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5 <TITLE>Documentation - MPlayer - The Movie Player for Linux</TITLE>
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14 <H2 ALIGN="center">&copy; 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (A'rpi/ESP-team)<BR>
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17 <P ALIGN="center">[ English ]
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31 <UL>
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32 <LI><A HREF="#reading">0. How to read this documentation</A></LI>
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33 <LI><A HREF="#introduction">1. Introduction</A>
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35 <LI><A HREF="#history">1.1 History</A></LI>
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36 <LI><A HREF="#installation">1.2 Installation</A></LI>
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38 <LI><A HREF="#subtitles_osd">1.4 Subtitles and OSD</A>
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40 <LI><A HREF="#mpsub">1.4.1 MPlayer's own subtitle format (MPsub)</A></LI>
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41 <LI><A HREF="#install_osd">1.4.2 Installing OSD and subtitles</A></LI>
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42 <LI><A HREF="#menu">1.4.3 OSD Menu</A></LI>
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48 <LI><A HREF="#features">2. Features</A>
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50 <LI><A HREF="formats.html">2.1 Supported formats</A>
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52 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#video_formats">2.1.1 Video formats</A>
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57 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#mov">2.1.1.4 QuickTime/MOV files</A></LI>
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59 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#fli">2.1.1.6 FLI files</A></LI>
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60 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#real">2.1.1.7 RealMedia (RM) files</A></LI>
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61 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#nuppelvideo">2.1.1.8 NuppelVideo files</A></LI>
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62 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#yuv4mpeg">2.1.1.9 yuv4mpeg files</A></LI>
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71 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#audio_formats">2.1.2 Audio formats</A>
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78 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#cdda">2.1.2.6 CD audio</A></LI>
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125 <LI><A HREF="video.html#normal">2.3.1.2 Video outputs for traditional video cards</A>
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134 <LI><A HREF="video.html#xv_trident">2.3.1.2.1.6 Trident cards</A></LI>
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158 </UL>
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195 <LI><A HREF="sound.html#af_panning">2.3.2.3.7 Panning filter</A></LI>
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197 <LI><A HREF="sound.html#af_surround">2.3.2.3.9 Surround-sound decoder</A></LI>
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225 <LI><A HREF="#edl_making">2.5.2 Making an EDL file</A></LI>
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242 <LI><A HREF="#slave">3.2.3 Slave mode</A></LI>
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251 <LI><A HREF="cd-dvd.html#dvd">4.2 DVD playback</A></LI>
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252 <LI><A HREF="cd-dvd.html#vcd">4.3 VCD playback</A></LI>
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258 <LI><A HREF="faq.html#compilation">5.2 Compilation</A></LI>
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259 <LI><A HREF="faq.html#general">5.3 General questions</A></LI>
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260 <LI><A HREF="faq.html#playback">5.4 Playback problems</A></LI>
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273 <LI><A HREF="#arm">6.1.3 ARM</A></LI>
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278 <LI><A HREF="#freebsd">6.2.1 FreeBSD</A></LI>
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279 <LI><A HREF="#openbsd">6.2.2 OpenBSD</A></LI>
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280 </UL>
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281 </LI>
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282 <LI><A HREF="#solaris">6.3 Solaris</A></LI>
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283 <LI><A HREF="#sgi">6.4 Silicon Graphics / Irix</A></LI>
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284 <LI><A HREF="#qnx">6.5 QNX</A></LI>
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285 <LI><A HREF="#windows">6.6 Windows</A></LI>
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286 <UL>
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287 <LI><A HREF="#cygwin">6.6.1 Cygwin</A></LI>
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288 <LI><A HREF="#mingw">6.6.2 MinGW</A></LI>
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289 </UL>
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290 </UL>
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291 </LI>
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292 <LI><A HREF="encoding.html">7. Encoding with MEncoder</A>
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293 <UL>
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294 <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#2pass">7.1 Encoding 2 or 3-pass MPEG-4 ("DIVX")</A></LI>
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295 <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#mpeg">7.2 Encoding to MPEG format</A></LI>
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296 <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#rescaling">7.3 Rescaling movies</A></LI>
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297 <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#copying">7.4 Stream copying</A></LI>
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298 <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#fixing">7.5 Fixing AVIs with broken index</A></LI>
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299 <UL>
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300 <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#appending">7.5.1 Appending multiple AVI files</A></LI>
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301 </UL>
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302 <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#libavcodec">7.6 Encoding with the libavcodec codec family</A></LI>
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303 <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#image_files">7.7 Encoding from multiple input image files (JPEGs or PNGs)</A></LI>
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304 <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#vobsub">7.8 Extracting DVD subtitles to a Vobsub file</A></LI>
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305 <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#aspect">7.9 Preserving aspect ratio</A></LI>
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306 <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#custommatrices">7.10 Custom inter/intra matrices</A></LI>
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307 </UL>
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308 </LI>
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309 <LI><A HREF="#mailing_lists">Appendix A - Mailing lists</A></LI>
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310 <LI><A HREF="bugreports.html">Appendix B - How to report bugs</A></LI>
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311 <LI><A HREF="#known_bugs">Appendix C - Known bugs</A></LI>
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312 <LI><A HREF="skin.html">Appendix D - MPlayer skin format</A>
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313 <UL>
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314 <LI><A HREF="skin.html#overview">D.1 Overview</A>
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315 <UL>
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316 <LI><A HREF="skin.html#directories">D.1.1 Directories</A></LI>
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317 <LI><A HREF="skin.html#images">D.1.2 Images</A></LI>
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318 <LI><A HREF="skin.html#components">D.1.3 Skin components</A></LI>
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319 <LI><A HREF="skin.html#files">D.1.4 Files</A></LI>
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320 </UL>
