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Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
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5 <TITLE>Documentation - MPlayer - The Movie Player for Linux</TITLE>
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17 <P ALIGN="center">[ English ]
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18 <A HREF="Hungarian/documentation.html">[ Hungarian ]</A>
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19 <A HREF="German/documentation.html">[ German ]</A>
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21 <A HREF="Polish/documentation.html">[ Polish ]</A>
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23 <A HREF="Chinese/documentation.html">[ Chinese ]</A></P>
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31 <UL>
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32 <LI><A HREF="#reading">0. How to read this documentation</A></LI>
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33 <LI><A HREF="#introduction">1. Introduction</A>
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35 <LI><A HREF="#history">1.1 History</A></LI>
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36 <LI><A HREF="#installation">1.2 Installation</A></LI>
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38 <LI><A HREF="#subtitles_osd">1.4 Subtitles and OSD</A>
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41 <LI><A HREF="#install_osd">1.4.2 Installing OSD and subtitles</A></LI>
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236 <LI><A HREF="faq.html#general">5.2 General questions</A></LI>
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238 <LI><A HREF="faq.html#driver">5.4 Video/audio driver problems (vo/ao)</A></LI>
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260 <LI><A HREF="bugreports.html">Appendix B - How to report bugs</A>
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266 <LI><A HREF="skin-en.html">Appendix D - MPlayer skin format</A></LI>
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267 <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html">Appendix E - Developer Cries</A>
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270 <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#binary">Binary distribution</A></LI>
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271 <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#nvidia">nVidia</A></LI>
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272 <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#barr">Joe Barr</A></LI>
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273 </UL>
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274 </LI>
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275 </UL>
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277 <HR>
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280
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281 <H1><A NAME="reading">0. How to read this documentation</A></H1>
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282
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283 <P>If you are a first-time installer: be sure to read everything from here to
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284 the end of the Installation section, and follow the links you will find. If
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285 you have any other questions, return to the Table of Contents and
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286 search for the topic, read the <A HREF="faq.html">FAQ</A>, or try grepping
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287 through the files.</P>
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288
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289 <P>The main rule of this documentation: if it's not documented, it
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290 <U>does not exist</U>. If I don't say you encode audio from TV tuner, you
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291 can't. A healthy quantity of combining ability is welcomed, though.
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292 Good luck. You'll need it :) And for another good advice, let me quote
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293 Chris Phillips from the
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294 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/">mplayer-users</A>
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295 mailing list:</P>
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296
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297 <BLOCKQUOTE>
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298 I said a while ago that there is such a difference between a newbie and
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299 a dumbass. No matter what you actually know about a system (linux, cars,
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300 girls :D) you should ALWAYS be able to take a step back and be objective,
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301 otherwise, you're just dumb IMHO. A girl i live with assumed the vacuum
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302 cleaner was broken because it didn't suck things up. never thought to change
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303 the bag, becasue she'd never done it before... now that's just stupid, not a
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304 case of simply not knowing what to do... Simply not being that familiar with
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305 your surroundings is no excuse for a) laziness and b) ignorance. So many
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306 people seem to see the word "error" and then stop... few seem to actually
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307 read the words on the OTHER side of the colon.
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308 </BLOCKQUOTE>
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309
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310
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311
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312 <H1><A NAME="introduction">1. Introduction</A></H1>
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313
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314
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315 <P>MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices, and
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316 <B>non-x86</B> CPUs, see the <A HREF="#ports">ports section</A>). It plays most
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317 MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG, VIVO, ASF/WMV, QT/MOV, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg,
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318 FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and
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319 Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch <B>VideoCD</B>, <B>SVCD</B>, <B>DVD</B>,
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320 <B>3ivx</B>, <B>RealMedia</B>, and <B>DivX</B> movies too (and you don't need
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321 the avifile
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322 library at all!). Another big feature of MPlayer is the wide range of
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323 supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev,
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324 AAlib, DirectFB, but you can also use GGI and SDL (and this way all their
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325 drivers) and some lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon,
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326 Mach64, Permedia3) too! Most
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327 of them supports software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in
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328 fullscreen. MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG
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329 decoder boards, such as the <B><A HREF="video.html#dvb">DVB</A></B> and
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330 <B><A HREF="video.html#dxr3">DXR3/Hollywood+</A></B>. And what about the nice big antialiased
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331 shaded subtitles (<B>10 supported types</B>) with European/ISO 8859-1,2
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332 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic, Korean fonts, and the onscreen
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333 display (OSD)?</P>
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335 <P>MPlayer is under GPL v2 license.</P>
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336
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337 <P>The player is rock solid playing damaged MPEG files (useful for some VCDs),
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338 and it plays bad AVI files which are unplayable with the famous
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339 windows media player. Even AVI files without index chunk are playable, and
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340 you can temporarily rebuild their indexes with the <CODE>-idx</CODE> option, or
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341 permanently with MEncoder, thus enabling seeking!
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342 As you see, stability and quality are the most important things,
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343 but the speed is also amazing.</P>
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345
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346 <H2><A NAME="history">1.1 History</A></H2>
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348 <P>This began a year ago...
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349 I (A'rpi) have tried lots of players under linux (mtv,xmps,dvdview,livid/oms,videolan,
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350 xine,xanim,avifile,xmmp) but they all have some problem. Mostly with special
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351 files or with audio/video sync. Most of them is unable to play both MPEG1,
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352 MPEG2 and AVI (DivX) files. Many players have image quality or speed problems
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353 too. So I've decided to write/modify one...</P>
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355 <UL>
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356 <LI><B>mpg12play v0.1-v0.3:</B> Sep 22-25, 2000<BR>
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357 The first try, hacked together in a half hour!
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358 I've used libmpeg3 from www.heroinewarrior.com up to the version 0.3,
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359 but there were image quality and speed problems with it.</LI>
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360 <LI><B>mpg12play v0.5-v0.87:</B> Sep 28-Oct 20, 2000<BR>
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361 Mpeg codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was a great stuff,
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362 but it was slow and was written in C++ (I hate C++!!!)</LI>
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363 <LI><B>mpg12play v0.9-v0.95pre5:</B> Oct 21-Nov 2, 2000<BR>
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364 Mpeg codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman &amp; Michel Lespinasse.
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365 It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect image quality and
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366 100% MPEG standard conformance.</LI>
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367 <LI><B>MPlayer v0.3-v0.9:</B> Nov 18-Dec 4, 2000<BR>
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368 It was a pack of two programs: mpg12play v0.95pre6 and my new simple AVI
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369 player 'avip' based on avifile's Win32 DLL loader.</LI>
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370 <LI><B>MPlayer v0.10:</B> Jan 1, 2001<BR>
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371 The MPEG and AVI player in a single binary!</LI>
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372 <LI><B>MPlayer v0.11pre series:</B><BR>
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373 Some new developers joined and from 0.11 the mplayer project is a team-work!
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374 Added .ASF file support, and OpenDivX (see www.projectmayo.com) en/decoding.</LI>
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375 <LI><B>MPlayer v0.17a "The IdegCounter"</B> Apr 27, 2001<BR>
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376 The release version of the 0.11pre after 4 months of heavy development!
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377 Try it, and be amazed! Thousands of new features added... and of course
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378 old code was improved too, bugs removed etc.</LI>
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379 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.18 "The BugCounter"</B> Jul 9, 2001<BR>
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380 2 months since 0.17 and here's a new release.. Completed ASF support,
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381 more subtitle formats, introduced libao (similar to libvo but to audio),
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382 even more stable than ever, and so on. It's a MUST!</LI>
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383 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.50 "The Faszom(C)ounter"</B> Oct 8, 2001<BR>
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384 Hmm. Release again. Tons of new features, beta GUI version, bugs fixed,
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385 new vo and ao drivers, ported to many systems, including opensource DivX
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386 codecs and much more. Try it!</LI>
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387 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.60 "The RTFMCounter"</B> Jan 3, 2002<BR>
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388 MOV/VIVO/RM/FLI/NUV fileformats support, native CRAM, Cinepak, ADPCM codecs,
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389 and support for XAnim's binary codecs; DVD subtitles support, first
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390 release of MEncoder, TV grabbing, cache, liba52, countless fixes.</LI>
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391 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.90 "?"</B> Aug? ??, 2002</LI>
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392 </UL>
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394
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395 <H2><A NAME="installation">1.2 Installation</A></H2>
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397 <P>In this chapter I'll try to guide you through the compiling and
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398 configuring process of MPlayer. It's not easy, but it won't necessarily
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399 be hard. If you experience a different behavior than what I explain, please
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400 search through this documentation and you'll find your answers. If you
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401 see links, please follow them and read carefully what they contain. It
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402 will take some time, but it DOES worth it.</P>
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403
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404 <P>You need a fairly recent system. On Linux, 2.4.x kernels are recommended.</P>
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405
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406 <H4>Software requirements:</H4>
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407
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408 <UL>
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409 <LI><B>binutils</B> - suggested version is <B>2.11.x</B> . This program is
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410 responsible for generating MMX/3DNow!/etc instructions, thus very important.</LI>
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411 <LI><B>gcc</B> - suggested versions are: <B>2.95.3</B>, <B>2.95.4</B> and <B>3.1</B>.
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412 <B>NEVER</B> use 2.96 or 3.0.x! They generate faulty code for MPlayer.
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413 If you decide to change gcc from 2.96, then don't decide in favor of 3.0.x
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414 just because it's newer! Early releases of 3.0.x were even more buggy than
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415 2.96. So downgrade to 2.95.x (downgrade libstdc++ too, other programs may
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416 need it) or don't up/downgrade at all (but in this case, be prepared for
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417 runtime problems). If you vote for 3.x.x, try to use the latest version,
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418 early releases had various bugs, so be sure you use at least 3.1, it's
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419 tested and working. For detailed information about gcc 2.96's bugs (that are
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420 still NOT fixed, they have been WORKED AROUND in MPlayer!), see the
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421 <A HREF="users_against_developers.html#gcc">gcc 2.96</A> section and the
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422 <A HREF="faq.html">FAQ</A>.</LI>
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423 <LI><B>XFree86</B> - suggested version is <B>always the newest (4.2.1)</B>.
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424 Normally, everyone wants this, as starting with XFree86 4.0.2, it contains
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425 the <A HREF="video.html#xv">XVideo</A> extension (somewhere referred to
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426 as <B>Xv</B>) which is needed to enable the hardware YUV acceleration (fast
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427 image display) on cards that support it.<BR>
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428 Make sure its <B>development package</B> is installed, too, otherwise
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429 it won't work.<BR>
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430 For some video cards you don't need XFree86. See list below.</LI>
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431 <LI><B>make</B> - suggested version is <B>always the newest</B> (at least 3.79.x). This
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432 usually isn't important.</LI>
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433 <LI><B>SDL</B> - it's not mandatory, but can help in some cases (bad audio,
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434 video cards that lag strangely with the xv driver). Always use the newest
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435 (beginning from 1.2.x).</LI>
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436 <LI><B>libjpeg</B> - optional JPEG decoder, used by -mf and some QT MOV files.
