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12 <H1 ALIGN="center">MPlayer - The Movie Player for LINUX</H1>
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14 <H2 ALIGN="center">&copy; 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (A'rpi/ESP-team)<BR>
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17 <P ALIGN="center">[ English ]
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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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40 <LI><A HREF="#mpsub">1.4.1 MPlayer's own subtitle format (MPsub)</A></LI>
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41 <LI><A HREF="#install_osd">1.4.2 Installing OSD and subtitles</A></LI>
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42 <LI><A HREF="#menu">1.4.3 OSD Menu</A></LI>
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48 <LI><A HREF="#features">2. Features</A>
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239 <LI><A HREF="#streaming">3.3 Streaming from network or pipes</A></LI>
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254 <LI><A HREF="faq.html#driver">5.4 Video/audio driver problems (vo/ao)</A></LI>
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257 <LI><A HREF="faq.html#encoding">5.7 Encoding</A></LI>
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277 <LI><A HREF="bugreports.html">Appendix B - How to report bugs</A>
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282 <LI><A HREF="#known_bugs">Appendix C - Known bugs</A></LI>
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283 <LI><A HREF="skin-en.html">Appendix D - MPlayer skin format</A></LI>
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284 <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html">Appendix E - Developer Cries</A>
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285 <UL>
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286 <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#gcc">GCC 2.96</A></LI>
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287 <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#binary">Binary distribution</A></LI>
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288 <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#nvidia">nVidia</A></LI>
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289 <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#barr">Joe Barr</A></LI>
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290 </UL>
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291 </LI>
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292 </UL>
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294 <HR>
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297
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298 <H1><A NAME="reading">0. How to read this documentation</A></H1>
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299
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300 <P>If you are a first-time installer: be sure to read everything from here to
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301 the end of the Installation section, and follow the links you will find. If
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302 you have any other questions, return to the Table of Contents and
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303 search for the topic, read the <A HREF="faq.html">FAQ</A>, or try grepping
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304 through the files.</P>
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305
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306 <P>The main rule of this documentation: if it's not documented, it
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307 <U>does not exist</U>. If I don't say you encode audio from TV tuner, you
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308 can't. A healthy quantity of combining ability is welcomed, though.
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309 Good luck. You'll need it :) And for another good advice, let me quote
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310 Chris Phillips from the
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311 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/">mplayer-users</A>
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312 mailing list:</P>
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313
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314 <BLOCKQUOTE>
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315 I said a while ago that there is such a difference between a newbie and
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316 a dumbass. No matter what you actually know about a system (linux, cars,
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317 girls :D) you should ALWAYS be able to take a step back and be objective,
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318 otherwise, you're just dumb IMHO. A girl i live with assumed the vacuum
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319 cleaner was broken because it didn't suck things up. never thought to change
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320 the bag, becasue she'd never done it before... now that's just stupid, not a
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321 case of simply not knowing what to do... Simply not being that familiar with
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322 your surroundings is no excuse for a) laziness and b) ignorance. So many
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323 people seem to see the word "error" and then stop... few seem to actually
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324 read the words on the OTHER side of the colon.
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325 </BLOCKQUOTE>
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326
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327
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328
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329 <H1><A NAME="introduction">1. Introduction</A></H1>
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330
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331
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332 <P>MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices, and
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333 <B>non-x86</B> CPUs, see the <A HREF="#ports">ports section</A>). It plays most
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334 MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg,
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335 FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and
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336 Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch <B>VideoCD</B>, <B>SVCD</B>, <B>DVD</B>,
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337 <B>3ivx</B>, <B>RealMedia</B>, and <B>DivX</B> movies too (and you don't need
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338 the avifile
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339 library at all!). Another big feature of MPlayer is the wide range of
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340 supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev,
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341 AAlib, DirectFB, but you can also use GGI and SDL (and this way all their
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342 drivers) and some lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon,
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343 Mach64, Permedia3) too! Most
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344 of them supports software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in
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345 fullscreen. MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG
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346 decoder boards, such as the <B><A HREF="video.html#dvb">DVB</A></B> and
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347 <B><A HREF="video.html#dxr3">DXR3/Hollywood+</A></B>. And what about the nice big antialiased
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348 shaded subtitles (<B>10 supported types</B>) with European/ISO 8859-1,2
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349 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic, Korean fonts, and the onscreen
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350 display (OSD)?</P>
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351
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352 <P>The player is rock solid playing damaged MPEG files (useful for some VCDs),
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353 and it plays bad AVI files which are unplayable with the famous
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354 windows media player. Even AVI files without index chunk are playable, and
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355 you can temporarily rebuild their indexes with the <CODE>-idx</CODE> option, or
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356 permanently with MEncoder, thus enabling seeking!
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357 As you see, stability and quality are the most important things,
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358 but the speed is also amazing.</P>
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360 <P>MEncoder (MPlayer's Movie Encoder) is a simple movie encoder,
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361 designed to encode MPlayer-playable movies
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362 (<B>AVI/ASF/OGG/DVD/VCD/VOB/MPG/MOV/VIV/FLI/RM/NUV/NET/PVA</B>) to other
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363 MPlayer-playable formats (see below). It can encode with various codecs, like
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364 <B>DivX4</B> (1 or 2 passes), libavcodec,
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365 <B>PCM</B>/<B>MP3</B>/<B>VBR MP3</B> audio. Also has powerful plugin system
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366 for video manipulation.</P>
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367
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368 <H4>MEncoder features</H4>
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369
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370 <UL>
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371 <LI>encoding from the wide range of fileformats and decoders of MPlayer</LI>
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372 <LI>encoding to all the codecs of ffmpeg's
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373 <A HREF="codecs.html#libavcodec">libavcodec</A></LI>
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374 <LI>video encoding from <B>V4L compatible TV tuners</B></LI>
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375 <LI>encoding/multiplexing to interleaved AVI files with proper index</LI>
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376 <LI>creating files from external audio stream</LI>
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377 <LI>1, 2 or 3 pass encoding</LI>
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378 <LI><B>VBR</B> MP3 audio - <B>IMPORTANT NOTE:</B> VBR MP3 audio doesn't
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379 always play nicely on Windows players! On the other hand, currently
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380 MEncoder's CBR encoding is totally broken on Win32 players :)</LI>
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381 <LI>PCM audio</LI>
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382 <LI>stream copying</LI>
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383 <LI>input A/V synchronizing (PTS-based, can be disabled with -mc 0 option)</LI>
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384 <LI>FPS correction with <CODE>-ofps</CODE> option (useful when encoding
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385 29.97fps VOB to 24fps AVI)</LI>
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386 <LI>using our very powerful plugin system (crop, expand, flip, postprocess,
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387 rotate, scale, rgb/yuv conversion)</LI>
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388 <LI>can encode DVD/VOBsub <B>AND</B> text subtitles into the output file</LI>
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389 <LI>can rip DVD subtitles to Vobsub format</LI>
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390 </UL>
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391
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392 <H4>Planned features</H4>
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393
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394 <UL>
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395 <LI>even wider variety of available en/decoding formats/codecs
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396 (creating VOB files with DivX4/Indeo5/VIVO streams :)</LI>
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397 <LI>audio encoding from v4l (DONE for FreeBSD ?)</LI>
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398 </UL>
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399
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400 <P>MPlayer and MEncoder can be distributed under the terms of the GNU General
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401 Public License Version 2.</P>
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402
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403
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404 <H2><A NAME="history">1.1 History</A></H2>
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406 <P>This began a year ago...
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407 I (A'rpi) have tried lots of players under linux (mtv,xmps,dvdview,livid/oms,videolan,
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408 xine,xanim,avifile,xmmp) but they all have some problem. Mostly with special
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409 files or with audio/video sync. Most of them is unable to play both MPEG1,
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410 MPEG2 and AVI (DivX) files. Many players have image quality or speed problems
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411 too. So I've decided to write/modify one...</P>
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413 <UL>
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414 <LI><B>mpg12play v0.1-v0.3:</B> Sep 22-25, 2000<BR>
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415 The first try, hacked together in a half hour!
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417 but there were image quality and speed problems with it.</LI>
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418 <LI><B>mpg12play v0.5-v0.87:</B> Sep 28-Oct 20, 2000<BR>
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419 Mpeg codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was a great stuff,
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420 but it was slow and was written in C++ (I hate C++!!!)</LI>
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421 <LI><B>mpg12play v0.9-v0.95pre5:</B> Oct 21-Nov 2, 2000<BR>
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422 Mpeg codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman &amp; Michel Lespinasse.
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423 It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect image quality and
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424 100% MPEG standard conformance.</LI>
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425 <LI><B>MPlayer v0.01:</B> Nov 11, 2000<BR>
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426 TODO: A'rpi, would you say some words here? :)</LI>
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427 <LI><B>MPlayer v0.3-v0.9:</B> Nov 18-Dec 4, 2000<BR>
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428 It was a pack of two programs: mpg12play v0.95pre6 and my new simple AVI
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429 player 'avip' based on avifile's Win32 DLL loader.</LI>
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430 <LI><B>MPlayer v0.10:</B> Jan 1, 2001<BR>
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431 The MPEG and AVI player in a single binary!</LI>
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432 <LI><B>MPlayer v0.11pre series:</B><BR>
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433 Some new developers joined and from 0.11 the mplayer project is a team-work!
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434 Added .ASF file support, and OpenDivX (see www.projectmayo.com) en/decoding.</LI>
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435 <LI><B>MPlayer v0.17a "The IdegCounter"</B> Apr 27, 2001<BR>
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436 The release version of the 0.11pre after 4 months of heavy development!
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437 Try it, and be amazed! Thousands of new features added... and of course
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438 old code was improved too, bugs removed etc.</LI>
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439 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.18 "The BugCounter"</B> Jul 9, 2001<BR>
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440 2 months since 0.17 and here's a new release.. Completed ASF support,
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441 more subtitle formats, introduced libao (similar to libvo but to audio),
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442 even more stable than ever, and so on. It's a MUST!</LI>
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443 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.50 "The Faszom(C)ounter"</B> Oct 8, 2001<BR>
2002
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444 Hmm. Release again. Tons of new features, beta GUI version, bugs fixed,
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445 new vo and ao drivers, ported to many systems, including opensource DivX
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446 codecs and much more. Try it!</LI>
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447 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.60 "The RTFMCounter"</B> Jan 3, 2002<BR>
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448 MOV/VIVO/RM/FLI/NUV fileformats support, native CRAM, Cinepak, ADPCM codecs,
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449 and support for XAnim's binary codecs; DVD subtitles support, first
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450 release of MEncoder, TV grabbing, cache, liba52, countless fixes.</LI>
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451 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.90pre10 "The BirthdayCounter"</B> Nov 11, 2002<BR>
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452 Although this is not a release, I am going to mention it because it
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453 came out 2 years after MPlayer v0.01. Happy birthday, MPlayer!</LI>
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454 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.90 "?"</B> Date yet unknown</LI>
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455 </UL>
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456
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457
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458 <H2><A NAME="installation">1.2 Installation</A></H2>
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459
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460 <P>In this chapter I'll try to guide you through the compiling and
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461 configuring process of MPlayer. It's not easy, but it won't necessarily
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462 be hard. If you experience a different behavior than what I explain, please
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463 search through this documentation and you'll find your answers. If you
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464 see links, please follow them and read carefully what they contain. It
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465 will take some time, but it DOES worth it.</P>
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466
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467 <P>You need a fairly recent system. On Linux, 2.4.x kernels are recommended.</P>
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468
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469 <H4>Software requirements:</H4>
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470
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471 <UL>
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472 <LI><B>binutils</B> - suggested version is <B>2.11.x</B> . This program is
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473 responsible for generating MMX/3DNow!/etc instructions, thus very important.</LI>
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474 <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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475 <B>NEVER</B> use 2.96 or 3.0.x! They generate faulty code for MPlayer.