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321 </LI>
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322 <LI><A HREF="skin.html#skinfile">D.2 The skin file</A>
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323 <UL>
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324 <LI><A HREF="skin.html#mainwindow">D.2.1 Main window and playbar</A></LI>
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325 <LI><A HREF="skin.html#subwindow">D.2.2 Subwindow</A></LI>
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326 <LI><A HREF="skin.html#skinmenu">D.2.3 Skin menu</A></LI>
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327 </UL>
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328 </LI>
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329 <LI><A HREF="skin.html#fonts">D.3 Fonts</A>
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330 <UL>
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331 <LI><A HREF="skin.html#symbols">D.3.1 Symbols</A></LI>
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332 </UL>
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333 </LI>
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334 <LI><A HREF="skin.html#guimessages">D.4 GUI messages</A></LI>
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335 </UL>
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336 </LI>
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337 <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html">Appendix E - Developer Cries</A>
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338 <UL>
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339 <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#gcc">E.1 GCC 2.96</A></LI>
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340 <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#binary">E.2 Binary distribution</A></LI>
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341 <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#nvidia">E.3 nVidia</A></LI>
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342 <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#barr">E.4 Joe Barr</A></LI>
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343 </UL>
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344 </LI>
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345 <LI><A HREF="../tech/patches.txt">Appendix F - How to send patches</A></LI>
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346 </UL>
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348 <HR>
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352 <H1><A NAME="reading">0. How to read this documentation</A></H1>
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353
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354 <P>If you are a first-time installer: be sure to read everything from here to
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355 the end of the Installation section, and follow the links you will find. If
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356 you have any other questions, return to the Table of Contents and
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357 search for the topic, read the <A HREF="faq.html">FAQ</A>, or try grepping
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358 through the files. Most questions should be answered somewhere here and the
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359 rest has probably already been asked on our
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360 <A HREF="#mailing_lists">mailing lists</A>. Check the
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361 <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch">archives</A>, there is a
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362 lot of valuable information to be found there. And for another good advice,
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363 let me quote Chris Phillips from the
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364 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/">mplayer-users</A>
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365 mailing list:</P>
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366
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367 <BLOCKQUOTE>
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368 I said a while ago that there is such a difference between a newbie and
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369 a dumbass. No matter what you actually know about a system (linux, cars,
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370 girls :D) you should ALWAYS be able to take a step back and be objective,
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371 otherwise, you're just dumb IMHO. A girl i live with assumed the vacuum
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372 cleaner was broken because it didn't suck things up. never thought to change
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373 the bag, becasue she'd never done it before... now that's just stupid, not a
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374 case of simply not knowing what to do... Simply not being that familiar with
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375 your surroundings is no excuse for a) laziness and b) ignorance. So many
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376 people seem to see the word "error" and then stop... few seem to actually
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377 read the words on the OTHER side of the colon.
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378 </BLOCKQUOTE>
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379
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380
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381 <H1><A NAME="introduction">1. Introduction</A></H1>
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383
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384 <P>MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices, and
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385 <B>non-x86</B> CPUs, see the <A HREF="#ports">ports section</A>). It plays most
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386 MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg,
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387 FILM, RoQ, PVA, Matroska files, supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and
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388 Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch <B>VideoCD</B>, <B>SVCD</B>, <B>DVD</B>,
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389 <B>3ivx</B>, <B>RealMedia</B>, <B>Sorenson</B>, <B>Theora</B> and <B>DivX</B>
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390 movies too (and you don't need the avifile
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391 library at all!). Another big feature of MPlayer is the wide range of
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392 supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev,
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393 AAlib, DirectFB, but you can also use GGI and SDL (and this way all their
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394 drivers) and some lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon,
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395 Mach64, Permedia3) too! Most
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396 of them supports software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in
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397 fullscreen. MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG
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398 decoder boards, such as the <B><A HREF="video.html#dvb">DVB</A></B> and
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399 <B><A HREF="video.html#dxr3">DXR3/Hollywood+</A></B>. And what about the nice big antialiased
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400 shaded subtitles (<B>10 supported types</B>) with European/ISO 8859-1,2
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401 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic, Korean fonts, and the onscreen
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402 display (OSD)?</P>
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404 <P>The player is rock solid playing damaged MPEG files (useful for some VCDs),
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405 and it plays bad AVI files which are unplayable with the famous
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406 windows media player. Even AVI files without index chunk are playable, and
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407 you can temporarily rebuild their indexes with the <CODE>-idx</CODE> option, or
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408 permanently with MEncoder, thus enabling seeking!
