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1 MPlayer v0.17a "The IdegCounter" (C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy (A'rpi/ESP-team)
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2 =============================== * See the file AUTHORS for the complete list *
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3 http://mplayer.sourceforge.net
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5 About:
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6 ~~~~~~
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7 MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX. It plays most mpeg, avi and asf files,
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8 supported by many native and win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VCD, DVD and
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9 even DivX movies too. The another big feature of mplayer is the wide range
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10 of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib,
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11 fbdev, but you can use SDL (and this way all drivers of SDL) and some
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12 lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox/3dfx/SiS) too! Most of them
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13 supports software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen.
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14 And what about the nice big antialiased shaded subtitles (.sub files) and OSD?
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16 History:
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17 ~~~~~~~~
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18 Yes. Yet another movie player for linux.
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19 What is the special with this? It works, at least for me :)
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20 I've tried lots of players under linux (mtv,xmps,dvdview,livid/oms,VideoLAN,
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21 xine,xanim,avifile,xmmp) but they all have some problem. Mostly with
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22 special files or with audio/video sync. Most of them is unable to play
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23 both mpeg1, mpeg2 and avi (DivX) files. Many players have image quality
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24 or speed problems too. So I've decided to write/modify one...
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25
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26 - mpg12play v0.1-v0.3:
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27 The first try, hacked together in a half hour!
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28 I've used libmpeg3 from www.heroinewarrior.com up to the version 0.3,
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29 but there were image quality and speed problems with it.
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30 - mpg12play v0.5-v0.87:
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31 Mpeg codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was a great stuff,
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32 but it was slow and was written in C++ (I hate C++!!!)
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33 - mpg12play v0.9-v0.95pre5:
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34 Mpeg codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman & Michel Lespinasse.
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35 It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect image quality and
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36 100% mpeg standard conformance.
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37 - MPlayer v0.3-v0.9:
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38 It was a pack of two programs: mpg12playv0.95pre6 and my new simple AVI
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39 player 'avip' based on avifile's Win32 DLL loader.
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40 - MPlayer v0.10:
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41 The mpeg and avi player in a single binary!
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42 - MPlayer v0.11:
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43 Added .asf file support, and OpenDivX (see www.projectmayo.com) en/decoding.
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44 - MPlayer v0.17 "The IdegCounter"
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45 The release version of the 0.11pre after 4 months of heavy development!
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46 Try it, and be amazed! Thousands of new features added... and of course
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47 old code was improved too, bugs removed etc.
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49 As you see, I didn't write any codecs, just some players. But I spent
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50 a lot of time finding the best way to parse bad damaged input files
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51 (both mpg and avi) and to do perfect A-V sync with seeking ability.
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52 My player is rock solid playing damaged mpeg files (useful for some VCDs),
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53 and it plays bad AVI files which are unplayable with the famous
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54 windows media player. Even AVI files without index chunk are playable!
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55 As you see, stability and quality are the most important things for me,
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56 speed has lower priority, but is still very important.
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58 What about the GUI?
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59 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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60 I'm not a GUI programmer. I hate GUIs, I like the pure black 80x25 console.
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61 So the player has only keyboard control from the controlling console/xterm now.
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62 But there is a GUI development for the player, coordinated by Pontscho/Fresh!
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63 It's still under development, but it will be merged and released soon.
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64 BTW he needs some nice skins, if you are a good graphician, contact him!!!