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476 If you decide to change gcc from 2.96, then don't decide in favor of 3.0.x
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477 just because it's newer! Early releases of 3.0.x were even more buggy than
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478 2.96. So downgrade to 2.95.x (downgrade libstdc++ too, other programs may
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479 need it) or don't up/downgrade at all (but in this case, be prepared for
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480 runtime problems). If you vote for 3.x.x, try to use the latest version,
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481 early releases had various bugs, so be sure you use at least 3.1, it's
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482 tested and working. For detailed information about gcc 2.96's bugs (that are
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483 still NOT fixed, they have been WORKED AROUND in MPlayer!), see the
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484 <A HREF="users_against_developers.html#gcc">gcc 2.96</A> section and the
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485 <A HREF="faq.html">FAQ</A>.</LI>
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486 <LI><B>XFree86</B> - suggested version is <B>always the newest (4.2.1)</B>.
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487 Normally, everyone wants this, as starting with XFree86 4.0.2, it contains
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488 the <A HREF="video.html#xv">XVideo</A> extension (somewhere referred to
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489 as <B>Xv</B>) which is needed to enable the hardware YUV acceleration (fast
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490 image display) on cards that support it.<BR>
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491 Make sure its <B>development package</B> is installed, too, otherwise
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492 it won't work.<BR>
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493 For some video cards you don't need XFree86. See list below.</LI>
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494 <LI><B>make</B> - suggested version is <B>always the newest</B> (at least 3.79.x). This
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495 usually isn't important.</LI>
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496 <LI><B>SDL</B> - it's not mandatory, but can help in some cases (bad audio,
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497 video cards that lag strangely with the xv driver). Always use the newest
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498 (beginning from 1.2.x).</LI>
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499 <LI><B>libjpeg</B> - optional JPEG decoder, used by -mf and some QT MOV files.
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500 Useful for both MPlayer and MEncoder if you plan to work with jpeg files.</LI>
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501 <LI><B>libpng</B> - recommended and default (M)PNG decoder. Required for GUI.
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502 Useful for both MPlayer and MEncoder.</LI>
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503 <LI><B>lame</B> - recommended, needed for encoding MP3 audio with MEncoder,
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504 suggested version is <B>always the newest</B> (at least 3.90).</LI>
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505 <LI><B>libogg</B> - optional, needed for playing OGG file format.</LI>
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506 <LI><B>libvorbis</B> - optional, needed for playing OGG Vorbis audio.</LI>
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507 <LI><B><A HREF="http://www.live.com/mplayer/">LIVE.COM Streaming Media</A></B>
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508 - optional, needed for playing RTSP/RTP streams.</LI>
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509 <LI><B>directfb</B> - optional, from
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510 <A HREF="http://www.directfb.org">http://www.directfb.org</A></LI>
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511 <LI><B>cdparanoia</B> - optional, for CDDA support</LI>
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512 <LI><B>libfreetype</B> - optional, for TTF fonts support. At least 2.0.9 is
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513 required.</LI>
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514 </UL>
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515
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516 <H4>Codecs:</H4>
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517
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518 <UL>
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519 <LI><B>libavcodec</B>: This codec package is capable of decoding
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520 H263/MJPEG/RV10/DivX3/DivX4/DivX5/MP41/MP42/WMV1 encoded video streams and
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521 WMA (Windows Media Audio) v1/v2 audio streams, on
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522 multiple platforms. It is also known to be the fastest for this task.
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523 See the <A HREF="codecs.html#libavcodec">libavcodec</A> section for details.
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524 Features:<BR>
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525 <UL>
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526 <LI>gain decoding of videos mentioned above, on non-x86 machines</LI>
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527 <LI>encoding with most of the mentioned codecs</LI>
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528 <LI>this codec is the <B>fastest codec available</B> for DivX/3/4/5 and
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529 other MPEG4 types. Recommended!</LI>
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530 </UL>
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531 </LI>
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532 <LI><B>Win32 codecs</B>: If you plan to use MPlayer on x86
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533 architecture, you will possibly need them. Download and unzip w32codecs.zip
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534 to /usr/lib/win32 <B>BEFORE</B> compiling MPlayer, otherwise no Win32
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535 support will be compiled!<BR>
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536 <B>Note:</B> the avifile project has a similar codecs package, but it differs
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537 from ours. If you want to use all supported codecs, then install our package
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538 (do not worry, avifile works with it without problems). Features:<BR>
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539 <UL>
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540 <LI>you need this if you want to play or encode for example movies recorded
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541 with various hardware compressors, like tuner cards, digital cameras
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542 (example: DV, ATI VCR, MJPEG)</LI>
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543 <LI>needed if you want to play <B>WMV8 movies</B>. Not needed for old
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544 ASF's with MP41 or MP42 video (though VoxWare audio is frequent for these
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545 files - it's done by the Win32 codec), or WMV7. Also not needed
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546 for WMA (Windows Media Audio), libavcodec has opensource decoder
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547 for that.</LI>
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548 </UL>
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549 </LI>
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550 <LI><B>DivX4/DivX5</B>: information about this codec is available in the
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551 <A HREF="codecs.html#divx">DivX4/DivX5</A> section. You possibly don't want
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552 this codec as <B>libavcodec</B> (see above) is much faster and has better
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553 quality than this, for both decoding and encoding.<BR>
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554 Features:
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555 <UL>
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556 <LI>1 pass or 2 pass encoding with
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557 <A HREF="encoding.html">MEncoder</A></LI>
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558 <LI>can play old <B>DivX3</B> movies much faster than the Win32 DLL but
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559 slower than <B>libavcodec</B>!</LI>
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560 <LI>it's closed-source, and only an x86 version is available.</LI>
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561 </UL>
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562 </LI>
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563 <LI><B>XviD</B>: Open source encoding alternative to Divx4Linux<BR>
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564 Features:
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565 <UL>
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566 <LI>1 pass or 2 pass encoding with
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567 <A HREF="encoding.html">MEncoder</A></LI>
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568 <LI>it's open-source, so it's multiplatform.</LI>
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569 <LI>it's about 2 times faster than DivX4 when encoding - about the same
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570 quality</LI>
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571 </UL>
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572 </LI>
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573 <LI>The <A HREF="codecs.html#xanim">XAnim codecs</A> are the best (full
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574 screen, hardware YUV zoom) for decoding <B>3ivx</B> and Indeo 3/4/5 movies,
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575 and some old formats. And they are multiplatform, so this is the only way to
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576 play Indeo on non-x86 platforms (well, apart from using XAnim:). But for
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577 example Cinepak movies are best played with MPlayer's own Cinepak
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578 decoder!</LI>
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579 <LI>For <B>Ogg Vorbis</B> audio decoding you need to install
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580 <CODE>libvorbis</CODE> properly. Use deb/rpm packages if available, or
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581 compile from
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582 <A HREF="http://ogg.org/ogg/vorbis/download/vorbis_nightly_cvs.tgz">source</A>
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583 (this is a nightly updated tarball of Vorbis CVS).</LI>
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584 <LI>MPlayer can use the libraries of RealPlayer 8 or RealONE to play
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585 files with <B>RealVideo 2.0 - 4.0</B> video, and Sipro/Cook audio. See
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586 <A HREF="formats.html#real">RealMedia file format</A> section for
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587 installation instructions and more information.</LI>
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588 </UL>
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589
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590 <H4>Video Cards</H4>
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591
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592 <P>There are generally two kind of video cards. One kind (the newer cards) has
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593 <B>hardware scaling and YUV acceleration</B> support, the other cards don't.</P>
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594
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595 <H4>YUV cards</H4>
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596
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597 <P>They can display and scale (zoom) the picture to any size that fits in
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598 their memory, with <B>small CPU usage</B> (even when zooming), thus
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599 fullscreen playing is nice and very fast.</P>
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600
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601 <UL>
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602 <LI><B>Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 cards</B>: although a
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603 <A HREF="video.html#vidix">Vidix driver</A> is provided, it is recommended
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604 to use the mga_vid kernel module instead, for it works much better.
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605 Please see the <A HREF="video.html#mga_vid">mga_vid</A> section about its
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606 installation and usage. It is important to do these steps <I>before</I>
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607 compiling MPlayer, otherwise no mga_vid support will be built. Also
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608 check out the <A HREF="video.html#tv-out_matrox">Matrox TV-out</A> section.
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609 <U><B>If you don't use Linux</B></U>, your only possibility is the VIDIX
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610 driver: read the <A HREF="video.html#vidix">VIDIX</A> section.</LI>
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611 <LI><B>3Dfx Voodoo3/Banshee cards</B>: please see the
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612 <A HREF="video.html#tdfxfb">tdfxfb</A> section in order to gain big
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613 speedup. It is important to do these steps <B>before</B> compiling
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614 MPlayer, otherwise no 3Dfx support will be built. Also see the <A
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615 HREF="video.html#tv-out_voodoo">3dfx TV-out section</A>. If you use X, use
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616 <B>at least 4.2.0</B>, as the 3dfx Xv driver was broken in 4.1.0 and earlier
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617 releases.</LI>
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618 <LI><B>ATI cards</B>: <A HREF="video.html#vidix">Vidix driver</A> is
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619 provided for the following cards:
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620 <B>Radeon</B>, <B>Rage128</B>, <B>Mach64</B> (Rage XL/Mobility, Xpert98).
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621 Also see the <A HREF="video.html#tv-out_ati">ATI cards
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622 section</A> of the TV-out documentation, to know if you card's TV-out is
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623 supported under Linux/MPlayer.</LI>
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624 <LI><B>S3 cards</B>: the Savage and Virge/DX chips have hardware acceleration.
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625 Use as new XFree86 version as possible, older drivers are buggy. Savage chips
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626 have problems with YV12 display, see <A HREF="video.html#xv_s3">S3 Xv
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627 section</A> for details. Older, Trio cards have no, or slow hardware
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628 support.</LI>
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629 <LI><B>nVidia cards</B>: may or may not be good choice for video playing.
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630 If you do not have a GeForce2 (or newer) card, it's not likely to work
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631 without bugs.
