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6 <P><B><A NAME=5>5. FAQ section</A></B></P>
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14 configure ends with this text, and MPlayer won't compile !<BR>
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15 <CODE>Your gcc does not support even i386 for '-march' and '-mcpu'.</CODE>
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17 Your gcc isn't installed correctly, check <CODE>config.log</CODE> file
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18 for details.
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22 What does "No such file or directory" means ?
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24 Probably there is no such file or directory.
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28 What's the problem with gcc 2.96 ?
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30 To be short: <B><I>DO NOT USE gcc 2.96 !!!</I></B><BR>
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31 Check <A HREF="gcc-2.96-3.0.html">this</A> and <A HREF="users_against_developers.html">this</A> texts!
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32 If you still really really want to do so, be sure to use the latest release.
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33 <BR>
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37 Great, I have gcc 3.0.1 from RedHat/Mandrake, then I'm fine--!
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38 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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39 No, since there have been/are issues with those compilers.<BR>
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40 Use 2.95.x series for reliability (not <A HREF="gcc-2.96-3.0.html">2.96</A>).
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41 Use the latest gcc 3.0.x (starting at 3.0.2) if you want to use a 3.0.x version.
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45 I tried to compile MPlayer, but I got this output:<BR>
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46 <PRE>
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47 In file included from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/std_cwchar.h:42,
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55 /usr/include/wchar.h: In function Long long int wcstoq(const wchar_t*,
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56 wchar_t**, int)':
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57 /usr/include/wchar.h:514: cannot convert `const wchar_t* __restrict' to
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58 `const
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59 </PRE>
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60 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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61 Upgrade your glibc to the newest. On Mandrake, use 2.2.4-8mdk .
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65 ...gcc 2.96... (yes, some people are STILL flaming about their gcc 2.96!!)
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66 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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67 <P>But we has idegs (the word 'ideg' is described further in the FAQ). And our
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68 idegcounters overflow again and again.</P>
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70 <P>Unfortunately MPlayer is out of our control. It's used by lamers, Linux users
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71 who can't even use windows, and never tried to compile a kernel. They installed
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72 (with default options) Mandrake or RedHat or Suse, and without RTFM'ing they
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73 send messages saying 'it doesn't work! help me! please! i'm new to the linux!
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74 help! oh! help me!'. We can't stop them, but at least we try to force them RTFM
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75 and to read fuckin' messages of ./configure and mplayer.</P>
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77 <P>And you clever guys come and flame us with gcc 2.96 and binary packages.
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78 Instead of helping users or making patches to help solve problems.</P>
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80 <P>Half of our spare/free time is spent by answering silly mails here and
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81 making newer tricks and checks to configure to avoid such mails.</P>
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83 <P>And there is a balance. On one hand are you, clever guys, saying we are very
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84 bad because we don't like buggy gcc 2.96, and at the other hand there are the
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85 'new to linux' guys who are showing us gcc 2.96 is buggy.</P>
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87 <P>Conclusion: we can't be good. Half of people always will say we are bad.</P>
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89 <P>Maybe we should close the project, make it closed source, commercial, and
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90 provide install support for it. then we could leave current work, so
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91 development could go faster, and we earn lots of money with it and buy a big
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92 house, etc etc. Do you really want it? It seems.</P>
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94 <P ALIGN=RIGHT>Arpi (a mail on the mplayer-users list)</P>
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98 Where can I find information about gcc 2.96 bugs ?
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100 In <A HREF="gcc-2.96-3.0.html">this</A> documentation. And <A HREF="users_against_developers.html">this</A>
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101 documentation describes why RedHat released 2.96 and other interesting things.
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105 SDL output doesn't work or compile. Problem is ....
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107 It is tested with newest SDL (probably runs on 1.1.7+).
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108 It does NOT work with any previous version, so don't ask.
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112 I am still having trouble compiling with SDL support. gcc says something
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113 about "undefined reference to `SDL_EnableKeyRepeat'" What's now?
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115 Where did you install the SDL library? If you installed in /usr/local
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116 (the default) then edit the top level config.mak and add
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117 "-L/usr/local/lib " after "X_LIBS=" Now type make. You're done!
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121 It doesn't compile, and it misses uint64_t inttypes.h and similar things...
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123 copy etc/inttypes.h to <B>MPlayer</B> directory (cp etc/inttypes.h .)