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437 Useful for both MPlayer and MEncoder if you plan to work with jpeg files.</LI>
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438 <LI><B>libpng</B> - recommended and default (M)PNG decoder. Required for GUI.
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439 Useful for both MPlayer and MEncoder.</LI>
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440 <LI><B>lame</B> - recommended, needed for encoding MP3 audio with MEncoder,
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441 suggested version is <B>always the newest</B> (at least 3.90).</LI>
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442 <LI><B>libogg</B> - optional, needed for playing OGG file format.</LI>
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443 <LI><B>libvorbis</B> - optional, needed for playing OGG Vorbis audio.</LI>
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444 <LI><B><A HREF="http://www.live.com/mplayer/">LIVE.COM Streaming Media</A></B>
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445 - optional, needed for playing RTSP/RTP streams.</LI>
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446 </UL>
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447
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448 <H4>Codecs:</H4>
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449
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450 <UL>
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451 <LI><B>libavcodec</B>: This codec package is capable of decoding
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452 H263/MJPEG/RV10/DivX3/DivX4/DivX5/MP41/MP42/WMV1 encoded video streams and
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453 WMA (Windows Media Audio) v1/v2 audio streams, on
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454 multiple platforms. It is also known to be the fastest for this task.
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455 See the <A HREF="codecs.html#libavcodec">libavcodec</A> section for details.
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456 Features:<BR>
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457 <UL>
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458 <LI>gain decoding of videos mentioned above, on non-x86 machines</LI>
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459 <LI>encoding with most of the mentioned codecs</LI>
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460 <LI>this codec is the <B>fastest codec available</B> for DivX/3/4/5 and
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461 other MPEG4 types. Recommended!</LI>
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462 </UL>
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463 </LI>
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464 <LI><B>Win32 codecs</B>: If you plan to use MPlayer on x86
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465 architecture, you will possibly need them. Download and unzip w32codecs.zip
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466 to /usr/lib/win32 <B>BEFORE</B> compiling MPlayer, otherwise no Win32
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467 support will be compiled!<BR>
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468 <B>Note:</B> the avifile project has a similar codecs package, but it differs
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469 from ours. If you want to use all supported codecs, then install our package
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470 (do not worry, avifile works with it without problems). Features:<BR>
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471 <UL>
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472 <LI>you need this if you want to play or encode for example movies recorded
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473 with various hardware compressors, like tuner cards, digital cameras
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474 (example: DV, ATI VCR, MJPEG)</LI>
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475 <LI>needed if you want to play <B>WMV8 movies</B>. Not needed for old
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476 ASF's with MP41 or MP42 video (though VoxWare audio is frequent for these
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477 files - it's done by the Win32 codec), or WMV7. Also not needed
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478 for WMA (Windows Media Audio), libavcodec has opensource decoder
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479 for that.</LI>
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480 </UL>
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481 </LI>
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482 <LI><B>DivX4/DivX5</B>: information about this codec is available in the
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483 <A HREF="codecs.html#divx">DivX4/DivX5</A> section. You possibly don't want
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484 this codec as <B>libavcodec</B> (see above) is much faster and has better
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485 quality than this, for both decoding and encoding.<BR>
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486 Features:
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487 <UL>
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488 <LI>1 pass or 2 pass encoding with
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489 <A HREF="encoding.html">MEncoder</A></LI>
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490 <LI>can play old <B>DivX3</B> movies much faster than the Win32 DLL but
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491 slower than <B>libavcodec</B>!</LI>
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492 <LI>it's closed-source, and only an x86 version is available.</LI>
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493 </UL>
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494 </LI>
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495 <LI><B>XviD</B>: Open source encoding alternative to Divx4Linux<BR>
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496 Features:
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497 <UL>
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498 <LI>1 pass or 2 pass encoding with
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499 <A HREF="encoding.html">MEncoder</A></LI>
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500 <LI>it's open-source, so it's multiplatform.</LI>
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501 <LI>it's about 2 times faster than DivX4 when encoding - about the same
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502 quality</LI>
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503 </UL>
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504 </LI>
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505 <LI>The <A HREF="codecs.html#xanim">XAnim codecs</A> are the best (full
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506 screen, hardware YUV zoom) for decoding <B>3ivx</B> and Indeo 3/4/5 movies,
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507 and some old formats. And they are multiplatform, so this is the only way to
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508 play Indeo on non-x86 platforms (well, apart from using XAnim:). But for
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509 example Cinepak movies are best played with MPlayer's own Cinepak
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510 decoder!</LI>
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511 <LI>For <B>Ogg Vorbis</B> audio decoding you need to install
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512 <CODE>libvorbis</CODE> properly. Use deb/rpm packages if available, or
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513 compile from
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514 <A HREF="http://ogg.org/ogg/vorbis/download/vorbis_nightly_cvs.tgz">source</A>
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515 (this is a nightly updated tarball of Vorbis CVS).</LI>
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516 <LI>MPlayer can use the libraries of RealPlayer 8 or RealONE to play
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517 files with <B>RealVideo 2.0 - 4.0</B> video, and Sipro/Cook audio. See
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518 <A HREF="formats.html#real">RealMedia file format</A> section for
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519 installation instructions and more information.</LI>
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520 </UL>
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521
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522 <H4>Video Cards</H4>
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523
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524 <P>There are generally two kind of video cards. One kind (the newer cards) has
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525 <B>hardware scaling and YUV acceleration</B> support, the other cards don't.</P>
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526
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527 <H4>YUV cards</H4>
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528
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529 <P>They can display and scale (zoom) the picture to any size that fits in
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530 their memory, with <B>small CPU usage</B> (even when zooming), thus
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531 fullscreen playing is nice and very fast.</P>
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532
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533 <UL>
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534 <LI><B>Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 cards</B>: although a
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535 <A HREF="video.html#vidix">Vidix driver</A> is provided, it is recommended
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536 to use the mga_vid kernel module instead, for it works much better.
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537 Please see the <A HREF="video.html#mga_vid">mga_vid</A> section about its
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538 installation and usage. It is important to do these steps <I>before</I>
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539 compiling MPlayer, otherwise no mga_vid support will be built. Also
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540 check out the <A HREF="video.html#tv-out_matrox">Matrox TV-out</A> section.
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541 <U><B>If you don't use Linux</B></U>, your only possibility is the VIDIX
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542 driver: read the <A HREF="video.html#vidix">VIDIX</A> section.</LI>
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543 <LI><B>3Dfx Voodoo3/Banshee cards</B>: please see the
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544 <A HREF="video.html#tdfxfb">tdfxfb</A> section in order to gain big
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545 speedup. It is important to do these steps <B>before</B> compiling
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546 MPlayer, otherwise no 3Dfx support will be built. Also see the <A
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547 HREF="video.html#tv-out_voodoo">3dfx TV-out section</A>. If you use X, use
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548 <B>at least 4.2.0</B>, as the 3dfx Xv driver was broken in 4.1.0 and earlier
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549 releases.</LI>
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550 <LI><B>ATI cards</B>: <A HREF="video.html#vidix">Vidix driver</A> is
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551 provided for the following cards:
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552 <B>Radeon</B>, <B>Rage128</B>, <B>Mach64</B> (Rage XL/Mobility, Xpert98).
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553 Also see the <A HREF="video.html#tv-out_ati">ATI cards
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554 section</A> of the TV-out documentation, to know if you card's TV-out is
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555 supported under Linux/MPlayer.</LI>
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556 <LI><B>S3 cards</B>: the Savage and Virge/DX chips have hardware acceleration.
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557 Use as new XFree86 version as possible, older drivers are buggy. Savage chips
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558 have problems with YV12 display, see <A HREF="video.html#xv_s3">S3 Xv
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559 section</A> for details. Older, Trio cards have no, or slow hardware
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560 support.</LI>
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561 <LI><B>nVidia cards</B>: very bad choice for video playing (nVidia
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562 <A HREF="users_against_developers.html#nvidia">does not think so</A>).
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563 nVidia's cards have very cheap and bad quality chips. Moreover, <B>the
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564 built-in nVidia driver in XFree86 does not support hardware YUV
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565 acceleration on all nVidia cards.</B> You have to download nVidia's
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566 closed-source drivers from nVidia.com. See the <A
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567 HREF="video.html#xv_nvidia">nVidia Xv driver</A> section for details.</LI>
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568 <LI><B>3DLabs GLINT R3 and Permedia3</B>: a VIDIX driver is provided
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569 (pm3_vid). Please see the <A HREF="video.html#vidix">VIDIX</A> section for
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570 details.</LI>
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571 <LI><B>Other cards</B>: None of the above?
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572 <UL>
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573 <LI>Try if the XFree86 driver (and your card) supports hardware
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574 acceleration. See the <A HREF="video.html#xv">Xv section</A> for
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575 details.</LI>
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576 <LI>If it doesn't, then your card's video features aren't supported under
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577 your operating system :(<BR>
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578 If hardware scaling works under Windows, it doesn't mean it will work
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579 under Linux or other operating systems: it depends on the drivers. Most
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580 manufacturers neither make Linux drivers nor release specifications
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581 for their chips, so you are unlucky using their cards.
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582 See 'Non-YUV cards'.</LI>
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583 </UL>
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584 </LI>
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585 </UL>
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586
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587 <H4>Non-YUV cards</H4>
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588
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589 <P>Fullscreen playing can be achieved by either enabling <B>software scaling</B>
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590 (use the <CODE>-zoom</CODE> or <CODE>-vop scale</CODE>
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591 option, but I warn you: this is slow), or switching to a small resolution
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592 video mode, for example 352x288. If you don't have YUV acceleration, the
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593 latter method is recommended. Video mode switching can be enabled by
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594 using the <CODE>-vm</CODE> option and it works with the following drivers:</P>
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595
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596 <UL>
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597 <LI><B>using</B> XFree86: see the
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598 <A HREF="video.html#dga">DGA driver</A> and
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599 <A HREF="video.html#x11">X11 driver</A> sections for details. DGA is
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600 recommended! Also try DGA via SDL, sometimes it's better.</LI>
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601 <LI><B>not using</B> XFree86: try the drivers in the following order:
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602 <A HREF="video.html#vesa">vesa</A>,
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603 <A HREF="video.html#fbdev">fbdev</A>,
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604 <A HREF="video.html#svgalib">svgalib</A>,
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605 <A HREF="video.html#aalib">aalib</A>.</LI>
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606 </UL>
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607
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608 <H4>Some cards:</H4>
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609
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610 <UL>
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611 <LI><B>Cirrus Logic cards</B>:
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612 <UL>
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613 <LI>GD 7548: present on-board and tested in Compaq Armada 41xx notebook
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614 series.
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615 <UL>
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616 <LI>XFree86 3: works in 8/16bpp modes. However, the driver is
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617 dramatically slow and buggy in 800x600@16bpp.
