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1 MPlayer (CVS version) (C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy (A'rpi/ESP-team)
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3 http://mplayer.sourceforge.net
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5 About:
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6 ~~~~~~
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7 MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX. It plays most MPEG, AVI and ASF files,
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8 supported by many native and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VCD, DVD and even
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9 DivX movies too. The another big feature of mplayer is the wide range of
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10 supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev,
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11 AAlib, but you can use SDL (and this way all drivers of SDL) and some lowlevel
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12 card-specific drivers (for Matrox/3dfx/SiS) too! Most of them supports software
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13 or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. And what about the
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14 nice big antialiased shaded subtitles (6 supported types!!!) with hungarian,
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15 english, cyrillic, czech, korean fonts, and OSD?
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17 History:
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18 ~~~~~~~~
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19 Yes. Yet another movie player for linux.
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20 What is the special with this? It works, at least for me :)
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21 I've tried lots of players under linux (mtv,xmps,dvdview,livid/oms,VideoLAN,
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22 xine,xanim,avifile,xmmp) but they all have some problem. Mostly with
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23 special files or with audio/video sync. Most of them is unable to play
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24 both MPEG1, MPEG2 and AVI (DivX) files. Many players have image quality
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25 or speed problems too. So I've decided to write/modify one...
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27 - mpg12play v0.1-v0.3:
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28 The first try, hacked together in a half hour!
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29 I've used libmpeg3 from www.heroinewarrior.com up to the version 0.3,
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30 but there were image quality and speed problems with it.
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31 - mpg12play v0.5-v0.87:
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32 Mpeg codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was a great stuff,
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33 but it was slow and was written in C++ (I hate C++!!!)
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34 - mpg12play v0.9-v0.95pre5:
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35 Mpeg codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman & Michel Lespinasse.
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36 It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect image quality and
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37 100% MPEG standard conformance.
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38 - MPlayer v0.3-v0.9:
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39 It was a pack of two programs: mpg12playv0.95pre6 and my new simple AVI
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40 player 'avip' based on avifile's Win32 DLL loader.
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41 - MPlayer v0.10:
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42 The MPEG and AVI player in a single binary!
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43 - MPlayer v0.11:
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44 Added .ASF file support, and OpenDivX (see www.projectmayo.com) en/decoding.
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45 - MPlayer v0.17 "The IdegCounter"
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46 The release version of the 0.11pre after 4 months of heavy development!
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47 Try it, and be amazed! Thousands of new features added... and of course
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48 old code was improved too, bugs removed etc.
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50 As you see, I didn't write any codecs, just some players. Instead I spent
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51 a lot of time finding the best way to parse bad damaged input files
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52 (both MPEG and AVI) and to do perfect A-V sync with seeking ability.
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53 My player is rock solid playing damaged MPEG files (useful for some VCDs),
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54 and it plays bad AVI files which are unplayable with the famous
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55 windows media player. Even AVI files without index chunk are playable, and
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56 you can rebuild their indexes with the -idx option, thus enabling seeking!
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57 As you see, stability and quality are the most important things for me,
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58 but the speed is also amazing.
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60 What about the GUI?
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62 I'm not a GUI programmer. I hate GUIs, I like the pure black 80x25 console.
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63 So the player has only keyboard control from the controlling console/xterm now.
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64 There is a GUI development for the player, coordinated by Pontscho/Fresh!
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65 It's still under development, but it will be merged and released real soon.
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66 BTW he needs some nice skins, if you are a good graphician, contact him!!!
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68 Supported input formats:
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70 - VCD (Video CD) directly from CD-ROM or from CDRwin's .bin image file
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71 - DVD, directly from your DVD disk, using optional libcss for decryption
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72 - MPEG 1/2 System Stream (PS/PES/VOB) and Elementary Stream (ES) file formats
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75 - supports reading from file or stdin
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79 *** See http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/DOCS/codecs.html ***
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80 *** for the complete list ***
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85 - Windows Media Video 7 (WMV1) used in .wmv files
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86 - Intel Indeo codecs (3.1,3.2,4.1,5.0)
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87 - MJPEG, ASV2 and other hardware formats
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97 to get info about its status and about how to help us adding support for it!