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632 <B>The built-in nVidia driver in XFree86 does not support hardware YUV
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633 acceleration on all nVidia cards.</B> You have to download nVidia's
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634 closed-source drivers from nVidia.com. See the
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635 <A HREF="video.html#xv_nvidia">nVidia Xv driver</A> section for
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636 details. Please also check the <A HREF="video.html#tv-out_nvidia">nVidia
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637 TV-out section</A> if you wish to use a TV.</LI>
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638 <LI><B>3DLabs GLINT R3 and Permedia3</B>: a VIDIX driver is provided
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639 (pm3_vid). Please see the <A HREF="video.html#vidix">VIDIX</A> section for
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640 details.</LI>
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641 <LI><B>Other cards</B>: None of the above?
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642 <UL>
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643 <LI>Try if the XFree86 driver (and your card) supports hardware
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644 acceleration. See the <A HREF="video.html#xv">Xv section</A> for
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645 details.</LI>
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646 <LI>If it doesn't, then your card's video features aren't supported under
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647 your operating system :(<BR>
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648 If hardware scaling works under Windows, it doesn't mean it will work
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649 under Linux or other operating systems: it depends on the drivers. Most
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650 manufacturers neither make Linux drivers nor release specifications
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651 for their chips, so you are unlucky using their cards.
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652 See 'Non-YUV cards'.</LI>
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653 </UL>
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654 </LI>
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655 </UL>
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656
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657 <H4>Non-YUV cards</H4>
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658
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659 <P>Fullscreen playing can be achieved by either enabling <B>software scaling</B>
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660 (use the <CODE>-zoom</CODE> or <CODE>-vop scale</CODE>
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661 option, but I warn you: this is slow), or switching to a small resolution
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662 video mode, for example 352x288. If you don't have YUV acceleration, the
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663 latter method is recommended. Video mode switching can be enabled by
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664 using the <CODE>-vm</CODE> option and it works with the following drivers:</P>
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665
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666 <UL>
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667 <LI><B>using</B> XFree86: see the
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668 <A HREF="video.html#dga">DGA driver</A> and
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669 <A HREF="video.html#x11">X11 driver</A> sections for details. DGA is
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670 recommended! Also try DGA via SDL, sometimes it's better.</LI>
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671 <LI><B>not using</B> XFree86: try the drivers in the following order:
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672 <A HREF="video.html#vesa">vesa</A>,
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673 <A HREF="video.html#fbdev">fbdev</A>,
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674 <A HREF="video.html#svgalib">svgalib</A>,
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675 <A HREF="video.html#aalib">aalib</A>.</LI>
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676 </UL>
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677
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678 <H4>Some cards:</H4>
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679
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680 <UL>
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681 <LI><B>Cirrus Logic cards</B>:
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682 <UL>
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683 <LI>GD 7548: present on-board and tested in Compaq Armada 41xx notebook
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684 series.
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685 <UL>
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686 <LI>XFree86 3: works in 8/16bpp modes. However, the driver is
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687 dramatically slow and buggy in 800x600@16bpp.
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688 <B>Recommended: 640x480@16bpp</B></LI>
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689 <LI>XFree86 4: the Xserver freezes soon after start unless
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690 acceleration is disabled, but then the whole thing gets
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691 slower than XFree86 3. No XVideo.</LI>
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692 <LI>FBdev: framebuffer can be turned on with the <CODE>clgenfb</CODE>
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693 driver in the kernel, though for me it worked only in 8bpp, thus
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694 unusable. The clgenfb source had to be extended with the 7548 ID
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695 before compilation.</LI>
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696 <LI>VESA: the card is only VBE 1.2 capable, so VESA output can't be
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697 used. Can't be workarounded with UniVBE.</LI>
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698 <LI>SVGAlib: detects an older Cirrus chip. Usable but slow with
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699 <CODE>-bpp 8</CODE>.</LI>
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700 </UL>
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701 </LI>
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702 </UL>
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703 </LI>
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704 </UL>
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705
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706
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707 <H4>Sound cards:</H4>
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708
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709 <UL>
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710 <LI><B>Soundblaster Live!</B>: with this card you can use 4 or 6 (<B>5.1</B>)
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711 channels AC3 decoding instead of 2. Read the
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712 <A HREF="codecs.html#software_ac3">Software AC3 decoding</A> section.
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713 For hardware AC3 passthrough you <B>must</B> use ALSA 0.9 with OSS emulation!</LI>
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714 <LI><B>C-Media with SP/DIF out</B>: hardware AC3 passthrough is possible
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715 with these cards, see
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716 <A HREF="codecs.html#hardware_ac3">Hardware AC3 decoding</A> section.</LI>
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717 <LI>Features of <B>other cards</B> aren't supported by MPlayer.
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718 <U>It's very recommended to read the <A HREF="sound.html">sound card
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719 section</A>!</U></LI>
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720 </UL>
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721
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722 <H4>Features:</H4>
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723
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724 <UL>
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725 <LI>Decide if you need GUI. If you do, see the <A HREF="#gui">GUI section</A>
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726 before compiling.</LI>
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727 <LI>If you want to install MEncoder (our great all-purpose encoder),
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728 see the <A HREF="encoding.html">MEncoder section</A>.</LI>
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729 <LI>If you have a V4L compatible <B>TV tuner</B> card, and wish to watch/grab
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730 and encode movies with MPlayer, read the <A HREF="#tv">TV input</A>
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731 section.</LI>
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732 <LI>There is a neat <B>OSD Menu</B> support ready to be used. Check the
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733 <A HREF="#menu">OSD Menu</A> section.</LI>
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734 </UL>
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735
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736 <P>Then build MPlayer:</P>
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737
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738 <PRE>
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739 ./configure
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740 make
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741 make install
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742 </PRE>
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743
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744 <P>At this point, MPlayer is ready to use. The directory
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745 <CODE>$PREFIX/share/mplayer</CODE> contains the <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE>
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746 file, which is used to tell the program all the codecs and their
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747 capabilities. This file should always be kept up to date together with the
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748 main binary.<BR>
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749 Check if you have <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE> in your home directory
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750 (<CODE>~/.mplayer/codecs.conf</CODE>) left from old MPlayer versions, and remove it.</P>
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751
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752 <P><B>Debian users</B> can build a <CODE>.deb</CODE> package for themselves,
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753 it's very simple. Just exec <CODE>fakeroot debian/rules binary</CODE> in
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754 MPlayer's root directory. See
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755 <A HREF="documentation.html#debian">Debian packaging</A> for detailed
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756 instructions.</P>
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757
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758 <P><B>Always browse the output of <CODE>./configure</CODE></B>, and the
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759 <CODE>configure.log</CODE> file, they contain information about what will be
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760 built, and what will not. You may also want to view <CODE>config.h</CODE> and
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761 <CODE>config.mak</CODE> files.<BR>
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762 If you have some libraries installed, but not detected by
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763 <CODE>./configure</CODE>, then check if you also have the proper header files
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764 (usually the -dev packages) and their version matches. The
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765 <CODE>configure.log</CODE> file usually tells you what is missing.</P>
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766
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767 <P>Though not mandatory, the fonts should be installed in order to gain OSD,
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768 and subtitle functionality. Download <CODE>mp-arial-iso-8859-*.zip</CODE>
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769 and/or optional (if exists) language updates. See the
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770 <A HREF="#subtitles_osd">Subtitles and OSD</A> section for details.</P>
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771
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772 <PRE>
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773 mkdir ~/.mplayer
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774 cd ~/.mplayer
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775 unzip mp-arial-iso-8859-1.zip
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776 ln -s ~/.mplayer/iso-8859-1/arial-24 font
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777 </PRE>
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778
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779
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780 <H2><A NAME="gui">1.3 What about the GUI?</A></H2>
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781
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782 <P>The GUI needs GTK (it isn't GTK, but the panels are). The skins are stored
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783 in PNG format, so gtk, libpng (and their devel stuff) has to be installed.
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784 You can build it by specifying <CODE>--enable-gui</CODE> during
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785 <CODE>./configure</CODE>. Then, to turn on GUI mode, you either</P>
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786 <UL>
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787 <LI>specify <CODE>gui=yes</CODE> in your config file</LI>
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788 <LI><CODE>ln -s $PREFIX/bin/mplayer $PREFIX/bin/gmplayer</CODE> ,
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789 and call <CODE>gmplayer</CODE> instead.</LI>
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790 </UL>
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791
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792 <P>Currently you can't use the <CODE>-gui</CODE> option on the command line,
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793 due to technical reasons.</P>
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794
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795 <P>As MPlayer doesn't have a skin included, you have to download them if
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796 you want to use the GUI. See the
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797 <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html">download page</A>.
