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1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
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2 <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
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3 "/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dtd/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd"
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4 [
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5 <!ENTITY audio.xml SYSTEM "audio.xml">
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6 <!ENTITY bugreports.xml SYSTEM "bugreports.xml">
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7 <!ENTITY bugs.xml SYSTEM "bugs.xml">
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8 <!ENTITY cd-dvd.xml SYSTEM "cd-dvd.xml">
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9 <!ENTITY codecs.xml SYSTEM "codecs.xml">
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10 <!ENTITY edl.xml SYSTEM "edl.xml">
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11 <!ENTITY faq.xml SYSTEM "faq.xml">
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12 <!ENTITY features.xml SYSTEM "features.xml">
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13 <!ENTITY formats.xml SYSTEM "formats.xml">
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14 <!ENTITY history.xml SYSTEM "history.xml">
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15 <!ENTITY install.xml SYSTEM "install.xml">
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16 <!ENTITY mail-lists.xml SYSTEM "mail-lists.xml">
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17 <!ENTITY mencoder.xml SYSTEM "mencoder.xml">
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18 <!ENTITY patches.xml SYSTEM "patches.xml">
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19 <!ENTITY ports.xml SYSTEM "ports.xml">
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20 <!ENTITY skin.xml SYSTEM "skin.xml">
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21 <!ENTITY tvinput.xml SYSTEM "tvinput.xml">
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22 <!ENTITY usage.xml SYSTEM "usage.xml">
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23 <!ENTITY users-vs-dev.xml SYSTEM "users-vs-dev.xml">
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24 <!ENTITY video-filters.xml SYSTEM "video-filters.xml">
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25 <!ENTITY video.xml SYSTEM "video.xml">
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26 ]>
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27
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28 <book lang="en">
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29 <bookinfo id="toc">
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30 <title>MPlayer - The Movie Player for LINUX</title>
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31 <subtitle><ulink url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu"></ulink></subtitle>
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32 <date>March 24, 2003</date>
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33 <copyright>
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34 <year>2000</year>
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35 <year>2001</year>
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36 <year>2002</year>
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37 <year>2003</year>
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38 <holder>Arpad Gereoffy (A'rpi/ESP-team)</holder>
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39 </copyright>
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40 <!--
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41 <legalnotice>
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42 <title>License</title>
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43 <para>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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44 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
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45 Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
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46 option) any later version.</para>
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47
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48 <para>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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49 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
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50 or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
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51 for more details.</para>
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52
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53 <para>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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54 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
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55 Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA, 02111-1307, USA.</para>
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56 </legalnotice>
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57 -->
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58 </bookinfo>
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59
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60
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61 <preface id="howtoread">
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62 <title>How to read this documentation</title>
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63
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64 <para>
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65 If you are a first-time installer: be sure to read everything from here to
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66 the end of the Installation section, and follow the links you will find. If
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67 you have any other questions, return to the <link linkend="toc">Table of
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68 Contents</link> and search for the topic, read the <xref linkend="faq"/>,
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69 or try grepping through the files.
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70 </para>
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71
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72 <para>
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73 The main rule of this documentation: if it's not documented, it
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74 <emphasis>does not exist.</emphasis> If I don't say you can encode audio from
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75 TV tuner, you can't. A healthy quantity of combining ability is welcomed,
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76 though. Good luck. You'll need it :) And for another good advice, let me
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77 quote Chris Phillips from the
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78 <ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/">mplayer-users</ulink>
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79 mailing list:
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80 </para>
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81
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82 <blockquote><para>
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83 I said a while ago that there is such a difference between a newbie and a
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84 dumbass. No matter what you actually know about a system (linux, cars,
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85 girls :D) you should ALWAYS be able to take a step back and be objective,
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86 otherwise, you're just dumb IMHO. A girl I live with assumed the vacuum
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87 cleaner was broken because it didn't suck things up. never thought to
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88 change the bag, because she'd never done it before... now that's just
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89 stupid, not a case of simply not knowing what to do... Simply not being
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90 that familiar with your surroundings is no excuse for a) laziness and b)
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91 ignorance. So many people seem to see the word "error" and then stop...
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92 few seem to actually read the words on the OTHER side of the colon.
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93 </para></blockquote>
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94 </preface>
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95
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96
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97 <chapter id="intro">
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98 <title>Introduction</title>
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99
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100 <para>
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101 <application>MPlayer</application> is a movie player for Linux (runs on
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102 many other Unices, and <emphasis role="bold">non-x86</emphasis> CPUs, see
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103 <xref linkend="ports"/>). It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV,
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104 QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, PVA, Matroska files, supported by
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105 many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch
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106 <emphasis role="bold">VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, RealMedia, Sorenson, Theora</emphasis>, and
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107 <emphasis role="bold">DivX</emphasis> movies too (and you don't need the avifile
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108 library at all!). Another big feature of mplayer is the wide range of
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109 supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib,
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110 fbdev, AAlib, DirectFB, but you can use GGI and SDL (and this way all their
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111 drivers) and some lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and
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112 Radeon, Mach64, Permedia3) too! Most of them supports software or hardware
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113 scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen.