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409 As you see, stability and quality are the most important things,
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410 but the speed is also amazing.</P>
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412 <P>MEncoder (MPlayer's Movie Encoder) is a simple movie encoder,
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413 designed to encode MPlayer-playable movies
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414 (<B>AVI/ASF/OGG/DVD/VCD/VOB/MPG/MOV/VIV/FLI/RM/NUV/NET/PVA</B>) to other
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415 MPlayer-playable formats (see below). It can encode with various codecs, like
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416 <B>DivX4</B> (1 or 2 passes), libavcodec,
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417 <B>PCM</B>/<B>MP3</B>/<B>VBR MP3</B> audio. Also has powerful plugin system
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418 for video manipulation.</P>
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419
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420 <H4>MEncoder features</H4>
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421
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422 <UL>
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423 <LI>encoding from the wide range of fileformats and decoders of MPlayer</LI>
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424 <LI>encoding to all the codecs of ffmpeg's
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425 <A HREF="codecs.html#libavcodec">libavcodec</A></LI>
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426 <LI>video encoding from <B>V4L compatible TV tuners</B></LI>
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427 <LI>encoding/multiplexing to interleaved AVI files with proper index</LI>
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428 <LI>creating files from external audio stream</LI>
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429 <LI>1, 2 or 3 pass encoding</LI>
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430 <LI><B>VBR</B> MP3 audio - <B>IMPORTANT NOTE:</B> VBR MP3 audio doesn't
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431 always play nicely on Windows players!</LI>
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432 <LI>PCM audio</LI>
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433 <LI>stream copying</LI>
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434 <LI>input A/V synchronizing (PTS-based, can be disabled with -mc 0 option)</LI>
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435 <LI>FPS correction with <CODE>-ofps</CODE> option (useful when encoding
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436 29.97fps VOB to 24fps AVI)</LI>
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437 <LI>using our very powerful plugin system (crop, expand, flip, postprocess,
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438 rotate, scale, rgb/yuv conversion)</LI>
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439 <LI>can encode DVD/VOBsub <B>AND</B> text subtitles into the output file</LI>
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440 <LI>can rip DVD subtitles to Vobsub format</LI>
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441 </UL>
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442
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443 <H4>Planned features</H4>
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444
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445 <UL>
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446 <LI>even wider variety of available en/decoding formats/codecs
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447 (creating VOB files with DivX4/Indeo5/VIVO streams :)</LI>
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448 </UL>
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449
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450 <P>MPlayer and MEncoder can be distributed under the terms of the GNU General
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451 Public License Version 2.</P>
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452
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453
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454 <H2><A NAME="history">1.1 History</A></H2>
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455
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456 <P><I>"This began a year ago...
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457 I have tried lots of players under linux (mtv,xmps,dvdview,livid/oms,videolan,
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458 xine,xanim,avifile,xmmp) but they all have some problem. Mostly with special
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459 files or with audio/video sync. Most of them is unable to play both MPEG1,
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460 MPEG2 and AVI (DivX) files. Many players have image quality or speed problems
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461 too. So I've decided to write/modify one..."</I> A'rpi, 2001</P>
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462
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463 <UL>
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464 <LI><B>mpg12play v0.1-v0.3:</B> Sep 22-25, 2000<BR>
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465 The first try, hacked together in a half hour!
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466 I've used libmpeg3 from www.heroinewarrior.com up to the version 0.3,
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467 but there were image quality and speed problems with it.</LI>
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468 <LI><B>mpg12play v0.5-v0.87:</B> Sep 28-Oct 20, 2000<BR>
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469 Mpeg codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was a great stuff,
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470 but it was slow and was written in C++ (A'rpi hates C++!)</LI>
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471 <LI><B>mpg12play v0.9-v0.95pre5:</B> Oct 21-Nov 2, 2000<BR>
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472 Mpeg codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman &amp; Michel Lespinasse.
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473 It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect image quality and
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474 100% MPEG standard conformance.</LI>
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475 <LI><B>MPlayer v0.01:</B> Nov 11, 2000<BR>
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476 The first MPlayer.</LI>
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477 <LI><B>MPlayer v0.3-v0.9:</B> Nov 18-Dec 4, 2000<BR>
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478 It was a pack of two programs: mpg12play v0.95pre6 and my new simple AVI
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479 player 'avip' based on avifile's Win32 DLL loader.</LI>
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480 <LI><B>MPlayer v0.10:</B> Jan 1, 2001<BR>
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481 The MPEG and AVI player in a single binary!</LI>
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482 <LI><B>MPlayer v0.11pre series:</B><BR>
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483 Some new developers joined and from 0.11 the mplayer project is a team-work!
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484 Added .ASF file support, and OpenDivX (see www.projectmayo.com) en/decoding.</LI>
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485 <LI><B>MPlayer v0.17a "The IdegCounter"</B> Apr 27, 2001<BR>
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486 The release version of the 0.11pre after 4 months of heavy development!
