|
|
|
1089 * improve performance (see 'Performance' above)
|
|
|
1090
|
|
|
1091
|
|
|
1092 No sound problem (from Matrix DVD, the menu VOB)
|
|
|
1093
|
|
|
1094 End of packet while searching for PCM header
|
|
|
1095
|
|
|
1096 DEMUXER: Too many (2048 in 4131540 bytes) video packets in the buffer!
|
|
|
1097 (maybe you play a non-interleaved stream/file or video codec failed)
|
|
|
1098 MPEG: No Audio stream found... ->nosound
|
|
|
1099
|
|
|
1100 However this does not occur if you specify '-aid 128'.
|
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|
1101
|
|
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1102
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|
|
1103 <A NAME=5.3>5.3. MTRR
|
|
|
1104
|
|
|
1105 Setting up MTRR for X11 3.3.x, SVGAlib or mga_vid:
|
|
|
1106 ==================================================
|
|
|
1107
|
|
|
1108 1. find the base address
|
|
|
1109 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|
|
1110 You have 3 ways to find it:
|
|
|
1111
|
|
|
1112 - from X11 startup messages, for example:
|
|
|
1113 (--) SVGA: PCI: Matrox MGA G400 AGP rev 4, Memory @ 0xd8000000, 0xd4000000
|
|
|
1114 (--) SVGA: Linear framebuffer at 0xD8000000
|
|
|
1115
|
|
|
1116 - from /proc/pci (use lspci -v command):
|
|
|
1117 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc.: Unknown device 0525
|
|
|
1118 Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
|
|
|
1119
|
|
|
1120 - from mga_vid kernel driver messages (use dmesg):
|
|
|
1121 mga_mem_base = d8000000
|
|
|
1122
|
|
|
1123 2. find memory size
|
|
|
1124 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|
|
1125 This is very easy, just convert video ram size to hexadecimal, or
|
|
|
1126 use this table:
|
|
|
1127 1 MB 0x100000
|
|
|
1128 2 MB 0x200000
|
|
|
1129 4 MB 0x400000
|
|
|
1130 8 MB 0x800000
|
|
|
1131 16 MB 0x1000000
|
|
|
1132 32 MB 0x2000000
|
|
|
1133
|
|
|
1134 3. setting up mtrr
|
|
|
1135 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|
|
1136 You know base address and memory size, let's setup mtrr registers!
|
|
|
1137
|
|
|
1138 For example, for the matrox card above (base=0xd8000000) with 32MB
|
|
|
1139 ram (size=0x2000000) just execute:
|
|
|
1140 echo "base=0xd8000000 size=0x2000000 type=write-combining" >| /proc/mtrr
|
|
|
1141
|
|
|
1142 - Older K6-2's [around 266Mhz, stepping 0] doesn't support MTRR, but
|
|
|
1143 stepping 12's do ('cat /proc/cpuinfo' to check it).
|
|
|
1144
|
|
|
1145
|
|
|
1146 <A NAME=6>6. FAQ section
|
|
|
1147
|
|
|
1148 Yes, this is the MPlayer FAQ.
|
|
|
1149 =============================
|
|
|
1150
|
|
|
1151 About:
|
|
|
1152 ~~~~~~
|
|
|
1153 Many people asked same questions so I decided to write this stuff.
|
|
|
1154 I know that people will never read this but at least i try to
|
|
|
1155 pull down number of these mails.
|
|
|
1156 And from now i can say that "read the fuckin' FAQ!" :-)
|
|
|
1157
|
|
|
1158 Let's ask!
|
|
|
1159 ~~~~~~~~~~
|
|
|
1160 Q: What about DVD playback?
|
|
|
1161 A: Read files 'DVD' and 'DVD-FAQ'.
|
|
|
1162
|
|
|
1163 Q: SDL output doesn't work or compile. Problem is ....
|
|
|
1164 A: It is tested with newest SDL (probably runs on 1.1.7+).
|
|
|
1165 It does NOT work with 1.1.6, 1.1.5 1.1.4 1.1.3 1.0.4 etc, don't ask.
|
|
|
1166
|
|
|
1167 Q: I am still having trouble compiling with SDL support. gcc says something
|
|
|
1168 about "undefined reference to `SDL_EnableKeyRepeat'" What's now?
|
|
|
1169 A: Where did you install the SDL library? If you installed in /usr/local
|
|
|
1170 (the default) then edit the top level config.mak and add
|
|
|
1171 "-L/usr/local/lib " after "X_LIBS=" Now type make. You're done!
|
|
|
1172
|
|
|
1173 Q: It doesn't compile, and it misses uint64_t inttypes.h and similar things...
|
|
|
1174 A: copy DOCS/inttypes.h to MPlayer directory (cp DOCS/inttypes.h .)
|
|
|
1175 try again... if fail, contact us
|
|
|
1176
|
|
|
1177 Q: I have Pentium III but ./configure doesn't detect SSE
|
|
|
1178 A: Only kernel versions 2.4.x supports SSE (or try latest 2.2.19 or newer, but
|
|
|
1179 be prepared for problems)
|
|
|
1180
|
|
|
1181 Q: -xy option doesn't work with x11 driver (-vo x11)
|
|
|
1182 A: x11 driver doesn't support scaling, but XF86VidMode support is now
|
|
|
1183 used: you must specify the -vm and the -fs switch, and you're done.
|
|
|
1184 Make sure you have the right Modelines in your XF86Config file, and
|
|
|
1185 try if the DGA driver (and SDL's DGA driver, see VIDEOCARDS) works for you.
|
|
|
1186 It's much faster. If SDL's DGA works too, use that, it'll be EVEN
|
|
|
1187 faster!
|
|
|
1188
|
|
|
1189 Q: audio goes out of sync playing .avi file
|
|
|
1190 A: try with -bps or -nobps option
|
|
|
1191 if still bad, send me (upload to ftp) that file, I'll check.
