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1682 | 6 <P><B><A NAME=2.1>2.1. Video Formats, Audio & Video Codecs</A></B></P> |
1612 | 7 |
1682 | 8 <P><B><A NAME=2.1.1>2.1.1. Supported input formats</A></B></P> |
1612 | 9 |
1682 | 10 <P><B>MPlayer</B> can read/play from the following devices/formats:<BR> |
11 <UL> | |
12 <LI> VCD (Video CD) directly from CD-ROM or from CDRwin's .bin image file | |
2005 | 13 <LI> DVD, directly from your DVD disk, using libdvdread for decryption |
1682 | 14 <LI> MPEG 1/2 System Stream (PS/PES/VOB) and Elementary Stream (ES) file |
15 formats | |
16 <LI> RIFF AVI file format | |
1869 | 17 <LI> ASF/WMV 1.0 file format |
2153 | 18 <LI> QT/MOV file format with (un)compressed headers (INCOMPLETE!) |
19 | |
1869 | 20 <LI> supports reading from file, stdin, or network via HTTP |
1682 | 21 </UL></P> |
1612 | 22 |
2153 | 23 <P>Note: about realmedia (.ra/.rm) support read the FAQ!</P> |
1612 | 24 |
25 | |
1682 | 26 <P><B><A NAME=2.1.2>2.1.2. Supported audio & video codecs</A></B></P> |
1612 | 27 |
1731 | 28 <P>See <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html">http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html</A> for the complete, |
1869 | 29 daily generated list!!!</P> |
1612 | 30 |
1682 | 31 <P>The most important video codecs:<BR> |
32 <UL> | |
2290 | 33 <LI>MPEG1 (VCD) and MPEG2 (DVD) video</LI> |
34 <LI>DivX ;-), OpenDivX (DivX4) and other MPEG4 variants</LI> | |
35 <LI>Windows Media Video 7 (WMV1) and 8 (WMV2) used in .wmv files</LI> | |
36 <LI>Intel Indeo codecs (3.1,3.2,4.1,5.0)</LI> | |
37 <LI>MJPEG, ASV2 and other hardware formats</LI> | |
1682 | 38 </UL></P> |
1612 | 39 |
1682 | 40 <P>The most important audio codecs:<BR> |
41 <UL> | |
2290 | 42 <LI>MPEG layer 2, and layer 3 (MP3) audio (native code, with MMX/SSE/3DNow! optimization)</LI> |
43 <LI>AC3 dolby audio (native code, with SSE/3DNow! optimization)</LI> | |
44 <LI>Ogg Vorbis audio codec (native lib)</LI> | |
45 <LI>Voxware audio (using directshow DLL)</LI> | |
46 <LI>alaw, msgsm, pcm and other simple old audio formats</LI> | |
1682 | 47 </UL></P> |
1612 | 48 |
1731 | 49 <P>If you have a codec not listed here, and not supported yet, just read <A |
50 HREF="#2.1.4">section 2.1.4</A> to get info about how to help us adding support | |
51 for it!</P> | |
1612 | 52 |
1682 | 53 <P><B><A NAME=2.1.2.1>2.1.2.1. DivX4</A></B></P> |
1612 | 54 |
1682 | 55 <P>This section contains information about the DivX4 codec of |
56 <A HREF="http://www.projectmayo.com">ProjectMayo</A>. Their first available alpha version was the OpenDivX 4.0 | |
57 alpha 47 and 48. Support for this was/is included in <B>MPlayer</B>, and built by | |
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58 default. We used to use its postprocessing code to optionally enhance visual |
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59 quality of MPEG1/2 movies. Now we use our own.</P> |
1612 | 60 |
1682 | 61 <P>The new generation of this codec can even decode movies made with the |
62 infamous DivX codec! And it's not everything, it's MUCH faster than the | |
63 traditional Win32 DivX DLL's. See below for configuration. The only | |
64 disadvantage of this codec is that it's currently closed-source. :(</P> | |
1612 | 65 |
1682 | 66 <P>The codec can be downloaded from the following URL:</P> |
67 | |
1731 | 68 <P> <A HREF="http://download2.projectmayo.com/dnload/divx4linux/divx4linux-20010718.zip">http://download2.projectmayo.com/dnload/divx4linux/divx4linux-20010718.zip</A></P> |
1612 | 69 |
1682 | 70 <P>No automatic installing available at this time, so install it manually, |
71 EXACTLY as described here. Unpack it, and copy files to their place:</P> | |
1612 | 72 |
1682 | 73 <P><CODE>cp libdivxdecore.so.0.0.0 /usr/local/lib/<BR> |
74 ln -s /usr/local/lib/libdivxdecore.so.0.0.0 /usr/local/lib/libdivxdecore.so.0<BR> | |
75 ln -s /usr/local/lib/libdivxdecore.so.0 /usr/local/lib/libdivxdecore.so<BR> | |
76 ldconfig<BR> | |
77 cp decore.h /usr/local/include/</CODE></P> | |
1612 | 78 |
1869 | 79 <P>Note: do NOT forget to add /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf !</P> |
1612 | 80 |
1682 | 81 <P><B>MPlayer</B> autodetects if DivX4 is (properly) installed, just compile |