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487 Try it, and be amazed! Thousands of new features added... and of course
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488 old code was improved too, bugs removed etc.</LI>
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489 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.18 "The BugCounter"</B> Jul 9, 2001<BR>
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490 2 months since 0.17 and here's a new release.. Completed ASF support,
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491 more subtitle formats, introduced libao (similar to libvo but to audio),
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492 even more stable than ever, and so on. It's a MUST!</LI>
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493 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.50 "The Faszom(C)ounter"</B> Oct 8, 2001<BR>
2002
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494 Hmm. Release again. Tons of new features, beta GUI version, bugs fixed,
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495 new vo and ao drivers, ported to many systems, including opensource DivX
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496 codecs and much more. Try it!</LI>
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497 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.60 "The RTFMCounter"</B> Jan 3, 2002<BR>
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498 MOV/VIVO/RM/FLI/NUV fileformats support, native CRAM, Cinepak, ADPCM codecs,
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499 and support for XAnim's binary codecs; DVD subtitles support, first
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500 release of MEncoder, TV grabbing, cache, liba52, countless fixes.</LI>
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501 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.90pre10 "The BirthdayCounter"</B> Nov 11, 2002<BR>
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502 Although this is not a release, I am going to mention it because it
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503 came out 2 years after MPlayer v0.01. Happy birthday, MPlayer!</LI>
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504 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.90rc1 "The CodecCounter"</B> Dec 7, 2002<BR>
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505 Again not a release, but after adding Sorenson 3 (QuickTime) and Windows
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506 Media 9 support, MPlayer is the world's first movie player with support
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507 for all known video formats!</LI>
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508 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.90 "The CounterCounter"</B> Apr 6, 2003<BR>
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509 After more than 1 year, we finally concluded that the code was indeed
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510 stable again, and ready to be published as a release. Unfortunately we
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511 forgot even to increase the version number, and other annoying bugs went
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512 in, so get ready for...</LI>
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513 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.91</B> Aug 13, 2003<BR>
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514 The above mentioned and lot of other bugs have been fixed. This is the
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515 latest stable version.</LI>
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516 <LI><B>MPlayer 1.0pre1 "Development" on the beach</B> Sep 1, 2003<BR>
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517 Altought this is not a stable release, I am going to mention it because it
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518 is the first pre version of the 1.0 series of MPlayer and it is intended
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519 to help the <I>big bug hunting party</I>. This is a huge step forward!</LI>
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520 <LI><B>MPlayer 1.0 "?"</B> Date yet unknown</LI>
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521 </UL>
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522
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523
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524 <H2><A NAME="installation">1.2 Installation</A></H2>
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525
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526 <P>In this chapter I'll try to guide you through the compiling and
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527 configuring process of MPlayer. It's not easy, but it won't necessarily
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528 be hard. If you experience a different behavior than what I explain, please
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529 search through this documentation and you'll find your answers. If you
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530 see links, please follow them and read carefully what they contain. It
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531 will take some time, but it IS worth it.</P>
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532
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533 <P>You need a fairly recent system. On Linux, 2.4.x kernels are recommended.</P>
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534
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535 <H4>Software requirements:</H4>
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536
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537 <UL>
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538 <LI><B>binutils</B> - suggested version is <B>2.11.x</B> . This program is
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539 responsible for generating MMX/3DNow!/etc instructions, thus very important.</LI>
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540 <LI><B>gcc</B> - suggested versions are: <B>2.95.3</B> (maybe <B>2.95.4</B>) and <B>3.3+</B>.
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541 <B>NEVER</B> use 2.96 or 3.0.x! They generate faulty code for MPlayer.
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542 If you decide to change gcc from 2.96, then don't decide in favor of 3.x
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543 just because it's newer! Early releases of 3.x were even more buggy than
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544 2.96. So downgrade to 2.95.x (downgrade libstdc++ too, other programs may
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545 need it) or don't up/downgrade at all (but in this case, be prepared for
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546 runtime problems). If you vote for 3.x, try to use the latest version,
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547 early releases had various bugs, so be sure you use at least 3.3, it's
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548 tested and working. For detailed information about gcc 2.96's bugs (that are
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549 still NOT fixed, they have been WORKED AROUND in MPlayer!), see the
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550 <A HREF="users_against_developers.html#gcc">gcc 2.96</A> section and the
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551 <A HREF="faq.html">FAQ</A>.</LI>
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552 <LI><B>XFree86</B> - suggested version is <B>always the newest (4.3)</B>.
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553 Normally, everyone wants this, as starting with XFree86 4.0.2, it contains
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554 the <A HREF="video.html#xv">XVideo</A> extension (somewhere referred to
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555 as <B>Xv</B>) which is needed to enable the hardware YUV acceleration (fast
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556 image display) on cards that support it.<BR>
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557 Make sure its <B>development package</B> is installed, too, otherwise
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558 it won't work.<BR>
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559 For some video cards you don't need XFree86. See list below.</LI>
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560 <LI><B>make</B> - suggested version is <B>always the newest</B> (at least 3.79.x). This
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561 usually isn't important.</LI>
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562 <LI><B>SDL</B> - it's not mandatory, but can help in some cases (bad audio,
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563 video cards that lag strangely with the xv driver). Always use the newest
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564 (beginning from 1.2.x).</LI>
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565 <LI><B>libjpeg</B> - optional JPEG decoder, used by -mf and some QT MOV files.
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566 Useful for both MPlayer and MEncoder if you plan to work with jpeg files.</LI>
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567 <LI><B>libpng</B> - recommended and default (M)PNG decoder. Required for GUI.