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124 try again...
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128 I have Pentium III but ./configure doesn't detect SSE
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130 Only kernel versions 2.4.x supports SSE (or try latest 2.2.19 or newer, but
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131 be prepared for problems)
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135 I have G200/G400, how to compile/use mga_vid driver?
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137 Read all this documentation.
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138 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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141 Are there rpm/deb/... packages of <B>MPlayer</B>?
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142 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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143 You can make a .deb package for yourself, check section <A HREF="documentation.html#6.1">6.1</A>.
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144 It's _STRONGLY_ discouraged to use precompiled packages
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145 of <B>MPlayer</B>, since it (currently) _highly_ depends on compile-time
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146 options and optimizations!
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147 Precompiled packages are COMPLETELY unsupported by the <B>MPlayer</B> team!
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148 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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151 During 'make', MPlayer complains about X11 libraries. I don't understand,
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152 I DO have X installed!?
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153 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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154 ...but you don't have the X development package installed. Or not
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155 correctly. It's called XFree86-devel* under RedHat, and xlib6g-dev* under
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156 Debian. Also check if the /usr/X11 symlink exists (this can be a problem on
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157 Mandrake systems). It can be created with the<BR>
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158 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>$ ln -sf /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11</CODE><BR>
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159 command. Also check the /usr/include/X11 link :<BR>
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160 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>$ ln -sf /usr/X11R6/include/X11 /usr/include/X11</CODE><BR>
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161 Your distribution may differ from the Linux Filesystem Standard.
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162 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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165 What about DGA driver? I can't find it!!!
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166 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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167 ./configure autodetects your DGA driver. If -vo help doesn't show
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168 DGA, then there's a problem with your X installation.
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169 Try ./configure --enable-dga (and RTFM)
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170 Alternatively, try SDL's DGA driver with '-vo sdl:dga' options.
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171 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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174 I can't compile SVGAlib.. I'm using 2.3/2.4 kernel.
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176 You have to edit SVGAlib's Makefile.cfg and comment "BACKGROUND = y" out.
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177 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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180 I compiled MPlayer with libdvdcss/libdivxdecore support, but when
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181 I try to start it, it says:<BR>
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182 <CODE>&gt; error while loading shared libraries: lib*.so.0: cannot load
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183 shared object file: No such file or directory</CODE><BR>
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184 I checked up on the file and it IS there in /usr/local/lib.
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185 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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186 What are you doing on Linux? Can't you install a library? Why do
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187 we get these questions? It's not <B>MPlayer</B> specific at all! Add
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188 /usr/local/lib to <B>/etc/ld.so.conf</B> and run <B>ldconfig</B> .
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189 Or install it to /usr/lib , because if you can't solve the /usr/local
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190 problem, you are careless enough to do such things.
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191 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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192
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193 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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194 MPlayer doesn't seem to find my libcss. What am I doing wrong ?
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195 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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196 It's normal. <B>MPlayer</B> no longer depends on libcss to play a DVD. You
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197 have to install <B>libdvdread</B> and <B>libdvdcss</B>. Check for DVD Playback
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198 part <A HREF="cd-dvd.html">here</A>. libcss is to be used for example when you
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199 want to play encrypted VOB files from hard disk (not for general users).
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200 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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202 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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203 Hmm, strange. When loading the mga_vid.o kernel module, I found this in the logs:<BR>
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204 <CODE>Warning: loading mga_vid.o will taint the kernel: no license</CODE>
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205 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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206 The latest kernels modules needs require a flag indicating its license (mainly
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207 to avoid kernel hackers' debugging closed sources drivers).
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208 Upgrade your kernel and your modutils and <B>MPlayer</B>.
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209 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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210
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212 When compiling <B>MEncoder</B>, it segfaults at linking !!!
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214 Dunno, upgrading binutils should help (2.11.92.* or newer should be good). Not our fault, do NOT report!
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215 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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216
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218 I'd like to compile <B>MPlayer</B> on Minix !
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219 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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220 Me too.
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221 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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223
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224 <TD COLSPAN=3><B><A NAME=5.2><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.2. General questions</A></B>
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225 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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228 What about DVD playing ?
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229 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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230 Read the CD/DVD section in <A HREF="cd-dvd.html">this page</A>.