82 as usual. If it doesn't detect it, you didn't install it exactly as above, | |
83 and/or has fucked up config (see last question of 5.1 section).</P> | |
84 | |
85 <P>Using it is a bit tricky. As it conflicts with the old OpenDivX (it's API is | |
86 very similar to OpenDivX's), OpenDivX code is disabled, and the OpenDivX | |
87 driver calls this library too.</P> | |
88 | |
89 <P>Generally we can pinpoint this issue to that you have two options to use | |
90 this codec:</P> | |
91 | |
92 <P><TABLE BORDER=0> | |
1987 | 93 <TD> </TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-vc odivx</TD><TD> </TD> |
94 <TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>using divx4 codec as a new version of OpenDivX. | |
1682 | 95 in this case it produces YV12 image in its own buffer, |
1987 | 96 and <B>MPlayer</B> (libvo) does colorspace conversion. (<B>RECOMMENDED!</B>)</TD><TR> |
97 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>-vc divx4</TD><TD></TD> | |
98 <TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>using divx4 codec's colorspace conversion. | |
2095 | 99 in this mode, you can use YUY2/UYVY too.</TD></TR> |
1682 | 100 </TABLE></P> |
1612 | 101 |
1682 | 102 <P>The 'odivx' method is usually faster, due to the fact that it transfers |
103 image data in YV12 (planar YUV 4:2:0) format, thus requiring much less | |
104 bandwidth on the bus. For packed YUV modes (YUY2, UYVY) use the 'divx4' | |
105 method. For RGB modes you can choose freely, their speed is same, maybe | |
106 differ according to the current bpp.</P> | |
107 | |
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108 <P>Note: it supports postprocessing too, but range of values is strange: (TODO UPDATE)</P> |
1612 | 109 |
1682 | 110 <P><TABLE BORDER=0> |
1987 | 111 <TD> </TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>0</TD><TD> </TD> |
112 <TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>no postproc</TD><TR> | |
113 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>10 .. 20</TD> | |
114 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>postprocessing, normal (like level 2 with divxds)</TD><TR> | |
115 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>30 .. 60</TD> | |
116 <TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>hard prostprocessing, eats many CPU (like level 4 with divxds</TD><TR> | |
1682 | 117 </TABLE></P> |
1612 | 118 |
1682 | 119 <P><B><A NAME=2.1.2.2>2.1.2.2. ffmpeg's DivX/libavcodec</A></B></P> |
120 | |
121 <P>Beginning with version 0.4.2 , <A HREF="http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net">ffmpeg</A> contains an <B>opensource</B> DivX codec, | |
122 which is compatible with the traditional DivX. <B>MPlayer</B> supports this codec, | |
2290 | 123 and this makes it possible to <B>watch DivX/DivX4 movies on non-x86 platforms</B>, |
124 and gain much faster <B>DivX/DivX4</B> decoding speed than the Win32 codecs and | |
125 the original DivX4 library has!<BR> | |
1682 | 126 It was removed from <B>MPlayer</B>'s cvs tree, you have to download it |
127 manually directly from <B>FFmpeg</B>'s tree:</P> | |
128 | |
129 <P><CODE> | |
1987 | 130 cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.ffmpeg.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ffmpeg login<BR> |
1612 | 131 cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.ffmpeg.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ffmpeg co ffmpeg |
1682 | 132 </CODE></P> |
1612 | 133 |
1682 | 134 <P>Note: <I>if you copy with CVS subdirs, next time it's enough to do |
135 'cvs update'.</I></P> | |
1612 | 136 |
1682 | 137 <P>Now, move the newly downloaded ffmpeg source's <B>libavcodec</B> directory, |
138 (with all it's subdirectories) to <B>MPlayer</B>'s tree, so it will look | |
139 like this:</P> | |
1612 | 140 |
1682 | 141 <P> <CODE>main/libavcodec</CODE></P> |
1612 | 142 |
1869 | 143 <P>Symlinking is NOT enough, you have to copy/move it!!!</P> |
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145 <P>./configure detects if it can be built. The codec also <B>supports |
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146 postprocessing!</B></P> |
1612 | 147 |
1682 | 148 <P>In order to use it, refresh your codecs.conf file, and do as the manpage, |
149 or the example.conf says (the -vfm option).</P> | |