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568 Useful for both MPlayer and MEncoder.</LI>
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569 <LI><B>lame</B> - recommended, needed for encoding MP3 audio with MEncoder,
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570 suggested version is <B>always the newest</B> (at least 3.90).</LI>
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571 <LI><B>libogg</B> - optional, needed for playing OGG file format.</LI>
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572 <LI><B>libvorbis</B> - optional, needed for playing OGG Vorbis audio.</LI>
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573 <LI><B><A HREF="http://www.live.com/mplayer/">LIVE.COM Streaming Media</A></B>
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574 - optional, needed for playing RTSP/RTP streams.</LI>
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575 <LI><B>directfb</B> - optional, from
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576 <A HREF="http://www.directfb.org">http://www.directfb.org</A></LI>
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577 <LI><B>cdparanoia</B> - optional, for CDDA support</LI>
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578 <LI><B>libfreetype</B> - optional, for TTF fonts support. At least 2.0.9 is
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579 required.</LI>
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580 <LI><B>libxmms</B> - optional, for XMMS input plugin support. At least 1.2.7 is
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581 required.</LI>
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582 <LI><B>libsmb</B> - optional, for Samba support.</LI>
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583 </UL>
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584
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585 <H4>Codecs:</H4>
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586
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587 <UL>
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588 <LI><B>libavcodec</B>: This codec package is capable of decoding
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589 H263/MJPEG/RV10/DivX3/DivX4/DivX5/MP41/MP42/WMV1/WMV2/SVQ1/SVQ3 encoded
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590 video streams and WMA (Windows Media Audio) v1/v2 audio streams, on
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591 multiple platforms. It is also known to be the fastest for this task.
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592 See the <A HREF="codecs.html#libavcodec">libavcodec</A> section for details.
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593 Features:<BR>
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594 <UL>
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595 <LI>gain decoding of videos mentioned above, on non-x86 machines</LI>
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596 <LI>encoding with most of the mentioned codecs</LI>
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597 <LI>this codec is the <B>fastest codec available</B> for DivX/3/4/5 and
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598 other MPEG4 types. Recommended!</LI>
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599 </UL>
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600 </LI>
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601 <LI><B>Win32 codecs</B>: If you plan to use MPlayer on x86 architecture, you
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602 will possibly need them. Download the Win32 codecs from our
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603 <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/">codecs page</A>
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604 and install them to <CODE>/usr/local/lib/codecs/</CODE> <B>BEFORE</B> compiling
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605 MPlayer, otherwise no Win32 support will be compiled!<BR>
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606 <B>Note:</B> the avifile project has a similar codecs package, but it differs
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607 from ours. If you want to use all supported codecs, then install our package
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608 (do not worry, avifile works with it without problems). Features:<BR>
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609 <UL>
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610 <LI>you need this if you want to play or encode for example movies recorded
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611 with various hardware compressors, like tuner cards, digital cameras
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612 (example: DV, ATI VCR, MJPEG)</LI>
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613 <LI>needed if you want to play <B>WMV9/WMA9 movies</B>.</LI>
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614 <LI>Not needed for old
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615 ASF's with MP41 or MP42 video (though VoxWare audio is frequent for these
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616 files - it's done by the Win32 codec), or WMV7. Also not needed
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617 for WMA (Windows Media Audio), libavcodec has opensource decoder
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618 for that.</LI>
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619 </UL>
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620 </LI>
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621 <LI><B>QuickTime codecs</B>: on x86 platforms these codecs are needed
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622 to decode RPZA, and other QuickTime video, and QDesign audio streams.
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623 Installation instructions can be found in the
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624 <A HREF="codecs.html#sorenson">Sorenson video codec</A> section.</LI>
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625 <LI><B>DivX4/DivX5</B>: information about this codec is available in the
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626 <A HREF="codecs.html#divx">DivX4/DivX5</A> section. You possibly don't want
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627 this codec as <B>libavcodec</B> (see above) is much faster and has better
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628 quality than this, for both decoding and encoding.<BR>
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629 Features:
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630 <UL>
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631 <LI>1 pass or 2 pass encoding with
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632 <A HREF="encoding.html">MEncoder</A></LI>
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633 <LI>can play old <B>DivX3</B> movies much faster than the Win32 DLL but
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634 slower than <B>libavcodec</B>!</LI>
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635 <LI>it's closed-source, and only an x86 version is available.</LI>
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636 </UL>
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637 </LI>
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638 <LI><B>XviD</B>: Open source encoding alternative to Divx4Linux<BR>
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639 Features:
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640 <UL>
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641 <LI>1 pass or 2 pass encoding with
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642 <A HREF="encoding.html">MEncoder</A></LI>
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643 <LI>it's open-source, so it's multiplatform.</LI>
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644 <LI>it's about 2 times faster than DivX4 when encoding - about the same
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645 quality</LI>
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646 </UL>
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647 </LI>
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648 <LI>The <A HREF="codecs.html#xanim">XAnim codecs</A> are the best (full
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649 screen, hardware YUV zoom) for decoding <B>3ivx</B> and Indeo 3/4/5 movies,
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650 and some old formats. And they are multiplatform, so this is the only way to
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651 play Indeo on non-x86 platforms (well, apart from using XAnim:). But for
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652 example Cinepak movies are best played with MPlayer's own Cinepak
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653 decoder!</LI>
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654 <LI>For <B>Ogg Vorbis</B> audio decoding you need to install
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655 <CODE>libvorbis</CODE> properly. Use deb/rpm packages if available, or
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656 compile from
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657 <A HREF="http://ogg.org/ogg/vorbis/download/vorbis_nightly_cvs.tgz">source</A>
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658 (this is a nightly updated tarball of Vorbis CVS).</LI>
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659 <LI>MPlayer can use the libraries of RealPlayer 8 or RealONE to play
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660 files with <B>RealVideo 2.0 - 4.0</B> video, and Sipro/Cook audio. See
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661 <A HREF="formats.html#real">RealMedia file format</A> section for
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662 installation instructions and more information.</LI>
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663 </UL>
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664
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665 <H4>Video Cards</H4>
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666
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667 <P>There are generally two kind of video cards. One kind (the newer cards) has
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668 <B>hardware scaling and YUV acceleration</B> support, the other cards don't.</P>
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669
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670 <H4>YUV cards</H4>
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671
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672 <P>They can display and scale (zoom) the picture to any size that fits in
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673 their memory, with <B>small CPU usage</B> (even when zooming), thus
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674 fullscreen playing is nice and very fast.</P>
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675
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676 <UL>
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677 <LI><B>Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 cards</B>: although a
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678 <A HREF="video.html#vidix">Vidix driver</A> is provided, it is recommended
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679 to use the mga_vid kernel module instead, for it works much better.