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231 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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234 -xy or -fs option doesn't work with x11 driver (-vo x11)
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235 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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236 It does, but you have to explicitly specify software scaling (it's SLOW!) with
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237 the <CODE>-zoom</CODE> option. You better use XF86VidMode support:
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238 you must specify the -vm and the -fs switch, and you're done.
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239 Make sure you have the right Modelines in your XF86Config file, and
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240 try if the DGA driver (and SDL's DGA driver, see RTFM) works for you.
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241 It's much faster. If SDL's DGA works too, use that, it'll be EVEN faster!
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242 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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245 What is the meaning of numbers in the status line?
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246 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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247 See: <CODE><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A: 2.1 V: 2.2 A-V: -0.167 ct: 0.042 57 41% 0% 2.6% 0 4</CODE><BR>
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248 <UL>
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249 <LI><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A: audio position in seconds
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250 <LI>V: video position in seconds
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251 <LI>A-V: audio-video difference in seconds (delay)
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252 <LI>ct: total A-V sync correction done
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253 <LI>frames played (counting from last seek)
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254 <LI>video codec cpu usage in percent (for mpeg it includes video_out too!)
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255 <LI>video_out cpu usage for avi, 0 for mpg (see above)
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256 <LI>audio codec cpu usage in percent
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257 <LI>frames needed to drop to maintain A-V sync
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258 <LI>current level of image postprocessing (when using -autoq)
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259 </UL>
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260 <I>Most of them are for debug purposes, and will be removed soon.</I>
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264 What if I don't want them to appear?
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266 Then you use the -quiet option, and read the manpage.
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267 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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270 Why is video_out cpu usage zero (0%) for mpeg files?
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272 It's not zero, but it's built in into codec, so can't be measured separated.
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273 You should try to play the file using -vo null and then -vo ... and check
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274 the difference to see video_out speed...
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275 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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278 What's XMMP? (is it XMMS or XMPS but mispelled?)
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279 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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280 It's a new project, see http://frozenproductions.com for details
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281 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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284 There are error messages about file not found /usr/lib/win32/....
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286 Download <A HREF="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/w32codec.zip">w32codec.zip</A>
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287 from *our* FTP (avifile's codec package has different DLL set).
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288 Install it.
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289 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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292 Are there any mailing lists on MPlayer?
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293 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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294 Yes! See RTFM on how to subscribe them!
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295 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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296
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298 I've found a nasty bug when I tried to play my favourite video!!
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299 Who should I inform?
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300 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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301 See Appendix <A HREF="bugreports.html">C</A>.
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302 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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303
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305 I have problems playing files with ... codec. Can I use'em?
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306 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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307 Check <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html">http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html</A>,
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308 if it doesn't contain your codec, read
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309 <A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.3">section 2.1.3</A>, and contact us.
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310 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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311
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312 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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313 Umm, what is "IdegCounter"?
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314 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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315 A mixture of a hungarian and an english word. In english, "Ideg" means
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316 "nerve", and is pronounced as something like "ydaegh" . It was first used
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317 to measure the nervousness of A'rpi, after some (umm) "mystic" disappearance
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318 of CVS code ;)
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319 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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320
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321 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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322 And what is "Faszom(C)ounter" ?
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323 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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324 "Fasz" is a hungarian word you don't want to know, the others are in
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325 connection with the pervert minds of the MPlayer developers.
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326 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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327
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328 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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329 LIRC doesn't work, because ...
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330 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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331 Are you sure you use "mplayer_lirc" instead of "mplayer"?
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332 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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333
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334 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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335 Subtitles are very nice, the most beautiful I've ever seen, but they slow
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336 down the playing! I know it's unlikely...
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337 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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338 After running ./configure , edit config.h and replace <CODE>#undef FAST_OSD</CODE> with
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339 <CODE>#define FAST_OSD</CODE>. Then recompile.
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340 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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342 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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343 The OSD is flickering!
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344 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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345 You use a vo driver with single buffering (x11,xv). With xv,
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346 use -double option.
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347 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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350 What exactly is this libavcodec?
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351 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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352 See the <A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.2.2">2.1.2.2 section</A>.
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353 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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355 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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356 But configure tells me "Checking for libavcodec ... no"!
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358 You need to get libavcodec from FFmpeg's CVS. Read the instructions in
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359 the <A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.2.2">ffmpeg section</A>.
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360 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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362 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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363 The GUI isn't usable with icewm, because some panel are over the movie!!
