annotate DOCS/DVB @ 5767:97de70b5377f

added pegasus codecs
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date Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:10:50 +0000
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2 Some words about Siemens-DVB card support. by A'rpi
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3 ==========================================
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5 Requirements:
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6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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7 - Siemens DVB-S card or compatible (technotrend,galaxis,hauppage etc)
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8 see www.linuxtv.org for details and download latest driver there.
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9 - MPlayer-CVS, ffmpeg-libavcodec CVS are recommended for speed & pp.
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10 - Fast CPU - 1GHz+ recommended at least for software transcoding (divx->mpeg)
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13 How to enable?
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14 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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16 1. Download ffmpeg-CVS and copy libavcodec to mplayer (see DOCS for details)
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18 2. Compile mplayer:
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19 ./configure should detect it. If didn't, force with ./configure --enable-dvb
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20 If you have ost headers at non-standard path, set it with:
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21 --with-extraincdir=<your DVB source dir>/ost/include
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22 make
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23 make install
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26 How to use?
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27 ~~~~~~~~~~~
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28 To play standard mpeg 1/2 files: (hardware decoding)
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30 mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes file.mpg|vob
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32 To play non-standard mpeg files: (software decoding)
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34 mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes -vc mpeg12 file.mpg|vob
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36 To play divx files:
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38 mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes file.avi|asf|mov...
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40 To play non-25fps movies, or with slow CPU, add option: -framedrop
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42 Image size:
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43 ~~~~~~~~~~~
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44 DVB card allows only 2 vertical resolutions: 288 and 576.
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45 If your video height differs, you have to clip it or extend by adding
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46 black bands. It's done by mplayer, just specify image size using the
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47 -x and -y options. You must use either -y 288 or -y 576.
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49 To force pan&scan (16:9 at 4:3 TV), add options: -x 352 -y 288
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51 If you have powerfull CPU, you can also scale image up, using the
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52 swscale filter. For example, to watch a 640x288 video fullscreen,
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53 use -vop scale=640:400
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54 Note that you don't have to scale horizontally, the card will do it
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55 by hardware, but you have to scale vertically keeping the aspect ratio.
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58 Mailing list:
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60 http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dvb
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62 List's language is ENGLISH. Please avoid using german or other languages!
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63 Subscribe, and ask/discuss your problems here.
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64 I'll also post feature announces to this list.
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66 Future plans/TODO:
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69 - display OSD and subtitles using DVB card's OSD feature
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70 - better (more fluent) playback of non-25fps movies
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71 - realtime transcoding between mpeg2 <-> mpeg4 (partial decompression)
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72 - better quality for lowres mpeg1