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618 <B>Recommended: 640x480@16bpp</B></LI>
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619 <LI>XFree86 4: the Xserver freezes soon after start unless
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620 acceleration is disabled, but then the whole thing gets
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621 slower than XFree86 3. No XVideo.</LI>
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622 <LI>FBdev: framebuffer can be turned on with the <CODE>clgenfb</CODE>
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623 driver in the kernel, though for me it worked only in 8bpp, thus
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624 unusable. The clgenfb source had to be extended with the 7548 ID
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625 before compilation.</LI>
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626 <LI>VESA: the card is only VBE 1.2 capable, so VESA output can't be
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627 used. Can't be workarounded with UniVBE.</LI>
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628 <LI>SVGAlib: detects an older Cirrus chip. Usable but slow with
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629 <CODE>-bpp 8</CODE>.</LI>
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630 </UL>
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631 </LI>
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632 </UL>
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633 </LI>
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634 </UL>
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635
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636
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637 <H4>Sound cards:</H4>
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638
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639 <UL>
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640 <LI><B>Soundblaster Live!</B>: with this card you can use 4 or 6 (<B>5.1</B>)
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641 channels AC3 decoding instead of 2. Read the
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642 <A HREF="codecs.html#software_ac3">Software AC3 decoding</A> section.
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643 For hardware AC3 passthrough you <B>must</B> use ALSA 0.9 with OSS emulation!</LI>
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644 <LI><B>C-Media with SP/DIF out</B>: hardware AC3 passthrough is possible
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645 with these cards, see
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646 <A HREF="codecs.html#hardware_ac3">Hardware AC3 decoding</A> section.</LI>
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647 <LI>Features of <B>other cards</B> aren't supported by MPlayer.
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648 <U>It's very recommended to read the <A HREF="sound.html">sound card
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649 section</A>!</U></LI>
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650 </UL>
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651
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652 <H4>Features:</H4>
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653
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654 <UL>
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655 <LI>Decide if you need GUI. If you do, see the <A HREF="#gui">GUI section</A>
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656 before compiling.</LI>
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657 <LI>If you want to install MEncoder (our great all-purpose encoder),
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658 see the <A HREF="encoding.html">MEncoder section</A>.</LI>
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659 <LI>If you have a V4L compatible <B>TV tuner</B> card, and wish to watch/grab
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660 and encode movies with MPlayer, read the <A HREF="#tv">TV input</A>
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661 section.</LI>
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662 </UL>
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663
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664 <P>Then build MPlayer:</P>
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665
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666 <PRE>
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667 ./configure
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668 make
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669 make install
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670 </PRE>
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671
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672 <P>At this point, MPlayer is ready to use. The directory
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673 <CODE>$PREFIX/share/mplayer</CODE> contains the <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE>
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674 file, which is used to tell the program all the codecs and their
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675 capabilities. This file should always be kept up to date together with the
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676 main binary.<BR>
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677 Check if you have <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE> in your home directory
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678 (<CODE>~/.mplayer/codecs.conf</CODE>) left from old MPlayer versions, and remove it.</P>
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679
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680 <P><B>Debian users</B> can build a <CODE>.deb</CODE> package for themselves,
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681 it's very simple. Just exec <CODE>fakeroot debian/rules binary</CODE> in
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682 MPlayer's root directory. See
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683 <A HREF="documentation.html#debian">Debian packaging</A> for detailed
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684 instructions.</P>
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685
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686 <P><B>Always browse the output of <CODE>./configure</CODE></B>, and the
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687 <CODE>configure.log</CODE> file, they contain information about what will be
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688 built, and what will not. You may also want to view <CODE>config.h</CODE> and
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689 <CODE>config.mak</CODE> files.<BR>
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690 If you have some libraries installed, but not detected by
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691 <CODE>./configure</CODE>, then check if you also have the proper header files
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692 (usually the -dev packages) and their version matches. The
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693 <CODE>configure.log</CODE> file usually tells you what is missing.</P>
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694
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695 <P>Though not mandatory, the fonts should be installed in order to gain OSD,
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696 and subtitle functionality. Download <CODE>mp-arial-iso-8859-*.zip</CODE>
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697 and/or optional (if exists) language updates. See the
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698 <A HREF="#subtitles_osd">Subtitles and OSD</A> section for details.</P>
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700 <PRE>
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701 mkdir ~/.mplayer
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702 cd ~/.mplayer
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703 unzip mp-arial-iso-8859-1.zip
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704 ln -s ~/.mplayer/iso-8859-1/arial-24 font
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705 </PRE>
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708 <H2><A NAME="gui">1.3 What about the GUI?</A></H2>
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710 <P>The GUI needs GTK (it isn't GTK, but the panels are). The skins are stored
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711 in PNG format, so gtk, libpng (and their devel stuff) has to be installed.
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712 You can build it by specifying <CODE>--enable-gui</CODE> during
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713 <CODE>./configure</CODE>. Then, to turn on GUI mode, you either</P>
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714 <UL>
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715 <LI>specify <CODE>gui=yes</CODE> in your config file</LI>
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716 <LI><CODE>ln -s $PREFIX/bin/mplayer $PREFIX/bin/gmplayer</CODE> ,
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717 and call <CODE>gmplayer</CODE> instead.</LI>
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718 </UL>
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719
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720 <P>Currently you can't use the <CODE>-gui</CODE> option on the command line,
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721 due to technical reasons.</P>
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722
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723 <P>As MPlayer doesn't have a skin included, you have to download them if
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724 you want to use the GUI. See the
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725 <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html">download page</A>.
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726 They should be extracted to the usual system-wide directory
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727 (<CODE>$PREFIX/share/mplayer/Skin</CODE>), or to
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728 <CODE>$HOME/.mplayer/Skin</CODE>. MPlayer by default looks in these
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729 directories for a directory named <I>default</I>, but you can use the
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730 <CODE>-skin newskin</CODE> option, or the <CODE>skin=newskin</CODE> config
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731 file directive to use the skin in <CODE>*/Skin/newskin</CODE> directory.</P>
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732
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733
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734 <H2><A NAME="subtitles_osd">1.4 Subtitles and OSD</A></H2>
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735
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736 <P>
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737 MPlayer can display subtitles along with movie files. Currently the following
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738 formats are supported:</P>
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739 <UL>
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740 <LI>VobSub</LI>
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741 <LI>Microdvd</LI>
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742 <LI>SubRip</LI>
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743 <LI>SubViewer</LI>
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744 <LI>Sami</LI>
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745 <LI>VPlayer</LI>
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746 <LI>RT</LI>
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747 <LI>SSA</LI>
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748 <LI>MPsub</LI>
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749 <LI>AQTitle</LI>
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750 </UL>
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751
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752 The command line options differ slightly for the different formats:
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753
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754 <H4>VobSub subtitles</H4>
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755
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756 <P>VobSub subtitles consist of a big (some megabytes) .SUB file, and optional
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757 .IDX and/or .IFO files.<BR>
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758 Usage: if you have files like <CODE>sample.sub</CODE>,
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759 <CODE>sample.ifo</CODE>, <CODE>sample.idx</CODE> - you have to pass the
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760 <CODE>-vobsub sample -vobsubid
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761 &lt;id&gt;</CODE> options (optionally with pathname, of course). The
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762 <CODE>-vobsubid</CODE> option is like <CODE>-sid</CODE> for DVDs, you can
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763 choose between subtitle tracks (languages) with it.</P>
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764
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765 <H4>Other subtitles</H4>
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766
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767 <P>The other formats consist of a single text file containing timing,
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768 placement and text information.<BR>
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769 Usage: if you have a file like <CODE>sample.txt</CODE>, you have to pass the
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770 option <CODE>-sub sample.txt</CODE> (optionally with pathname, of course).</P>
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771
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772 <H4>Adjusting subtitle timing and placement:</H4>
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773
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774 <DL>
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775 <DT><CODE>-subdelay &lt;sec&gt;</CODE></DT>
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776 <DD>Delays subtitles by &lt;sec&gt; seconds. Can be negative.</DD>
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777
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778 <DT><CODE>-subfps &lt;rate&gt;</CODE></DT>
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779 <DD>Specify frame/sec rate of subtitle file (float number)</DD>
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780
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781 <DT><CODE>-subpos &lt;0 - 100&gt;</CODE></DT>
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782 <DD>Specify the position of subtitles.</DD>
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783 </DL>
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784
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785 <P>If you experience a growing delay between the movie and the subtitles when
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786 using a MicroDVD subtitle file, most likely the frame rate of the movie and
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787 the subtitle file are different.<BR> Please note that the MicroDVD subtitle
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788 format uses absolute frame numbers for its timing, and therefore the
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789 <CODE>-subfps</CODE> option cannot be used with this format. As
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790 MPlayer has no way to guess the frame rate of the subtitle file, you
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791 have to manually convert the frame rate. There is a little perl script in the
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792 <CODE>contrib</CODE> directory of the MPlayer FTP site to do this conversion
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793 for you.</P>
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794
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795 <P>About DVD subtitles, read the <A HREF="cd-dvd.html#dvd">DVD section</A>.</P>
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796
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797
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798 <H3><A NAME="mpsub">1.4.1 MPlayer's own subtitle format (MPsub)</A></H3>
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799
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800 <P>MPlayer introduces a new subtitle format called <B>MPsub</B>. It was
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801 designed by me (Gabucino). Basically its main feature is being
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802 <I>dynamically</I> time-based (although it has frame-based mode too). Example
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803 (from
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804 <A HREF="tech/mpsub.sub">DOCS/tech/mpsub.sub</A>):</P>
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805
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806 <P><CODE><I># first number : wait this much after previous subtitle disappeared<BR>
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807 # second number : display the current subtitle for this many seconds<BR>
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808 <BR>
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809 15 3<BR>
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810 A long long, time ago...<BR>
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811 <BR>
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812 0 3<BR>
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813 in a galaxy far away...<BR>
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814 <BR>
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815 0 3<BR>
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816 Naboo was under an attack.<BR></I></CODE></P>
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817
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818 <P>So you see, the main goal was to <B>make subtitle
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819 editing/timing/joining/cutting easy</B>. And, if you - say - get an SSA
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820 subtitle but it's badly timed/delayed to your version of the movie, you
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821 simply do a <CODE>mplayer dummy.avi -sub source.ssa -dumpmpsub</CODE>.
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822 A <CODE>dump.mpsub</CODE> file will be created in the current directory,
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823 which will contain the source subtitle's text, but in <B>MPsub</B> format.
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824 Then you can freely add/subtract seconds to/from the subtitle.</P>
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825
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826 <P>Subtitles are displayed with a technique called <B>'OSD', On Screen
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827 Display</B>. OSD is used to display current time, volume bar, seek bar
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828 etc.</P>
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829
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830 <H3><A NAME="install_osd">1.4.2 Installing OSD and subtitles</A></H3>
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831
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832 <P>You need an MPlayer font package to be able to use OSD/SUB feature.