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364 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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365 Known, icewm is shit and dictatoric. Unsolvable. In detail: icewm sucks
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366 because its taskbar overrides GUI's window resize queries. If it asks for
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367 resize to 800x600, then it resizes window to 800x(600-taskbar_size). It's bad.
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368 Very bad. In short: shit.
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369 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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372 I can't access the GUI menu. I press right click, but I can't access any
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373 menu items !
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374 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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375 Are you using FVWM ? Try the following :<BR>
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376 Start -&gt; Settings -&gt; Configuration -&gt; Base Configuration<BR>
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377 <BR>
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378 Set "Use Applications position hints" to Yes.
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379 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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380
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381 <TD COLSPAN=3>
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382 <B><A NAME=5.3><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.3. File playing problems</A></B>
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383 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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386 ...... works with avifile/aviplay while doesn't with MPlayer.
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387 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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388 <B>MPlayer</B> != avifile
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389 The only common thing between these players is the Win32 DLL loader.
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390 The codecs (dll) sets, syncronization, demultiplexing etc is totaly
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391 different and shouldn't be compared.
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392 If something works with aviplay it doesn't mean that <B>MPlayer</B> should do
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393 it and vice versa.
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394 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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395
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396 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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397 Audio goes out of sync playing .avi file.
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398 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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399 Try with -bps or -nobps option
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400 if still bad, send me (upload to ftp) that file, I'll check.
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401 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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403 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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404 Indeo 3.x/4.x movies are viewed upside-down!!!?
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405 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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406 It's a known bug (really it's a bug/limitation of the DLL codec)
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407 Try if your vo driver supports the -flip switch.
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408 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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409
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410 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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411 Indeo 3.x,4.x video doesn't work at 32bpp resolutions (16,24 bpp are ok).
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412 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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413 It's a known bug (really it's a bug/limitation of the DLL codec).
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414 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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415
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416 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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417 MPlayer exits with something error when using l3codeca.acm.
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418 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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419 Check 'ldd /usr/local/bin/mplayer' output. If it contains<BR>
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420 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4???????)</CODE><BR>
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421 where "?" is any number then it's ok, the error is not here. If it is:<BR>
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422 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00??????)</CODE><BR>
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423 then there is problem with your kernel/libc. Maybe you are using some
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424 security patches (for example Solar Designer's OpenWall patch) which
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425 forces loading libraries to very low addresses.
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426 Because l3codeca.acm is a non-relocatable DLL, it must be loaded to
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427 0x00400000, we can't change this. You should use non-patched kernel,
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428 or use <B>MPlayer</B>'s -afm 1 option to disable using l3codeca.acm.
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429 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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430
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431 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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432 My computer plays M$ DivX AVIs with resolutions ~ 640x300 and stereo mp3
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433 sound too slow. When I use -nosound switch, everything is ok (but quiet).
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434 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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435 Ok son, your machine is too slow. RTFM or anything.
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436 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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437
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438 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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439 MPlayer dies with "MPlayer interrupted by signal 4 in module: decode_video".
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440 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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441 Try running <B>MPlayer</B> on the machine you compiled on. Or recompile. Don't
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442 use <B>MPlayer</B> on different CPU than it was compiled on.
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443 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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444
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445 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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446 I have problems with [your window manager] and fullscreen xv/xmga/sdl/x11 modes..
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447 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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448 Use the -fsmode switch. See example.conf or manpage.
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449 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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450
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451 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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452 But it works with avifile!
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453 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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454 So what?
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455 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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456
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457 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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458 Then avifile is better!
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459 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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460 Then use avifile, it has nice GUI and nice C++ code :)
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461 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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462
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463 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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464 I got this playing mpeg files: Can't find codec for video format 0x10000001!
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465 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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466 You have old version of codecs.conf at ~/.mplayer/. Upgrade it from etc/<BR>
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467 <B>OR</B> you have the <CODE>vc=</CODE> option or similar, in your
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468 config file(s).
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469 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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470
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471 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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472 After starting mplayer under KDE(1/2) I just get a black screen and nothing
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473 happens, after about one minute the video starts playing.
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474 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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475 The KDE arts sound daemon is blocking the sound device, either wait the time
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476 until video starts or you disable the arts-daemon in kontrollcenter.
