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| 6393 | 26 <TR><TD COLSPAN=3><P><B><A NAME=5.1>5.1 Compilation</A></B></P> |
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30 <PRE> |
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42 <TD> </TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH="100%"><B>Configure ends with this text, and MPlayer won't compile!<BR> |
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| 6393 | 44 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Your gcc isn't installed correctly, check the <CODE>config.log</CODE> file |
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| 6393 | 49 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Probably there is no such file or directory. |
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52 <TD> </TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH="100%"><B>What's the problem with gcc 2.96? |
| 6393 | 53 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><B>We strongly discourage the use of gcc 2.96!!!</B><BR> |
| 6055 | 54 Read <A HREF="users_against_developers.html#gcc">this</A> |
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58 in case you run into problems. |
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| 6393 | 63 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>No, since there have been/are issues with these compilers as well.<BR> |
| 6583 | 64 To check the status of current compilers' MPlayer support, see the |
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| 102 <P>And you clever guys come and flame us with gcc 2.96 and binary packages. | |
| 103 Instead of helping users or making patches to help solve problems.</P> | |
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| 105 <P>Half of our spare/free time is spent by answering silly mails here and | |
| 106 making newer tricks and checks to configure to avoid such mails.</P> | |
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112 <P>Conclusion: We can't be good. Half the people always will say we are bad.</P> |
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| 114 <P>Maybe we should close the project, make it closed source, commercial, and | |
| 115 provide install support for it. then we could leave current work, so | |
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| 6393 | 123 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#gcc">This</A> |
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| 6393 | 128 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>It was tested to work with SDL 1.2.x and may run on SDL 1.1.7+. |
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129 It does <B>not</B> work with any previous version. So if you choose to use such |
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| 6393 | 135 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Where did you install the SDL library? If you installed in /usr/local |
| 1682 | 136 (the default) then edit the top level config.mak and add |
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| 6393 | 141 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Copy etc/inttypes.h to the <B>MPlayer</B> directory (<CODE>cp etc/inttypes.h .</CODE>) |
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151 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH="100%"><B>I have a G200/G400, how do I compile/use the mga_vid driver? |
| 6393 | 152 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Read the <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.7">mga_vid documentation</A>. |
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| 6393 | 156 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>You can make a .deb package for yourself, check the <A HREF="documentation.html#6.1">Debian packaging</A> section. |
| 5979 | 157 There are RPM packages available on our homepage, don't use other sources! |
| 1682 | 158 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 1682 | 161 I DO have X installed!? |
| 6393 | 162 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>... but you don't have the X development package installed. Or not |
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| 1682 | 167 <CODE>$ ln -sf /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11</CODE><BR> |
| 168 <CODE>$ ln -sf /usr/X11R6/include/X11 /usr/include/X11</CODE><BR> | |
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| 6393 | 174 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>You have to edit SVGAlib's Makefile.cfg and comment <CODE>BACKGROUND = y</CODE> out. |
| 1682 | 175 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 1682 | 178 I try to start it, it says:<BR> |
| 2001 | 179 <CODE>> error while loading shared libraries: lib*.so.0: cannot load |
| 1682 | 180 shared object file: No such file or directory</CODE><BR> |
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| 6393 | 182 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Add <CODE>/usr/local/lib</CODE> to <CODE>/etc/ld.so.conf</CODE> and run <CODE>ldconfig</CODE>. |
| 1682 | 183 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 6393 | 187 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>The latest kernel modutils require a flag indicating the license (mainly |
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| 6393 | 193 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>This is a linker problem. Upgrading binutils should help (2.11.92.* or newer |
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| 6393 | 198 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Me too. :) |
| 3053 | 199 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 6393 | 206 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>It does, but you have to explicitly specify software scaling (it's SLOW!) with |