|
|
|
1192
|
|
|
1193 Q: what is the meaning of numbers in the status line?
|
|
|
1194 A: see:
|
|
|
1195 A: 2.1 V: 2.2 A-V: -0.167 ct: 0.042 57 41% 0% 2.6% 0
|
|
|
1196 - A: audio position in seconds
|
|
|
1197 - V: video position in seconds
|
|
|
1198 - A-V: audio-video difference in seconds (delay)
|
|
|
1199 - ct: total A-V sync correction done
|
|
|
1200 - frames played (counting from last seek)
|
|
|
1201 - video codec cpu usage in percent (for mpeg it includes video_out too!)
|
|
|
1202 - video_out cpu usage for avi, 0 for mpg (see above)
|
|
|
1203 - audio codec cpu usage in percent
|
|
|
1204 - frames needed to drop to maintain A-V sync
|
|
|
1205 Most of them are for debug purposes, and will be removed soon.
|
|
|
1206
|
|
|
1207 Q: Why is video_out cpu usage zero (0%) for mpeg files?
|
|
|
1208 A: It's not zero, but it's built in into codec, so can't be measured separated.
|
|
|
1209 You should try to play the file using -vo null and then -vo ... and check
|
|
|
1210 the difference to see video_out speed...
|
|
|
1211
|
|
|
1212 Q: OpenGL (-vo gl) output doesn't work (hangup/black window/X11 errors/...)
|
|
|
1213 A: your opengl driver doesn't support dynamic texture changes (glTexSubImage)
|
|
|
1214 it's known not to work with nVidia's binary shit.
|
|
|
1215 it's known to work with Utah-GLX/DRI and Matrox G400 card. Also with
|
|
|
1216 DRI and Radeon card. It won't work with DRI others than these.
|
|
|
1217 it will not work with 3DFX cards because the 256x256 texture size limit.
|
|
|
1218
|
|
|
1219 Q: I have G200/G400, how to compile/use mga_vid driver?
|
|
|
1220 A: read VIDEOCARDS, INSTALL, README
|
|
|
1221
|
|
|
1222 Q: What's XMMP? (is it XMMS or XMPS but mispelled?)
|
|
|
1223 A: It's a new project, see http://frozenproductions.com for details
|
|
|
1224
|
|
|
1225 Q: There are error messages about file not found /usr/lib/win32/....
|
|
|
1226 A: Download & install w32codec.zip from *our* FTP
|
|
|
1227 (avifile's codec package has different DLL set)
|
|
|
1228
|
|
|
1229 Q: ...... works with avifile/aviplay while doesn't with MPlayer
|
|
|
1230 A: MPlayer != avifile
|
|
|
1231 The only common thing between these players is the Win32 DLL loader.
|
|
|
1232 The codecs (dll) sets, syncronization, demultiplexing etc is totaly
|
|
|
1233 different and shouldn't be compared.
|
|
|
1234 If something works with aviplay it doesn't mean that MPlayer should do
|
|
|
1235 it and vice versa.
|
|
|
1236
|
|
|
1237 Q: Indeo 3.x/4.x movies are viewed upside-down!!!?
|
|
|
1238 A: It's a known bug (really it's a bug/limitation of the DLL codec)
|
|
|
1239 Try if your vo driver supports the -flip switch.
|
|
|
1240
|
|
|
1241 Q: Indeo 3.x,4.x video doesn't work at 32bpp resolutions (16,24 bpp are ok)
|
|
|
1242 A: It's a known bug (really it's a bug/limitation of the DLL codec)
|
|
|
1243
|
|
|
1244 Q: I've got 'MPlayer interrupted by signal 11' in module audio_setup or
|
|
|
1245 decode_audio.
|
|
|
1246 A: This is highly unlikely, since the mp3lib rewrite. Contact us, it may be
|
|
|
1247 a bug. Possibly it's a damaged file, try with -afm 4 .
|
|
|
1248
|
|
|
1249 Q: Are there rpm/deb/... packages of MPlayer?
|
|
|
1250 A: You can make a .deb package for yourself, check DOCS/DEBIAN .
|
|
|
1251 It's _STRONGLY_ discouraged to use precompiled packages
|
|
|
1252 of MPlayer, since it (currently) _highly_ depends on compile-time
|
|
|
1253 options and optimizations!
|
|
|
1254 Precompiled packages are COMPLETELY unsupported by the MPlayer team!
|
|
|
1255
|
|
|
1256 Q: Are there any mailing lists on MPlayer?
|
|
|
1257 A: Yes! See README on how to subscribe them!
|
|
|
1258
|
|
|
1259 Q: I've found a nasty bug when I tried to play my favourite video!!
|
|
|
1260 Who should I inform?
|
|
|
1261 A: See DOCS/BUGREPORTS
|
|
|
1262
|
|
|
1263 Q: During 'make', MPlayer complains about X11 libraries. I don't understand,
|
|
|
1264 I DO have X installed!?
|
|
|
1265 A: ...but you don't have the X development package installed. Or not
|
|
|
1266 correctly. It's called XFree86-devel* under RedHat, and xlib6g-dev* under
|
|
|
1267 Debian. Also check if the /usr/X11 symlink exists (this can be a problem on
|
|
|
1268 Mandrake systems). It can be created with the
|
|
|
1269 $ ln -sf /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11
|
|
|
1270 command. Also check the /usr/include/X11 link :
|
|
|
1271 $ ln -sf /usr/X11R6/include/X11 /usr/include/X11
|
|
|
1272 Your distribution may differ from the Linux Filesystem Standard.
|
|
|
1273
|
|
|
1274 Q: I have problems playing files with ... codec. Can I use'em?
|
|
|
1275 A: Check http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/DOCS/codecs.html,
|
|
|
1276 if it doesn't contain your codec, read
|
|
|
1277 http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/DOCS/CODECS, and contact us.