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798 They should be extracted to the usual system-wide directory
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799 (<CODE>$PREFIX/share/mplayer/Skin</CODE>), or to
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800 <CODE>$HOME/.mplayer/Skin</CODE>. MPlayer by default looks in these
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801 directories for a directory named <I>default</I>, but you can use the
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802 <CODE>-skin newskin</CODE> option, or the <CODE>skin=newskin</CODE> config
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803 file directive to use the skin in <CODE>*/Skin/newskin</CODE> directory.</P>
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804
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805
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806 <H2><A NAME="subtitles_osd">1.4 Subtitles and OSD</A></H2>
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807
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808 <P>
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809 MPlayer can display subtitles along with movie files. Currently the following
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810 formats are supported:</P>
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811 <UL>
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812 <LI>VobSub</LI>
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813 <LI>Microdvd</LI>
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814 <LI>SubRip</LI>
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815 <LI>SubViewer</LI>
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816 <LI>Sami</LI>
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817 <LI>VPlayer</LI>
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818 <LI>RT</LI>
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819 <LI>SSA</LI>
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820 <LI>MPsub</LI>
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821 <LI>AQTitle</LI>
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822 </UL>
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823
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824 <P>MPlayer can dump the previously listed subtitle formats into the following
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825 destination formats, with the given options:</P>
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826
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827 <UL>
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828 <LI>MPsub: <CODE>-dumpmpsub</CODE></LI>
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829 <LI>SubRip: <CODE>-dumpsrtsub</CODE></LI>
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830 <LI>Microdvd: <CODE>-dumpmicrodvdsub</CODE></LI>
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831 </UL>
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832
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833 <P>The command line options differ slightly for the different formats:</P>
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834
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835 <H4>VobSub subtitles</H4>
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836
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837 <P>VobSub subtitles consist of a big (some megabytes) .SUB file, and optional
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838 .IDX and/or .IFO files.<BR>
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839 Usage: if you have files like <CODE>sample.sub</CODE>,
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840 <CODE>sample.ifo</CODE>, <CODE>sample.idx</CODE> - you have to pass the
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841 <CODE>-vobsub sample -vobsubid
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842 &lt;id&gt;</CODE> options (optionally with pathname, of course). The
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843 <CODE>-vobsubid</CODE> option is like <CODE>-sid</CODE> for DVDs, you can
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844 choose between subtitle tracks (languages) with it.</P>
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845
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846 <H4>Other subtitles</H4>
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847
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848 <P>The other formats consist of a single text file containing timing,
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849 placement and text information.<BR>
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850 Usage: if you have a file like <CODE>sample.txt</CODE>, you have to pass the
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851 option <CODE>-sub sample.txt</CODE> (optionally with pathname, of course).</P>
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852
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853 <H4>Adjusting subtitle timing and placement:</H4>
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854
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855 <DL>
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856 <DT><CODE>-subdelay &lt;sec&gt;</CODE></DT>
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857 <DD>Delays subtitles by &lt;sec&gt; seconds. Can be negative.</DD>
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858
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859 <DT><CODE>-subfps &lt;rate&gt;</CODE></DT>
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860 <DD>Specify frame/sec rate of subtitle file (float number)</DD>
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861
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862 <DT><CODE>-subpos &lt;0 - 100&gt;</CODE></DT>
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863 <DD>Specify the position of subtitles.</DD>
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864 </DL>
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865
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866 <P>If you experience a growing delay between the movie and the subtitles when
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867 using a MicroDVD subtitle file, most likely the frame rate of the movie and
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868 the subtitle file are different.<BR> Please note that the MicroDVD subtitle
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869 format uses absolute frame numbers for its timing, and therefore the
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870 <CODE>-subfps</CODE> option cannot be used with this format. As
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871 MPlayer has no way to guess the frame rate of the subtitle file, you
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872 have to manually convert the frame rate. There is a little perl script in the
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873 <CODE>contrib</CODE> directory of the MPlayer FTP site to do this conversion
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874 for you.</P>
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875
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876 <P>About DVD subtitles, read the <A HREF="cd-dvd.html#dvd">DVD section</A>.</P>
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877
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878
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879 <H3><A NAME="mpsub">1.4.1 MPlayer's own subtitle format (MPsub)</A></H3>
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880
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881 <P>MPlayer introduces a new subtitle format called <B>MPsub</B>. It was
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882 designed by me (Gabucino). Basically its main feature is being
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883 <I>dynamically</I> time-based (although it has frame-based mode too). Example
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884 (from
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885 <A HREF="tech/mpsub.sub">DOCS/tech/mpsub.sub</A>):</P>
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886
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887 <P><CODE><I># first number : wait this much after previous subtitle disappeared<BR>
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888 # second number : display the current subtitle for this many seconds<BR>
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889 <BR>
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890 15 3<BR>
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891 A long long, time ago...<BR>
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892 <BR>
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893 0 3<BR>
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894 in a galaxy far away...<BR>
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895 <BR>
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896 0 3<BR>
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897 Naboo was under an attack.<BR></I></CODE></P>
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898
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899 <P>So you see, the main goal was to <B>make subtitle
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900 editing/timing/joining/cutting easy</B>. And, if you - say - get an SSA
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901 subtitle but it's badly timed/delayed to your version of the movie, you
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902 simply do a <CODE>mplayer dummy.avi -sub source.ssa -dumpmpsub</CODE>.
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903 A <CODE>dump.mpsub</CODE> file will be created in the current directory,
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904 which will contain the source subtitle's text, but in <B>MPsub</B> format.
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905 Then you can freely add/subtract seconds to/from the subtitle.</P>
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906
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907 <P>Subtitles are displayed with a technique called <B>'OSD', On Screen
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908 Display</B>. OSD is used to display current time, volume bar, seek bar
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909 etc.</P>
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910
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911 <H3><A NAME="install_osd">1.4.2 Installing OSD and subtitles</A></H3>
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912
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913 <P>You need an MPlayer font package to be able to use OSD/SUB feature.
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914 There are many ways to get it:</P>
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915
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916 <UL>
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917 <LI>download ready-to-use font packages from MPlayer site.
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918 Note: currently available fonts are limited for iso 8859-1/2 support,
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919 but there are some other (including Korean, Russian, 8859-8 etc) fonts
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920 at contrib/font section of FTP, made by users.<BR>
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921 <BR>
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922 Font should have appropriate font.desc file which maps unicode font
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923 positions to the actual code page of the subtitles text. Other solution is
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924 to have subtitles encoded in utf8 encoding and use <CODE>-utf8</CODE>
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925 option or just name the subtitles file &lt;video_name&gt;.utf and have it
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926 in the same dir as the video file. Recoding from different codepages to
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927 utf8 could be done by using konwert (Debian) or iconv (Red Hat)
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928 programs.<BR>
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929 Some URLs:
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930 <UL>
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931 <LI><A HREF="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/">ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/</A> - ISO fonts</LI>
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932 <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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933 <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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934 </UL>
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935 </LI>
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936 <LI>use the font generator tool at TOOLS/subfont-c
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937 It's a complete tool to convert from TTF/Type1/etc font to mplayer font pkg.
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938 (read TOOLS/subfont-c/README for details)</LI>
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939 <LI>use the font generator GIMP plugin at TOOLS/subfont-GIMP
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940 (note: you must have HSI RAW plugin too, see URL below)</LI>
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941 <LI>using a TrueType (TTF) font, by the means of the <B>freetype</B>
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942 library. Version 2.0.9 or greater is mandatory! TODO: complete this</LI>
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943 </UL>
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944
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945 <P>After that, UNZIP the file you downloaded to <CODE>~/.mplayer</CODE> or
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946 <CODE>$PREFIX/share/mplayer</CODE>. Then rename or symlink one of them to
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947 <CODE>font</CODE> (like: <CODE>ln -s ~/.mplayer/arial-24
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948 ~/.mplayer/font</CODE>). Now you have to see a timer at the upper left corner
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949 of the movie (switch it off with the "o" key).</P>
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950
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951 <P>OSD has 3 states: (switch with 'o')</P>
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952
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953 <UL>
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954 <LI>timer + volume bar + seek bar + subtitles</LI>
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955 <LI>volume bar + seek bar + subtitles (default)</LI>
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956 <LI>subtitles only</LI>
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957 </UL>
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958
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959 <P>You can change default behaviour by setting <CODE>osdlevel=</CODE> variable
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960 in config file.</P>
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961
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962
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963 <H3><A NAME="menu">1.4.3 OSD menu</A></H3>
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964
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965 <P>MPlayer has a completely user definiable OSD Menu interface.</P>
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966
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967 <H4>Installation</H4>
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968
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969 <OL>
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970 <LI>compile MPlayer by passing the <CODE>--enable-new-conf
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971 --enable-menu</CODE> parameters to <CODE>./configure</CODE></LI>
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972 <LI>make sure you have an OSD font installed</LI>
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973 <LI>copy <CODE>etc/menu.conf</CODE> to your <CODE>.mplayer</CODE>
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974 directory</LI>
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975 <LI>copy <CODE>etc/input.conf</CODE> to your <CODE>.mplayer</CODE>
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976 directory, or to the system-wide MPlayer config dir (default:
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977 <CODE>/usr/local/etc/mplayer</CODE>)</LI>
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978 <LI>check and edit <CODE>input.conf</CODE> to enable menu movement
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979 keys (it is described there).</LI>
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980 <LI>start MPlayer by the following example:<BR>
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981 <CODE>$ mplayer -menu file.avi</CODE></LI>
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982 <LI>push any menu key you defined</LI>
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983 </OL>
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984
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985 <P>
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986
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987
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988 <H2><A NAME="rtc">1.5 RTC</A></H2>
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989
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990 There are three timing methods in MPlayer.
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991
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992 <UL>
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993 <LI><B>To use the old method</B>, you don't have to do anything. It uses
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994 <CODE>usleep()</CODE> to tune A/V sync, with +/- 10ms accuracy. However
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995 sometimes the sync has to be tuned even finer.</LI>
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996 <LI><B>The new timer</B> code uses PC's RTC (Real Time Clock) for this task,
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997 because it has precise 1ms timers. It is automagically enabled when
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998 available, but requires root privileges, a <I>setuid root</I>
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999 MPlayer binary or a properly set up kernel.
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1000 <BR>
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1001 If you are running kernel 2.4.19pre8 or later you can adjust the maximum
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1002 RTC frequency for normal users through the <CODE>/proc</CODE> filesystem.
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1003 Use this command to enable RTC for normal users:
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1004 <P>
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1005 <CODE>echo 1024 &gt; /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq</CODE>
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1006 </P>
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1007 If you do not have such a new kernel, you can also change one line in
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1008 <CODE>drivers/char/rtc.c</CODE> and recompile your kernel. Find the
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1009 section that reads
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1010 <PRE>
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1011 * We don't really want Joe User enabling more
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1012 * than 64Hz of interrupts on a multi-user machine.
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1013 */
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1014 if ((rtc_freq &gt; 64) &amp;&amp; (!capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE)))
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1015 </PRE>
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1016 and change the 64 to 1024. You should really know what you are doing, though.
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1017 <BR>
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1018 You can see the new timer's efficiency in the status line.
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1019 <BR>
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1020 The power management functions of some notebook BIOSes with speedstep CPUs
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1021 interact badly with RTC. Audio and video may get out of sync. Plugging the
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1022 external power connector in before you power up your notebook seems to help.
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1023 You can always turn off RTC support with the <CODE>-nortc</CODE> switch.
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1024 In some hardware combinations (confirmed during usage of non-DMA DVD
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1025 drive on an ALi1541 board) usage of the RTC timer causes skippy playback.
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1026 It's recommended to use the third method in these cases.</LI>
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1027 <LI><B>The third timer code</B> is turned on with the <CODE>-softsleep</CODE>
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1028 option. It has the efficiency of the RTC, but it doesn't use RTC. On the other
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1029 hand, it requires more CPU.</LI>
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1030 </UL>
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1031
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1032 <B>Note:</B> <B>NEVER install a setuid root MPlayer binary on a multiuser system!</B>
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1033 It's a clear way for everyone to become root.