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| 6393 | 216 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Example: <CODE>A: 2.1 V: 2.2 A-V: -0.167 ct: 0.042 57/57 41% 0% 2.6% 0 4 49%</CODE><BR> |
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| 1682 | 219 <LI>V: video position in seconds |
| 220 <LI>A-V: audio-video difference in seconds (delay) | |
| 221 <LI>ct: total A-V sync correction done | |
| 222 <LI>frames played (counting from last seek) | |
| 5700 | 223 <LI>frames decoded (counting from last seek) |
| 224 <LI>video codec cpu usage in percent (for slices and DR this includes video_out) | |
| 225 <LI>video_out cpu usage | |
| 1682 | 226 <LI>audio codec cpu usage in percent |
| 227 <LI>frames needed to drop to maintain A-V sync | |
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234 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH="100%"><B>What if I don't want them to appear? |
| 6393 | 235 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Use the <CODE>-quiet</CODE> option and read the man page. |
| 1864 | 236 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 6583 | 239 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A1:</TD><TD>It's not zero, but it's called from the codec and thus cannot be measured |
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241 <CODE>-vo ...</CODE> and check the difference to see the video_out speed. |
| 6583 | 242 </TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A2:</TD><TD>You are using Direct Rendering, |
| 243 where the codec renders to the video memory itself. In this case, the | |
| 244 decoding percentage contains the display percentage too. | |
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247 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH="100%"><B>There are error messages about file not found <CODE>/usr/lib/win32/</CODE> ... |
| 6393 | 248 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Download the <A HREF="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/w32codec-0.90.tar.bz2">Win32 codecs</A> |
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249 from <B>our</B> FTP site (avifile's codec package has a different DLL set) and |
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250 install it. |
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| 6393 | 254 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Yes! See the bottom of the info page on |
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| 1682 | 256 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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258 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH="100%"><B>I've found a nasty bug when I tried to play my favorite video!! |
| 1682 | 259 Who should I inform? |
| 6393 | 260 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Please read the <A HREF="bugreports.html">bug reporting guidelines</A> and follow |
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| 6393 | 265 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Check the <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html">codec status</A>, |
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| 6393 | 272 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>A combination of a Hungarian and an English word. "Ideg" in Hungarian means |
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| 6393 | 279 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>"Fasz" is a Hungarian word you don't want to know, the others are connected to |
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| 6393 | 284 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Are you sure you are using <CODE>mplayer</CODE> instead of <CODE>mplayer_lirc</CODE>? |
| 5700 | 285 Note that it was <CODE>mplayer_lirc</CODE> for long time, including the 0.60 release, but recently |
| 286 changed back to <CODE>mplayer</CODE>. | |
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| 6393 | 291 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>After running <CODE>./configure</CODE> , edit <CODE>config.h</CODE> and replace |
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| 1682 | 293 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 1612 | 294 |
| 6573 | 295 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH="100%"><B>The onscreen display (OSD) is flickering! |
| 6393 | 296 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>You use a vo driver with single buffering (x11,xv). With xv, |
| 5700 | 297 use the <CODE>-double</CODE> option. Also try <CODE>-vop expand</CODE> |
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| 6393 | 301 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>See the <A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.1.2">FFmpeg section</A>. |
| 1682 | 302 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 6393 | 305 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>You need to get libavcodec from FFmpeg's CVS. Read the instructions in |
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| 6393 | 310 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>This shouldn't happen anymore, if it still does use the <CODE>-icelayer</CODE> |
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| 6393 | 318 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Are you using FVWM? Try the following:<BR> |
| 2972 | 319 Start -> Settings -> Configuration -> Base Configuration<BR> |
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| 6393 | 324 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Use: <CODE>mplayer <options> <filename> < /dev/null &</CODE> |
| 4680 | 325 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 326 | |
| 1682 | 327 <TD COLSPAN=3> |
| 6393 | 328 <B><A NAME="5.3">5.3 File playing problems</A></B> |
| 1682 | 329 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 6393 | 332 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><B>MPlayer</B> != avifile. |