|
|
|
1278
|
|
|
1279 Q: What about DGA driver? I can't find it!!!
|
|
|
1280 A: ./configure autodetects your DGA driver. If -vo help doesn't show
|
|
|
1281 DGA, then there's a problem with your X installation.
|
|
|
1282 Try ./configure --enable-dga (and read VIDEOCARDS)
|
|
|
1283 Alternatively, try SDL's DGA driver with '-vo sdl:dga' options.
|
|
|
1284
|
|
|
1285 Q: Ok, -vo help shows DGA driver, but it is babbling about permissions!
|
|
|
1286 Help me!
|
|
|
1287 A: It works only if running as root! It's a DGA limitation.
|
|
|
1288 You should become to root (su -), and try again.
|
|
|
1289
|
|
|
1290 Another solution is making mplayer SUID root, but its NOT RECOMMENDED!
|
|
|
1291 'chown root /usr/local/bin/mplayer'
|
|
|
1292 'chmod 750 /usr/local/bin/mplayer'
|
|
|
1293 'chmod +s /usr/local/bin/mplayer'
|
|
|
1294 !!!! BUT STAY TUNED !!!!
|
|
|
1295 This is a *BIG* security risk! *NEVER* do this on a server or on a computer
|
|
|
1296 can be accessed by more people than only you because they can gain root
|
|
|
1297 privilegies through suid root mplayer!!!
|
|
|
1298 !!!! SO YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ... !!!!
|
|
|
1299
|
|
|
1300 Q: The fsdga driver doesn't work with my xyz.avi file. Why is that?
|
|
|
1301 A: Because it only works with MPEG. (yet)
|
|
|
1302
|
|
|
1303 Q: When using Xvideo, my Voodoo 3/Banshee says:
|
|
|
1304 X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource
|
|
|
1305 denied)
|
|
|
1306 Major opcode of failed request: 147 (MIT-SHM)
|
|
|
1307 Minor opcode of failed request: 1 (X_ShmAttach)
|
|
|
1308 Serial number of failed request: 26
|
|
|
1309 Current serial number in output stream:27
|
|
|
1310 A: Your driver is old, update it. Either download (at least) DRI version 0.6
|
|
|
1311 from http://dri.sourceforge.net , or use the DRI cvs.
|
|
|
1312
|
|
|
1313 Q: When using Xvideo, I can't play DivX avis with my Voodoo 3/Banshee !
|
|
|
1314 It says:
|
|
|
1315 ...
|
|
|
1316 Xvideo image format: 0x32315659 (YV12) planar
|
|
|
1317 Xvideo image format: 0x30323449 (I420) planar
|
|
|
1318 ...
|
|
|
1319 A1: See the previous answer.
|
|
|
1320 A2: Since 0.18pre4 we include libavcodec from the ffmpeg package. It contains
|
|
|
1321 a C language DivX and OpenDivX decoder. The DivX decoder uses YV12 format
|
|
|
1322 for output, thus it should work for you. Compile in libavcodec support.
|
|
|
1323
|
|
|
1324 Q: Umm, what is "IdegCounter" ?
|
|
|
1325 A: A mixture of a hungarian and an english word. In english, "Ideg" means
|
|
|
1326 "nerve", and is pronounced as something like "ydaegh" . It was first used
|
|
|
1327 to measure the nervousness of A'rpi, after some (umm) "mystic" disappearance
|
|
|
1328 of CVS code ;)
|
|
|
1329
|
|
|
1330 Q: I can't compile SVGAlib.. I'm using 2.3/2.4 kernel.
|
|
|
1331 A: You have to edit SVGAlib's Makefile.cfg and comment "BACKGROUND = y" out.
|
|
|
1332
|
|
|
1333 Q: LIRC doesn't work, because ...
|
|
|
1334 A: Are you sure you use "mplayer_lirc" instead of "mplayer" ?
|
|
|
1335
|
|
|
1336 Q: MPlayer exits with something error when using l3codeca.acm
|
|
|
1337 A: Check 'ldd /usr/local/bin/mplayer' output. If it contains
|
|
|
1338 libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4???????)
|
|
|
1339 where "?" is any number then it's ok, the error is not here. If it is:
|
|
|
1340 libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00??????)
|
|
|
1341 then there is problem with your kernel/libc. Maybe you are using some
|
|
|
1342 security patches (for example Solar Designer's OpenWall patch) which
|
|
|
1343 forces loading libraries to very low addresses.
|
|
|
1344 Because l3codeca.acm is a non-relocatable DLL, it must be loaded to
|
|
|
1345 0x00400000, we can't change this. You should use non-patched kernel,
|
|
|
1346 or use MPlayer's -afm 1 option to disable using l3codeca.acm.
|
|
|
1347
|
|
|
1348 Q: My computer plays M$ DivX AVIs with resolutions ~ 640x300 and stereo mp3
|
|
|
1349 sound too slow. When I use -nosound switch, everything is ok (but quiet).
|
|
|
1350 A: Those files probably have 48Khz audio, and your soundcard/driver can't play
|
|
|
1351 it correctly. Audio downsampling isn't implemented in MPlayer (yet).
|
|
|
1352
|
|
|
1353 Q: MPlayer dies with "MPlayer interrupted by signal 4 in module: decode_video".
|
|
|
1354 A: Try running MPlayer on the machine you compiled on. Or recompile. Don't
|
|
|
1355 use MPlayer on different CPU than it was compiled on.
|
|
|
1356
|
|
|
1357 Q: I have problems with <your window manager> and fullscreen xv/xmga/sdl/x11
|
|
|
1358 modes..