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1034
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1035
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1036
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1037 <H1><A NAME="features">2. Features</A></H1>
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1039
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1040 <H2><A NAME="formats">2.1</A> <A HREF="formats.html">Supported formats</A></H2>
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1041
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1043 <H2><A NAME="codecs">2.2</A> <A HREF="codecs.html">Supported codecs</A></H2>
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1044
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1045
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1046 <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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1047
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1048
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1049 <H2><A NAME="encoding">2.4</A> <A HREF="encoding.html">MEncoder - An All-Purpose Encoder</A></H2>
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1050
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1051
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1052 <H2><A NAME="tv"><B>2.5 TV input</B></A></H2>
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1053
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1054 <P>This section is about how to enable <B>watching/grabbing from V4L compatible
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1055 TV tuner</B>. See the man page for a description of TV options and keyboard
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1056 controls.</P>
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1057
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1058 <H3><A NAME="tv_compilation">2.5.1 Compilation</A></H3>
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1059
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1060 <OL>
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1061 <LI>First, you have to recompile. <CODE>./configure</CODE> will autodetect
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1062 kernel headers of v4l stuff and the existence of <CODE>/dev/video*</CODE>
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1063 entries. If they exist, TV support will be built (see the output of
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1064 <CODE>./configure</CODE>).</LI>
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1065 <LI>Make sure your tuner works with another TV software in Linux, for example
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1066 xawtv.</LI>
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1067 </OL>
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1068
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1069 <H3><A NAME="tv_tips">2.5.2 Usage tips</A></H3>
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1070
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1071 The full listing of the options is available on the manual page. Here
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1072 are just a few tips:
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1073
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1074 <UL>
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1075 <LI>Choose some sane image dimensions. The dimensions of the resulting image
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1076 should be divisible by 16.</LI>
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1077 <LI>If you capture the video with the vertical resolution higher than half of
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1078 the full resolution (i.e. 288 for PAL or 240 for NTSC), make sure you
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1079 turned deinterlacing on. Otherwise you'll get a movie which is distorted
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1080 during fast-motion scenes and the bitrate controller will be probably even
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1081 unable to retain the specified bitrate as the interlacing artifacts produce
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1082 high amount of detail and thus consume lot of bandwidth. You can enable
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1083 deinterlacing with <CODE>-vop pp=DEINT_TYPE</CODE>. Usually
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1084 <CODE>pp=lb</CODE> does a good job, but it can be matter of personal
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1085 preference. See other deinterlacing algorithms in the manual and give it a
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1086 try.</LI>
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1087 <LI>Crop out the dead space. When you capture the video, the areas at the
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1088 edges are usually black or contain some noise. These again consume lots of
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1089 unnecessary bandwidth. More precisely it's not the black areas themselves
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1090 but the sharp transitions between the black and the brighter video image
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1091 which do but that's not important for now. Before you start capturing,
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1092 adjust the arguments of the <CODE>crop</CODE> option so that all the crap
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1093 at the margins is cropped out. Again, don't forget to keep the resulting
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1094 dimensions sane.</LI>
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1095 <LI>Watch out for CPU load. It shouldn't cross the 90% boundary for most of
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1096 the time. If you have a large capture buffer, MEncoder can survive an
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1097 overload for few seconds but nothing more. It's better to turn off the 3D
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1098 OpenGL screensavers and similar stuff.</LI>
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1099 <LI>Don't mess with the system clock. MEncoder uses the system clock for
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1100 doing A/V sync. If you adjust the system clock (especially backwards in
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1101 time), MEncoder gets confused and you will lose frames. This is an
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1102 important issue if you are hooked to a network and run some time
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1103 synchronization software like NTP. You have to turn NTP off during the
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1104 capture process if you want to capture reliably.</LI>
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1105 <LI>Don't change the <CODE>outfmt</CODE> unless you know what you are doing
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1106 or your card/driver really doesn't support the default (YV12 colorspace).
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1107 In the older versions of MPlayer/MEncoder it was necessary to specify the
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1108 output format. This issue should be fixed in the current releases and
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1109 <CODE>outfmt</CODE> isn't required anymore, and the default suits the most
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1110 purposes. For example, if you are capturing into DivX using libavcodec and
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1111 specify <CODE>outfmt=RGB24</CODE> in order to increase the quality of the
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1112 captured images, the captured image will be actually later converted back
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1113 into YV12 so the only thing you achieve is a massive waste of CPU power.
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1114 </LI>
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1115 <LI>To specify the I420 colorspace (<CODE>outfmt=i420</CODE>), you have to
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1116 add an option <CODE>-vc rawi420</CODE> due to a fourcc conflict with an
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1117 Intel Indeo video codec.</LI>
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1118 <LI>There are several ways of capturing audio. You can grab the sound either
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1119 using your soundcard via an external cable connection between video card
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1120 and line-in, or using the built-in ADC in the bt878 chip. In the latter
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1121 case, you have to load the <b>btaudio</b> driver. Read the
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1122 <CODE>linux/Documentation/sound/btaudio</CODE> file (in the kernel tree,
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1123 not MPlayer's) for some instructions on using this driver.</LI>
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1124 <LI>If MEncoder cannot open the audio device, make sure that it is really
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1125 available. There can be some trouble with the sound servers like arts
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1126 (KDE) or esd (GNOME). If you have a full duplex soundcard (almost any
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1127 decent card supports it today), and you are using KDE, try to check the
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1128 "full duplex" option in the sound server preference menu.</LI>
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1129 </UL>
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1130
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1131 <H3><A NAME="tv_examples">2.5.3 Examples</A></H3>
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1132
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1133 <P>Dummy output, to AAlib :)<BR>
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1134 <CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mplayer -tv on:driver=dummy:width=640:height=480 -vo aa</CODE><BR>
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1135 <BR>
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1136 Input from standard V4L<BR>
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1137 <CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mplayer -tv
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1138 on:driver=v4l:width=640:height=480 -vo xv</CODE><BR>
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1139 <BR>
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1140
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1141 A more sophisticated example. This makes MEncoder capture the full
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1142 PAL image, crop the margins, and deinterlace the picture using
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1143 a linear blend algorithm. Audio is compressed with a constant
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1144 bitrate of 64kbps, using LAME codec. This setup is suitable for
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1145 capturing movies.<BR> <CODE> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mencoder -tv
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1146 on:driver=v4l:width=768:height=576 \<BR>
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1147 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-ovc lavc -lavcopts
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1148 vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=900 \<BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-oac
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1149 mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=64 \<BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-vop
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1150 pp=lb,crop=720:540:24:18 -o output.avi </CODE><BR>
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1151
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1152 <BR>
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1153 This will additionally rescale the image to 384x288 and compresses
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1154 the video with the bitrate of 350kbps in high quality mode. The
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1155 vqmax option looses the quantizer and allows the video compressor to
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1156 actualy reach so low bitrate even at the expense of the
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1157 quality. This can be used for capturing long TV series, where the
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1158 video quality isn't so important.<BR>
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1159 <CODE>
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1160 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mencoder -tv on:driver=v4l:width=768:height=576 \<BR>
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1161 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=350:vhq:vqmax=31:keyint=300 \<BR>
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1162 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=48 \<BR>
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1163 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-vop scale=384:288,pp=tn/lb,crop=720:540:24:18 -sws 1 -o output.avi
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1164 </CODE><BR>
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1165
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1166 It's also possible to specify smaller image dimensions in the
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1167 <CODE>-tv</CODE> option and omit the software scaling but this
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1168 approach uses the maximum available information and is a little more
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1169 resistant to noise. The bt8x8 chips can do the pixel averaging only
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1170 in the horizontal direction due to a hardware limitation.</P>
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1171
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1172
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1173
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1174 <H1><A NAME="usage">3. Usage</A></H1>
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1175
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1176
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1177 <H2><A NAME="command_line">3.1 Command line</A></H2>
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1178
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1179 <P>MPlayer utilizes a complex playtree. It consists of global options
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1180 written as first (for example <CODE>mplayer -vfm 5</CODE>), and options
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1181 written after filenames, that apply only to the given filename/URL/whatever
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1182 (for example <CODE>mplayer -vfm 5 movie1.avi movie2.avi -vfm 4</CODE>).<BR>
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1183 You can group filenames/URLs together using { and }. It's useful with
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1184 option -loop: <CODE>mplayer { 1.avi -loop 2 2.avi } -loop 3</CODE>
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1185 will play files in this order: 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 2<BR>
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1186 </P>
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1187
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1188 <TABLE BORDER=0>
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1189 <TR><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD>file</TD><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] [path/]filename</CODE></TD></TR>
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1190 <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>
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1191 <TR><TD></TD><TD>VCD</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] -vcd trackno [-cdrom-device /dev/cdrom]</CODE></TD></TR>
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1192 <TR><TD></TD><TD>DVD</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] -dvd titleno [-dvd-device /dev/dvd]</CODE></TD></TR>
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1193 <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>
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1194 <TR><TD></TD><TD>RTSP</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] rtsp://server.example.com/streamName</CODE></TD></TR>
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1195 </TABLE>
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1196
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1197 <P>
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1198 Latest versions of MPlayer also accept VCD and DVD tracks in URL style, just like
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1199 xine does: <CODE>mplayer dvd://1</CODE> or <CODE>mplayer vcd://1</CODE></P>
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1200
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1201 <PRE>
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1202 mplayer -vo x11 /mnt/Films/Contact/contact2.mpg
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1203 mplayer -vcd 2
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1204 mplayer -afm 3 /mnt/DVDtrailers/alien4.vob
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1205 mplayer -dvd 1 -dvd-device /dev/hdc
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1206 mplayer -abs 65536 -delay -0.4 -nobps ~/movies/test.avi
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1207 </PRE>
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1208
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1209
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1210 <H2><A NAME="control">3.2 Control</A></H2>
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1211
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1212 <P>MPlayer has a fully configurable, command driven, control layer which
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
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1213 lets you control MPlayer with keyboard, mouse, joystick or remote
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1214 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
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1215 controls.</P>
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1216
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1217
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1218 <H3><A NAME="controls_configuration">3.2.1 Controls configuration</A></H3>
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1219
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1220 <P>MPlayer allows you bind any key/button to any MPlayer command
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1221 using a simple config file. The syntax consist of a key name followed by a
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1222 command. The default config file location is
6593
a2937bae0651 Expanded RTC section. It now explains how to allow RTC via /proc on newer
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1223 <CODE>$HOME/.mplayer/input.conf</CODE> but it can be overridden using the
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1224 <CODE>-input</CODE> conf switch (relative path are relative to
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1225 <CODE>$HOME/.mplayer</CODE>).