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833 There are many ways to get it:</P>
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834
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835 <UL>
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836 <LI>download ready-to-use font packages from MPlayer site.
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837 Note: currently available fonts are limited for iso 8859-1/2 support,
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838 but there are some other (including Korean, Russian, 8859-8 etc) fonts
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839 at contrib/font section of FTP, made by users.<BR>
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840 <BR>
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841 Font should have appropriate font.desc file which maps unicode font
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842 positions to the actual code page of the subtitles text. Other solution is
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843 to have subtitles encoded in utf8 encoding and use <CODE>-utf8</CODE>
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844 option or just name the subtitles file &lt;video_name&gt;.utf and have it
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845 in the same dir as the video file. Recoding from different codepages to
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846 utf8 could be done by using konwert (Debian) or iconv (Red Hat)
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847 programs.<BR>
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848 Some URLs:
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849 <UL>
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850 <LI><A HREF="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/">ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/</A> - ISO fonts</LI>
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851 <LI><A HREF="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/fonts/">ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/fonts/</A> - various fonts by users</LI>
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852 <LI><A HREF="http://realtime.ssu.ac.kr/~lethean/mplayer/">http://realtime.ssu.ac.kr/~lethean/mplayer/</A> - Korean fonts &amp; RAW plugin</LI>
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853 </UL>
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854 </LI>
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855 <LI>use the font generator tool at TOOLS/subfont-c
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856 It's a complete tool to convert from TTF/Type1/etc font to mplayer font pkg.
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857 (read TOOLS/subfont-c/README for details)</LI>
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858 <LI>use the font generator GIMP plugin at TOOLS/subfont-GIMP
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859 (note: you must have HSI RAW plugin too, see URL below)</LI>
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860 </UL>
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861
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862 <P>After that, UNZIP the file you downloaded to <CODE>~/.mplayer</CODE> or
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863 <CODE>$PREFIX/share/mplayer</CODE>. Then rename or symlink one of them to
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864 <CODE>font</CODE> (like: <CODE>ln -s ~/.mplayer/arial-24
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865 ~/.mplayer/font</CODE>). Now you have to see a timer at the upper left corner
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866 of the movie (switch it off with the "o" key).</P>
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867
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868 <P>OSD has 3 states: (switch with 'o')</P>
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869
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870 <UL>
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871 <LI>timer + volume bar + seek bar + subtitles</LI>
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872 <LI>volume bar + seek bar + subtitles (default)</LI>
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873 <LI>subtitles only</LI>
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874 </UL>
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875
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876 <P>You can change default behaviour by setting <CODE>osdlevel=</CODE> variable
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877 in config file.</P>
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878
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879
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880 <H2><A NAME="rtc">1.5 RTC</A></H2>
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881
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882 There are three timing methods in MPlayer.
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883
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884 <UL>
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885 <LI><B>To use the old method</B>, you don't have to do anything. It uses
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886 <CODE>usleep()</CODE> to tune A/V sync, with +/- 10ms accuracy. However
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887 sometimes the sync has to be tuned even finer.</LI>
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888 <LI><B>The new timer</B> code uses PC's RTC (Real Time Clock) for this task,
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889 because it has precise 1ms timers. It is automagically enabled when
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890 available, but requires root privileges, a <I>setuid root</I>
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891 MPlayer binary or a properly set up kernel.
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892 <BR>
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893 If you are running kernel 2.4.19pre8 or later you can adjust the maximum
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894 RTC frequency for normal users through the <CODE>/proc</CODE> filesystem.
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895 Use this command to enable RTC for normal users:
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896 <P>
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897 <CODE>echo 1024 &gt; /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq</CODE>
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898 </P>
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899 If you do not have such a new kernel, you can also change one line in
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900 <CODE>drivers/char/rtc.c</CODE> and recompile your kernel. Find the
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901 section that reads
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902 <PRE>
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903 * We don't really want Joe User enabling more
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904 * than 64Hz of interrupts on a multi-user machine.
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905 */
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906 if ((rtc_freq &gt; 64) &amp;&amp; (!capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE)))
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907 </PRE>
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908 and change the 64 to 1024. You should really know what you are doing, though.
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909 <BR>
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910 You can see the new timer's efficiency in the status line.
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911 <BR>
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912 The power management functions of some notebook BIOSes with speedstep CPUs
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913 interact badly with RTC. Audio and video may get out of sync. Plugging the
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914 external power connector in before you power up your notebook seems to help.
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915 You can always turn off RTC support with the <CODE>-nortc</CODE> switch.
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916 In some hardware combinations (confirmed during usage of non-DMA DVD
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917 drive on an ALi1541 board) usage of the RTC timer causes skippy playback.
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918 It's recommended to use the third method in these cases.</LI>
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919 <LI><B>The third timer code</B> is turned on with the <CODE>-softsleep</CODE>
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920 option. It has the efficiency of the RTC, but it doesn't use RTC. On the other
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921 hand, it requires more CPU.</LI>
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922 </UL>
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923
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924 <B>Note:</B> <B>NEVER install a setuid root MPlayer binary on a multiuser system!</B>
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925 It's a clear way for everyone to become root.
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926
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927
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928
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929 <H1><A NAME="features">2. Features</A></H1>
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930
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931
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932 <H2><A NAME="formats">2.1</A> <A HREF="formats.html">Supported formats</A></H2>
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933
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934
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935 <H2><A NAME="codecs">2.2</A> <A HREF="codecs.html">Supported codecs</A></H2>
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936
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937
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938 <H2><A NAME="output">2.3</A> <A HREF="video.html">Video</A> &amp; <A HREF="sound.html">Audio</A> output devices</H2>
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939
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940
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941 <H2><A NAME="encoding">2.4</A> <A HREF="encoding.html">MEncoder - An All-Purpose Encoder</A></H2>
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942
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943
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944 <H2><A NAME="tv"><B>2.5 TV input</B></A></H2>
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945
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946 <P>This section is about how to enable <B>watching/grabbing from V4L compatible
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
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947 TV tuner</B>. See the man page for a description of TV options and keyboard
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
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948 controls.</P>
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1a710f130a7f TV input documentation begin (examples, options)
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949
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950 <H3><A NAME="tv_compilation">2.5.1 Compilation</A></H3>
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951
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952 <OL>
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953 <LI>First, you have to recompile. <CODE>./configure</CODE> will autodetect
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954 kernel headers of v4l stuff and the existence of <CODE>/dev/video*</CODE>
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955 entries. If they exist, TV support will be built (see the output of
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956 <CODE>./configure</CODE>).</LI>
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957 <LI>Make sure your tuner works with another TV software in Linux, for example
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958 xawtv.</LI>
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959 </OL>
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960
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961 <H3><A NAME="tv_tips">2.5.2 Usage tips</A></H3>
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962
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963 The full listing of the options is available on the manual page. Here
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964 are just a few tips:
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965
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966 <UL>
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967
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968 <LI>
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969 Choose some sane image dimensions. The dimensions of the resulting
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970 image should be divisible by 16.
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971 </LI>
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972
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973 <LI>If you capture the video with the vertical resolution higher than
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974 half of the full resolution (i.e. 288 for PAL or 240 for NTSC), make
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975 sure you turned deinterlacing on. Otherwise you'll get a movie which
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976 is distorted during fast-motion scenes and the bitrate controller will
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977 be probably even unable to retain the specified bitrate as the
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978 interlacing artifacts produce high amount of detail and thus consume
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979 lot of bandwidth. You can enable deinterlacing with <CODE>-vop
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980 pp=DEINT_TYPE</CODE>. Usually <CODE>pp=lb</CODE> does a good
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981 job, but it can be matter of personal preference. See other
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982 deinterlacing algorithms in the manual and give it a try.</LI>
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983
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984 <LI>
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985 Crop out the dead space. When you capture the video, the areas at the
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986 edges are usually black or contain some noise. These again consume
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
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987 lots of unnecessary bandwidth. More precisely it's not the black
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988 areas themselves but the sharp transitions between the black and the
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989 brighter video image which do but that's not important for now. Before
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990 you start capturing, adjust the arguments of the <CODE>crop</CODE>
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991 option so that all the crap at the margins is cropped out. Again,
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992 don't forget to keep the resulting dimensions sane.
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993 </LI>
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994
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995 <LI>
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996 Watch out for CPU load. It shouldn't cross the 90% boundary for most
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997 of the time. If you have a large capture buffer, MEncoder can survive
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998 an overload for few seconds but nothing more. It's better to turn off
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999 the 3D OpenGL screensavers and similar stuff.
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1000 </LI>
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1001
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1002 <LI>
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1003 Don't mess with the system clock. MEncoder uses the system clock for
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1004 doing A/V sync. If you adjust the system clock (especially backwards
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1005 in time), MEncoder gets confused and you will lose frames. This is an
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1006 important issue if you are hooked to a network and run some time
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1007 synchronization software like NTP. You have to turn NTP off during the
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1008 capture process if you want to capture reliably.
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1009 </LI>
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1010
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1011 <LI>
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1012 Don't change the <CODE>outfmt</CODE> unless you know what you are
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1013 doing or your card/driver really doesn't support the default (YV12
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1014 colorspace) . In the older versions of MPlayer/MEncoder it was necessary
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1015 to specify the output format. This issue should be fixed in the
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1016 current releases and <CODE>outfmt</CODE> isn't required anymore, and
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1017 the default suits the most purposes. For example, if you are capturing
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1018 into DivX using libavcodec and specify <CODE>outfmt=RGB24</CODE> in
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1019 order to increase the quality of the captured images, the captured
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1020 image will be actually later converted back into YV12 so the only
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1021 thing you achieve is a massive waste of CPU power.
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1022 </LI>
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1023
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1024 <LI>
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1025 To specify the I420 colorspace (<CODE>outfmt=i420</CODE>), you have to
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1026 add an option <CODE>-vc rawi420</CODE> due to a fourcc conflict with
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1027 an Intel Indeo video codec.
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1028 </LI>
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1029
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1030 <LI>
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1031 There are several ways of capturing audio. You can grab the sound
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1032 either using your soundcard via an external cable connection between
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1033 video card and line-in, or using the built-in ADC in the bt878
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1034 chip. In the latter case, you have to load the <b>btaudio</b>
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1035 driver. Read the <CODE>linux/Documentation/sound/btaudio</CODE> file
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1036 (in the kernel tree, not MPlayer's) for some instructions on using this driver.
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1037 </LI>
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1038
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1039 <LI>
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1040 If MEncoder cannot open the audio device, make sure that it is really
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1041 available. There can be some trouble with the sound servers like arts
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1042 (KDE) or esd (GNOME). If you have a full duplex soundcard (almost any
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1043 decent card supports it today), and you are using KDE, try to check
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1044 the "full duplex" option in the sound server preference menu.