| 1682 | 333 The only common thing between these players is the Win32 DLL loader. |
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| 1682 | 335 different and shouldn't be compared. |
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| 1682 | 338 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 339 | |
| 6583 | 340 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH="100%"><B>Audio goes out of sync playing an AVI file. |
| 6393 | 341 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Try the <CODE>-bps</CODE> or <CODE>-nobps</CODE> option. If it does not improve, |
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342 read <A HREF="bugreports.html">this</A> and upload the file to FTP. |
| 1682 | 343 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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345 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH="100%"><B>MPlayer exits with some error when using l3codeca.acm. |
| 6393 | 346 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Check <CODE>ldd /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE> output. If it contains<BR> |
| 1682 | 347 <CODE>libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4???????)</CODE><BR> |
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| 1682 | 349 <CODE>libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00??????)</CODE><BR> |
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350 then there is a problem with your kernel/libc. Maybe you are using some |
| 1682 | 351 security patches (for example Solar Designer's OpenWall patch) which |
| 352 forces loading libraries to very low addresses. | |
| 353 Because l3codeca.acm is a non-relocatable DLL, it must be loaded to | |
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355 or use <B>MPlayer</B>'s <CODE>-afm 1</CODE> option to disable using l3codeca.acm. |
| 1682 | 356 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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359 sound too slow. When I use -nosound switch, everything is OK (but quiet). |
| 6393 | 360 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Your machine is too slow or your soundcard driver is broken. Consult the documentation to see if you can improve |
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| 1682 | 362 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 6583 | 365 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Try running <B>MPlayer</B> on the machine you compiled on. Or recompile |
| 366 with runtime CPU detection | |
| 367 (<CODE>./configure --enable-runtime-cpudetection</CODE>). Don't | |
| 368 use <B>MPlayer</B> on a CPU different from the one it was compiled on, | |
| 369 without using the feature mentioned just now. | |
| 1682 | 370 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 6393 | 373 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Read the <A HREF="bugreports.html">bug reporting guidelines</A> and send us a |
| 6055 | 374 proper bug report. |
| 1682 | 375 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 6393 | 378 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>So what? |
| 1682 | 379 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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381 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH="100%"><B>Then avifile is better! |
| 6393 | 382 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Then use avifile, it has a nice GUI and nice C++ code :) |
| 1682 | 383 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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385 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH="100%"><B>I got this playing mpeg files: Can't find codec for video format 0x10000001! |
| 6393 | 386 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>You have an old version of codecs.conf at <CODE>~/.mplayer/</CODE>. Upgrade it |
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| 1682 | 390 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 6352 | 393 After about one minute the video starts playing. |
| 6393 | 394 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>The KDE arts sound daemon is blocking the sound device. Either wait until the |
| 6352 | 395 video starts or disable the arts-daemon in kontrol center. If you want |
| 6329 | 396 to use arts sound, specify audio output via our native arts audio driver |
| 6352 | 397 (<CODE>-ao arts</CODE>). If it fails or isn't compiled in, try SDL |
| 398 (<CODE>-ao sdl</CODE>) and make sure your SDL can handle arts sound. Yet | |
| 6329 | 399 another option is to start <B>MPlayer</B> with artsdsp. |
| 1682 | 400 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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403 and a green one with <CODE>-vc divx4</CODE>. |
| 6393 | 404 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>It's not a DivX file, but an M$ MPEG4v3 . Update your codecs.conf. |
| 1682 | 405 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 1892 | 408 <CODE>DEMUXER: Too many (945 in 8390980 bytes) video packets in the buffer!</CODE> |
| 6393 | 409 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>This can have multiple reasons.<BR> |
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| 1892 | 419 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 2606 | 422 image in MPlayer. |
| 6393 | 423 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Disable the Windows DLL in <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE>, or use the |
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424 <CODE>-vc ffmjpeg</CODE> option (compile MPlayer with libavcodec for this to work). |
| 2606 | 425 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 3030 | 428 with other applications. |