1612 | 150 |
2290 | 151 <P>To achieve the <B>greatest speed</B> on my K6, I remove the |
152 <CODE>ffmpeg12</CODE> section from codecs.conf (this codec isn't optimized, and | |
153 libmpeg2 is twice as fast), and place <CODE>vfm=5</CODE> in my config file. | |
154 Then <B>MPlayer</B> always uses <B>ffdivx/ffodivx</B> to decode | |
155 <B>DivX/DivX4</B> files, and libmpeg2 for MPEG1/2 . With this and my Matrox G400, I can view even the | |
156 highest resolution DivX/DivX4 movies on my K6/2 500, without framedrop.</P> | |
1612 | 157 |
158 | |
1785 | 159 <P><B><A NAME=2.1.2.3>2.1.2.3. Hardware AC3 decoding</A></B></P> |
1688 | 160 |
161 <P>You'll need an AC3 capable soundcard, with digital out (SP/DIF). The | |
162 card's driver must support the AFMT_AC3 format (like SB Live! does). | |
163 Connect your AC3 decoder to the SP/DIF output, and use the '-ac hwac3' | |
1987 | 164 option. It may or may not work (experimental). (probably won't...)</P> |
1688 | 165 |
166 | |
1682 | 167 <P><B><A NAME=2.1.4>2.1.4. Codec importing howto</A></B></P> |
168 | |
169 <P><B><A NAME=2.1.4.1>2.1.4.1. VFW codecs</A></B></P> | |
170 | |
171 <P>VfW (Video for Windows) is the old Video API for Windows. Its codecs have | |
172 the .DLL or (rarely) .DRV extension. | |
173 If <B>MPlayer</B> fails with your AVI:</P> | |
174 | |
175 <P> <CODE>UNKNOWN video codec: HFYU (0x55594648)</CODE></P> | |
1612 | 176 |
1682 | 177 <P>It means your AVI is encoded with a codec which has the HFYU fourcc (HFYU = |
178 HuffYUV codec, DIV3 = DivX Low Motion, etc...). Now that we know this, we'll | |
179 have to find out which DLL Windows loads in order to play this file. In our | |
180 case, the system.ini contains this (with many others):</P> | |
1612 | 181 |
1682 | 182 <P> <CODE>VIDC.HFYU=huffyuv.dll</CODE></P> |
183 | |
184 <P>So we'll need the huffyuv.dll file. Note that the audio codecs are specified | |
185 with the MSACM prefix:</P> | |
186 | |
187 <P> <CODE>msacm.l3acm=L3codeca.acm</CODE></P> | |
1612 | 188 |
189 | |
1682 | 190 <P>This is the MP3 codec. |
191 So, now we have all the info needed (fourcc, codec file, sample AVI), submit | |
192 your codec support request in mail, and upload these files to the FTP:</P> | |
1612 | 193 |
1869 | 194 <P> <CODE>ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming/[codecname]/</CODE></P> |
1612 | 195 |
196 | |
1682 | 197 <P><B><A NAME=2.1.4.2>2.1.4.2. DirectShow codecs</A></B></P> |
1612 | 198 |
1682 | 199 <P>DirectShow is the newer Video API, which is even worse than its predecessor. |
200 Things are harder with DirectShow, since | |
201 <UL> | |
202 <LI>system.ini doesn't contain the needed information, instead it's stored in | |
203 the registry :( | |
204 <LI>we'll need the GUID of the codec. | |
205 </UL></P> | |
1612 | 206 |
1682 | 207 <P>So let's search that goddamn registry.. |
208 <UL> | |
209 <LI>Start 'regedit' | |
210 <LI>press ctrl-f, disable the first two checkbox, and enable the third. Type | |
211 the fourcc of the codec. (for ex.: TM20) | |
212 <LI>you should see a field which contains the path and filename | |
213 (for ex. : C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\TM20DEC.AX) | |
214 <LI>now that we have the file, we'll need the GUID. Try searching again, but | |
215 now we'll search for the codec's name, not the fourcc. Its name can be acquired | |
216 when Media Player is playing that file, by checking File/Properties/Advanced. | |
217 If not, bad luck ;) Try guessing. | |
218 (for ex. search for : TrueMotion) | |
219 <LI>if found (in registry), there should be a FriendlyName field, and a CLSID | |
220 field. Write down that 16 byte of CLSID, this is the GUID required by us. | |
221 </UL></P> | |
222 | |
223 <P>NOTE: if searching fails, try to enable all the checkboxes.. you may have | |
224 false hits, but maybe you'll have the right, too...</P> | |
225 <P>NOTE: dump that M$ shit.</P> | |
1612 | 226 |
227 | |
1682 | 228 <P>So, now we have all the info needed (fourcc, GUID, codec file, sample AVI), |
229 submit your codec support request in mail, and upload these files to the FTP:<BR> | |
1869 | 230 ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming/[codecname]/</P> |
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