|
|
|
1359 A1: Use the -fsmode switch. See example.conf or manpage.
|
|
|
1360
|
|
|
1361 Q: But it works with avifile !
|
|
|
1362 A: So what?
|
|
|
1363
|
|
|
1364 Q: Then avifile is better !
|
|
|
1365 A: Then use avifile, it has nice GUI and nice C++ code :)
|
|
|
1366
|
|
|
1367 Q: I got this playing mpeg files: Can't find codec for video format 0x10000001 !
|
|
|
1368 A: You have old version of codecs.conf at ~/.mplayer/. Upgrade it from DOCS/
|
|
|
1369
|
|
|
1370 Q: After starting mplayer under KDE(1/2) I just get a black screen and nothing
|
|
|
1371 happens, after about one minute the video starts playing.
|
|
|
1372 A: The KDE arts sound daemon is blocking the sound device, either wait the time
|
|
|
1373 until video starts or you disable the arts-daemon in kontrollcenter.
|
|
|
1374
|
|
|
1375 Q: Subtitles are very nice, the most beautiful I've ever seen, but they slow
|
|
|
1376 down the playing! I know it's unlikely...
|
|
|
1377 A: After running ./configure , edit config.h and replace #undef FAST_OSD with
|
|
|
1378 #define FAST_OSD . Then recompile.
|
|
|
1379
|
|
|
1380 Q: The OSD is flickering!
|
|
|
1381 A: You use a vo driver with single buffering (x11,xv). With xv you can change
|
|
|
1382 the number of buffers in libvo/vo_xv.c :
|
|
|
1383 Increase #define NUM_BUFFERS 1
|
|
|
1384
|
|
|
1385 Q: What's the problem with gcc 2.96 ?
|
|
|
1386 A: gcc 2.96 is RedHat's UNOFFICIAL (it can be found only on RedHat sites, or
|
|
|
1387 RedHat distributions) and BUGGY gcc release. gcc 2.96 is TOTALLY
|
|
|
1388 unsupported by MPlayer, because it simply SKIPS MMX codes, it just does not
|
|
|
1389 compile it. Important: this is NOT an MPlayer-specific problem, numerous
|
|
|
1390 other projects (DRI, avifile, etc..) have problems with this shit too.
|
|
|
1391 ** DO NOT USE gcc 2.96 !!! **
|
|
|
1392
|
|
|
1393 Q: Is there a hint on how to watch QuickTime and RealMedia movies in mplayer?
|
|
|
1394 A: There's no way to do it. Therefore these formats deserve to die in flames.
|
|
|
1395 Theoretically you can reverse engineer Real codecs built for Linux (they
|
|
|
1396 are available as .so files), but in practice that's really difficult, even
|
|
|
1397 if you know how the compiler used by Real is making assembler code.
|
|
|
1398 As for QuickTime, it's possible to play some old movies and this
|
|
|
1399 capability will be added to mplayer soon, but newer clips are all Sorenson
|
|
|
1400 encoded, and that codec is built-in deep in the QT executable, there's
|
|
|
1401 no way to use it.
|
|
|
1402
|
|
|
1403 Q: I have an nVidia TNT/TNT2 card, and I have a band with strange colours,
|
|
|
1404 right under the movie! Whose fault is this?
|
|
|
1405 A: It's the nVidia X driver's. These bugs are ONLY with the TNT/TNT2 cards,
|
|
|
1406 and we can't do anything about it, it's not our bug.
|
|
|
1407
|
|
|
1408 Q: What exactly is this libavcodec?
|
|
|
1409 A: It's from Gerard Lantau's ffmpeg package (http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net).
|
|
|
1410 It has C language DivX ;-) and OpenDivX codec. Some benchmarks
|
|
|
1411 showed that its DivX seems to be even faster than DirectShow codec without
|
|
|
1412 preprocessing, and only a few percent slower than ProjectMayo's OpenDivX
|
|
|
1413 decoder. It uses YV12 pixel format, so old Voodoo users can use it for YUV.
|
|
|
1414 Also, open the possibility to play DivX on virtually every computer that
|
|
|
1415 has a C compiler. Kinda great stuff, isn't it?
|
|
|
1416
|
|
|
1417
|
|
|
1418 <A NAME=7>7. Misc OS'es
|
|
|
1419
|
|
|
1420
|
|
|
1421 <A NAME=7.1>7.1. Debian packaging
|
|
|
1422
|
|
|
1423 To build the package:
|
|
|
1424 Get the cvs version, or .tgz and uncompress it,
|
|
|
1425 cd into programs directory:
|
|
|
1426 eyck@incubus:~/src$ cd main
|
|
|
1427 eyck@incubus:~/src/main$ fakeroot debian/rules binary
|
|
|
1428 (... mplayer detects hardware/software, builds itself and.. )
|
|
|
1429 ..
|
|
|
1430 dpkg-deb: building package `mplayer' in `../mplayer_0.18-1_i386.deb'.
|
|
|
1431
|
|
|
1432 And now just dpkg -i ../mplayer_0.18-1_i386.deb as root.
|
|
|
1433 Here's how it looks like:
|
|
|
1434
|
|
|
1435 eyck@incubus:/src/main$ sudo dpkg -i ../mplayer_0.18-1_i386.deb
|
|
|
1436 Password:
|
|
|
1437 (Reading database ... 26946 files and directories currently installed.)
|
|
|
1438 Preparing to replace mplayer 0.17a-1 (using ../mplayer_0.18-1_i386.deb) ...
|
|
|
1439 Unpacking replacement mplayer ...
|
|
|
1440 Setting up mplayer (0.18-1) ...
|
|
|
1441
|
|
|
1442
|
|
|
1443 <A NAME=7.2>7.2. FreeBSD
|
|
|
1444
|
|
|
1445 Notes for FreeBSD users
|
|
|
1446 =======================
|
|
|
1447
|
|
|
1448 1. To build the package you will need GNU make (gmake, /usr/ports/devel/gmake),
|
|
|
1449 native BSD make will not work.
|
|
|
1450
|
|
|
1451 2. To run mplayer you will need to re-compile the kernel with
|
|
|
1452 "options USER_LDT" (unless you are running -CURRENT, where this is default).