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477 If you want to use arts sound, specify audio output via SDL (ao=sdl), and
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478 make sure your SDL can handle arts sound. Yet another option is to start
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479 mplayer with artsdsp.
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480 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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481
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482 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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483 I have an AVI that plays with grey screen with -vc odivx, and green with -vc divx4 .
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484 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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485 It's not a DivX file, but an M$ MPEG4v3 . Update your codecs.conf.
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486 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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487
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488 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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489 There this movie is, and when I play it I get video-audio desync and/or MPlayer crashes with the following:<BR>
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490 <CODE>DEMUXER: Too many (945 in 8390980 bytes) video packets in the buffer!</CODE>
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491 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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492 This can have multiple reasons.<BR>
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493 <LI>your CPU <B>and/or</B> video card <B>and/or</B> bus is too SLOW. <B>MPlayer</B>
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494 displays a message if this is the case. (and the dropped frames counter is going up fast)</LI>
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495 <LI>if it is an AVI, maybe it has shit interleaving. Try the <I>-ni</I> option.</LI>
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496 <LI>your sound driver is shit, or you use ALSA 0.5 with <I>-ao oss</I>. See the <A HREF="sound.html">soundcards section</A>.</LI>
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497 <LI>the AVI has shit header, try with the <I>-nobps</I> option, and/or <I>-mc 0</I> .</LI>
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498 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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499
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500 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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501 I have an MJPEG file which works with other players but displays only black
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502 image in MPlayer.
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503 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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504 Disable the Windows DLL in <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE>, or use <CODE>-vc ffmjpeg</CODE> option (you have to
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505 compile MPlayer with libavcodec).
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506 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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507
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508 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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509 When I try to grab from my tuner, it works, but colors are strange. It's ok
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510 with other applications.
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511 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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512 Your card probably misreports its colorspace capacity. Try with YUY2 instead
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513 of default YV12 (see TV input documentation).
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514 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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515
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516 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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517 When I try to start playing, I get this message, but playing is good :<BR>
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518 <CODE>Linux RTC init: ioctl (rtc_pie_on): Permission denied</CODE>
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519 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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520 See the <A HREF="documentation.html#1.3">Installation section</A>. The part
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521 about new sync code.
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522 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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523
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524 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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525 I have A/V sync problems. Some of my AVIs play fine, but some play with
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526 double speed !
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527 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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528 You have buggy soundcard/driver. Most likely it's fixed at 44100Hz, and
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529 you try to play a file which has 22050Hz audio. Try the <CODE>-ao sdl</CODE>
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530 driver.
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531 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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532
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533 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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534 All the WMV (or other..) files I play gives green/gray window and there is
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535 only sound! It prints:<BR>
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536 <CODE>Detected video codec: [null] drv:0 (NULL codec (no decoding))</CODE>
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537 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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538 Update your <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE>
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539 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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540
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541 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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542 I'm using the GUI. During startup, MPlayer prints :<BR>
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543 <PRE><CODE>Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid.
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544 This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper
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545 program instead. For further details, see...</CODE></PRE>
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546 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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547 You can't use GTK in a suid-root binary, as pointed out in the GUI section.
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548 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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549
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550
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551 <TD COLSPAN=3>
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552 <B><A NAME=5.4><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.4. Video/audio driver problems (vo/ao)</A></B>
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553 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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554
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555
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556 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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557 Ok, -vo help shows DGA driver, but it is babbling about permissions!
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558 Help me!
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559 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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560 It works only if running as root! It's a DGA limitation.
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561 You should become to root (su -), and try again.
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562 Another solution is making mplayer SUID root, but its NOT RECOMMENDED!<BR>
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563 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>chown root /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE><BR>
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564 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>chmod 750 /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE><BR>
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565 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>chmod +s /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE><BR>
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566 <B>!!!! BUT STAY TUNED !!!!</B><BR>
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567 This is a *BIG* security risk! *NEVER* do this on a server or on a computer
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568 can be accessed by more people than only you because they can gain root
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569 privilegies through suid root mplayer!!!<BR>
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570 <B>!!!! SO YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ... !!!!</B>
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571 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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572
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573 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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574 When using Xvideo, my Voodoo 3/Banshee says:<BR>
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575 <CODE>X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)<BR>
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576 &nbsp;&nbsp;Major opcode of failed request: 147 (MIT-SHM)<BR>
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577 &nbsp;&nbsp;Minor opcode of failed request: 1 (X_ShmAttach)<BR>
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578 &nbsp;&nbsp;Serial number of failed request: 26<BR>
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579 &nbsp;&nbsp;Current serial number in output stream:27</CODE><BR>
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580 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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581 Your driver is old, update it. Either download (at least) DRI version 0.6
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582 from <A HREF="http://dri.sourceforge.net">http://dri.sourceforge.net</A>,
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583 or use the DRI cvs.