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680 Please see the <A HREF="video.html#mga_vid">mga_vid</A> section about its
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681 installation and usage. It is important to do these steps <I>before</I>
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682 compiling MPlayer, otherwise no mga_vid support will be built. Also
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683 check out the <A HREF="video.html#tv-out_matrox">Matrox TV-out</A> section.
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684 <U><B>If you don't use Linux</B></U>, your only possibility is the VIDIX
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685 driver: read the <A HREF="video.html#vidix">VIDIX</A> section.</LI>
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686 <LI><B>3Dfx Voodoo3/Banshee cards</B>: please see the
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687 <A HREF="video.html#tdfxfb">tdfxfb</A> section in order to gain big
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688 speedup. It is important to do these steps <B>before</B> compiling
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689 MPlayer, otherwise no 3Dfx support will be built. Also see the <A
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690 HREF="video.html#tv-out_voodoo">3dfx TV-out section</A>. If you use X, use
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691 <B>at least 4.2.0</B>, as the 3dfx Xv driver was broken in 4.1.0 and earlier
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692 releases.</LI>
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693 <LI><B>ATI cards</B>: <A HREF="video.html#vidix">Vidix driver</A> is
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694 provided for the following cards:
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695 <B>Radeon</B>, <B>Rage128</B>, <B>Mach64</B> (Rage XL/Mobility, Xpert98).
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696 Also see the <A HREF="video.html#tv-out_ati">ATI cards
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697 section</A> of the TV-out documentation, to know if you card's TV-out is
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698 supported under Linux/MPlayer.</LI>
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699 <LI><B>S3 cards</B>: the Savage and Virge/DX chips have hardware acceleration.
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700 Use as new XFree86 version as possible, older drivers are buggy. Savage chips
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701 have problems with YV12 display, see <A HREF="video.html#xv_s3">S3 Xv
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702 section</A> for details. Older, Trio cards have no, or slow hardware
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703 support.</LI>
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704 <LI><B>nVidia cards</B>: may or may not be good choice for video playing.
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705 If you do not have a GeForce2 (or newer) card, it's not likely to work
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706 without bugs.
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707 <B>The built-in nVidia driver in XFree86 does not support hardware YUV
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708 acceleration on all nVidia cards.</B> You have to download nVidia's
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709 closed-source drivers from nVidia.com. See the
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710 <A HREF="video.html#xv_nvidia">nVidia Xv driver</A> section for
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711 details. Please also check the <A HREF="video.html#tv-out_nvidia">nVidia
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712 TV-out section</A> if you wish to use a TV.</LI>
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713 <LI><B>3DLabs GLINT R3 and Permedia3</B>: a VIDIX driver is provided
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714 (pm3_vid). Please see the <A HREF="video.html#vidix">VIDIX</A> section for
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715 details.</LI>
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716 <LI><B>Other cards</B>: None of the above?
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717 <UL>
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718 <LI>Try if the XFree86 driver (and your card) supports hardware
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719 acceleration. See the <A HREF="video.html#xv">Xv section</A> for
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720 details.</LI>
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721 <LI>If it doesn't, then your card's video features aren't supported under
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722 your operating system :(<BR>
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723 If hardware scaling works under Windows, it doesn't mean it will work
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724 under Linux or other operating systems: it depends on the drivers. Most
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725 manufacturers neither make Linux drivers nor release specifications
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726 for their chips, so you are unlucky using their cards.
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727 See 'Non-YUV cards'.</LI>
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728 </UL>
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729 </LI>
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730 </UL>
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731
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732 <H4>Non-YUV cards</H4>
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733
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734 <P>Fullscreen playing can be achieved by either enabling <B>software scaling</B>
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735 (use the <CODE>-zoom</CODE> or <CODE>-vf scale</CODE>
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736 option, but I warn you: this is slow), or switching to a small resolution
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737 video mode, for example 352x288. If you don't have YUV acceleration, the
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738 latter method is recommended. Video mode switching can be enabled by
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parents: 6981
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739 using the <CODE>-vm</CODE> option and it works with the following drivers:</P>
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740
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741 <UL>
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742 <LI><B>using</B> XFree86: see the
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743 <A HREF="video.html#dga">DGA driver</A> and
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744 <A HREF="video.html#x11">X11 driver</A> sections for details. DGA is
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745 recommended! Also try DGA via SDL, sometimes it's better.</LI>
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746 <LI><B>not using</B> XFree86: try the drivers in the following order:
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747 <A HREF="video.html#vesa">vesa</A>,
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748 <A HREF="video.html#fbdev">fbdev</A>,
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749 <A HREF="video.html#svgalib">svgalib</A>,
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750 <A HREF="video.html#aalib">aalib</A>.</LI>
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751 </UL>
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752
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753 <H4>Some cards:</H4>
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754
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755 <UL>
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756 <LI><B>Cirrus Logic cards</B>:
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757 <UL>
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758 <LI>GD 7548: present on-board and tested in Compaq Armada 41xx notebook
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759 series.