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99 Supported video output devices:
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103 - xv: X11 using overlays with the Xvideo extension (hardware YUV & scaling)
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104 - gl: OpenGL renderer, works only with Utah-GLX or Matrox with X >=4.0.3 !
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105 (no other DRI or nVidia drivers)
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107 - fsdga:X11 DGA extension with fullscreen scaling (only 24/32bpp and MPEG!)
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110 - sdl: SDL >= v1.1.7 driver (supports software scaling, and versions >=1.1.8
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117 (Xv emulation on X 3.3.x !)
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118 - syncfb: Matrox G400 YUV support on framebuffer (obsoleted, use mga/xmga)
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121 Special:
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122 - png: PNG files output (use -z switch to set compression)
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140 Most of time-critical parts are optimized for MMX/MMXext/SSE/3DNow!/3DNow!Ex.
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141 You can improve rendering speed by setting up MTRR registers, see doc in MTRR.
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142 Some *old* benchmark results can be found in the file DOCS/SPEED.
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144 Usage:
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145 ~~~~~~
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146 mplayer [options] [-vo driver] [path/]filename
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150 see `mplayer -vo help' for list of available output drivers
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153 <- or -> seek backward/forward 10 seconds
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154 up or down seek backward/forward 1 minute
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155 p or SPACE pause movie (press any key to continue)
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156 q or ^C stop playing and quit program
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158 / and * decrease/increase volume
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159 m toggle using master/pcm channel for volume setting
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162 Examples:
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163 mplayer -vo x11 /mnt/Films/Contact/contact2.mpg
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174 Now it's possible.
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176 To play something by reading from stdin, just use '-' as filename:
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178 cat test.mpg | mplayer -vo xv -
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180 Restrictions:
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181 mpg: no backward seeking
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182 asf: no backward seeking
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183 avi: no index reading -> no seeking at all, and playing of some files are
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184 +impossible
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186 No control from controlling terminal/xterm, but hotkeys and osd works
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187 from the window. or course LIRC still works everywhere.
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189 This feature combined with external wrappers extends possibilities.
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190 For example, to play a movie just downloaded from your favourite divx
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192 rar p ast-nssvcd.rar | mplayer -vo xmga -fs -
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198 stuff, but for now it's a good workaround)
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201 ~~~~~~~~~~
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202 If you have a Matrox G400 Dual-Head card, you can watch movies on TV, using
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203 the TV-out feature of the second head. Read DOCS/TVout-G400 for details!
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205 Sending bugreports, comments, feature requests etc:
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206 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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207 First please read all the docs in this package, most of the problems are
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208 described somewhere. At least read DOCS/BUGS ! We don't like answering
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209 questions which are already answered in this readme or other docs.
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214 bug is already fixed, but the new version hasn't been released.
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215 If you couldn't solve the problem, then send a quality bugreport:
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216 read DOCS/BUGREPORTS for instructions (where, what and how...)
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218 Subscribe to the mplayer-users mailing list. There are many MPlayer
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219 users, maybe they can help or know the solution to your problem.
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220 You also should send ideas, feature requests, comments to there!
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221 Please do not ask for features already listed in the DOCS/TODO!
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233 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-devel
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235 - MPlayer developers list: (send your patches here)
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242 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-matrox
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245 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-mpg12play
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254 Please do not send messages using other language!
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258 MPlayer incorporates a lot of code from other projects, but for now everything
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259 except the OpenDivX stuff is under General Public License (GPL) version 2 or
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260 later. See DOCS/COPYING
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263 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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265 damage your system, your eye or ear. Proceed with caution, and although this is
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