|
|
|
1453
|
|
|
1454 3. If mplayer complains about "CD-ROM Device '/dev/cdrom' not found!" make a
|
|
|
1455 symbolic link : ln -s /dev/<your_cdrom_device> /dev/cdrom
|
|
|
1456
|
|
|
1457 4. There's no DVD support for FreeBSD yet.
|
|
|
1458 Feel free to add them :-)
|
|
|
1459
|
|
|
1460 Enjoy (as do I)!
|
|
|
1461
|
|
|
1462 --
|
|
|
1463 Vladimir Kushnir
|
|
|
1464
|
|
|
1465
|
|
|
1466 <A NAME=7.3>7.3. Solaris 8
|
|
|
1467
|
|
|
1468 Notes for Solaris users
|
|
|
1469 =======================
|
|
|
1470
|
|
|
1471 1. AVI file playback works best on Solaris x86, because you have the
|
|
|
1472 option to use the win32 codecs on the x86 platform. On Solaris SPARC,
|
|
|
1473 you'll find quite a few AVI files with non working video and/or
|
|
|
1474 audio playback, because the video/audio codecs using the win32 DLLs
|
|
|
1475 are not available.
|
|
|
1476
|
|
|
1477
|
|
|
1478 2. To build the package you will need GNU make (gmake, /opt/sfw/gmake),
|
|
|
1479 native Solaris make will not work.
|
|
|
1480
|
|
|
1481 Typical error you get when building with solaris' make instead of GNU
|
|
|
1482 make:
|
|
|
1483
|
|
|
1484 % /usr/ccs/bin/make
|
|
|
1485 make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 25: Unexpected end of line seen
|
|
|
1486
|
|
|
1487
|
|
|
1488 3. On Solaris SPARC, you need the GNU C/C++ Compiler; it does not matter
|
|
|
1489 if GNU C/C++ compiler is configured with or without the GNU assembler.
|
|
|
1490
|
|
|
1491 On Solaris x86, you need the GNU assembler and the GNU C/C++
|
|
|
1492 compiler, configured to use the GNU assembler! The mplayer code on
|
|
|
1493 the x86 platform makes heavy use of MMX, SSE and 3DNOW!
|
|
|
1494 instructions that cannot be compiled using Sun's assembler
|
|
|
1495 /usr/ccs/bin/as.
|
|
|
1496
|
|
|
1497
|
|
|
1498 The configure script tries to find out, which assembler program is
|
|
|
1499 used by your "gcc" command (in case the autodetection fails, use
|
|
|
1500 the "--as=/whereever/you/have/installed/gnu-as" option to tell the
|
|
|
1501 configure script where it can find GNU "as" on your system).
|
|
|
1502
|
|
|
1503 Error message from configure on a Solaris x86 system using GCC
|
|
|
1504 without GNU assembler:
|
|
|
1505
|
|
|
1506 % configure
|
|
|
1507 ...
|
|
|
1508 Checking assembler (/usr/ccs/bin/as) ... , failed
|
|
|
1509 Please upgrade(downgrade) binutils to 2.10.1...
|
|
|
1510
|
|
|
1511 (Solution: Install and use a gcc configured with "--with-as=gas")
|
|
|
1512
|
|
|
1513
|
|
|
1514 Typical error you get when building with a GNU C compiler that does
|
|
|
1515 not use GNU as:
|
|
|
1516
|
|
|
1517 % gmake
|
|
|
1518 ...
|
|
|
1519 gcc -c -Iloader -Ilibvo -O4 -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -ffast-math
|
|
|
1520 -fomit-frame-pointer -I/usr/local/include -o mplayer.o mplayer.c
|
|
|
1521 Assembler: mplayer.c
|
|
|
1522 "<stdin>", line 3567 : Illegal mnemonic
|
|
|
1523 "<stdin>", line 3567 : Syntax error
|
|
|
1524 ... more "Illegal mnemonic" and "Syntax error" errors ...
|
|
|
1525
|
|
|
1526
|
|
|
1527 4. For DVD support you must have the patched libcss installed. Patch:
|
|
|
1528 http://www.tools.de/solaris/mplayer/
|
|
|
1529
|
|
|
1530
|
|
|
1531 5. Due to two bugs in solaris 8 x86, you cannot reliably play DVDs using a
|
|
|
1532 capacity >4GB:
|
|
|
1533
|
|
|
1534 - The sd(7D) driver on solaris 8 x86 driver has bug when accessing a
|
|
|
1535 disk block >4GB on a device using a logical blocksize != DEV_BSIZE
|
|
|
1536 (i.e. CDROM and DVD media). Due to a 32bit int overflow, a disk
|
|
|
1537 address modulo 4GB is accessed.
|
|
|
1538 (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22516)
|
|
|
1539
|
|
|
1540 - The similar bug is present in the hsfs(7FS) filesystem code (aka
|
|
|
1541 ISO9660), hsfs currently does not support partitions/disks >4GB,
|
|
|
1542 all data is accessed modulo 4GB
|
|
|
1543 (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22592)
|
|
|
1544
|
|
|
1545 --
|
|
|
1546 Jürgen Keil
|
|
|
1547
|
|
|
1548
|
|
|
1549 <A NAME=A>Appendix A - Authors
|
|
|
1550
|
|
|
1551 NOTE: Do *NOT* send bugreports, help & feature requests directly to the authors!
|
|
|
1552 ===== Read DOCS/BUGREPORTS and subscribe to mplayer-users mailing lists.
|
|
|
1553
|
|
|
1554 ========================== The MPlayer project: ===============================
|
|
|
1555
|
|
|
1556 Árpád Gereöffy (A'rpi/ESP-team): <arpi@thot.banki.hu>
|
|
|
1557 - player code (mpeg stream demultiplexer and avi/asf parser, A-V sync, seek...)