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1226
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1227 <P>Example:</P>
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1228
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1229 <PRE>
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1230 ##
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1231 ## MPlayer input control file
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1232 ##
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1233
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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1234 RIGHT seek +10
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1235 LEFT seek -10
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1236 - audio_delay 0.100
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1237 + audio_delay -0.100
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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1238 q quit
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1239 &gt; pt_step 1
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
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1240 &lt; pt_step -1
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1241 ENTER pt_step 1 1
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1242 </PRE>
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1243
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1244
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1245 <H4><A NAME="key_names">3.2.1.1 Key names</A></H4>
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1246
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1247 <P>You can have a full list by running <CODE>mplayer -input keylist</CODE></P>
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1248
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1249 <H4>Keyboard:</H4>
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1250
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1251 <UL>
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1252 <LI>Any printable character</LI>
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1253 <LI>SPACE</LI>
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1254 <LI>ENTER</LI>
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1255 <LI>TAB</LI>
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1256 <LI>CTRL</LI>
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1257 <LI>BS</LI>
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1258 <LI>DEL</LI>
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1259 <LI>INS</LI>
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1260 <LI>HOME</LI>
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1261 <LI>END</LI>
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1262 <LI>PGUP</LI>
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1263 <LI>PGDWN</LI>
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1264 <LI>ESC</LI>
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1265 <LI>RIGHT</LI>
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1266 <LI>LEFT</LI>
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1267 <LI>UP</LI>
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1268 <LI>DOWN</LI>
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1269 </UL>
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1270
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parents: 7093
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1271 <H4>Mouse (only supported under X):</H4>
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1272
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1273 <UL>
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1274 <LI>MOUSE_BTN0 (Left button)</LI>
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1275 <LI>MOUSE_BTN1 (Right button)</LI>
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1276 <LI>MOUSE_BTN2 (Middle button)</LI>
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1277 <LI>MOUSE_BTN3 (Wheel)</LI>
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1278 <LI>MOUSE_BTN4 (Wheel)</LI>
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1279 <LI>...</LI>
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1280 <LI>MOUSE_BTN9</LI>
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1281 </UL>
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1282
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1283 <H4>Joystick (support must be enabled at compile time):</H4>
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1284
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1285 <UL>
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1286 <LI>JOY_RIGHT or JOY_AXIS0_PLUS</LI>
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1287 <LI>JOY_LEFT or JOY_AXIS0_MINUS</LI>
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1288 <LI>JOY_UP or JOY_AXIS1_MINUS</LI>
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1289 <LI>JOY_DOWN or JOY_AXIS1_PLUS</LI>
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1290 <LI>JOY_AXIS2_PLUS</LI>
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1291 <LI>JOY_AXIS2_MINUS</LI>
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1292 <LI>...</LI>
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1293 <LI>JOY_AXIS9_PLUS</LI>
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1294 <LI>JOY_AXIS9_MINUS</LI>
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1295 </UL>
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1296
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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1297
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1298 <H4><A NAME="commands">3.2.1.2 Commands</A></H4>
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1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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diff changeset
1299
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1300 <P>You can have a full list of known commands by running "mplayer -input cmdlist"</P>
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1301
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1302 <UL>
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1303 <LI><B>seek</B> (int) val [(int) type=0]
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1304 <P>Seek to some place in the movie.<BR>
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1305 Type 0 is a relative seek of +/- val seconds.<BR>
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1306 Type 1 seek to val % in the movie.</P></LI>
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1307 <LI><B>audio_delay</B> (float) val
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1308 <P>Adjust the audio delay of val seconds</P></LI>
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1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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1309 <LI><B>quit</B>
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988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
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1310 <P>Quit MPlayer</P></LI>
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1311 <LI><B>pause</B>
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1312 <P>Pause/unpause the playback</P></LI>
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1313 <LI><B>grap_frames</B>
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1314 <P>Somebody know ?</P></LI>
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1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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1315 <LI><B>pt_step</B> (int) val [(int) force=0]
6974
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1316 <P>Go to next/previous entry in playtree. Val sign tell the direction.<BR>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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1317 If no other entry is available in the given direction it won't do anything
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1318 unless force is non 0.</P></LI>
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1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
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1319 <LI><B>pt_up_step</B> (int) val [(int) force=0]
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1320 <P>Like pt_step but it jump to next/previous in the parent list. It's useful
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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1321 to break inner loop in the playtree.</P></LI>
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1322 <LI><B>alt_src_step</B> (int) val
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1323 <P>When more than one source is available it select the next/previous one
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1324 (only supported by asx playlist).</P></LI>
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1325 <LI><B>sub_delay</B> (float) val [(int) abs=0]
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1326 <P>Adjust the subtitles delay of +/- val seconds or set it to val seconds
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1327 when abs is non zero.</P></LI>
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1328 <LI><B>osd</B> [(int) level=-1]
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diego
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diff changeset
1329 <P>Toggle osd mode or set it to level when level &gt; 0.</P></LI>
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1330 <LI><B>volume</B> (int) dir
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1331 <P>Increase/decrease volume</P></LI>
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1332 <LI><B>contrast</B> (int) val [(int) abs=0]</LI>
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1333 <LI><B>brightness</B> (int) val [(int) abs=0]</LI>
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1334 <LI><B>hue</B> (int) val [(int) abs=0]</LI>
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1335 <LI><B>saturation</B> (int) val [(int) abs=0]
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1336 <P>Set/Adjust video parameters. Val range from -100 to 100.</P></LI>
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1337 <LI><B>frame_drop</B> [(int) type=-1]
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1338 <P>Toggle/Set frame dropping mode.</P></LI>
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arpi
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1339 <LI><B>sub_visibility</B>
d6608342591d This patch adds the functionality to disable/enable subtitles while playing
arpi
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1340 <P>Toggle subtitle visibility.</P></LI>
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1341 <LI><B>sub_pos</B> (int) val
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1342 <P>Adjust subtitles position.</P></LI>
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1343 <LI><B>vo_fullscreen</B>
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1344 <P>Switch fullscreen mode.</P></LI>
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1345 <LI><B>tv_step_channel</B> (int) dir
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1346 <P>Select next/previous tv channel.</P></LI>
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1347 <LI><B>tv_step_norm</B>
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1348 <P>Change TV norm.</P></LI>
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1349 <LI><B>tv_step_chanlist</B>
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1350 <P>Change channel list.</P></LI>
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1351 <LI><B>gui_loadfile</B></LI>
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1352 <LI><B>gui_loadsubtitle</B></LI>
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1353 <LI><B>gui_about</B></LI>
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arpi
parents: 5826
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1354 <LI><B>gui_play</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1355 <LI><B>gui_stop</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1356 <LI><B>gui_playlist</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1357 <LI><B>gui_preferences</B></LI>
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a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1358 <LI><B>gui_skinbrowser</B>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1359 <P>GUI actions</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1360 </UL>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1361
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1362
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1363 <H3><A NAME="lirc">3.2.2 Control from LIRC</A></H3>
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gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1364
2848
33c32f3d9f1f many small updates, fixes (some/more to be completed soon)
gabucino
parents: 2761
diff changeset
1365 <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
1366 an (almost) arbitrary remote control and control your Linux box with it!
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1367 More about it at <A HREF="http://www.lirc.org">www.lirc.org</A>.</P>
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gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1368
5969
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1369 <P>If you have installed the lirc-package, configure will autodetect it. If
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1370 everything went fine, MPlayer will print a message like "Setting up
5969
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1371 lirc support..." on startup. If an error occurs it will tell you. If it
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1372 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
1373 it :-)</P>
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gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1374
7942
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1375 <P>The application name for MPlayer is - oh wonder - <CODE>mplayer</CODE>.
5969
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1376 You can use any mplayer commands and even pass more than one command by
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1377 separating them with \n. Don't forget to enable the repeat flag in .lircrc
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1378 when it make sense (seek, volume, etc). Here's an excerpt from my
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1379 .lircrc:</P>
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gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1380
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a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1381 <PRE>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1382 begin
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1383 button = VOLUME_PLUS
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1384 prog = mplayer
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1385 config = volume 1
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1386 repeat = 1
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1387 end
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gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1388
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1389 begin
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1390 button = VOLUME_MINUS
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1391 prog = mplayer
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1392 config = volume -1
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1393 repeat = 1
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1394 end
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1395
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1396 begin
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1397 button = CD_PLAY
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1398 prog = mplayer
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1399 config = pause
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1400 end
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1401
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1402 begin
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1403 button = CD_STOP
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1404 prog = mplayer
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1405 config = seek 0 1\npause
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1406 end
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a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1407 </PRE>
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1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1408
2848
33c32f3d9f1f many small updates, fixes (some/more to be completed soon)
gabucino
parents: 2761
diff changeset
1409 <P>If you don't like the standard location for the lirc-config file (~/.lircrc)
6960
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1410 use the -lircconf &lt;filename&gt; switch to specify another file.</P>
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gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1411
6493
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1412
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1413 <H3><A NAME="slave">3.2.3 Slave mode</A></H3>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1414
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1415 <P>The slave mode allow you to build simple frontend to MPlayer. When
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1416 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
1417 commands separated by new line (\n) from stdin.</P>
6493
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1418
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1419
7047
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1420 <H2><A NAME="streaming">3.3 Streaming from network or pipes</A></H2>
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1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1421
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1422 <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
1423 protocol.</P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1424
6960
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1425 <P>Playing goes by simply using adding the URL to the command line.
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1426 MPlayer also honors the http_proxy environment variable, and uses
6960
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1427 proxy if available. Proxy usage can also be forced:</P>
4153
2bb77282b2a6 streaming with proxy
gabucino
parents: 4135
diff changeset
1428
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1429 <P><CODE>mplayer http_proxy://proxy.micorsops.com:3128/http://micorsops.com:80/stream.asf</CODE></P>
2001
05189dbfb847 more fixes
gabucino
parents: 1994
diff changeset
1430
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1431 <P>MPlayer can read from stdin (NOT named pipes). This can be for example
6960
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1432 used to play from FTP:</P>
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1433
6583
4b7d097a9c69 big update
gabucino
parents: 6574
diff changeset
1434 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;wget ftp://micorsops.com/something.avi -O - | mplayer -</CODE></P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1435
6960
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1436 <P>Note: it's also recommended to enable CACHE when playback from network:</P>
6868
f6e17d2b448e The rectangle of the rectangle plugin is not necessarily white.
diego
parents: 6849
diff changeset
1437
6583
4b7d097a9c69 big update
gabucino
parents: 6574
diff changeset
1438 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;wget ftp://micorsops.com/something.avi -O - | mplayer -cache 8192 -</CODE></P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1439
6496
9c4fb5264e43 more fix
gabucino
parents: 6493
diff changeset
1440
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1441
7076
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1442 <H1><A NAME="faq">4.</A> <A HREF="faq.html">FAQ section</A></H1>
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1443
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1444
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1445
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1446 <H1><A NAME="cd/dvd">5.</A> <A HREF="cd-dvd.html">CD/DVD section</A></H1>
7047
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1447
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1448
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1449
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1450 <H1><A NAME="ports">6. Ports</A></H1>
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1451
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1452
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1453 <H2><A NAME="debian">6.1 Debian packaging</A></H2>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1454
1682
dba45a1aafad *** empty log message ***
gabucino
parents: 1668
diff changeset
1455 <P>To build the package, get the cvs version, or .tgz and uncompress it,
6960
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1456 and cd into programs directory:</P>
1612
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gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1457
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1458 <PRE>
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1459 cd main
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1460 fakeroot debian/rules binary
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1461 </PRE>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1462
1682
dba45a1aafad *** empty log message ***
gabucino
parents: 1668
diff changeset
1463 <P>(... mplayer detects hardware/software, builds itself and.. )
6960
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1464 dpkg-deb: building package `mplayer' in `../mplayer_0.90-1_i386.deb'.</P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1465
1682
dba45a1aafad *** empty log message ***
gabucino
parents: 1668
diff changeset
1466 <P>And now just become root, and:</P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1467
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1468 <PRE>
6583
4b7d097a9c69 big update
gabucino
parents: 6574
diff changeset
1469 dpkg -i ../mplayer_0.90-1_i386.deb as root.
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1470 </PRE>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1471
1682
dba45a1aafad *** empty log message ***
gabucino
parents: 1668
diff changeset
1472 <P>Here's how it looks like:</P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1473
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1474 <PRE>
6583
4b7d097a9c69 big update
gabucino
parents: 6574
diff changeset
1475 eyck@incubus:/src/main$ sudo dpkg -i ../mplayer_0.90-1_i386.deb
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1476 Password:
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1477 (Reading database ... 26946 files and directories currently installed.)
