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terrible fatal bug fixed
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1 MoviePlayer v0.11 (C) 2000-2001. by Arpad Gereoffy (A'rpi/ESP-team)
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2 ================= * See the file AUTHORS for the complete list! *
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4 About:
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5 ~~~~~~
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6 Yes. Yet another movie player for linux.
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7 What is the special with this? It works, at least for me :)
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8 I've tried lots of players under linux (mtv,xmps,dvdview,livid/oms,VideoLAN,
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9 xine,xanim,avifile,xmmp) but they all have some problem. Mostly with
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10 special files or with audio/video sync. Most of them is unable to play
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11 both mpeg1, mpeg2 and avi (DivX) files. Many players have image quality
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12 or speed problems too. So I've decided to write/modify one...
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14 Short history:
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15 - mpg12play v0.1 has born, using libmpeg3 from www.heroinewarrior.com
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16 - mpg12play 2nd generation (v0.5-), using dvdview by Dirk Farin
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17 - mpg12play 3nd generation (v0.9-), using libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman
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18 - mplayer has born, containing mpg12play 0.90pre5 and a new simple avi player
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19 - mplayer 0.10, mpeg and avi player in a single binary
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20 - mplayer 0.11: added .asf file support, and OpenDivX en/decoding
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22 As you see, I didn't write any codecs, just some players. But I spent
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23 a lot of time finding the best way to parse bad damaged input files
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24 (both mpg and avi) and to do perfect A-V sync with seeking ability.
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25 My player is rock solid playing damaged mpeg files (useful for some VCDs),
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26 and it plays bad AVI files which are unplayable with the famous
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27 windows media player. Even AVI files without index chunk are playable!
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28 As you see, stability and quality are the most important things for me,
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29 speed has lower priority, but is still very important.
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31 What about the GUI?
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32 I'm not a GUI programmer. I hate GUIs, I like the pure black 80x25 console.
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33 So the player has only keyboard control from the controlling console/xterm now.
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34 But there is a GUI development for the player, coordinated by Pontscho/Fresh!
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35 It's still under development, but it will be merged and released soon.
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36 BTW he needs some nice skins, if you are a good graphician, contact him!!!
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38 Win32 codecs?
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39 Yes, we are using Win32 (Video for Windows) codecs for AVI/ASF decoding.
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40 They must be installed to the /usr/lib/win32/ directory, with all lower case.
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41 You can grab the codecs package from our homepage, or can be found in your
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42 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ dir, see codecs.c for filenames.
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43 Some people asked why don't we use ActiveMovie/DirectShow codecs. The reason is
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44 simple: we'd have to emulate the whole DirectX architecture and implement the
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45 (patented!) COM interface to be able to use them. BTW the old VfW DivX codec
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46 is faster than the new .AX version, but it has no quality/CPU setting
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47 option (this is an improper name, since it doesn't affect the decoder. If
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48 it's set to 1 or higher, it applies a filter which decreases blockiness and
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49 eats away CPU cycles).
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51 Supported input formats:
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52 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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53 - VCD (Video CD) directly from CD-ROM or from CDRwin's .bin image file
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54 - MPEG 1/2 System Stream (PS/VOB) and Elementary Stream (ES) file formats
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55 - RIFF AVI file format
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56 - ASF 1.0 file format
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58 Supported audio codecs:
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59 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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60 - PCM (uncompressed) audio (8/16 bit, mono/stereo)
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61 - MPEG layer 2/3 audio (using mp3lib, based on mpg123)
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62 - AC3 audio (using ac3dec/libac3)
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63 - Win32 ACM audio codecs (the *.ACM files) [Only in the AVI player]
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64 tested with: DivX audio, MS-ADPCM
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65 - aLaw audio (using code from xanim)
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66 - MS-GSM audio (using modified xa_gsm.c from avifile)
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68 Supported video codecs:
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69 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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70 - MPEG 1 and MPEG 2 video decoder (using mpeg2dec/libmpeg2, supports
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71 3DNow! and MMX)
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72 - Win32 ICM (VfW) video codecs (for example DivX using DIVXC32.DLL)
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73 - OpenDivX encore & decore (see ProjectMayo)
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75 Supported video output devices:
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76 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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77 - mga: Matrox G200/G400 hardware YUV overlay via the mga_vid device
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78 - xmga: Matrox G200/G400 overlay (mga_vid) in X11 window
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79 (Xv emulation on X 3.3.x !)