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1045 </LI>
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1046
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1047 </UL>
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1048
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1049 <H3><A NAME="tv_examples">2.5.3 Examples</A></H3>
2864
1a710f130a7f TV input documentation begin (examples, options)
gabucino
parents: 2855
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1050
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1051 <P>Dummy output, to AAlib :)<BR>
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parents: 6970
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1052 <CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mplayer -tv on:driver=dummy:width=640:height=480 -vo aa</CODE><BR>
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parents: 6970
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1053 <BR>
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1054 Input from standard V4L<BR>
7955
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henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1055 <CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mplayer -tv
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1056 on:driver=v4l:width=640:height=480 -vo xv</CODE><BR>
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1057 <BR>
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1058
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1059 A more sophisticated example. This makes MEncoder capture the full
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1060 PAL image, crop the margins, and deinterlace the picture using
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1061 a linear blend algorithm. Audio is compressed with a constant
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1062 bitrate of 64kbps, using LAME codec. This setup is suitable for
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1063 capturing movies.<BR> <CODE> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mencoder -tv
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1064 on:driver=v4l:width=768:height=576 \<BR>
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1065 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-ovc lavc -lavcopts
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1066 vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=900 \<BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-oac
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
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1067 mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=64 \<BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-vop
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
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parents: 7942
diff changeset
1068 pp=lb,crop=720:540:24:18 -o output.avi </CODE><BR>
6974
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parents: 6970
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1069
7955
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parents: 7942
diff changeset
1070 <BR>
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henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1071 This will additionally rescale the image to 384x288 and compresses
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1072 the video with the bitrate of 350kbps in high quality mode. The
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1073 vqmax option looses the quantizer and allows the video compressor to
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1074 actualy reach so low bitrate even at the expense of the
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1075 quality. This can be used for capturing long TV series, where the
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1076 video quality isn't so important.<BR>
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1077 <CODE>
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1078 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mencoder -tv on:driver=v4l:width=768:height=576 \<BR>
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1079 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=350:vhq:vqmax=31:keyint=300 \<BR>
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1080 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=48 \<BR>
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1081 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-vop scale=384:288,pp=tn/lb,crop=720:540:24:18 -sws 1 -o output.avi
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1082 </CODE><BR>
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1083
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1084 It's also possible to specify smaller image dimensions in the
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1085 <CODE>-tv</CODE> option and omit the software scaling but this
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1086 approach uses the maximum available information and is a little more
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1087 resistant to noise. The bt8x8 chips can do the pixel averaging only
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1088 in the horizontal direction due to a hardware limitation.
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1089
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1090 </P>
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diego
parents: 6732
diff changeset
1091
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1a710f130a7f TV input documentation begin (examples, options)
gabucino
parents: 2855
diff changeset
1092
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parents: 6970
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1093
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parents: 7043
diff changeset
1094 <H1><A NAME="usage">3. Usage</A></H1>
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1095
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1096
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1097 <H2><A NAME="command_line">3.1 Command line</A></H2>
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gabucino
parents: 4153
diff changeset
1098
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1099 <P>MPlayer utilizes a complex playtree. It consists of global options
4177
cab4ac1467e4 many small updates
gabucino
parents: 4153
diff changeset
1100 written as first (for example <CODE>mplayer -vfm 5</CODE>), and options
cab4ac1467e4 many small updates
gabucino
parents: 4153
diff changeset
1101 written after filenames, that apply only to the given filename/URL/whatever
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1102 (for example <CODE>mplayer -vfm 5 movie1.avi movie2.avi -vfm 4</CODE>).<BR>
5715
71843ef1a085 video filter layer documentation begun (maybe audio layer should be
gabucino
parents: 5704
diff changeset
1103 You can group filenames/URLs together using { and }. It's useful with
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1104 option -loop: <CODE>mplayer { 1.avi -loop 2 2.avi } -loop 3</CODE>
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1105 will play files in this order: 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 2<BR>
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1106 </P>
4177
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gabucino
parents: 4153
diff changeset
1107
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parents: 6393
diff changeset
1108 <TABLE BORDER=0>
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parents: 6970
diff changeset
1109 <TR><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD>file</TD><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] [path/]filename</CODE></TD></TR>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1110 <TR><TD></TD><TD>files</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [default options] [path/]filename1 [options for filename1] filename2 [options for filename2] ...</CODE></TD></TR>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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parents: 6970
diff changeset
1111 <TR><TD></TD><TD>VCD</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] -vcd trackno [-cdrom-device /dev/cdrom]</CODE></TD></TR>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1112 <TR><TD></TD><TD>DVD</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] -dvd titleno [-dvd-device /dev/dvd]</CODE></TD></TR>
7813
76940a39405a RTSP/RTP documentation, patch by Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com>.
diego
parents: 7792
diff changeset
1113 <TR><TD></TD><TD>WWW</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] http://site.com/file.asf (playlists can be used, too)</CODE></TD></TR>
76940a39405a RTSP/RTP documentation, patch by Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com>.
diego
parents: 7792
diff changeset
1114 <TR><TD></TD><TD>RTSP</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] rtsp://server.example.com/streamName</CODE></TD></TR>
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diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1115 </TABLE>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1116
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1117 <P>
7813
76940a39405a RTSP/RTP documentation, patch by Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com>.
diego
parents: 7792
diff changeset
1118 Latest versions of MPlayer also accept VCD and DVD tracks in URL style, just like
76940a39405a RTSP/RTP documentation, patch by Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com>.
diego
parents: 7792
diff changeset
1119 xine does: <CODE>mplayer dvd://1</CODE> or <CODE>mplayer vcd://1</CODE></P>
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1120
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a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1121 <PRE>
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1122 mplayer -vo x11 /mnt/Films/Contact/contact2.mpg
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1123 mplayer -vcd 2
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1124 mplayer -afm 3 /mnt/DVDtrailers/alien4.vob
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1125 mplayer -dvd 1 -dvd-device /dev/hdc
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1126 mplayer -abs 65536 -delay -0.4 -nobps ~/movies/test.avi
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1127 </PRE>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1128
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1129
7047
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1130 <H2><A NAME="control">3.2 Control</A></H2>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1131
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1132 <P>MPlayer has a fully configurable, command driven, control layer which
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1133 lets you control MPlayer with keyboard, mouse, joystick or remote
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1134 control (using LIRC). See the man page for the complete list of keyboard
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1135 controls.</P>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1136
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1137
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1138 <H3><A NAME="controls_configuration">3.2.1 Controls configuration</A></H3>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1139
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1140 <P>MPlayer allows you bind any key/button to any MPlayer command
6493
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1141 using a simple config file. The syntax consist of a key name followed by a
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1142 command. The default config file location is
6593
a2937bae0651 Expanded RTC section. It now explains how to allow RTC via /proc on newer
diego
parents: 6583
diff changeset
1143 <CODE>$HOME/.mplayer/input.conf</CODE> but it can be overridden using the
6493
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1144 <CODE>-input</CODE> conf switch (relative path are relative to
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1145 <CODE>$HOME/.mplayer</CODE>).
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1146
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1147 <P>Example:</P>
6493
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1148
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1149 <PRE>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1150 ##
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1151 ## MPlayer input control file
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1152 ##
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1153
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1154 RIGHT seek +10
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1155 LEFT seek -10
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1156 - audio_delay 0.100
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1157 + audio_delay -0.100
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1158 q quit
7076
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1159 &gt; pt_step 1
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1160 &lt; pt_step -1
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1161 ENTER pt_step 1 1
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1162 </PRE>
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1163
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1164
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1165 <H4><A NAME="key_names">3.2.1.1 Key names</A></H4>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1166
6493
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1167 <P>You can have a full list by running <CODE>mplayer -input keylist</CODE></P>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1168
7099
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7093
diff changeset
1169 <H4>Keyboard:</H4>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1170
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a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1171 <UL>
6974
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parents: 6970
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1172 <LI>Any printable character</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1173 <LI>SPACE</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1174 <LI>ENTER</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1175 <LI>TAB</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1176 <LI>CTRL</LI>
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1177 <LI>BS</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1178 <LI>DEL</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1179 <LI>INS</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1180 <LI>HOME</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1181 <LI>END</LI>
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1182 <LI>PGUP</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1183 <LI>PGDWN</LI>
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1184 <LI>ESC</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1185 <LI>RIGHT</LI>
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1186 <LI>LEFT</LI>
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1187 <LI>UP</LI>
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1188 <LI>DOWN</LI>
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diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1189 </UL>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1190
7099
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diego
parents: 7093
diff changeset
1191 <H4>Mouse (only supported under X):</H4>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1192
6436
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diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1193 <UL>
6974
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parents: 6970
diff changeset
1194 <LI>MOUSE_BTN0 (Left button)</LI>
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parents: 6970
diff changeset
1195 <LI>MOUSE_BTN1 (Right button)</LI>
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diff changeset
1196 <LI>MOUSE_BTN2 (Middle button)</LI>
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1197 <LI>MOUSE_BTN3 (Wheel)</LI>
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1198 <LI>MOUSE_BTN4 (Wheel)</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1199 <LI>...</LI>
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1200 <LI>MOUSE_BTN9</LI>
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diego
parents: 6393
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1201 </UL>
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1202
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parents: 7093
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1203 <H4>Joystick (support must be enabled at compile time):</H4>
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parents: 5826
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1204
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1205 <UL>
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1206 <LI>JOY_RIGHT or JOY_AXIS0_PLUS</LI>
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1207 <LI>JOY_LEFT or JOY_AXIS0_MINUS</LI>
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1208 <LI>JOY_UP or JOY_AXIS1_MINUS</LI>
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1209 <LI>JOY_DOWN or JOY_AXIS1_PLUS</LI>
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1210 <LI>JOY_AXIS2_PLUS</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1211 <LI>JOY_AXIS2_MINUS</LI>
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parents: 7093
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1212 <LI>...</LI>
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1213 <LI>JOY_AXIS9_PLUS</LI>
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1214 <LI>JOY_AXIS9_MINUS</LI>
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parents: 6393
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1215 </UL>
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parents: 5826
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1216
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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parents: 5826
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1217
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parents: 7787
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1218 <H4><A NAME="commands">3.2.1.2 Commands</A></H4>
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1219
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parents: 6468
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1220 <P>You can have a full list of known commands by running "mplayer -input cmdlist"</P>
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parents: 5826
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1221
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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parents: 5826
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1222 <UL>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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parents: 5826
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1223 <LI><B>seek</B> (int) val [(int) type=0]
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parents: 6970
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1224 <P>Seek to some place in the movie.<BR>
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1225 Type 0 is a relative seek of +/- val seconds.<BR>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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1226 Type 1 seek to val % in the movie.</P></LI>