6583
4b7d097a9c69 big update
gabucino
parents: 6574
diff changeset
1478 Preparing to replace mplayer 0.50-1 (using ../mplayer_0.90-1_i386.deb)
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1479 Unpacking replacement mplayer ...
6583
4b7d097a9c69 big update
gabucino
parents: 6574
diff changeset
1480 Setting up mplayer (0.90-1) ...
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1481 </PRE>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1482
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1483
7942
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1484 <H2><A NAME="bsd">6.2 *BSD</A></H2>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1485
8079
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
diego
parents: 8070
diff changeset
1486 <P>MPlayer runs on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, BSD/OS and Darwin. There are
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
diego
parents: 8070
diff changeset
1487 ports/pkgsrc/fink/etc versions of MPlayer available that are probably easier
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
diego
parents: 8070
diff changeset
1488 to use than our raw sources.</P>
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
diego
parents: 8070
diff changeset
1489
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
diego
parents: 8070
diff changeset
1490 <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.
diego
parents: 8070
diff changeset
1491 work) and a recent version of binutils.</P>
7942
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1492
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1493 <P>If MPlayer complains about not finding <CODE>/dev/cdrom</CODE> or
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1494 <CODE>/dev/dvd</CODE>, create an appropiate symbolic link:<BR>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1495 <CODE>ln -s /dev/(your_cdrom_device) /dev/cdrom</CODE>.</P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1496
7942
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1497 <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
diff changeset
1498 "<CODE>option USER_LDT</CODE>" (unless you run FreeBSD -CURRENT, where this
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1499 is the default).</P>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1500
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1501 <H3><A NAME="freebsd">6.2.1 FreeBSD</A></H3>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1502
7942
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1503 <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
diff changeset
1504 use it (FreeBSD-STABLE or kernel patches required).</P>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1505
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1506 <H3><A NAME="openbsd">6.2.2 OpenBSD</A></H3>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1507
7942
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1508 <P>Due to limitations in different versions of gas (relocation vs MMX), you will
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1509 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.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1510 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.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1511 the native version is used and do <CODE>gmake</CODE>.</P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1512
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
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1513
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1514 <H2><A NAME="solaris">6.3 Solaris</A></H2>
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1516 <P>MPlayer should work on Solaris 2.6 or newer.</P>
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1517
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1518 <P>On <B>UltraSPARC</B>s, MPlayer takes advantage of their <B>VIS</B>
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1519 extensions (equivalent to MMX), currently only in <I>libmpeg2</I>,
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1520 <I>libvo</I> and <I>libavcodec</I>, but not in mp3lib. You can watch a VOB
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1521 file on a 400MHz CPU. You'll need
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1522 <A HREF="http://www.sun.com/sparc/vis/mediaLib.html">mLib</A> installed.</P>
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1523
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1524 <P>To build the package you will need GNU make (gmake, /opt/sfw/gmake), native
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1525 Solaris make will not work. Typical error you get when building with Solaris'
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1526 make instead of GNU make:</P>
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1528 <PRE>
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1529 % /usr/ccs/bin/make
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1530 make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 25: Unexpected end of line seen
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1531 </PRE>
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1532
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1533 <P>On Solaris SPARC, you need the GNU C/C++ Compiler; it does not matter
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1534 if GNU C/C++ compiler is configured with or without the GNU assembler.</P>
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1535
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1536 <P>On Solaris x86, you need the GNU assembler and the GNU C/C++ compiler,
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1537 configured to use the GNU assembler! The mplayer code on the x86 platform
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1538 makes heavy use of MMX, SSE and 3DNOW! instructions that cannot be compiled
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1539 using Sun's assembler <CODE>/usr/ccs/bin/as</CODE>.</P>
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1540
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1541 <P>The configure script tries to find out, which assembler program is used by
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1542 your "gcc" command (in case the autodetection fails, use the
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1543 <CODE>--as=/whereever/you/have/installed/gnu-as</CODE> option to tell the
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1544 configure script where it can find GNU "as" on your system).</P>
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1546 <P>Error message from configure on a Solaris x86 system using GCC
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1547 without GNU assembler:</P>
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1548
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1549 <PRE>
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1550 % configure
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1551 ...
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1552 Checking assembler (/usr/ccs/bin/as) ... , failed
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1553 Please upgrade(downgrade) binutils to 2.10.1...
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1554 </PRE>
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1555
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1556 <P>(Solution: Install and use a gcc configured with "--with-as=gas")</P>
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1557
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1558 <P>Typical error you get when building with a GNU C compiler that does
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1559 not use GNU as:</P>
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1560
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1561 <PRE>
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1562 % gmake
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1563 ...
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1564 gcc -c -Iloader -Ilibvo -O4 -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -ffast-math
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1565 -fomit-frame-pointer -I/usr/local/include -o mplayer.o mplayer.c
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1566 Assembler: mplayer.c
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1567 "(stdin)", line 3567 : Illegal mnemonic
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1568 "(stdin)", line 3567 : Syntax error
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1569 ... more "Illegal mnemonic" and "Syntax error" errors ...
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1570 </PRE>
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1571
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1572 <P>For DVD support you must have the patched libcss installed. Patch:
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1573 <A HREF="http://www.tools.de/solaris/mplayer/">http://www.tools.de/solaris/mplayer/</A>.</P>
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1574
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1575 <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
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1576 than 4 GB:</P>
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1577
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1578 <UL>
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1579 <LI>The sd(7D) driver on Solaris 8 x86 driver has bug when accessing a disk
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1580 block &gt;4GB on a device using a logical blocksize != DEV_BSIZE (i.e. CD-ROM
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1581 and DVD media). Due to a 32Bit int overflow, a disk address modulo 4GB is
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1582 accessed.
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1583 (<A HREF="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22516">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22516</A>)
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1584 </LI>
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parents: 6981
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1585 <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
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1586 ISO9660), hsfs currently does not support partitions/disks larger than 4GB, all data
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1587 is accessed modulo 4GB.
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1588 (<A HREF="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22592">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22592</A>)
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1589 </LI>
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1590 </UL>
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1591
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1592 <P>On Solaris with an UltraSPARC CPU, you can get some extra speed by
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1593 using the CPU's VIS instructions for certain time consuming operations.
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1594 VIS acceleration can be used in MPlayer by calling functions in Sun's
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1595 <A HREF="http://www.sun.com/sparc/vis/mediaLib.html">mediaLib</A>.</P>
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1596
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1597 <P>VIS accelerated operations from mediaLib are used for mpeg2 video
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1598 decoding and for color space conversion in the video output drivers.</P>
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1599
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1600
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1601 <H2><A NAME="strongarm">6.4 StrongARM</A></H2>
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1602
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1603 <P>MPlayer is reported to compile on StrongARM. Use the following command line:</P>
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1604
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1605 <PRE>
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1606 ./configure --target=arm-linux --disable-css --with-x11libdir=/usr/arm/lib
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1607 --with-x11incdir=/usr/arm/lib --disable-gcc-checking
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1608 </PRE>
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1609
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1610
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1611 <H2><A NAME="sgi">6.5 Silicon Graphics / IRIX</A></H2>
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1612
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1613 <P>Reported working. You'll probably have to use the <I>SGI</I> ao driver.
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1614 Anyone has closer info?</P>
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1615
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1616
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1617 <H2><A NAME="qnx">6.6 QNX</A></H2>
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1618
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1619 <P>Works. You'll need to download SDL for QNX, and install it. Then run
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
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1620 MPlayer with <CODE>-vo sdl:photon</CODE> and <CODE>-ao sdl:nto</CODE>
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1621 options, and it should be fast.</P>
c2be8678fdfb QNX updates
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1622
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1623 <P>The <CODE>-vo x11</CODE> output will be even slower than on Linux, since
4680
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1624 QNX has only X <I>emulation</I> which is VERY slow. Use SDL.</P>
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1625
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1626
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1627 <H2><A NAME="cygwin">6.7 Cygwin</A></H2>
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1628
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1629 <P>The Cygwin port is still in its infancy and could use some love,
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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1630 <A HREF="tech/patches.txt">patches</A> are always welcome. You should also
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1631 check out the
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1632 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cygwin/">mplayer-cygwin</A>
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1633 mailing list for help and latest information.</P>
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arpi
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1634
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1635 <P>To get native DirectX video (<CODE>-vo directx</CODE>), install
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
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1636 <A HREF="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/dx7headers.tgz">DirectX 7 header files</A>
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1637 and recompile. This, together with <CODE>-ao win32</CODE> should give you best
8332
8368a516019e small updates, ATI TV-out, -vo directx:noaccel
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1638 results. If the image is distorted, try turning off hardware acceleration with
8368a516019e small updates, ATI TV-out, -vo directx:noaccel
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1639 <CODE>-vo directx:noaccel</CODE>.</P>
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1640
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1641 <P>You will have to go to the MPlayer directory, and copy or symlink
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1642 <CODE>etc/cygwin_inttypes.h</CODE> to <CODE>/usr/include/inttypes.h</CODE> to
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1643 make MPlayer compile. Otherwise it will complain about missing
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1644 <CODE>intypes.h</CODE>.</P>
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1645
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1646 <P>Since there is no support for Win32 DLLs under Cygwin and OpenGL and mpdvdkit
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1647 do not work/compile, you should disable them in configure with
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1648 <CODE>./configure --disable-win32 --disable-gl --disable-mpdvdkit</CODE>.</P>
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1649
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1650 <P>Instructions and files for making SDL run under Cygwin can be found on the
4d948b753e9d SDL + Cygwin link added.
