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39 <B><I>We strongly discourage the use of gcc 2.96!!!</I></B><BR> |
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40 Read <A HREF="gcc-2.96-3.0.html">this</A> and <A HREF="users_against_developers.html">this</A> |
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43 bugs or ask for help on the mailing lists. We will <B>not</B> provide any support |
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44 in case you run into problems. |
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48 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT CLASS="text">Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><FONT CLASS="text"> |
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51 No, since there have been/are issues with these compilers as well.<BR> |
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52 Use the 2.95.x series for reliability (not <A HREF="gcc-2.96-3.0.html">2.96</A>). |
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79 Quoted from a <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2001-October/005351.html">mail</A> A'rpi sent to the mplayer-users list (the word 'ideg' is described below): |
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| 90 <P>And you clever guys come and flame us with gcc 2.96 and binary packages. | |
| 91 Instead of helping users or making patches to help solve problems.</P> | |
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| 93 <P>Half of our spare/free time is spent by answering silly mails here and | |
| 94 making newer tricks and checks to configure to avoid such mails.</P> | |
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100 <P>Conclusion: We can't be good. Half the people always will say we are bad.</P> |
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| 102 <P>Maybe we should close the project, make it closed source, commercial, and | |
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118 SDL output doesn't work or compile. The problem is ... |
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| 1682 | 129 Where did you install the SDL library? If you installed in /usr/local |
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| 1682 | 156 Are there rpm/deb/... packages of <B>MPlayer</B>? |
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| 1682 | 161 options and optimizations! |
| 162 Precompiled packages are COMPLETELY unsupported by the <B>MPlayer</B> team! | |
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| 1682 | 166 During 'make', MPlayer complains about X11 libraries. I don't understand, |
| 167 I DO have X installed!? | |
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| 1682 | 174 <CODE>$ ln -sf /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11</CODE><BR> |
| 175 <CODE>$ ln -sf /usr/X11R6/include/X11 /usr/include/X11</CODE><BR> | |
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| 1682 | 184 DGA, then there's a problem with your X installation. |
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196 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT CLASS="text">Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><FONT CLASS="text"> |
| 2001 | 197 I compiled MPlayer with libdvdcss/libdivxdecore support, but when |
| 1682 | 198 I try to start it, it says:<BR> |
| 2001 | 199 <CODE>> error while loading shared libraries: lib*.so.0: cannot load |
| 1682 | 200 shared object file: No such file or directory</CODE><BR> |
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203 Add <CODE>/usr/local/lib</CODE> to <CODE>/etc/ld.so.conf</CODE> and run <CODE>ldconfig</CODE>. |
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| 3774 | 225 Me too. :) |
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235 Read the CD/DVD section in <A HREF="cd-dvd.html">this document</A>. |
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| 5700 | 253 Example: <CODE><FONT CLASS="text">A: 2.1 V: 2.2 A-V: -0.167 ct: 0.042 57/57 41% 0% 2.6% 0 4 49%</CODE><BR> |
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| 1682 | 256 <LI>V: video position in seconds |
| 257 <LI>A-V: audio-video difference in seconds (delay) | |
| 258 <LI>ct: total A-V sync correction done | |
| 259 <LI>frames played (counting from last seek) | |
| 5700 | 260 <LI>frames decoded (counting from last seek) |
| 261 <LI>video codec cpu usage in percent (for slices and DR this includes video_out) | |
| 262 <LI>video_out cpu usage | |
| 1682 | 263 <LI>audio codec cpu usage in percent |
| 264 <LI>frames needed to drop to maintain A-V sync | |
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| 5700 | 278 Why is video_out cpu usage zero (0%) for some files? |
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| 1682 | 294 Are there any mailing lists on MPlayer? |
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296 Yes! See the bottom of the info page on |
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297 <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/info.html">our homepage</A> to subscribe! |
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| 1682 | 318 Umm, what is "IdegCounter"? |
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| 1682 | 334 LIRC doesn't work, because ... |
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335 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT CLASS="text">A:</TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text"> |
| 5700 | 336 Are you sure you are using <CODE>mplayer</CODE> instead of <CODE>mplayer_lirc</CODE>? |
| 337 Note that it was <CODE>mplayer_lirc</CODE> for long time, including the 0.60 release, but recently | |
| 338 changed back to <CODE>mplayer</CODE>. | |