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80 - x11: X11 optionally with SHM extension
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81 - dga: X11 DGA extension (only in 24/32bpp)
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83 - xv: X11 using overlays with the Xvideo extension (hardware YUV & scaling)
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84 - gl: OpenGL renderer, works only with Utah-GLX! (no DRI or nVidia drivers)
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85 - syncfb: Matrox G400 YUV support on framebuffer (not tested, maybe broken)
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87 - sdl: SDL >= v1.1.7 driver (slower than 'x11', but supports software scaling)
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88 (NOT supported by us! Don't submit SDL bugreports!)
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89 - null: Null output (for speed tests/benchmarking)
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90 - pgm: PGM file output (for testing purposes)
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91 - md5: MD5sum output (for mpeg conformance tests)
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93 NOTE: not all are available for AVI files
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95 Supported audio output devices:
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96 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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97 - OSS driver
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98 - ALSA driver with OSS emulation
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99 - ESD with the esddsp utility
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101 NOTE: check DOCS/SOUNDCARDS !
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103 Speed:
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104 ~~~~~~
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105 Most of time-critical parts are optimized for MMX/SSE/3DNow!.
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106 You can improve rendering speed by setting up MTRR registers, see doc in MTRR.
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107 Some benchmark results can be found in the doc file SPEED.
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108
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109 Usage:
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110 ~~~~~~
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111 mplayer [options] [-vo driver] [path/]filename
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113 Options:
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114 see mplayer -h for options
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115 see mplayer -vo help for available output drivers
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117 Keys:
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118 <- or -> seek backward/forward 10 seconds
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119 up or down seek backward/forward 1 minute
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120 p or SPACE pause movie (press any key to continue)
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121 q or ^C stop playing and quit program
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123 Examples:
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124 mplayer -vo x11 /mnt/Films/Contact/contact2.mpg
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125 mplayer -afm 3 /mnt/DVDtrailers/alien4.vob
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126 mplayer -vcd 2 /dev/cdrom
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127 mplayer -alsa -abs 65536 -delay -0.4 -nobps ~/movies/test.avi
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129 Note: for using Matrox YUV driver (-vo mga or xmga), you have to first
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130 load the driver: insmod drivers/mga_vid.o
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132 License:
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133 ~~~~~~~~
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134 Since MPlayer incorporates a lot of code from other projects, this isn't
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135 decided yet.
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136 We're going for GPL (will be pretty hard, though).
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138 TV output:
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139 ~~~~~~~~~~
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140 If you have a Matrox G400 Dual-Head card, you can watch movies on TV,
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141 using TV-out feature of the second head. You must have matroxfb support
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142 enabled in your kernel (2.4.x kernels). You don't need X11 for this!
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143 Tested only with PAL TV!
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144
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145 cd TVout
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146 ./modules
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147 ./cloning or ./independ
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148 ./TV-704x528 (or another TV* script)
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150 Sending bugreports:
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151 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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152 First please read all the docs in this package, most of the problems are
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153 described somewhere. At least read the Troubleshooting section!
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154 We don't like answering questions which are already answered in this
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155 readme or other docs.
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156 You should try the latest test (pre) release version too, maybe your bug
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157 is already fixed, but the new version hasn't been released.
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158 If you couldn't solve the problem, then send a quality bugreport
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159 via E-Mail to the MPlayer-users list : mplayer-users@lists.sourceforge.net
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161 *NEVER* send attached AVIs, MPEGs, or any big files to this list!!!
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162 Upload them to ftp://thot.banki.hu/incoming , and inform the list about
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163 your upload.
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165 Please include these:
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166 - your kernel version number ('uname -a')
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167 - linux distribution and glibc version (example: Slackware 7.1 + glibc 2.1.3)
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168 - gcc and binutils version ('gcc -v' and 'as --version')
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169 - your X11 version (example: X 4.0.2 + DRI snapshot2001jan12)
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170 - video card vendor/model (example: Matrox G400 MAX AGP)
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171 - CPU vendor and type (example: Intel Celeron2-566 at 850MHz)
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173 Also include the required logs (as attachment, may be compressed zip/gz/bz2)
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174 depending the problem type (see bellow at Troubleshooting section).
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176 To log output to a file, use the &> shell operator. For example:
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177 ./configure &>configure.log
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178 mplayer -v test.avi &>play.log
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180 If we ask you for the file, then you have two choices:
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181 - upload the file to ftp://thot.banki.hu/incoming (at least a few megabytes)
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182 - send the exact URL of the file, and we'll download it soon.