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parents: 5826
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1227 <LI><B>audio_delay</B> (float) val
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parents: 6970
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1228 <P>Adjust the audio delay of val seconds</P></LI>
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parents: 5826
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1229 <LI><B>quit</B>
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diego
parents: 7813
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1230 <P>Quit MPlayer</P></LI>
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parents: 5826
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1231 <LI><B>pause</B>
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parents: 6970
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1232 <P>Pause/unpause the playback</P></LI>
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parents: 5826
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1233 <LI><B>grap_frames</B>
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1234 <P>Somebody know ?</P></LI>
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parents: 5826
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1235 <LI><B>pt_step</B> (int) val [(int) force=0]
6974
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parents: 6970
diff changeset
1236 <P>Go to next/previous entry in playtree. Val sign tell the direction.<BR>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1237 If no other entry is available in the given direction it won't do anything
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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parents: 6970
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1238 unless force is non 0.</P></LI>
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1239 <LI><B>pt_up_step</B> (int) val [(int) force=0]
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1240 <P>Like pt_step but it jump to next/previous in the parent list. It's useful
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1241 to break inner loop in the playtree.</P></LI>
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1242 <LI><B>alt_src_step</B> (int) val
6974
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diego
parents: 6970
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1243 <P>When more than one source is available it select the next/previous one
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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parents: 6970
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1244 (only supported by asx playlist).</P></LI>
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1245 <LI><B>sub_delay</B> (float) val [(int) abs=0]
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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parents: 6970
diff changeset
1246 <P>Adjust the subtitles delay of +/- val seconds or set it to val seconds
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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parents: 6970
diff changeset
1247 when abs is non zero.</P></LI>
5850
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1248 <LI><B>osd</B> [(int) level=-1]
7076
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1249 <P>Toggle osd mode or set it to level when level &gt; 0.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1250 <LI><B>volume</B> (int) dir
6974
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parents: 6970
diff changeset
1251 <P>Increase/decrease volume</P></LI>
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1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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parents: 5826
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1252 <LI><B>contrast</B> (int) val [(int) abs=0]</LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1253 <LI><B>brightness</B> (int) val [(int) abs=0]</LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1254 <LI><B>hue</B> (int) val [(int) abs=0]</LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1255 <LI><B>saturation</B> (int) val [(int) abs=0]
6974
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parents: 6970
diff changeset
1256 <P>Set/Adjust video parameters. Val range from -100 to 100.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1257 <LI><B>frame_drop</B> [(int) type=-1]
6974
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diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1258 <P>Toggle/Set frame dropping mode.</P></LI>
7628
d6608342591d This patch adds the functionality to disable/enable subtitles while playing
arpi
parents: 7455
diff changeset
1259 <LI><B>sub_visibility</B>
d6608342591d This patch adds the functionality to disable/enable subtitles while playing
arpi
parents: 7455
diff changeset
1260 <P>Toggle subtitle visibility.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1261 <LI><B>sub_pos</B> (int) val
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diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1262 <P>Adjust subtitles position.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1263 <LI><B>vo_fullscreen</B>
6974
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diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1264 <P>Switch fullscreen mode.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1265 <LI><B>tv_step_channel</B> (int) dir
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1266 <P>Select next/previous tv channel.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1267 <LI><B>tv_step_norm</B>
6974
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diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1268 <P>Change TV norm.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1269 <LI><B>tv_step_chanlist</B>
6974
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diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1270 <P>Change channel list.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1271 <LI><B>gui_loadfile</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1272 <LI><B>gui_loadsubtitle</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1273 <LI><B>gui_about</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1274 <LI><B>gui_play</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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parents: 5826
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1275 <LI><B>gui_stop</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1276 <LI><B>gui_playlist</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1277 <LI><B>gui_preferences</B></LI>
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a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
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1278 <LI><B>gui_skinbrowser</B>
6974
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parents: 6970
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1279 <P>GUI actions</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1280 </UL>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1281
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parents: 6970
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1282
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
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parents: 7787
diff changeset
1283 <H3><A NAME="lirc">3.2.2 Control from LIRC</A></H3>
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gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1284
2848
33c32f3d9f1f many small updates, fixes (some/more to be completed soon)
gabucino
parents: 2761
diff changeset
1285 <P>Linux Infrared Remote Control - use an easy to build home-brewn IR-receiver,
6998
83a386e88f9e Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday at varoshaza . nagyatad . hu>
diego
parents: 6981
diff changeset
1286 an (almost) arbitrary remote control and control your Linux box with it!
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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parents: 6970
diff changeset
1287 More about it at <A HREF="http://www.lirc.org">www.lirc.org</A>.</P>
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gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1288
5969
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1289 <P>If you have installed the lirc-package, configure will autodetect it. If
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1290 everything went fine, MPlayer will print a message like "Setting up
5969
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1291 lirc support..." on startup. If an error occurs it will tell you. If it
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1292 doesn't tell you anything about LIRC there's no support compiled in. That's
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1293 it :-)</P>
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gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1294
7942
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1295 <P>The application name for MPlayer is - oh wonder - <CODE>mplayer</CODE>.
5969
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1296 You can use any mplayer commands and even pass more than one command by
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1297 separating them with \n. Don't forget to enable the repeat flag in .lircrc
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1298 when it make sense (seek, volume, etc). Here's an excerpt from my
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1299 .lircrc:</P>
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parents:
diff changeset
1300
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1301 <PRE>
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1302 begin
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1303 button = VOLUME_PLUS
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1304 prog = mplayer
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1305 config = volume 1
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1306 repeat = 1
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1307 end
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1308
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parents: 5826
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1309 begin
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parents: 5826
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1310 button = VOLUME_MINUS
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1311 prog = mplayer
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1312 config = volume -1
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1313 repeat = 1
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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parents: 5826
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1314 end
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1315
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parents: 5826
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1316 begin
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1317 button = CD_PLAY
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1318 prog = mplayer
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1319 config = pause
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1320 end
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parents: 5826
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1321
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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parents: 5826
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1322 begin
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arpi
parents: 5826
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1323 button = CD_STOP
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1324 prog = mplayer
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1325 config = seek 0 1\npause
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1326 end
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parents: 6393
diff changeset
1327 </PRE>
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diff changeset
1328
2848
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gabucino
parents: 2761
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1329 <P>If you don't like the standard location for the lirc-config file (~/.lircrc)
6960
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
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parents: 6950
diff changeset
1330 use the -lircconf &lt;filename&gt; switch to specify another file.</P>
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parents:
diff changeset
1331
6493
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parents: 6468
diff changeset
1332
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1333 <H3><A NAME="slave">3.2.3 Slave mode</A></H3>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1334
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988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1335 <P>The slave mode allow you to build simple frontend to MPlayer. When
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1336 enabled (with the <CODE>-slave</CODE> switch) MPlayer will read
6593
a2937bae0651 Expanded RTC section. It now explains how to allow RTC via /proc on newer
diego
parents: 6583
diff changeset
1337 commands separated by new line (\n) from stdin.</P>
6493
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gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1338
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parents: 5826
diff changeset
1339
7047
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1340 <H2><A NAME="streaming">3.3 Streaming from network or pipes</A></H2>
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gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1341
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1342 <P>MPlayer can play files from network, using the HTTP, MMS or RTSP/RTP
7813
76940a39405a RTSP/RTP documentation, patch by Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com>.
diego
parents: 7792
diff changeset
1343 protocol.</P>
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parents:
diff changeset
1344
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gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1345 <P>Playing goes by simply using adding the URL to the command line.
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1346 MPlayer also honors the http_proxy environment variable, and uses
6960
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1347 proxy if available. Proxy usage can also be forced:</P>
4153
2bb77282b2a6 streaming with proxy
gabucino
parents: 4135
diff changeset
1348
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1349 <P><CODE>mplayer http_proxy://proxy.micorsops.com:3128/http://micorsops.com:80/stream.asf</CODE></P>
2001
05189dbfb847 more fixes
gabucino
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diff changeset
1350
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1351 <P>MPlayer can read from stdin (NOT named pipes). This can be for example
6960
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1352 used to play from FTP:</P>
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1353
6583
4b7d097a9c69 big update
gabucino
parents: 6574
diff changeset
1354 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;wget ftp://micorsops.com/something.avi -O - | mplayer -</CODE></P>
1612
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gabucino
parents:
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1355
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1356 <P>Note: it's also recommended to enable CACHE when playback from network:</P>
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1357
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1358 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;wget ftp://micorsops.com/something.avi -O - | mplayer -cache 8192 -</CODE></P>
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1359
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1360
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1361
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1362 <H1><A NAME="faq">4.</A> <A HREF="faq.html">FAQ section</A></H1>
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1363
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
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1364
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
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1365
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
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1366 <H1><A NAME="cd/dvd">5.</A> <A HREF="cd-dvd.html">CD/DVD section</A></H1>
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1367
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
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1368
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
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1369
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
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1370 <H1><A NAME="ports">6. Ports</A></H1>
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1371
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
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1372
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
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1373 <H2><A NAME="debian">6.1 Debian packaging</A></H2>
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1374
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1375 <P>To build the package, get the cvs version, or .tgz and uncompress it,
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1376 and cd into programs directory:</P>
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1378 <PRE>
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1379 cd main
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1380 fakeroot debian/rules binary
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1381 </PRE>
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1382
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1383 <P>(... mplayer detects hardware/software, builds itself and.. )
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1384 dpkg-deb: building package `mplayer' in `../mplayer_0.90-1_i386.deb'.</P>
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1385
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1386 <P>And now just become root, and:</P>
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1387
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1388 <PRE>
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1389 dpkg -i ../mplayer_0.90-1_i386.deb as root.
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1390 </PRE>
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1391
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1392 <P>Here's how it looks like:</P>
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1393
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1394 <PRE>
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1395 eyck@incubus:/src/main$ sudo dpkg -i ../mplayer_0.90-1_i386.deb
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1396 Password:
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1397 (Reading database ... 26946 files and directories currently installed.)
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1398 Preparing to replace mplayer 0.50-1 (using ../mplayer_0.90-1_i386.deb)
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1399 Unpacking replacement mplayer ...
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1400 Setting up mplayer (0.90-1) ...