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| 1682 | 342 Subtitles are very nice, the most beautiful I've ever seen, but they slow |
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346 <CODE>#undef FAST_OSD</CODE> with <CODE>#define FAST_OSD</CODE>. Then recompile. |
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| 1682 | 350 The OSD is flickering! |
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351 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT CLASS="text">A:</TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text"> |
| 1682 | 352 You use a vo driver with single buffering (x11,xv). With xv, |
| 5700 | 353 use the <CODE>-double</CODE> option. Also try <CODE>-vop expand</CODE> |
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| 1682 | 363 But configure tells me "Checking for libavcodec ... no"! |
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| 2972 | 378 I can't access the GUI menu. I press right click, but I can't access any |
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| 2972 | 382 Start -> Settings -> Configuration -> Base Configuration<BR> |
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388 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT CLASS="text">A:</TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text"> |
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389 Use: <CODE>mplayer <options> <filename> < /dev/null &</CODE> |
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397 ... works with avifile/aviplay but doesn't with MPlayer. |
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410 Try the <CODE>-bps</CODE> or <CODE>-nobps</CODE> option. If it does not improve, |
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411 read <A HREF="bugreports.html">this</A> and upload the file to FTP. |
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417 Check <CODE>ldd /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE> output. If it contains<BR> |
| 1682 | 418 <CODE>libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4???????)</CODE><BR> |
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| 1682 | 420 <CODE>libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00??????)</CODE><BR> |
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421 then there is a problem with your kernel/libc. Maybe you are using some |
| 1682 | 422 security patches (for example Solar Designer's OpenWall patch) which |
| 423 forces loading libraries to very low addresses. | |
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426 or use <B>MPlayer</B>'s <CODE>-afm 1</CODE> option to disable using l3codeca.acm. |
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| 1682 | 430 My computer plays M$ DivX AVIs with resolutions ~ 640x300 and stereo mp3 |
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| 5700 | 433 Your machine is too slow or your soundcard driver is broken. Consult the documentation to see if you can improve |
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437 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT CLASS="text">Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><FONT CLASS="text"> |
| 1682 | 438 MPlayer dies with "MPlayer interrupted by signal 4 in module: decode_video". |
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439 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT CLASS="text">A:</TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text"> |
| 1682 | 440 Try running <B>MPlayer</B> on the machine you compiled on. Or recompile. Don't |
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446 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT CLASS="text">A:</TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text"> |
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447 Use the <CODE>-fsmode</CODE> switch. See example.conf or the man page. |
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| 1682 | 451 But it works with avifile! |
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452 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT CLASS="text">A:</TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text"> |
| 1682 | 453 So what? |
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456 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT CLASS="text">Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><FONT CLASS="text"> |
| 1682 | 457 Then avifile is better! |
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458 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT CLASS="text">A:</TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text"> |
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459 Then use avifile, it has a nice GUI and nice C++ code :) |
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462 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT CLASS="text">Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><FONT CLASS="text"> |
| 1682 | 463 I got this playing mpeg files: Can't find codec for video format 0x10000001! |
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464 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT CLASS="text">A:</TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text"> |
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465 You have an old version of codecs.conf at <CODE>~/.mplayer/</CODE>. Upgrade it |
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466 from <CODE>/etc/</CODE>.<BR> |
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| 1682 | 473 happens, after about one minute the video starts playing. |
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| 1682 | 475 The KDE arts sound daemon is blocking the sound device, either wait the time |