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66 Supported input formats:
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67 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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68 - VCD (Video CD) directly from CD-ROM or from CDRwin's .bin image file
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69 - DVD, directly from your DVD disk, using optional libcss for decryption
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70 - MPEG 1/2 System Stream (PS/PES/VOB) and Elementary Stream (ES) file formats
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71 - RIFF AVI file format
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72 - ASF 1.0 file format
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73 - supports reading from file or stdin
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75 Supported audio & video codecs:
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76 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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77 *** See DOCS/CODECS for the complete list, or check ***
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78 *** http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/DOCS/codecs.html ***
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79
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80 The most important video codecs:
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81 - mpeg1 (VCD) and mpeg2 (DVD) video
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82 - DivX, OpenDivX and other MPEG4 variants
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83 - Windows Media Video 7 (WMV1) used in .wmv files
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84 - Intel Indeo codecs (3.1,3.2,4.1,5.0)
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85 - MJPEG, ASV2 and other hardware formats
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86
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87 The most important audio codecs:
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88 - mpeg layer 2, and layer 3 (MP3) audio
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89 - AC3 dolby audio
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90 - Voxware audio
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91 - alaw, msgsm, pcm and other simple old audio formats
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93 If you have a codec not listed here, and not supported yet,
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94 just read CODECS to get info about its status or about how
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95 to help us adding support for it!
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96
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97 Supported video output devices:
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98 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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99 General:
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100 - x11: X11 with SHM extension
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101 - xv: X11 using overlays with the Xvideo extension (hardware YUV & scaling)
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102 - gl: OpenGL renderer, works only with Utah-GLX! (no DRI or nVidia drivers)
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103 - dga: X11 DGA extension
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104 - fsdga:X11 DGA extension with fullscreen scaling (only 24/32bpp and MPEG!)
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105 - fbdev:Output to general framebuffers
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106 - svga: Output to SVGAlib
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107 - sdl: SDL >= v1.1.7 driver (supports software scaling, and versions >=1.1.8
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108 even support Xvideo (thus hardware rendering) and with >=1.2.0 aalib)
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109
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110 Card specific:
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111 - mga: Matrox G200/G400 hardware YUV overlay via the mga_vid device
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112 - xmga: Matrox G200/G400 overlay (mga_vid) in X11 window
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113 (Xv emulation on X 3.3.x !)
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114 - syncfb: Matrox G400 YUV support on framebuffer (obsoloted, use mga/xmga)
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115 - 3dfx: Voodoo2/3 hardware YUV (/dev/3dfx) support (not yet tested, maybe broken)
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117 Special:
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118 - png: PNG files output (use -z switch to set compression)
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119 - pgm: PGM files output (for testing purposes or ffmpeg encoding)
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120 - md5: MD5sum output (for mpeg conformance tests)
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121 - odivx:OpenDivX AVI File writer (use -br to set encoding bitrate)
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122 - null: Null output (for speed tests/benchmarking)
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124 NOTE: check DOCS/VIDEOCARDS !
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126 Supported audio output devices:
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127 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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128 - OSS driver
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129 - ALSA driver with OSS emulation (NOT recommended, causes annoying delays)
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130 - ESD with the esddsp utility (not tested, not recommended, see ALSA)
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132 NOTE: check DOCS/SOUNDCARDS for details!
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134 Speed:
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135 ~~~~~~
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136 Most of time-critical parts are optimized for MMX/MMXext/SSE/3DNow!.
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137 You can improve rendering speed by setting up MTRR registers, see doc in MTRR.
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138 Some *old* benchmark results can be found in the doc file SPEED.
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140 Usage:
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141 ~~~~~~
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142 mplayer [options] [-vo driver] [path/]filename
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144 Options:
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145 see `mplayer -h' for options
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146 see `mplayer -vo help' for list of available output drivers
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148 Keys:
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149 <- or -> seek backward/forward 10 seconds
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150 up or down seek backward/forward 1 minute
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151 p or SPACE pause movie (press any key to continue)
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152 q or ^C stop playing and quit program
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153 o toggle OSD : none / seek / seek+timer
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154 / and * decrease/increase volume
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155 m toggle using master/pcm channel for volume setting
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156 f toggle fullscreen (only with -vo sdl)
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158 Examples:
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159 mplayer -vo x11 /mnt/Films/Contact/contact2.mpg
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160 mplayer -vcd 2 /dev/cdrom
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161 mplayer -afm 3 /mnt/DVDtrailers/alien4.vob
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162 mplayer -dvd /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd/matrix.vob
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163 mplayer -alsa -abs 65536 -delay -0.4 -nobps ~/movies/test.avi
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165 Note: in order to use Matrox YUV driver (-vo mga or xmga), first you'll have
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166 to load the driver: insmod drivers/mga_vid.o , or to make it automatic
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167 insert the following line at the end of /etc/modules.conf:
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168 alias char-major-178 mga_vid
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169 and run 'depmod -a' .