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584 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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585
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586 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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587 When using Xvideo, I can't play DivX avis with my Voodoo 3/Banshee!
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588 It says:<BR>
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589 ...<BR>
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590 <CODE>Xvideo image format: 0x32315659 (YV12) planar<BR>
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591 Xvideo image format: 0x30323449 (I420) planar<BR></CODE>
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592 ...
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593 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">A1:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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594 See the previous answer.
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595 </TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">A2:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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596 Since 0.18pre4 we support libavcodec from the ffmpeg package. It contains
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597 a C language DivX and OpenDivX decoder. The DivX decoder uses YV12 format
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598 for output, thus it should work for you. Compile in libavcodec support.
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599 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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600
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601 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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602 OpenGL (-vo gl) output doesn't work (hangup/black window/X11 errors/...).
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603 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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604 Your opengl driver doesn't support dynamic texture changes (glTexSubImage)
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605 It's known not to work with nVidia's binary shit.
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606 It's known to work with Utah-GLX/DRI and Matrox G400 card. Also with
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607 DRI and Radeon card. It won't work with DRI others than these.
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608 it will not work with 3DFX cards because the 256x256 texture size limit.
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609 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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610
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611 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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612 I have an nVidia TNT/TNT2 card, and I have a band with strange colours,
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613 right under the movie! Whose fault is this?
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614 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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615 It's the nVidia X driver's. These bugs are ONLY with the TNT/TNT2 cards,
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616 and we can't do anything about it, it's not our bug. UPDATE : it's fixed
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617 in newest drivers, at last..
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618 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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619
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620 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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621 I have an nVidia XYZ card, and when I click on the GUI's diplay window to toggle
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622 displaying the GUI panel, a black square appears where I clicked. I have
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623 the newest driver.
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624 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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625 Yes, nvidia corrected a previous bug (above), and implemented a new one. Let's
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626 congratule them.
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627 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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628
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629 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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630 When I use the GUI with SDL video output, a second video window is created.
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631 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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632 Known, don't use SDL for GUI yet.
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633 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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634
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635 <TD COLSPAN=3>
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636 <B><A NAME=5.5><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.5. Feature requests</A></B>
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637 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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639 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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640 Is there a hint on how to watch RealMedia movies in MPlayer?
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641 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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69467fef1577 MOV & stuff
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642 There's no way to do it. Therefore this format deserves to die in flames.
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643 Theoretically you can reverse engineer Real codecs built for Linux (they
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644 are available as .so files), but in practice that's really difficult, even
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645 if you know how the compiler used by Real is making assembler code.
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646 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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647
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648 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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649 When will be &lt;your favourite video feature&gt; (like subtitle placement) implemented?
1987
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650 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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651 Wait for libvo2.
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652 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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653
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c4dbfa55d873 reviewed for release
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654 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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655 I want to play MP3 files with MPlayer !
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656 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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657 This feature is not planned. There are much better players (mpg123, 3pm, xmms)
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658 for this task, use them. BTW, MPlayer stands for Movie Player.
1898
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659 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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660
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661 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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662 I'd like to seek +/- 1 frames, instead of 10 seconds.
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663 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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664 This won't be done. It was, but then it fucked up A/V sync. Feel free to
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665 implement it, and send a patch. Don't ask for it.
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666 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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667
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668 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
153fc4f5464f ehh too much
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669 Where is the Windows version ?
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670 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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671 It's not released, and won't be. Look around the windows scene (opensource
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672 ASF parsers, opensource ASF encoders, etc) and you'll know why. We don't
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673 want to go to jail.
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674 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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675
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676 <TD COLSPAN=3>
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677 <B><A NAME=5.6><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.6. Encoding</A></B>
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678 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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680 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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681 How can I encode ?
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682 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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683 Check <A HREF="encoding.html">this documentation</A>.
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684 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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685
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686 </TABLE>
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687
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688 </BODY>
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689 </HTML>