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760 <UL>
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761 <LI>XFree86 3: works in 8/16bpp modes. However, the driver is
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762 dramatically slow and buggy in 800x600@16bpp.
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763 <B>Recommended: 640x480@16bpp</B></LI>
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764 <LI>XFree86 4: the Xserver freezes soon after start unless
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765 acceleration is disabled, but then the whole thing gets
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766 slower than XFree86 3. No XVideo.</LI>
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767 <LI>FBdev: framebuffer can be turned on with the <CODE>clgenfb</CODE>
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768 driver in the kernel, though for me it worked only in 8bpp, thus
427935644581 updates, fixes
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769 unusable. The clgenfb source had to be extended with the 7548 ID
427935644581 updates, fixes
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770 before compilation.</LI>
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771 <LI>VESA: the card is only VBE 1.2 capable, so VESA output can't be
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772 used. Can't be workarounded with UniVBE.</LI>
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773 <LI>SVGAlib: detects an older Cirrus chip. Usable but slow with
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774 <CODE>-bpp 8</CODE>.</LI>
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775 </UL>
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776 </LI>
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777 </UL>
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778 </LI>
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779 </UL>
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780
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781
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782 <H4>Sound cards:</H4>
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783
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784 <UL>
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785 <LI><B>Soundblaster Live!</B>: with this card you can use 4 or 6 (<B>5.1</B>)
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786 channels AC3 decoding instead of 2. Read the
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787 <A HREF="codecs.html#software_ac3">Software AC3 decoding</A> section.
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788 For hardware AC3 passthrough you <B>must</B> use ALSA 0.9 with OSS emulation!</LI>
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789 <LI><B>C-Media with SP/DIF out</B>: hardware AC3 passthrough is possible
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790 with these cards, see
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791 <A HREF="codecs.html#hardware_ac3">Hardware AC3 decoding</A> section.</LI>
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792 <LI>Features of <B>other cards</B> aren't supported by MPlayer.
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793 <U>It's very recommended to read the <A HREF="sound.html">sound card
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794 section</A>!</U></LI>
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795 </UL>
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796
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797 <H4>Features:</H4>
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798
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799 <UL>
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800 <LI>Decide if you need GUI. If you do, see the <A HREF="#gui">GUI section</A>
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801 before compiling.</LI>
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802 <LI>If you want to install MEncoder (our great all-purpose encoder),
6974
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803 see the <A HREF="encoding.html">MEncoder section</A>.</LI>
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804 <LI>If you have a V4L compatible <B>TV tuner</B> card, and wish to watch/grab
7814
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805 and encode movies with MPlayer, read the <A HREF="#tv">TV input</A>
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806 section.</LI>
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807 <LI>There is a neat <B>OSD Menu</B> support ready to be used. Check the
352b654c7787 updates
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parents: 8253
diff changeset
808 <A HREF="#menu">OSD Menu</A> section.</LI>
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809 </UL>
a2937bae0651 Expanded RTC section. It now explains how to allow RTC via /proc on newer
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810
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811 <P>Then build MPlayer:</P>
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812
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813 <PRE>
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814 ./configure
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815 make
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816 make install
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817 </PRE>
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818
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819 <P>At this point, MPlayer is ready to use. The
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820 <CODE>$PREFIX/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf</CODE> file is needed only when you
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821 want to change its properties, as the main binary contains an internal copy
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parents: 10445
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822 of it.<BR> Check if you have <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE> in your home directory
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parents: 10445
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823 (<CODE>~/.mplayer/codecs.conf</CODE>) left from old MPlayer versions, and
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824 remove it.</P>
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825
10402
703d1b700b71 Strings attached to codecs.conf explained.
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826 <P>Note that if you have a <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE> in <CODE>~/.mplayer/</CODE>,
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827 the builtin and system <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE> will be ignored completely.
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828 Do not do this unless you want to fiddle with MPlayer internals as this can
10458
b46878301e1e codecs.conf is obsoleted
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829 can cause many problems. If you want to change the codecs search order, use
10402
703d1b700b71 Strings attached to codecs.conf explained.
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830 the <CODE>-vc</CODE>, <CODE>-ac</CODE>, <CODE>-vfm</CODE>, or <CODE>-afm</CODE>
703d1b700b71 Strings attached to codecs.conf explained.
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diff changeset
831 options either on the command line or in your config file (see the manual
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832 page).</P>
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833
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834 <P><B>Debian users</B> can build a <CODE>.deb</CODE> package for themselves,
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835 it's very simple. Just exec <CODE>fakeroot debian/rules binary</CODE> in
7814
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836 MPlayer's root directory. See
7076
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837 <A HREF="documentation.html#debian">Debian packaging</A> for detailed
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838 instructions.</P>
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839
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840 <P><B>Always browse the output of <CODE>./configure</CODE></B>, and the
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841 <CODE>configure.log</CODE> file, they contain information about what will be
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842 built, and what will not. You may also want to view <CODE>config.h</CODE> and
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843 <CODE>config.mak</CODE> files.<BR>
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844 If you have some libraries installed, but not detected by
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845 <CODE>./configure</CODE>, then check if you also have the proper header files
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846 (usually the -dev packages) and their version matches. The
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847 <CODE>configure.log</CODE> file usually tells you what is missing.</P>
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848
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849 <P>Though not mandatory, the fonts should be installed in order to gain OSD,
8396
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850 and subtitle functionality. The recommended method is installing a TTF
e37572f8bc8c uh.. misc fixes
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851 font file and telling MPlayer to use it. See the
e37572f8bc8c uh.. misc fixes
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852 <A HREF="#install_osd">Subtitles and OSD</A> section for details.</P>
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853
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854
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855
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856 <H2><A NAME="gui">1.3 What about the GUI?</A></H2>
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857
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858 <P>The GUI needs GTK 1.2.x (it isn't fully GTK, but the panels are). The skins
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859 are stored in PNG format, so gtk, libpng (and their devel stuff, usually
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860 called gtk-dev and libpng-dev) has to be installed.