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171 Playing from stdin:
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172 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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173 Now it's possible.
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175 To play something by reading from stdin, just use '-' as filename:
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177 cat test.mpg | mplayer -vo xv -
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179 Restrictions:
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180 mpg: no backward seeking
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181 asf: no backward seeking
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182 avi: no index reading -> no seeking at all, and playing of some files are
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183 +impossible
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185 No control from controlling terminal/xterm, but hotkeys and osd works
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186 from the window. or course LIRC still works everywhere.
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187
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188 This feature combined with external wrappers extends possibilities.
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189 For example, to play a movie just downloaded from your favourite divx
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190 server:
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191 rar p ast-nssvcd.rar | mplayer -vo xmga -fs -
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192
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193 With an asf grabber or http dump program you can play from the net.
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194 wget ftp://micorsops.com/something.avi -O - | mplayer -
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195
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196 (however we planned to add direct asf/http/ftp inputs with seeking and other
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197 stuff, but for now it's a good workaround)
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198
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199 TV output:
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201 If you have a Matrox G400 Dual-Head card, you can watch movies on TV, using
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202 the TV-out feature of the second head. Read DOCS/TVout-G400 for details!
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204 Sending bugreports, comments, feature requests etc:
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205 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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206 First please read all the docs in this package, most of the problems are
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207 described somewhere. At least read DOCS/BUGS ! We don't like answering
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208 questions which are already answered in this readme or other docs.
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210 Read the DOCS/MPlayer-FAQ. Most common problems are answered there!
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212 You should try the latest development version (from CVS) too, maybe your
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213 bug is already fixed, but the new version hasn't been released.
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214 If you couldn't solve the problem, then send a quality bugreport:
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215 read DOCS/BUGREPORTS for instructions (where, what and how...)
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217 Subscribe to the mplayer-users mailing list. There are many MPlayer
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218 users, maybe they can help or know the solution to your problem.
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219 You also should send ideas, feature requests, comments to there!
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220 Please do not ask for features already listed in the DOCS/TODO!
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222 Contact information:
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223 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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224 Homepage: http://mplayer.sourceforge.net
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226 Mailing lists:
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227 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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228 There are some public mailing lists on MPlayer. Subscribing can be achieved on
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229 the following addresses:
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231 - MPlayer users list: (send your ideas, bugreports, feature requests here)
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232 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-users
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234 - MPlayer & Matrox G200/G400/G450 users: (about TV-out, mga_vid, syncfb, Xv)
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235 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-matrox
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236
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237 - MPlayer developers list: (send your patches here)
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238 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng
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240 - MPlayer announce: (information about new releases or big changes in CVS)
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241 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-announce
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243 - MPlayer CVS-log: (announce about _every_ CVS commit)
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244 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog
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246 NOTE: language of above lists are ENGLISH. Please do not send there
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247 messages using other language!
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248
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249 License:
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250 ~~~~~~~~
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251 Since MPlayer incorporates a lot of code from other projects, this isn't
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252 decided yet. We're going for GPL (will be pretty hard, though).
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253
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254 Standard Disclaimer:
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255 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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256 Use only at your own risk! There may be errors and inaccuracies that could
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257 damage your system or your eye. Proceed with caution, and although this is
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258 highly unlikely, we don't take any responsibility for that!