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186 Troubleshooting:
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187 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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190 2. If you have compiling problems:
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191 - if you are an experienced programmer, please try to fix it, and send
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192 us the patch
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193 - if gcc reports problems around inttypes.h, try to copy DOCS/inttypes.h
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194 to the directory where the error occured. (or upgrade glibc to 2.1/newer)
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195 - if gcc reports problems around video_out_gl.c, try disabling OpenGL
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196 support: ./configure --disable-gl (you have broken OpenGL headers/libs)
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197 - if you are a user, send us a bugreport (see above), including these:
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198 - output of ./configure
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199 - output of make dep and make
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200 - config.h and all of config.mak files
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201 Note: many users reported that SSE was not detected while running on P3.
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202 Current stable 2.2.x kernels does NOT support SSE, so you can't use it
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203 without patches or using the 2.4.x series. (or try latest 2.2.19 or newer)
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205 3. If you have a problem with the player, please run it with -v option, and
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206 send the output of it, with a detailed description of the problem.
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207 - can't play AVI files: check that codec .DLL and .ACM files are installed to
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208 /usr/lib/win32/ and are all lowercase (divxc32.dll instead of DivXc32.DLL)
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210 4. If you have a file-specific problem (can't play a special file,
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211 crashes with it or similar) then please run with -v -v -v (debug level 3).
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212 Send us the output and the problem description via email bugreport.
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213 We may ask you to upload the file.
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214 - if it segfaults with an AVI file with MP3 audio, try with -afm 1 or -afm 4
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215 - if it's still bad, try with -nosound
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217 5. If you have problem with display driver, please first check the list above,
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218 many of them isn't yet capable to AVI playing, and some of them are
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219 untested and/or unfinished.
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221 6. If you have speed problems (too slow playing), then please first check that:
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222 - you don't use OpenGL driver while have software-only opengl (DRI disabled,
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223 or not yet installed, conflicting libs installed, or your hardware not
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224 supported etc...)
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225 - you have set up MTRR registers properly (many new cards are really
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226 slow without setting up MTRR registers. it's NOT done by X 3.3.x! Also,
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227 there are older K6-2's, which lack MTRR support /stepping=0/).
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228 - you have a fast machine (don't report that your 386 can't play DivX)
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229 - try with Null output (-vo null) and check CPU usage (first % value)
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231 7. sound-related problems:
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232 - maybe your card doesn't support 48kHz playback and the movie requires it.
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233 - try player with the -noalsa option
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234 - delayed audio with some AVI files: try with -bps or -nobps option!
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235 - if you experienced delayed audio, try to compensate with -delay or -abs.
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236 you can specify audio card's buffer size in bytes with -abs option, or
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237 specify audio delay in seconds (positive/negative float) with -delay
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238 for example: mplayer -alsa -delay -0.75 test.avi
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239 mplayer -abs 65536 -delay 0.3 test.mpg
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240 - to play AVI files with VBR MP3 audio use the -mc 0 option!
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241 - no sound at all: check that you have working OSS driver (/dev/dsp),
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242 and it isn't used by another program (for example esd, xmms etc.)
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244 8. unsupported codecs (AVI files):
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245 We may add support for your movie, but we need the following things:
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246 - the codec DLL file: find it in your WINDOWS directory. In the SYSTEM.INI
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247 there will be a listing of the installed codecs (vids.<codecname>=DLLfile)
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248 - a sample file encoded with that codec.
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250 Contact information:
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251 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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252 Homepage: http://mplayer.sourceforge.net
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254 Mailing lists:
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255 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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256 There are some public mailing lists on MPlayer. Subscribing can be achieved on
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257 the following addresses:
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259 - MPlayer users list: (send your ideas, bugreports, feature requests here)
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260 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-users
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262 - MPlayer announce: (information about new releases or big changes in CVS)
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263 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-announce
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265 - MPlayer & Matrox G200/G400/G450 users: (about TV-out, mga_vid, syncfb, Xv)
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266 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-matrox
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268 - MPlayer CVS-log: (announce about _every_ CVS commits)
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269 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog
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271 Standard Disclaimer:
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272 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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273 Use only at your own risk! There may be errors and inaccuracies that could
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274 be damaging to your system or your eye. Proceed with caution, and although
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275 this is highly unlikely, I don't take any responsibility for that!