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476 until video starts or you disable the arts-daemon in kontrol center. If you want |
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| 1682 | 478 make sure your SDL can handle arts sound. Yet another option is to start |
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483 I have an AVI that produces a gray screen when played with <CODE>-vc odivx</CODE> |
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| 1682 | 486 It's not a DivX file, but an M$ MPEG4v3 . Update your codecs.conf. |
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490 When I play this movie I get video-audio desync and/or MPlayer crashes with the following message:<BR> |
| 1892 | 491 <CODE>DEMUXER: Too many (945 in 8390980 bytes) video packets in the buffer!</CODE> |
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492 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT CLASS="text">A:</TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text"> |
| 1892 | 493 This can have multiple reasons.<BR> |
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494 <UL> |
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497 <LI>If it is an AVI, maybe it has bad interleaving. Try the <CODE>-ni</CODE> option.</LI> |
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498 <LI>Your sound driver is buggy, or you use ALSA 0.5 with <CODE>-ao oss</CODE>. |
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499 See the <A HREF="sound.html">sound card section</A>.</LI> |
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500 <LI>The AVI has a bad header, try the <CODE>-nobps</CODE> option, and/or |
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501 <CODE>-mc 0</CODE>.</LI> |
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502 </UL> |
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505 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT CLASS="text">Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><FONT CLASS="text"> |
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506 I have an MJPEG file which works with other players but displays only a black |
| 2606 | 507 image in MPlayer. |
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508 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT CLASS="text">A:</TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text"> |
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509 Disable the Windows DLL in <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE>, or use the |
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510 <CODE>-vc ffmjpeg</CODE> option (compile MPlayer with libavcodec for this to work). |
| 2606 | 511 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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514 When I try to grab from my tuner, it works, but colors are strange. It's OK |
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| 3030 | 517 Your card probably misreports its colorspace capacity. Try with YUY2 instead |
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518 of default YV12 (see the <A HREF="documentation.html#2.5">TV input documentation</A>). |
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522 When I start playing, I get this message but everything seems fine:<BR> |
| 3053 | 523 <CODE>Linux RTC init: ioctl (rtc_pie_on): Permission denied</CODE> |
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525 You need root privileges to use the new timing code. For details see the |
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526 <A HREF="documentation.html#1.3">installation section</A> of the documentation. |
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| 3162 | 530 I have A/V sync problems. Some of my AVIs play fine, but some play with |
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533 You have a buggy sound card/driver. Most likely it's fixed at 44100Hz, and |
| 5700 | 534 you try to play a file which has 22050Hz audio. Try the resample audio plugin. |
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538 All the WMV (or other..) files I play create a green/gray window and there is |
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539 only sound! MPlayer prints:<BR> |
| 3192 | 540 <CODE>Detected video codec: [null] drv:0 (NULL codec (no decoding))</CODE> |
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542 Update your <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE>. |
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546 I get very strange percentage values (way too big) while playing files on my notebook. |
| 5016 | 547 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT CLASS="text">A:</TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text"> |
| 548 It's an effect of the power management / power saving system of your notebook | |
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| 5016 | 550 notebook. |
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557 This is again a power management effect (see above). Plug the external power connector |
| 5016 | 558 in <b>before</b> you power on your notebook. |
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| 1682 | 570 It works only if running as root! It's a DGA limitation. |
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571 You should become root (<CODE>su -</CODE>), and try again. |
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572 Another solution is making <B>MPlayer</B> SUID root, but it's <B>NOT RECOMMENDED!</B><BR> |
| 1682 | 573 <CODE>chown root /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE><BR> |
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574 <CODE>chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE><BR> |