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1401 </PRE>
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1402
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1403
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1404 <H2><A NAME="bsd">6.2 *BSD</A></H2>
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1405
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1406 <P>MPlayer runs on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, BSD/OS and Darwin. There are
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
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1407 ports/pkgsrc/fink/etc versions of MPlayer available that are probably easier
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
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1408 to use than our raw sources.</P>
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1409
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
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1410 <P>To build MPlayer you will need GNU make (gmake - native BSD make will not
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
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1411 work) and a recent version of binutils.</P>
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1412
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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1413 <P>If MPlayer complains about not finding <CODE>/dev/cdrom</CODE> or
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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1414 <CODE>/dev/dvd</CODE>, create an appropiate symbolic link:<BR>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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1415 <CODE>ln -s /dev/(your_cdrom_device) /dev/cdrom</CODE>.</P>
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1416
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1417 <P>To use Win32 DLLs with MPlayer you will need to re-compile the kernel with
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
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1418 "<CODE>option USER_LDT</CODE>" (unless you run FreeBSD -CURRENT, where this
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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1419 is the default).</P>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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1420
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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parents: 7814
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1421 <H3><A NAME="freebsd">6.2.1 FreeBSD</A></H3>
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1422
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1423 <P>If your CPU has SSE, recompile your kernel with "options CPU_ENABLE_SSE" to
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
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1424 use it (FreeBSD-STABLE or kernel patches required).</P>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
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diff changeset
1425
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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parents: 7814
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1426 <H3><A NAME="openbsd">6.2.2 OpenBSD</A></H3>
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1427
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1428 <P>Due to limitations in different versions of gas (relocation vs MMX), you will
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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parents: 7814
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1429 need to compile in two steps: First make sure that the non-native as is first
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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diff changeset
1430 in your <CODE>$PATH</CODE> and do a <CODE>gmake -k</CODE>, then make sure that
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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1431 the native version is used and do <CODE>gmake</CODE>.</P>
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1432
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1433
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1434 <H2><A NAME="solaris">6.3 Solaris</A></H2>
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1435
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1436 <P>MPlayer should work on Solaris 2.6 or newer.</P>
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1437
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1438 <P>On <B>UltraSPARC</B>s, MPlayer takes advantage of their <B>VIS</B>
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1439 extensions (equivalent to MMX), currently only in <I>libmpeg2</I>,
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1440 <I>libvo</I> and <I>libavcodec</I>, but not in mp3lib. You can watch a VOB
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1441 file on a 400MHz CPU. You'll need
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1442 <A HREF="http://www.sun.com/sparc/vis/mediaLib.html">mLib</A> installed.</P>
1731
07e2dfca67a3 can't stop commiting :)
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1443
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1444 <P>To build the package you will need GNU make (gmake, /opt/sfw/gmake), native
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1445 Solaris make will not work. Typical error you get when building with Solaris'
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1446 make instead of GNU make:</P>
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1447
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1448 <PRE>
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parents: 6393
diff changeset
1449 % /usr/ccs/bin/make
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parents: 6393
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1450 make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 25: Unexpected end of line seen
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1451 </PRE>
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1452
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1453 <P>On Solaris SPARC, you need the GNU C/C++ Compiler; it does not matter
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1454 if GNU C/C++ compiler is configured with or without the GNU assembler.</P>
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1455
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1456 <P>On Solaris x86, you need the GNU assembler and the GNU C/C++ compiler,
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1457 configured to use the GNU assembler! The mplayer code on the x86 platform
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1458 makes heavy use of MMX, SSE and 3DNOW! instructions that cannot be compiled
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1459 using Sun's assembler <CODE>/usr/ccs/bin/as</CODE>.</P>
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1460
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1461 <P>The configure script tries to find out, which assembler program is used by
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1462 your "gcc" command (in case the autodetection fails, use the
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1463 <CODE>--as=/whereever/you/have/installed/gnu-as</CODE> option to tell the
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1464 configure script where it can find GNU "as" on your system).</P>
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1465
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1466 <P>Error message from configure on a Solaris x86 system using GCC
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1467 without GNU assembler:</P>
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1468
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1469 <PRE>
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1470 % configure
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1471 ...
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1472 Checking assembler (/usr/ccs/bin/as) ... , failed
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1473 Please upgrade(downgrade) binutils to 2.10.1...
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
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1474 </PRE>
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1475
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1476 <P>(Solution: Install and use a gcc configured with "--with-as=gas")</P>
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1477
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1478 <P>Typical error you get when building with a GNU C compiler that does
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1479 not use GNU as:</P>
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1480
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1481 <PRE>
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1482 % gmake
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1483 ...
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1484 gcc -c -Iloader -Ilibvo -O4 -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -ffast-math
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1485 -fomit-frame-pointer -I/usr/local/include -o mplayer.o mplayer.c
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1486 Assembler: mplayer.c
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1487 "(stdin)", line 3567 : Illegal mnemonic
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diff changeset
1488 "(stdin)", line 3567 : Syntax error
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1489 ... more "Illegal mnemonic" and "Syntax error" errors ...
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parents: 6393
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1490 </PRE>
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1491
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1492 <P>For DVD support you must have the patched libcss installed. Patch:
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1493 <A HREF="http://www.tools.de/solaris/mplayer/">http://www.tools.de/solaris/mplayer/</A>.</P>
1682
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1494
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1495 <P>Due to two bugs in Solaris 8 x86, you cannot reliably play DVD discs larger
83a386e88f9e Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday at varoshaza . nagyatad . hu>
diego
parents: 6981
diff changeset
1496 than 4 GB:</P>
1682
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1497
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1498 <UL>
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1499 <LI>The sd(7D) driver on Solaris 8 x86 driver has bug when accessing a disk
7076
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
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diff changeset
1500 block &gt;4GB on a device using a logical blocksize != DEV_BSIZE (i.e. CD-ROM
6998
83a386e88f9e Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday at varoshaza . nagyatad . hu>
diego
parents: 6981
diff changeset
1501 and DVD media). Due to a 32Bit int overflow, a disk address modulo 4GB is
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1502 accessed.
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1503 (<A HREF="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22516">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22516</A>)
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1504 </LI>
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diego
parents: 6981
diff changeset
1505 <LI>A similar bug is present in the hsfs(7FS) filesystem code (aka
83a386e88f9e Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday at varoshaza . nagyatad . hu>
diego
parents: 6981
diff changeset
1506 ISO9660), hsfs currently does not support partitions/disks larger than 4GB, all data
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diego
parents: 6981
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1507 is accessed modulo 4GB.
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1508 (<A HREF="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22592">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22592</A>)
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1509 </LI>
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1510 </UL>
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1511
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1512 <P>On Solaris with an UltraSPARC CPU, you can get some extra speed by
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1513 using the CPU's VIS instructions for certain time consuming operations.
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1514 VIS acceleration can be used in MPlayer by calling functions in Sun's
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1515 <A HREF="http://www.sun.com/sparc/vis/mediaLib.html">mediaLib</A>.</P>
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1516
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1517 <P>VIS accelerated operations from mediaLib are used for mpeg2 video
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1518 decoding and for color space conversion in the video output drivers.</P>
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1519
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1520
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1521 <H2><A NAME="strongarm">6.4 StrongARM</A></H2>
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gabucino
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1522
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1523 <P>MPlayer is reported to compile on StrongARM. Use the following command line:</P>
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1524
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1525 <PRE>
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diego
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1526 ./configure --target=arm-linux --disable-css --with-x11libdir=/usr/arm/lib
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
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1527 --with-x11incdir=/usr/arm/lib --disable-gcc-checking
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parents: 6393
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1528 </PRE>
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1529
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1530
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diff changeset
1531 <H2><A NAME="sgi">6.5 Silicon Graphics / IRIX</A></H2>
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gabucino
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1532
6593
a2937bae0651 Expanded RTC section. It now explains how to allow RTC via /proc on newer
diego
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diff changeset
1533 <P>Reported working. You'll probably have to use the <I>SGI</I> ao driver.
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1534 Anyone has closer info?</P>
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1535
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1536
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diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1537 <H2><A NAME="qnx">6.6 QNX</A></H2>
3027
7b85ba8c9be5 mostly fixes, some updates
gabucino
parents: 2967
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1538
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c2be8678fdfb QNX updates
gabucino
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diff changeset
1539 <P>Works. You'll need to download SDL for QNX, and install it. Then run
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1540 MPlayer with <CODE>-vo sdl:photon</CODE> and <CODE>-ao sdl:nto</CODE>
4500
c2be8678fdfb QNX updates
gabucino
parents: 4498
diff changeset
1541 options, and it should be fast.</P>
c2be8678fdfb QNX updates
gabucino
parents: 4498
diff changeset
1542
c2be8678fdfb QNX updates
gabucino
parents: 4498
diff changeset
1543 <P>The <CODE>-vo x11</CODE> output will be even slower than on Linux, since
4680
b5d956f0b6ea sok ize, mutyur, bizbasz.
gabucino
parents: 4632
diff changeset
1544 QNX has only X <I>emulation</I> which is VERY slow. Use SDL.</P>
3027
7b85ba8c9be5 mostly fixes, some updates
gabucino
parents: 2967
diff changeset
1545
7b85ba8c9be5 mostly fixes, some updates
gabucino
parents: 2967
diff changeset
1546
7942
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diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1547 <H2><A NAME="cygwin">6.7 Cygwin</A></H2>
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a04a7dc31ebb openbsd updates by Bj«Órn Sandell <biorn@dce.chalmers.se>
arpi
parents: 5863
diff changeset
1548
7942
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diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1549 <P>The Cygwin port is still in its infancy and could use some love,
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1550 <A HREF="tech/patches.txt">patches</A> are always welcome. You should also
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1551 check out the
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1552 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cygwin/">mplayer-cygwin</A>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1553 mailing list for help and latest information.</P>
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a04a7dc31ebb openbsd updates by Bj«Órn Sandell <biorn@dce.chalmers.se>
arpi
parents: 5863
diff changeset
1554
7942
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1555 <P>To get native DirectX video (<CODE>-vo directx</CODE>), install
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1556 <A HREF="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/dx7headers.tgz">DirectX 7 header files</A>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1557 and recompile. This, together with <CODE>-ao win32</CODE> should give you best
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1558 results.</P>
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gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1559
7814
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diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1560 <P>You will have to go to the MPlayer directory, and copy or symlink
6960
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1561 <CODE>etc/cygwin_inttypes.h</CODE> to <CODE>/usr/include/inttypes.h</CODE> to
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1562 make MPlayer compile. Otherwise it will complain about missing
6960
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1563 <CODE>intypes.h</CODE>.</P>
6464
60211818e5b9 Applied Cygwin patch by Sylvain Petreolle <spetreolle@yahoo.fr>, adjusted
diego
parents: 6436
diff changeset
1564
7942
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1565 <P>Since there is no support for Win32 DLLs under Cygwin and OpenGL and mpdvdkit
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1566 do not work/compile, you should disable them in configure with
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1567 <CODE>./configure --disable-win32 --disable-gl --disable-mpdvdkit</CODE>.</P>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1568
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1569 <P>SDL has also been reported to work after some tweaking:<BR>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1570 There are several changes that need to be made to the <CODE>config.mak</CODE>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1571 file after running <CODE>configure</CODE>. These changes, like any change to
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1572 <CODE>config.mak</CODE> after the <CODE>configure</CODE> run are <B>not</B>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1573 supported, so please do <B>not</B> report bugs!</P>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1574
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1575 <P>Find the line that reads</P>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1576
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1577 <PRE>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1578 SDL_LIB = -L/usr/local/lib -lmingw32 -lSDLmain -lSDL -mwindows -mno-cygwin
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1579 </PRE>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1580
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1581 <P>and change it to:</P>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1582
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1583 <PRE>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1584 SDL_LIB = -L/usr/local/lib -lSDL -mcygwin
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1585 </PRE>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1586
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1587 <P>and replace</P>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1588
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1589 <PRE>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1590 SDL_INC = -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/SDL -Dmain=SDL_main -I/usr/include/mingw -DWIN32 -Uunix -mno-cygwin
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1591 </PRE>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1592
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1593 <P>with</P>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1594
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1595 <PRE>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1596 SDL_INC = -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/SDL -Uunix -mcygwin
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1597 </PRE>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1598
6974
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parents: 6970
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1599
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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1600
7365
822923446b66 Removed authors and maintainers section, now in txt format.
diego
parents: 7363
diff changeset
1601 <H1><A NAME="mailing_lists">Appendix A - Mailing lists</A></H1>
1682
dba45a1aafad *** empty log message ***
gabucino
parents: 1668
diff changeset
1602
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diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1603 <P>There are some public mailing lists on MPlayer. Unless explicitly
7700
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1604 stated otherwise the language of these lists is <B>English</B>. Please do
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1605 not send messages in other languages or HTML mail! Message size limit is 80k.