|
|
|
1558 - mp3lib, based on mpglib sources [MP3 audio decoder]
|
|
|
1559 - getch2 [keyboard handler]
|
|
|
1560 - some changes in libmpeg2 code (progressive frames, bitrate & fps support)
|
|
|
1561 - libvo improvements: adding OpenGL support, bugfix in mga driver...
|
|
|
1562 - triple buffering & YUY2 support (for DivX/MPEG4) into mga_vid driver
|
|
|
1563 - scripts in the TVout directory (TVout on Matrox G400DH, read DOCS/TVout-G400)
|
|
|
1564 - hacking DivX/Mpeg4 VfW codecs to get YUV output
|
|
|
1565 - opendivx decoder speed optimizations (see opendivx/ChangeLog)
|
|
|
1566 - OSD & SUB display code
|
|
|
1567
|
|
|
1568 Zoltán Ponekker (Pontscho/Fresh!): <pontscho@makacs.poliod.hu>
|
|
|
1569 - configure script and Makefiles for easy compile
|
|
|
1570 - GUI system (near complete!?)
|
|
|
1571 - 3DNow! support into mp3lib
|
|
|
1572 - 3DNow! support into fastmemcpy.h
|
|
|
1573 - various X11 driver changes (keyboard handling, fullscreen, bpp detect, etc)
|
|
|
1574 - libvo: adding xmga driver, and fullscreen support to xv
|
|
|
1575 - audio mixer (volume) support
|
|
|
1576
|
|
|
1577 Gábor Lénárt (LGB): <lgb@lgb.hu>
|
|
|
1578 - ./configure script improvements
|
|
|
1579 - Makefile improvements
|
|
|
1580 - prelimenary DVD support
|
|
|
1581 - another GUI code (is that so..?)
|
|
|
1582 - various X11 cleanups and fixes
|
|
|
1583
|
|
|
1584 Gábor Bérczi (Gabucino): <gabucino@k2.jozsef.kando.hu>
|
|
|
1585 - documentation maintainer
|
|
|
1586 - hungarian translation of documentation
|
|
|
1587 - second webpage design&gfx
|
|
|
1588 - webpage maintainer
|
|
|
1589 - testing, codecs quality & speed comparsions
|
|
|
1590 - IRC channel #MPlayer operator
|
|
|
1591 - experimental MINIX port
|
|
|
1592
|
|
|
1593 Szabolcs Berecz (Szabi): <szabi@inf.elte.hu>
|
|
|
1594 - codecs.conf file parser
|
|
|
1595 - config file and command line parser
|
|
|
1596 - mga_vid fixes, module option etc.
|
|
|
1597 - fbdev support in libvo
|
|
|
1598 - type #7 subtitle support
|
|
|
1599
|
|
|
1600 László Megyer (Lez, Laaz): <lez@sch.bme.hu>
|
|
|
1601 - SUB reader
|
|
|
1602 - screensaver+DPMS disable for libvo
|
|
|
1603
|
|
|
1604 Gyula László (Chass, Tégla): <chass-@freemail.hu>
|
|
|
1605 - first fonts (mp_font1.zip)
|
|
|
1606 - third (current) homepage design&gfx
|
|
|
1607
|
|
|
1608 Zoltán Márk Vicián (Se7en): <se7en@sch.bme.hu>
|
|
|
1609 - SVGAlib support in libvo
|
|
|
1610 - native AAlib driver (coming soon)
|
|
|
1611
|
|
|
1612 Alex Beregszaszi (Al3x): <alex@naxine.org>
|
|
|
1613 - ALSA output driver in libao2
|
|
|
1614 - vo_ggi output driver in libvo (www.ggi-project.org)
|
|
|
1615
|
|
|
1616 Andreas Ackermann (Acki): <asackerm@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
|
|
|
1617 - LIRC support (see DOCS/LIRC)
|
|
|
1618 - DGA support in libvo
|
|
|
1619
|
|
|
1620 Felix Bünemann (Atmos): <atmosfear@users.sourceforge.net>
|
|
|
1621 - SDL driver maintainer
|
|
|
1622 - Additional YUV formats fixes
|
|
|
1623 - New font (mp_font2.zip)
|
|
|
1624 - PNG file output support in libvo
|
|
|
1625 - flipping support (for Indeo 3/4, etc)
|
|
|
1626 - SDL audio driver in libao2
|
|
|
1627 - RAW PCM/WAVE file writer for libao2
|
|
|
1628
|
|
|
1629 TeLeNiEkO: <telenieko@telenieko.com>
|
|
|
1630 - spanish translation of documentation
|
|
|
1631
|
|
|
1632 Michael Graffam: <mgraffam@idsi.net>
|
|
|
1633 - XF86VidMode support to vo_x11 and vo_dga
|
|
|
1634 - Video mode switching code to vo_dga
|
|
|
1635
|
|
|
1636 Jens Hoffmann: <hoffmajs@gmx.de>
|
|
|
1637 - Additional YUV formats support
|
|
|
1638 - found the big BITMAPINFOHEADER problem -> solved ASV2 pixelization
|
|
|
1639
|
|
|
1640 Nick Kurshev: <nickols_k@mail.ru>
|
|
|
1641 - memcpy optimizations for AMD K7 and Intel Pentium III (fastmemcpy.h)
|
|
|
1642 - CDROM tune info
|
|
|
1643 - further 3DNow! optimizations into mp3lib and libac3
|
|
|
1644 - russian translation of documentation
|
|
|
1645
|
|
|
1646 German Gomez Garcia: <german@piraos.com>
|
|
|
1647 - DVD .ifo parser and chapter selection [not yet in the main trunk]
|
|
|
1648 - SPDIF AC3 output for SBLive! [not yet in the main trunk]
|
|
|
1649
|
|
|
1650 Dariush Pietrzak (Eyck): <eyck@incubus.ar.lublin.pl>
|
|
|
1651 - debian packaging support (see debian/* and DOCS/DEBIAN)
|
|
|
1652 - support for vplayer subtitle format
|
|
|
1653 - prelimenary support for .RT subtitle format
|
|
|
1654
|
|
|
1655 Jürgen Keil and Marcus Comstedt: <jk@tools.de> <marcus@idonex.se>
|
|
|
1656 - patched MPlayer to work on Solaris 8 x86
|
|
|
1657 - configure fixes
|
|
|
1658 - SUN audio driver in libao2
|
|
|
1659
|
|
|
1660 Vladimir Kushnir: <vkushnir@Alfacom.net>
|
|
|
1661 - patched MPlayer to work on FreeBSD x86
|
|
|
1662
|
|
|
1663 Bertrand BAUDET: <bertrand_baudet@yahoo.com>
|
|
|
1664 - network streaming support
|
|
|
1665
|
|
|
1666 Main testers:
|
|
|
1667 Tibor Balázs (Tibcu)
|
|
|
1668 Péter Sasi (SaPe)
|
|
|
1669 Christoph H. Lampert
|
|
|
1670 Attila Kinali
|
|
|
1671 Dirk Vornheder
|
|
|
1672
|
|
|
1673 ========================== The codecs, libs: =================================
|
|
|
1674
|
|
|
1675 Aaron Holtzman: <aholtzma@engr.uvic.ca>
|
|
|
1676 - ac3dec (and libac3) author [AC3 audio decoder]