| 1682 | 575 <CODE>chmod +s /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE><BR> |
| 576 <B>!!!! BUT STAY TUNED !!!!</B><BR> | |
| 577 This is a *BIG* security risk! *NEVER* do this on a server or on a computer | |
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579 privileges through SUID root MPlayer!!!<BR> |
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| 1682 | 584 When using Xvideo, my Voodoo 3/Banshee says:<BR> |
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585 <CODE>X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)<BR> |
| 1682 | 586 Major opcode of failed request: 147 (MIT-SHM)<BR> |
| 587 Minor opcode of failed request: 1 (X_ShmAttach)<BR> | |
| 588 Serial number of failed request: 26<BR> | |
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591 The "tdfx" driver in XFree86 4.0.2/4.0.3 had this bug. This was solved by |
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595 or use CVS DRI. |
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599 When using Xvideo, I can't play DivX AVIs with my Voodoo 3/Banshee! |
| 1682 | 600 It says:<BR> |
| 601 ...<BR> | |
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| 1682 | 606 See the previous answer. |
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608 Since 0.18pre4 we support libavcodec from the FFmpeg package. It contains |
| 1682 | 609 a C language DivX and OpenDivX decoder. The DivX decoder uses YV12 format |
| 610 for output, thus it should work for you. Compile in libavcodec support. | |
| 611 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
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616 Your OpenGL driver doesn't support dynamic texture changes (glTexSubImage). |
| 3858 | 617 It's known not to work with nVidia's binary mess. |
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620 it will not work with 3DFX cards because of the 256x256 texture size limit. |
| 1682 | 621 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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624 I have an nVidia TNT/TNT2 card, and I have a band with strange colors, |
| 1682 | 625 right under the movie! Whose fault is this? |
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627 This is a bug of nVidia's binary X driver. These bugs appear ONLY with the |
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628 TNT/TNT2 cards, and we can't do anything about it. To fix the problem, upgrade |
| 5700 | 629 to the latest nVidia binary driver version. If still bad, complain to nVidia! |
| 1682 | 630 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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633 I have an nVidia XYZ card, and when I click on the GUI's display window to toggle |
| 2065 | 634 displaying the GUI panel, a black square appears where I clicked. I have |
| 635 the newest driver. | |
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637 Yes, nVidia corrected a previous bug (above), and introduced a new one. Let's |
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| 2065 | 641 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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643 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT CLASS="text">Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><FONT CLASS="text"> |
| 3343 | 644 When I use the GUI with SDL video output, a second video window is created. |
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646 Known, don't use SDL for the GUI yet. |
| 3343 | 647 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
| 648 | |
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650 Oh the world is cruel ...! SDL has only <CODE>x11</CODE> target, but not |
| 5498 | 651 <CODE>xv</CODE>! |
| 652 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT CLASS="text">A:</TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text"> | |
| 653 Try that <CODE>x11</CODE> target again. Now try <CODE>-vo x11 -fs -zoom</CODE>. | |
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654 See the difference? No?! OK, here comes the enlightenment: SDL's |
| 5498 | 655 <CODE>x11</CODE> target uses xv when available, you don't have to worry about |
| 5700 | 656 it ... Note: you can force/disable Xv via SDL using <CODE>-forcexv<CODE> and <CODE>-noxv</CODE> |
| 5498 | 657 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> |
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| 2153 | 664 Is there a hint on how to watch RealMedia movies in MPlayer? |
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665 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT CLASS="text">A:</TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text"> |
| 2153 | 666 There's no way to do it. Therefore this format deserves to die in flames. |
| 1682 | 667 Theoretically you can reverse engineer Real codecs built for Linux (they |
| 668 are available as .so files), but in practice that's really difficult, even | |
| 669 if you know how the compiler used by Real is making assembler code. | |
| 670 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
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674 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT CLASS="text">A:</TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text"> |
| 3857 | 675 This won't be done. It was, but then it messed up A/V sync. Feel free to |
| 2859 | 676 implement it, and send a patch. Don't ask for it. |
| 677 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
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680 Where is the Windows version? |