diego
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1651 <A HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/extras/win32/cygwin/">libsdl site</A>.</P>
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1652
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916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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1653
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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1654
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1655 <H1><A NAME="mailing_lists">Appendix A - Mailing lists</A></H1>
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1656
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1657 <P>There are some public mailing lists on MPlayer. Unless explicitly
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1658 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
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1659 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
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1660 If you have something bigger put it up for download somewhere. Click the
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05e518badc1b doc fixes part 1 (more will come when i find the time to read the rest)
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1661 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
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1662 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
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1663 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)
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1664 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
1665 (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
1666 <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
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1667 Quoting HOWTO</A>.</P>
1682
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1668
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1669 <UL>
6974
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parents: 6970
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1670 <LI>MPlayer developers list:
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parents: 6970
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1671 <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
1672 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
1673 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
1674 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
1675 requests or flames here to keep the list traffic low.</LI>
6974
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parents: 6970
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1676 <LI>MPlayer users list:
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parents: 6970
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1677 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users</A>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
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1678 <UL>
7700
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
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1679 <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
1680 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
1681 <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
1682 documentation).</LI>
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1683 <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
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1684 documentation).</LI>
6974
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1685 </UL>
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1686 </LI>
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parents: 6970
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1687 <LI>MPlayer Hungarian users list:
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diego
parents: 6970
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1688 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-felhasznalok">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-felhasznalok</A>
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diego
parents: 6970
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1689 <UL>
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diego
parents: 6970
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1690 <LI>Hungarian language list</LI>
7700
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
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1691 <LI>Topic? We'll see about it... mostly flame and RTFM questions up to now :(</LI>
6974
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parents: 6970
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1692 </UL>
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1693 </LI>
7700
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
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1694 <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
1695 <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
1696 Matrox related questions like
6974
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parents: 6970
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1697 <UL>
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1698 <LI>things about mga_vid</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1699 <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
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1700 <LI>matroxfb-TVout stuff</LI>
6974
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parents: 6970
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1701 </UL>
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1702 </LI>
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1703 <LI>MPlayer &amp; DVB card users:
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parents: 6970
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1704 <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
1705 Things related to the hardware decoder card called DVB (<B>not</B> DXR3!).
6974
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parents: 6970
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1706 </LI>
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1707 <LI>MPlayer CVS-log:
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1708 <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
1709 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
1710 questions about these changes belong here (if you do not understand why a
6974
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diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1711 change is required or you have a better fix or you have noticed a possible
7700
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1712 bug/problem in the commit).</LI>
7043
ba9c212ed577 begun removing "Available options" and "Examples" sections, which
gabucino
parents: 7015
diff changeset
1713 <LI>MPlayer Cygwin-porting list:
ba9c212ed577 begun removing "Available options" and "Examples" sections, which
gabucino
parents: 7015
diff changeset
1714 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cygwin">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cygwin</A><BR>
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1715 List for discussion about MPlayer's Cygwin port.</LI>
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diego
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1716 </UL>
1682
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1717
7076
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diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1718 <P><B>Note:</B> You can reach the searchable mailing list archives at
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1719 <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch">http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch</A>.
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1720
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1721
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1722
7365
822923446b66 Removed authors and maintainers section, now in txt format.
diego
parents: 7363
diff changeset
1723 <H1><A NAME="bug_reports">Appendix B</A> - <A HREF="bugreports.html">How to report bugs</A></H1>
7047
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1724
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1725
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1726
7365
822923446b66 Removed authors and maintainers section, now in txt format.
diego
parents: 7363
diff changeset
1727 <H1><A NAME="known_bugs">Appendix C - Known bugs</A></H1>
1748
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1728
6593
a2937bae0651 Expanded RTC section. It now explains how to allow RTC via /proc on newer
diego
parents: 6583
diff changeset
1729 <P>Special system/CPU-specific bugs/problems:</P>
1748
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1730 <UL>
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parents: 1731
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1731
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1732 <LI>SIGILL (signal 4) on P3 using 2.2.x kernels:<BR>
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gabucino
parents: 1731
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1733 Problem: kernel 2.2.x doesn't have proper (working) SSE support<BR>
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gabucino
parents: 1731
diff changeset
1734 Solution: upgrade kernel to 2.4.x<BR>
6732
8460a77203de DXR3 moved to video.html. TOC updated, added <CODE> where appropiate.
diego
parents: 6731
diff changeset
1735 Workaround: <CODE>./configure --disable-sse</CODE></LI>
1748
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gabucino
parents: 1731
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1736
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parents: 1731
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1737 <LI>General SIGILL (signal 4):<BR>
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gabucino
parents: 1731
diff changeset
1738 Problem: you compiled and run mplayer in different machines
6593
a2937bae0651 Expanded RTC section. It now explains how to allow RTC via /proc on newer
diego
parents: 6583
diff changeset
1739 (for example compiled on P3 and running on Celeron)<BR>
1748
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gabucino
parents: 1731
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1740 Solution: compile MPlayer on the same machine where you will use it!<BR>
6732
8460a77203de DXR3 moved to video.html. TOC updated, added <CODE> where appropiate.
diego
parents: 6731
diff changeset
1741 Workaround: <CODE>./configure --disable-sse</CODE> etc. options</LI>
3669
5ef5df143cbf added "Internal buffer inconsistency" lame bug as Known problem
gabucino
parents: 3668
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1742
5ef5df143cbf added "Internal buffer inconsistency" lame bug as Known problem
gabucino
parents: 3668
diff changeset
1743 <LI>"Internal buffer inconsistency" during MEncoder run:<BR>
6574
22def385928d GCC 3.0.4-RH update
diego
parents: 6573
diff changeset
1744 Problem: known problem when lame &lt; 3.90 was compiled with gcc 2.96 or 3.x.<BR>
22def385928d GCC 3.0.4-RH update
diego
parents: 6573
diff changeset
1745 Solution: use lame &gt;=3.90.<BR>
22def385928d GCC 3.0.4-RH update
diego
parents: 6573
diff changeset
1746 Workaround: compile lame with gcc 2.95.x and remove any already installed
22def385928d GCC 3.0.4-RH update
diego
parents: 6573
diff changeset
1747 lame packages, they may have been compiled with gcc 2.96.</LI>
4908
9b2b09d3ff8b strike period over, commiting stuff. next commit will be rewrite. (?)
gabucino
parents: 4819
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1748
9b2b09d3ff8b strike period over, commiting stuff. next commit will be rewrite. (?)
gabucino
parents: 4819
diff changeset
1749 <LI>Messed up MP2/MP3 sound on PPC:<BR>
9b2b09d3ff8b strike period over, commiting stuff. next commit will be rewrite. (?)
gabucino
parents: 4819
diff changeset
1750 Problem: known GCC miscompilation bug on PPC platforms, no fix yet.<BR>
9b2b09d3ff8b strike period over, commiting stuff. next commit will be rewrite. (?)
gabucino
parents: 4819
diff changeset
1751 Workaround: use FFmpeg's (slow) MP1/MP2/MP3 decoder (<CODE>-ac ffmpeg</CODE>)</LI>
9b2b09d3ff8b strike period over, commiting stuff. next commit will be rewrite. (?)
gabucino
parents: 4819
diff changeset
1752
9b2b09d3ff8b strike period over, commiting stuff. next commit will be rewrite. (?)
gabucino
parents: 4819
diff changeset
1753 <LI>sig11 in libmpeg2, when scaling+encoding:<BR>
9b2b09d3ff8b strike period over, commiting stuff. next commit will be rewrite. (?)
gabucino
parents: 4819
diff changeset
1754 Problem: known GCC 2.95.2 MMX bug, upgrade to 2.95.3.</LI>
1748
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1755 </UL>
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parents: 1731
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1756
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parents: 1731
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1757 <P>Various A-V sync and other audio problems:</P>
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gabucino
parents: 1731
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1758
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diego
parents: 6393
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1759 General audio delay or jerky sound (exists with all or many files):
1748
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gabucino
parents: 1731
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1760 <UL>
6974
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parents: 6970
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1761 <LI>most common: buggy audio driver! - try to use different drivers, try
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
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1762 ALSA 0.9 OSS emulation with -ao oss, also try -ao sdl, sometimes it helps.
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parents: 6970
diff changeset
1763 If your file plays fine with -nosound, then you can be sure it's sound card
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diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1764 (driver) problem.</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1765 <LI>audio buffer problems (buffer size badly detected)<BR>
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diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1766 Workaround: mplayer -abs option</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1767 <LI>samplerate problems - maybe your card doesn't support the samplerate
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parents: 6970
diff changeset
1768 used in your files - try the resampling plugin (-aop)</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1769 <LI>slow machine (CPU or VGA)<BR>
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diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1770 try with -vo null, if it plays well, then you have slow VGA card/driver<BR>
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diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1771 Workaround: buy a faster card or read this documentation about how to speed up<BR>
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parents: 6970
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1772 Also try -framedrop</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1773 </UL>
1748
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parents: 1731
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1774
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diego
parents: 6393
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1775 Audio delay/de-sync specific to one or a few files:
1748
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gabucino
parents: 1731
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1776 <UL>
6974
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parents: 6970
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1777 <LI>bad file<BR>
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parents: 6970
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1778 Workaround:
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parents: 6970
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1779 <UL>
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diego
parents: 6970
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1780 <LI>-ni or -nobps option (for non-interleaved or bad files)<BR>
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diego
parents: 6970
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1781 and/or</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1782 <LI>-mc 0 (required for files with badly interleaved VBR audio)<BR>
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parents: 6970
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1783 and/or</LI>
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1784 <LI>-delay option or +/- keys at runtime to adjust delay</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1785 </UL>
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parents: 6970
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1786 If none of these help, please upload the file, we'll check (and fix).
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parents: 6970
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1787 </LI>
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parents: 6970
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1788 <LI>your sound card doesn't support 48kHz playback<BR>
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diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1789 Workaround: buy a better sound card... or try to decrease fps by 10% (use
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
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1790 -fps 27 for a 30fps movie) or use the resampler plugin</LI>
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diego
parents: 6970
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1791 <LI>slow machine<BR>
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parents: 6970
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1792 (if A-V is not around 0, and the last number in the status line increasing)<BR>
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parents: 6970
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1793 Workaround: -framedrop</LI>
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diego
parents: 6393
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1794 </UL>
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
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1795
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
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1796 No sound at all:
1748
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parents: 1731
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1797 <UL>
6974
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1798 <LI>your file uses an unsupported audio codec<BR>
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parents: 6970
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1799 Workaround: read the documentation and help us adding support for it</LI>
1748
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1800 </UL>
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1801
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diego
parents: 6393
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1802 No picture at all (just plain grey/green window):
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
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1803 <UL>
6974
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parents: 6970
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1804 <LI>your file uses an unsupported video codec<BR>
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parents: 6970
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1805 Workaround: read the documentation and help us adding support for it</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1806 <LI>auto-selected codec can't decode the file, try to select another using -vc
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1807 or -vfm options</LI>
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1808 <LI>you try to play DivX 3.x file with OpenDivX decoder or XviD (-vc odivx)
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diego
parents: 6970
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1809 - install Divx4Linux and recompile player</LI>
5105
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arpi
parents: 5096
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1810 </UL>
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
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1811
1748
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1812 <P>Video-out problems:</P>
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1813
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1814 <P>First note: options -fs -vm and -zoom are just recommendations, not (yet)
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1815 supported by all drivers. So it isn't a bug if it doesn't work.
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1816 Only a few driver supports scaling/zooming, don't expect this from x11 or dga.</P>
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1818 <P>OSD/sub flickering:<BR>
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1819 - x11 driver: sorry, it can't be fixed now<BR>
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1820 - xv driver: use -double option</P>
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1821
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1822 <P>Green image using mga_vid (-vo mga / -vo xmga):<BR>
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1823 - mga_vid misdetected your card's RAM amount, reload it using mga_ram_size option</P>
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1824
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1827 <H1><A NAME="skin">Appendix D</A> - <A HREF="skin-en.html">MPlayer skin format</A></H1>
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1831 <H1><A NAME="flame_wars">Appendix E</A> - <A HREF="users_against_developers.html">Developer Cries</A></H1>
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1833
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1834 </BODY>
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1835 </HTML>