|
|
|
1677 - mga_vid driver [Matrox G200/G400 YUV Back-end Scaler]
|
|
|
1678 - mpeg2dec [Fast MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, currently used in player]
|
|
|
1679
|
|
|
1680 Michel Lespinasse: <walken@zoy.org>
|
|
|
1681 - did large libmpeg2 changes for better speed and mpeg conformance
|
|
|
1682
|
|
|
1683 Eugene Kuznetsov: <divx@euro.ru>
|
|
|
1684 - avifile author [AVI player library for linux, using Win32 VfW/ACM codecs]
|
|
|
1685 - technical help about AVI and ASF formats, and how to get YUV using VfW...
|
|
|
1686 - divx4linux techical support
|
|
|
1687
|
|
|
1688 Zdenek Kabelac: <kabi@informatics.muni.cz>
|
|
|
1689 - current avifile maintainer(?)
|
|
|
1690 - some technical help about the win32 stuff and timers
|
|
|
1691
|
|
|
1692 Gerard Lantau: <glantau@yahoo.fr>
|
|
|
1693 - ffmpeg/libavcodec author,maintainer (opensource mpeg & divx en/decoder)
|
|
|
1694
|
|
|
1695 Project Mayo: [http://www.projectmayo.com]
|
|
|
1696 - the OpenDivX codec authors
|
|
|
1697
|
|
|
1698 Michael Hipp:
|
|
|
1699 - mpglib author [isn't used directly but some parts in mp3lib]
|
|
|
1700
|
|
|
1701 Mark Podlipec:
|
|
|
1702 - xa_gsm.c author [MS-GSM audio codec]
|
|
|
1703 [from a GSM library by Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann]
|
|
|
1704
|
|
|
1705 Their code is not used in current player version, but I've got some ideas or
|
|
|
1706 other technical help from:
|
|
|
1707
|
|
|
1708 John F. McGowan http://www.jmcgowan.com/
|
|
|
1709 - AVI FAQ author/collector. [site with many useful docs on codecs and avi fmt]
|
|
|
1710
|
|
|
1711 Dirk Farin: <farin@ti.uni-mannheim.de>
|
|
|
1712 - dvdview author [MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, used in v0.5-v0.8]
|
|
|
1713
|
|
|
1714 Adam Williams: <broadcast@earthling.net>
|
|
|
1715 - libmpeg3 (and xmovie) author [MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, used in v0.1-v0.4]
|
|
|
1716
|
|
|
1717
|
|
|
1718 <A NAME=B>Appendix B - Mailing lists
|
|
|
1719
|
|
|
1720 There are some public mailing lists on MPlayer. Subscribing can be achieved on
|
|
|
1721 the following addresses:
|
|
|
1722
|
|
|
1723 - MPlayer core/hungarian developers list:
|
|
|
1724 http://mp.dev.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-devel
|
|
|
1725
|
|
|
1726 I dunno, it is the FLAME list in hungarian language :)
|
|
|
1727 Also some talking about mplayer core team internals, like mplayer
|
|
|
1728 party, sponsors etc can be here.
|
|
|
1729
|
|
|
1730 - MPlayer developers list:
|
|
|
1731 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng
|
|
|
1732
|
|
|
1733 This list is about mplayer development! Talking about interface/API changes,
|
|
|
1734 new libraryes, code optimization, ./configure changes, and send patches here.
|
|
|
1735 Do NOT send bugreports, user questions, feature requests here!
|
|
|
1736 This list should be kept low-traffic.
|
|
|
1737
|
|
|
1738 - MPlayer users list:
|
|
|
1739 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-users
|
|
|
1740
|
|
|
1741 - send bugreports here (after reading DOCS/BUGS, BUGREPORTS)
|
|
|
1742 - send feature requests here (after reading DOCS/TODO)
|
|
|
1743 - send user questions here (after reading DOCS/README, INSTALL, FAQ etc)
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1744
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1745 - MPlayer & Matrox G200/G400/G450 users:
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1746 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-matrox
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1747
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1748 Send matrox-related questions here,
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1749 - things about mga_vid,
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1750 - matrox's official beta drivers (for X 4.x.x)
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1751 - and about matroxfb-TVout stuff.
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1752
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1753 - mpg12play-portable developers:
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1754 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-mpg12play
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1755
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1756 This list is for talking about mplayer ports to non-x86 platforms
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1757 (IRIX, Solaris-SPARC, Alpha, Commodore64, Sharp Calculator,
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1758 Teapot etc...)
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1759
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1760 - MPlayer announce:
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1761 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-announce
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1762
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1763 Very low traffic list :)
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1764 And it's read-only. I'll post something shit there if a new release
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1765 is done.