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114 <application>MPlayer</application> supports displaying through some
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115 hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the <link linkend="dvb">DVB</link> and
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116 <link linkend="dxr3">DXR3/Hollywood+</link>. And what about the nice big
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117 antialiased shaded subtitles (<emphasis role="bold">10 supported types</emphasis>)
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118 with European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic, Korean
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119 fonts, and the onscreen display (OSD)?
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120 </para>
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121
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122 <para>
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123 The player is rock solid playing damaged MPEG files (useful for some VCDs),
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124 and it plays bad AVI files which are unplayable with the famous windows
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125 media player. Even AVI files without index chunk are playable, and you can
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126 temporarily rebuild their indexes with the <option>-idx</option> option, or
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127 permanently with <application>MEncoder</application>, thus enabling
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128 seeking! As you see, stability and quality are the most important things,
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129 but the speed is also amazing.
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130 </para>
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131
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132 <para>
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133 <application>MEncoder</application> (MPlayer's Movie Encoder) is a simple movie
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134 encoder, designed to encode MPlayer-playable movies
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135 (<emphasis role="bold">AVI/ASF/OGG/DVD/VCD/VOB/MPG/MOV/VIV/FLI/RM/NUV/NET/PVA</emphasis>)
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136 to other MPlayer-playable formats (see below). It can encode with various codecs,
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137 like <emphasis role="bold">DivX4</emphasis> (1 or 2 passes), libavcodec,
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138 <emphasis role="bold">PCM/MP3/VBR MP3</emphasis> audio. Also has powerful plugin
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139 system for video manipulation.
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140 </para>
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141
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142
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143 <itemizedlist>
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144 <title>MEncoder features</title>
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145 <listitem><simpara>
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146 Encoding from the wide range of fileformats and decoders of
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147 <application>MPlayer</application>
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148 </simpara></listitem>
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149 <listitem><simpara>
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150 Encoding to all the codecs of ffmpeg's <link
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151 linkend="ffmpeg">libavcodec</link>
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152 </simpara></listitem>
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153 <listitem><simpara>
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154 Video encoding from <emphasis role="bold">V4L compatible TV tuners</emphasis>
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155 </simpara></listitem>
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156 <listitem><simpara>
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157 Encoding/multiplexing to interleaved AVI files with proper index
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158 </simpara></listitem>
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159 <listitem><simpara>
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160 Creating files from external audio stream
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161 </simpara></listitem>
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162 <listitem><simpara>
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163 1, 2 or 3 pass encoding
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164 </simpara></listitem>
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165 <listitem><para>
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166 <emphasis role="bold">VBR</emphasis> MP3 audio
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167 <important><simpara>
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168 VBR MP3 audio doesn't always play nicely on windows players!
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169 </simpara></important>
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170 </para></listitem>
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171 <listitem><simpara>
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172 PCM audio
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173 </simpara></listitem>
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174 <listitem><simpara>
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175 Stream copying
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176 </simpara></listitem>
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177 <listitem><simpara>
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178 Input A/V synchronizing (PTS-based, can be disabled with
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179 <option>-mc 0</option> option)
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180 </simpara></listitem>
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181 <listitem><simpara>
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182 FPS correction with <option>-ofps</option> option (useful when encoding
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183 29.97 fps VOB to 24 fps AVI)
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184 </simpara></listitem>
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185 <listitem><simpara>
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186 Using our very powerful plugin system (crop, expand, flip, postprocess,
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187 rotate, scale, rgb/yuv conversion)
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188 </simpara></listitem>
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189 <listitem><simpara>
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190 Can encode DVD/VOBsub <emphasis role="bold">AND</emphasis> text subtitles
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191 into the output file
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192 </simpara></listitem>
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193 <listitem><simpara>
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194 Can rip DVD subtitles to Vobsub format
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195 </simpara></listitem>
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196 </itemizedlist>
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197
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198 <itemizedlist>
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199 <title>Planned features</title>
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200 <listitem><simpara>
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201 Even wider variety of available en/decoding formats/codecs
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202 (creating VOB files with DivX4/Indeo5/VIVO streams :).
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203 </simpara></listitem>
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204 </itemizedlist>
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205
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206 <!-- FIXME: the license should be in bookinfo -->
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207 <para>
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208 <application>MPlayer</application> and <application>MEncoder</application>
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209 can be distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2.
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210 </para>
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211
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212 &history.xml;
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213 &install.xml;
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214 </chapter>
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215
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216
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217 &features.xml;
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218 &usage.xml;
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219 &faq.xml;
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220 &cd-dvd.xml;
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221 &ports.xml;
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222 &mencoder.xml;
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223 &mail-lists.xml;
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224 &bugreports.xml;
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225 &bugs.xml;
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226 &skin.xml;
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227 &users-vs-dev.xml;
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228 &patches.xml;
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229 </book>
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