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1606 If you have something bigger put it up for download somewhere. Click the
7787
05e518badc1b doc fixes part 1 (more will come when i find the time to read the rest)
attila
parents: 7700
diff changeset
1607 links to subscribe. On the mailing lists, the same rules about writing
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1608 and quoting apply as on usenet. Please follow them, it makes the life of
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1609 those who read your mails a lot easier. If you do not know them please
7787
05e518badc1b doc fixes part 1 (more will come when i find the time to read the rest)
attila
parents: 7700
diff changeset
1610 read <A HREF="http://learn.to/edit_messages">HOWTO edit messages</A> or
05e518badc1b doc fixes part 1 (more will come when i find the time to read the rest)
attila
parents: 7700
diff changeset
1611 (if you are in a hurry)
05e518badc1b doc fixes part 1 (more will come when i find the time to read the rest)
attila
parents: 7700
diff changeset
1612 <A HREF="http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html">
05e518badc1b doc fixes part 1 (more will come when i find the time to read the rest)
attila
parents: 7700
diff changeset
1613 Quoting HOWTO</A>.</P>
1682
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parents: 1668
diff changeset
1614
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1615 <UL>
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parents: 6970
diff changeset
1616 <LI>MPlayer developers list:
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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parents: 6970
diff changeset
1617 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng</A><BR>
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1618 This list is about MPlayer development! Talking about interface/API
7700
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1619 changes, new libraries, code optimization, configure changes is ontopic
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1620 here. Send patches but <B>not</B> bug reports, user questions, feature
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1621 requests or flames here to keep the list traffic low.</LI>
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parents: 6970
diff changeset
1622 <LI>MPlayer users list:
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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parents: 6970
diff changeset
1623 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users</A>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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parents: 6970
diff changeset
1624 <UL>
7700
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1625 <LI>Send bug reports here after reading the <A HREF="#known_bugs">Known Bugs</A>
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1626 and <A HREF="bugreports.html">bug reporting section</A>).</LI>
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1627 <LI>Send feature requests here (after reading the <B>whole</B>
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1628 documentation).</LI>
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1629 <LI>Send user questions here (after reading the <B>whole</B>
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1630 documentation).</LI>
6974
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parents: 6970
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1631 </UL>
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parents: 6970
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1632 </LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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parents: 6970
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1633 <LI>MPlayer Hungarian users list:
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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parents: 6970
diff changeset
1634 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-felhasznalok">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-felhasznalok</A>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1635 <UL>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1636 <LI>Hungarian language list</LI>
7700
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1637 <LI>Topic? We'll see about it... mostly flame and RTFM questions up to now :(</LI>
6974
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parents: 6970
diff changeset
1638 </UL>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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parents: 6970
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1639 </LI>
7700
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1640 <LI>MPlayer &amp; Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 users:
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1641 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-matrox">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-matrox</A><BR>
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1642 Matrox related questions like
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1643 <UL>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
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1644 <LI>things about mga_vid</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1645 <LI>Matrox's official beta drivers (for X 4.x.x)</LI>
7700
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1646 <LI>matroxfb-TVout stuff</LI>
6974
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parents: 6970
diff changeset
1647 </UL>
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1648 </LI>
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diego
parents: 6970
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1649 <LI>MPlayer &amp; DVB card users:
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1650 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dvb">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dvb</A><BR>
7700
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1651 Things related to the hardware decoder card called DVB (<B>not</B> DXR3!).
6974
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diego
parents: 6970
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1652 </LI>
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diego
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1653 <LI>MPlayer CVS-log:
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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parents: 6970
diff changeset
1654 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog</A><BR>
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1655 All changes in MPlayer code are automatically sent to this list. Only
7700
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1656 questions about these changes belong here (if you do not understand why a
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1657 change is required or you have a better fix or you have noticed a possible
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1658 bug/problem in the commit).</LI>
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1659 <LI>MPlayer Cygwin-porting list:
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1660 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cygwin">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cygwin</A><BR>
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1661 List for discussion about MPlayer's Cygwin port.</LI>
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1662 </UL>
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1663
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1664 <P><B>Note:</B> You can reach the searchable mailing list archives at
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1665 <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch">http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch</A>.
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1666
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1667
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1668
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1669 <H1><A NAME="bug_reports">Appendix B</A> - <A HREF="bugreports.html">How to report bugs</A></H1>
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1671
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1672
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1673 <H1><A NAME="known_bugs">Appendix C - Known bugs</A></H1>
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1675 <P>Special system/CPU-specific bugs/problems:</P>
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1676 <UL>
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1677
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1678 <LI>SIGILL (signal 4) on P3 using 2.2.x kernels:<BR>
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1679 Problem: kernel 2.2.x doesn't have proper (working) SSE support<BR>
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1680 Solution: upgrade kernel to 2.4.x<BR>
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1681 Workaround: <CODE>./configure --disable-sse</CODE></LI>
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1682
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1683 <LI>General SIGILL (signal 4):<BR>
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1684 Problem: you compiled and run mplayer in different machines
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1685 (for example compiled on P3 and running on Celeron)<BR>
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1686 Solution: compile MPlayer on the same machine where you will use it!<BR>
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1687 Workaround: <CODE>./configure --disable-sse</CODE> etc. options</LI>
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1688
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1689 <LI>"Internal buffer inconsistency" during MEncoder run:<BR>
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1690 Problem: known problem when lame &lt; 3.90 was compiled with gcc 2.96 or 3.x.<BR>
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1691 Solution: use lame &gt;=3.90.<BR>
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1692 Workaround: compile lame with gcc 2.95.x and remove any already installed
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1693 lame packages, they may have been compiled with gcc 2.96.</LI>
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1694
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1695 <LI>Messed up MP2/MP3 sound on PPC:<BR>
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1696 Problem: known GCC miscompilation bug on PPC platforms, no fix yet.<BR>
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1697 Workaround: use FFmpeg's (slow) MP1/MP2/MP3 decoder (<CODE>-ac ffmpeg</CODE>)</LI>
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1698
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1699 <LI>sig11 in libmpeg2, when scaling+encoding:<BR>
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1700 Problem: known GCC 2.95.2 MMX bug, upgrade to 2.95.3.</LI>
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1701 </UL>
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1702
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1703 <P>Various A-V sync and other audio problems:</P>
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1704
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1705 General audio delay or jerky sound (exists with all or many files):
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1706 <UL>
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1707 <LI>most common: buggy audio driver! - try to use different drivers, try
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1708 ALSA 0.9 OSS emulation with -ao oss, also try -ao sdl, sometimes it helps.
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1709 If your file plays fine with -nosound, then you can be sure it's sound card
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1710 (driver) problem.</LI>
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1711 <LI>audio buffer problems (buffer size badly detected)<BR>
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1712 Workaround: mplayer -abs option</LI>
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1713 <LI>samplerate problems - maybe your card doesn't support the samplerate
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1714 used in your files - try the resampling plugin (-aop)</LI>
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1715 <LI>slow machine (CPU or VGA)<BR>
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1716 try with -vo null, if it plays well, then you have slow VGA card/driver<BR>
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1717 Workaround: buy a faster card or read this documentation about how to speed up<BR>
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1718 Also try -framedrop</LI>
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1719 </UL>
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1720
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1721 Audio delay/de-sync specific to one or a few files:
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1722 <UL>
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1723 <LI>bad file<BR>
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1724 Workaround:
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1725 <UL>
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1726 <LI>-ni or -nobps option (for non-interleaved or bad files)<BR>
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1727 and/or</LI>
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1728 <LI>-mc 0 (required for files with badly interleaved VBR audio)<BR>
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1729 and/or</LI>
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1730 <LI>-delay option or +/- keys at runtime to adjust delay</LI>
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1731 </UL>
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1732 If none of these help, please upload the file, we'll check (and fix).
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1733 </LI>
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1734 <LI>your sound card doesn't support 48kHz playback<BR>
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1735 Workaround: buy a better sound card... or try to decrease fps by 10% (use
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1736 -fps 27 for a 30fps movie) or use the resampler plugin</LI>
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1737 <LI>slow machine<BR>
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1738 (if A-V is not around 0, and the last number in the status line increasing)<BR>
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1739 Workaround: -framedrop</LI>
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1740 </UL>
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1741
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1742 No sound at all:
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1743 <UL>
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1744 <LI>your file uses an unsupported audio codec<BR>
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1745 Workaround: read the documentation and help us adding support for it</LI>
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1746 </UL>
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1747
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1748 No picture at all (just plain grey/green window):
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1749 <UL>
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1750 <LI>your file uses an unsupported video codec<BR>
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1751 Workaround: read the documentation and help us adding support for it</LI>
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1752 <LI>auto-selected codec can't decode the file, try to select another using -vc
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1753 or -vfm options</LI>
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1754 <LI>you try to play DivX 3.x file with OpenDivX decoder or XviD (-vc odivx)
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1755 - install Divx4Linux and recompile player</LI>
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1756 </UL>
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1757
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1758 <P>Video-out problems:</P>
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1759
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1760 <P>First note: options -fs -vm and -zoom are just recommendations, not (yet)
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1761 supported by all drivers. So it isn't a bug if it doesn't work.
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1762 Only a few driver supports scaling/zooming, don't expect this from x11 or dga.</P>
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1763
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1764 <P>OSD/sub flickering:<BR>
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1765 - x11 driver: sorry, it can't be fixed now<BR>
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1766 - xv driver: use -double option</P>
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1767
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1768 <P>Green image using mga_vid (-vo mga / -vo xmga):<BR>
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1769 - mga_vid misdetected your card's RAM amount, reload it using mga_ram_size option</P>
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1770
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1773 <H1><A NAME="skin">Appendix D</A> - <A HREF="skin-en.html">MPlayer skin format</A></H1>
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1777 <H1><A NAME="flame_wars">Appendix E</A> - <A HREF="users_against_developers.html">Developer Cries</A></H1>
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1778
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1779
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1780 </BODY>
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1781 </HTML>