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682 It's not released, and won't be. Look around the Windows scene (open source |
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683 ASF parsers, open source ASF encoders, etc) and you'll know why. We don't |
| 3053 | 684 want to go to jail. |
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689 What card do you suggest me to buy? |
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691 It's for your information only but our criteria are: |
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693 Speed:<BR> |
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694 This parameter can be computed easily: |
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695 <OL> |
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696 <LI>Which movies do you plan to watch?</LI> |
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698 <LI><B>MPEG1:</B> 320x200@32=256000<BR> |
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720 <LI><B>DIMM</B> - Good if your video card has 128-bit memory access.</LI> |
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733 AnandTech</a> - Video Card Roundup - DVD Quality, Features & Performance |
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736 <B>Working</B> features under Linux:<BR> |
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739 But for <B>Linux</B> users there are currently only a few vendors which have more |
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740 or less advanced driver support:<BR><BR> |
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742 <table BORDER=1 COLS=5 WIDTH="100%"> |
| 3489 | 743 <tr> |
| 744 <td> </td> | |
| 745 | |
| 746 <td> | |
| 5700 | 747 <center>Matrox Gxxx</center> |
| 3489 | 748 </td> |
| 749 | |
| 750 <td> | |
| 5700 | 751 <center>ATI m64/r128/radeon</center> |
| 3489 | 752 </td> |
| 753 | |
| 754 <td> | |
| 5700 | 755 <center>nVidia tnt/geforce</center> |
| 3489 | 756 </td> |
| 757 | |
| 758 <td> | |
| 5700 | 759 <center>S3 Virge/Savage</center> |
| 3489 | 760 </td> |
| 761 </tr> | |
| 762 | |
| 763 <tr> | |
| 764 <td>Driver's provider</td> | |
| 765 | |
| 5700 | 766 <td>OEM and enthusiasts</td> |
| 3489 | 767 |
| 5700 | 768 <td>OEM and enthusiasts</td> |
| 3489 | 769 |
| 5700 | 770 <td>OEM or enthusiasts</td> |
| 3489 | 771 |
| 772 <td>enthusiasts</td> | |
| 773 </tr> | |
| 774 | |
| 775 <tr> | |
| 776 <td>Driver's quality</td> | |
| 777 | |
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| 3489 | 781 |
| 5700 | 782 <td>buggy/unstable (X11 only)</td> |
| 3489 | 783 |
| 5700 | 784 <td>slow (X11 only)</td> |
| 3489 | 785 </tr> |
| 786 | |
| 787 <tr> | |
| 788 <td>VIDEO OVERLAY</td> | |
| 789 | |
| 790 <td></td> | |
| 791 | |
| 792 <td></td> | |
| 793 | |
| 794 <td></td> | |
| 795 | |
| 796 <td></td> | |
| 797 </tr> | |
| 798 | |
| 799 <tr> | |
| 800 <td>BES and YV2RGB</td> | |
| 801 | |
| 802 <td>YES</td> | |
| 803 | |
| 804 <td>YES</td> | |
| 805 | |
| 806 <td>YES</td> | |
| 807 | |
| 808 <td>YES</td> | |
| 809 </tr> | |
| 810 | |
| 811 <tr> | |
| 812 <td>scaling filters</td> | |
| 813 | |
| 814 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 815 | |
| 816 <td>YES</td> | |
| 817 | |
| 818 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 819 | |
| 820 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 821 </tr> | |
| 822 | |
| 823 <tr> | |
| 824 <td>adaptive deinterlace</td> | |
| 825 | |
| 5700 | 826 <td>N/A</td> |
| 3489 | 827 |
| 828 <td>YES</td> | |
| 829 | |
| 830 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 831 | |
| 832 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 833 </tr> | |
| 834 | |
| 835 <tr> | |
| 836 <td>Video equalizer (hue, contrast, saturation, color correction)</td> | |
| 837 | |
| 5700 | 838 <td>YES</td> |
| 3489 | 839 |
| 5700 | 840 <td>YES</td> |
| 3489 | 841 |
| 5700 | 842 <td>GeForce only</td> |
| 3489 | 843 |
| 844 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 845 </tr> | |
| 846 | |
| 847 <tr> | |
| 848 <td>Alpha blending, color and video keys</td> | |
| 849 | |
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| 3489 | 853 |
| 854 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 855 | |
| 856 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 857 </tr> | |
| 858 | |
| 859 <tr> | |
| 860 <td>Video capture</td> | |
| 861 | |
| 5700 | 862 <td>YES (Marvel)</td> |
| 3489 | 863 |
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| 3489 | 865 |
| 866 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 867 | |
| 868 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 869 </tr> | |
| 870 | |
| 871 <tr> | |
| 872 <td>TV-out</td> | |
| 873 | |
| 5700 | 874 <td>G400 only</td> |
| 3489 | 875 |
| 876 <td>YES</td> | |
| 877 | |
| 878 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 879 | |
| 880 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 881 </tr> | |
| 882 </table> | |
| 883 | |
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886 G550 do not necessarily have this feature.<BR> |
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891 <P><B>ANYWAY - THE MPLAYER TEAM DOESN'T ACCEPT ANY CLAIMS IF AFTER READING THIS |
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896 the S3 Virge too slow for them?<BR> |
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897 <B>A:</B> Due to its SIMM memory.</P> |
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| 4398 | 922 You have to specify the <CODE>-sid</CODE> option correctly! |
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| 4116 | 928 Upgrade DivX4Linux. |
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| 4116 | 942 |
| 1682 | 943 </TABLE> |
| 1612 | 944 |
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