| 6393 | 429 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Your card probably misreports its colorspace capacity. Try with YUY2 instead |
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| 3053 | 434 <CODE>Linux RTC init: ioctl (rtc_pie_on): Permission denied</CODE> |
| 6393 | 435 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>You need root privileges to use the new timing code. For details see the |
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| 3053 | 437 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 6393 | 441 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>You have a buggy sound card/driver. Most likely it's fixed at 44100Hz, and |
| 5700 | 442 you try to play a file which has 22050Hz audio. Try the resample audio plugin. |
| 3162 | 443 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 3192 | 447 <CODE>Detected video codec: [null] drv:0 (NULL codec (no decoding))</CODE> |
| 6393 | 448 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Update your <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE>. |
| 3192 | 449 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 6393 | 452 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>It's an effect of the power management / power saving system of your notebook |
| 6282 | 453 (BIOS, not kernel). Plug the external power connector in <B>before</B> you power on your |
| 5016 | 454 notebook. |
| 455 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
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| 6393 | 459 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>This is again a power management effect (see above). Plug the external power |
| 6282 | 460 connector in <B>before</B> you power on your notebook or use the |
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| 5016 | 462 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 3053 | 463 |
| 1682 | 464 <TD COLSPAN=3> |
| 6393 | 465 <B><A NAME="5.4">5.4 Video/audio driver problems (vo/ao)</A></B> |
| 1682 | 466 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 6393 | 470 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD><CODE>./configure</CODE> autodetects your DGA driver. If <CODE>-vo help</CODE> doesn't show |
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| 1682 | 478 Help me! |
| 6393 | 479 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>It works only if running as root! It's a DGA limitation. |
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| 1682 | 482 <CODE>chown root /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE><BR> |
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483 <CODE>chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE><BR> |
| 1682 | 484 <CODE>chmod +s /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE><BR> |
| 485 <B>!!!! BUT STAY TUNED !!!!</B><BR> | |
| 486 This is a *BIG* security risk! *NEVER* do this on a server or on a computer | |
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| 1682 | 490 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 1682 | 494 Major opcode of failed request: 147 (MIT-SHM)<BR> |
| 495 Minor opcode of failed request: 1 (X_ShmAttach)<BR> | |
| 496 Serial number of failed request: 26<BR> | |
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| 6393 | 498 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>The "tdfx" driver in XFree86 4.0.2/4.0.3 had this bug. This was solved by |
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505 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH="100%"><B>OpenGL (<CODE>-vo gl</CODE>) output doesn't work (hang/black window/X11 errors/...). |
| 6393 | 506 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Your OpenGL driver doesn't support dynamic texture changes (glTexSubImage). |
| 3858 | 507 It's known not to work with nVidia's binary mess. |
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508 It's known to work with Utah-GLX/DRI and Matrox G400 cards. Also with |
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| 1682 | 514 right under the movie! Whose fault is this? |
| 6393 | 515 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>This is a bug of nVidia's binary X driver. These bugs appear ONLY with the |
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516 TNT/TNT2 cards, and we can't do anything about it. To fix the problem, upgrade |
| 5700 | 517 to the latest nVidia binary driver version. If still bad, complain to nVidia! |
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| 2065 | 521 displaying the GUI panel, a black square appears where I clicked. I have |
| 522 the newest driver. | |
| 6393 | 523 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Yes, nVidia corrected a previous bug (above), and introduced a new one. Let's |
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529 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH="100%"><B>When I use the GUI with SDL video output, a second video window is created. |
| 6393 | 530 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Known, don't use SDL for the GUI yet. |
| 3343 | 531 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 5498 | 534 <CODE>xv</CODE>! |
| 6393 | 535 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Try that <CODE>x11</CODE> target again. Now try <CODE>-vo x11 -fs -zoom</CODE>. |
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| 5498 | 537 <CODE>x11</CODE> target uses xv when available, you don't have to worry about |
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| 6393 | 542 <B><A NAME="5.5">5.5 DVD playback</A></B> |
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| 6393 | 545 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH="100%"><B> |
| 546 While playing a DVD, I encountered this error:<BR> | |
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| 6393 | 549 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD> |