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1766
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1767 - MPlayer CVS-log:
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1768 http://mp.dev.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog
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1769
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1770 Send only questions about CVS changes here.
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1771 (if you don't understand why a change is required or you've better fix)
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1772 Be sure in that your target developer reads this list!
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1773
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1774 NOTE: language of above lists are ENGLISH, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
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1775 Please do not send messages using other language!
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1776
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1777
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1778 <A NAME=C>Appendix C - How to report bugs
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1779
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1780 How to report bugs?
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1781 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1782 First read DOCS/BUGS, and other docs. If your problem isn't
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1783 known or isn't solved by our instructions, then report the bug:
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1784
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1785 Where?
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1786 ======
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1787 Subscribe to the mplayer-users mailing list:
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1788 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-users
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1789 and send your bugreport to:
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1790 mplayer-users@lists.sourceforge.net
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1791 We won't CC: so please subscribe!!!
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1792
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1793 Don't send bugreports private, directly to author's address!!!
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1794 We are working together on code, so everyone is interested in it.
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1795 BTW many times other users know the solution (system config probs,
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1796 bad drivers etc), even when we think it's a bug in our code.
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1797 The language of this list is ENGLISH !
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1798
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1799 Please describe your problem in details, examples etc, and don't
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1800 forget to include these:
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1801
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1802 What?
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1803 =====
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1804
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1805 1. The system info what we always want:
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1806 - linux distribution
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1807 examples:
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1808 RedHat 7.1
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1809 Slackware 7.0 + devel packs from 7.1 ...
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1810 - kernel version:
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1811 uname -a
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1812 - libc version:
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1813 ls -l /lib/libc[.-]*
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1814 - X version:
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1815 X -version
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1816 - gcc and ld version:
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1817 gcc -v
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1818 ld -v
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1819 - binutils version:
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1820 as --version
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1821
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1822 2. Hardware & drivers:
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1823 - CPU info:
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1824 cat /proc/cpuinfo
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1825 - video card manufacturer and model
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1826 examples:
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1827 ASUS V3800U chip: nVidia TNT2 Ultra pro 32MB SDRAM
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1828 Matrox G400 DH 32MB SGRAM
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|
|
1829 - video driver type&version
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1830 examples:
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1831 X built-in driver
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1832 nvidia 0.9.623
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1833 Utah-GLX CVS 2001-02-17
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1834 DRI from X 4.0.3
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1835 - sound card type & driver
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1836 examples:
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1837 Creative SBLive! Gold with OSS driver from oss.creative.com
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1838 Creative SB16 with OSS drivers of kernel
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1839 GUS PnP with ALSA OSS emulation
|
|
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1840 - if you are unsure, attach output of lspci -v
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1841
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1842 For compiling problems/errors:
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1843 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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|
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1844 3. output of configure/make:
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1845 make distclean
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1846 ./configure &>config.log
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1847 ./make &>make.log
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1848 4. these files:
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1849 config.h
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1850 config.mak
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1851 libvo/config.mak
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1852
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1853 For playback problems:
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1854 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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1855 3. Output of mplayer at verbose level 1 (-v)
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1856 mplayer -v [options] filename &> mplayer.log
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1857
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1858 4. If the problem is specific to one or a few files,
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1859 then please upload that file to:
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1860 ftp://thot.banki.hu/MPlayer/incoming/
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1861 Usually first 1-5 MB of the file is enough to reproduce
|
|
|
1862 the problem, but first you should try it:
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1863 dd if=yourfile of=smallfile bs=1k count=1024
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1864 (it will cut first 1MB of 'yourfile' and save to 'smallfile')
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1865 Then try again on this small file, and if bug still exists
|
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1866 then it's enough to upload this small file.
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1867 NEVER send such files via mail! Upload it, and send only
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1868 the path/filename of the file on the FTP.
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1869 If the file is accessible on the net, then sending the
|
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1870 _exact_ URL is enough!
|
|
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1871
|
|
|
1872 5. For crashes (segfault, SIGILL, signal 4 etc):
|
|
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1873
|
|
|
1874 If you have coredump of the crash, see 5.a, else see 5.b:
|
|
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1875
|
|
|
1876 5.a: Please print us coredump (if it was created).
|
|
|
1877 Howto:
|
|
|
1878 please create following command file:
|
|
|
1879
|
|
|
1880 disass $eip-32 $eip+32
|
|
|
1881 printf "eax=%08lX\n",$eax
|
|
|
1882 printf "ebx=%08lX\n",$ebx
|
|
|
1883 printf "ecx=%08lX\n",$ecx
|
|
|
1884 printf "edx=%08lX\n",$edx
|
|
|
1885 printf "esp=%08lX\n",$esp
|
|
|
1886 printf "ebp=%08lX\n",$ebp
|
|
|
1887 printf "edi=%08lX\n",$edi
|
|
|
1888 printf "esi=%08lX\n",$esi
|
|
|
1889
|
|
|
1890 Then simply execute following command line:
|
|
|
1891 gdb mplayer --core=core -batch --command=command_file >mplayer.bug
|
|
|
1892
|
|
|
1893 5.b.: run MPlayer in gdb:
|
|
|
1894 [at root/user shell prompt:]
|
|
|
1895 # gdb mplayer
|
|
|
1896 [at gdb prompt:]
|
|
|
1897 > run -v [options-to-mplayer] filename
|
|
|
1898 ... (wait until it will crash)
|
|
|
1899 > bt
|
|
|
1900 > disass $eip-32 $eip+32
|
|
|
1901 Send us the full output of the above things!
|
|
|
1902
|
|
|
1903 In general:
|
|
|
1904 ~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|
|
1905 If something is big (logs etc) then it's better to upload to the ftp
|
|
|
1906 (gzipped), and include only path/filename in the bugreport!
|
|
|
1907
|
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|
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