| 550 This is a known libdvdread 0.9.1/0.9.2 bug. | |
| 6583 | 551 Use <B>libmpdvdkit</B>, which is present in MPlayer source, and used by |
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| 6393 | 555 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH="100%"><B> |
| 556 Can I compile libdvdread and libdvdcss on my sweet SPARC under Solaris? | |
| 557 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD> | |
| 558 Who knows ... It's said to work, so please test it and send feedback. Refer to | |
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| 6583 | 560 of libdvdread. Use <B>libmpdvdkit</B>, which is present in MPlayer source, and used by |
| 561 default. | |
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| 6393 | 564 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH="100%"><B> |
| 565 What about subtitles? Can MPlayer display them? | |
| 566 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD> | |
| 567 Yes! See the <A HREF="cd-dvd.html">DVD chapter</A> of the documentation. | |
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| 6393 | 570 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH="100%"><B> |
| 571 How can I set the region code of my DVD-drive? I don't have Windows! | |
| 572 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD> | |
| 573 Use the | |
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| 6393 | 577 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH="100%"><B> |
| 578 Do I need to be (setuid) root/setuid fibmap_mplayer to be able to play a DVD? | |
| 579 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD> | |
| 580 No, only for old-style DVD support. However you must have | |
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581 the proper rights on the DVD device entry (in <CODE>/dev/</CODE>). |
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| 6393 | 584 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH="100%"><B> |
| 585 Where can I get libdvdread and libdvdcss packages? | |
| 586 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD> | |
| 6583 | 587 You don't need to. Use <B>libmpdvdkit</B>, which is present in MPlayer source, and used by |
| 588 default. | |
| 589 Anyway, the packages mentioned can be get from the | |
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590 <A HREF="http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd">Ogle site</A>. |
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| 6393 | 593 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH="100%"><B> |
| 594 Is it possible to play/encode only selected chapters? | |
| 595 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD> | |
| 596 Yes, try the <CODE>-chapter</CODE> option. | |
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| 6393 | 599 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH="100%"><B> |
| 600 My DVD playback is sluggish! | |
| 601 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD> | |
| 602 Use the <CODE>-cache</CODE> option (described in the man page) | |
| 6352 | 603 and try enabling DMA for the DVD drive with the hdparm tool (described in the |
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| 6393 | 608 <B><A NAME="5.6">5.6 Feature requests</A></B> |
| 1682 | 609 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 6393 | 612 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>This won't be done. It was, but then it messed up A/V sync. Feel free to |
| 2859 | 613 implement it, and send a patch. Don't ask for it. |
| 614 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
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| 6393 | 617 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD> It's not released, and won't be. Look around the Windows scene (open source |
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618 ASF parsers, open source ASF encoders, etc) and you'll know why. We don't |
| 6583 | 619 want to go to jail. BTW you can compile it yourself, under |
| 620 <A HREF="documentation.html#6.8">Cygwin</A>. | |
| 3489 | 621 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 622 | |
| 3192 | 623 <TD COLSPAN=3> |
| 6393 | 624 <B><A NAME="5.7">5.7 Encoding</A></B> |
| 3192 | 625 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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627 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH="100%"><B>How can I encode? |
| 6393 | 628 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Read the <B>MEncoder</B> <A HREF="encoding.html">documentation</A>. |
| 3192 | 629 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 6393 | 633 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>TV audio encoding for Linux is currently unimplemented, we're working on it. |
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| 6393 | 638 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>You have to specify the <CODE>-sid</CODE> option correctly! |
| 3966 | 639 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 6393 | 642 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Upgrade DivX4Linux. |
| 4116 | 643 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 6393 | 646 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Use the <CODE>-chapter</CODE> option correctly, like: <CODE>-chapter 5-7</CODE> |
| 4398 | 647 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 6393 | 650 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>No, VFAT doesn't support 2GB+ files. |
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| 6393 | 654 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>A:</TD><TD>Because the bitrate you encoded the audio with is too large to fit the |
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| 1612 | 659 |
| 660 </BODY> | |
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