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861 You can build it by specifying <CODE>--enable-gui</CODE> during
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862 <CODE>./configure</CODE>. Then, to turn on GUI mode, you have to</P>
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863 execute the <CODE>gmplayer</CODE> binary.</LI>
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864 </UL>
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865
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866 <P>Currently you can't use the <CODE>-gui</CODE> option on the command line,
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867 due to technical reasons.</P>
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868
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869 <P>As MPlayer doesn't have a skin included, you have to download them if
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870 you want to use the GUI. See the
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871 <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html">download page</A>.
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872 They should be extracted to the usual system-wide directory
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873 (<CODE>$PREFIX/share/mplayer/Skin</CODE>), or to
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874 <CODE>$HOME/.mplayer/Skin</CODE>. MPlayer by default looks in these
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875 directories for a directory named <I>default</I>, but you can use the
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876 <CODE>-skin newskin</CODE> option, or the <CODE>skin=newskin</CODE> config
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877 file directive to use the skin in <CODE>*/Skin/newskin</CODE> directory.</P>
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878
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879
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880 <H2><A NAME="subtitles_osd">1.4 Subtitles and OSD</A></H2>
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881
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882 <P>
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883 MPlayer can display subtitles along with movie files. Currently the following
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884 formats are supported:</P>
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885 <UL>
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886 <LI>VobSub</LI>
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887 <LI>OGM</LI>
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888 <LI>CC (closed caption)</LI>
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889 <LI>Microdvd</LI>
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890 <LI>SubRip</LI>
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891 <LI>SubViewer</LI>
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892 <LI>Sami</LI>
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893 <LI>VPlayer</LI>
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894 <LI>RT</LI>
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895 <LI>SSA</LI>
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896 <LI>MPsub</LI>
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897 <LI>AQTitle</LI>
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898 <LI><A HREF="http://unicorn.us.com/jacosub/">JACOsub</A></LI>
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899 </UL>
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900
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901 <P>MPlayer can dump the previously listed subtitle formats (<B>except
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902 the three first</B>) into the following destination formats, with the given
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903 options:</P>
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904
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905 <UL>
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906 <LI>MPsub: <CODE>-dumpmpsub</CODE></LI>
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907 <LI>SubRip: <CODE>-dumpsrtsub</CODE></LI>
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908 <LI>Microdvd: <CODE>-dumpmicrodvdsub</CODE></LI>
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909 <LI>JACOsub: <CODE>-dumpjacosub</CODE></LI>
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910 <LI>Sami: <CODE>-dumpsami</CODE></LI>
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911 </UL>
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912
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913 <P>MEncoder can dump DVD subtitles into
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914 <A HREF="encoding.html#vobsub">VobSub</A> format.</P>
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915
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916 <P>The command line options differ slightly for the different formats:</P>
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917
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918 <H4>VobSub subtitles</H4>
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919
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920 <P>VobSub subtitles consist of a big (some megabytes) .SUB file, and optional
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921 .IDX and/or .IFO files.<BR>
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922 Usage: If you have files like <CODE>sample.sub</CODE>,
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923 <CODE>sample.ifo</CODE> (optional), <CODE>sample.idx</CODE> - you have to pass
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924 MPlayer the <CODE>-vobsub sample [-vobsubid &lt;id&gt;]</CODE> options (full
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925 path optional). The <CODE>-vobsubid</CODE> option is like <CODE>-sid</CODE>
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926 for DVDs, you can choose between subtitle tracks (languages) with it. In case
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927 that <CODE>-vobsubid</CODE> is omitted, MPlayer will try to use the languages
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diff changeset
928 given by the <CODE>-slang</CODE> option and fall back to the
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929 <CODE>langidx</CODE> item in the .IDX file to set the subtitle language. If
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930 that fails, there will be no subtitles.</P>
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931
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932 <H4>Other subtitles</H4>
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933
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934 <P>The other formats consist of a single text file containing timing,
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935 placement and text information.<BR>
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diff changeset
936 Usage: If you have a file like <CODE>sample.txt</CODE>, you have to pass the
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937 option <CODE>-sub sample.txt</CODE> (full path optional).</P>
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938
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939 <H4>Adjusting subtitle timing and placement:</H4>
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940
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941 <DL>
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942 <DT><CODE>-subdelay &lt;sec&gt;</CODE></DT>
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943 <DD>Delays subtitles by &lt;sec&gt; seconds. Can be negative.</DD>
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944
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945 <DT><CODE>-subfps &lt;rate&gt;</CODE></DT>
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946 <DD>Specify frame/sec rate of subtitle file (float number)</DD>
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947
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948 <DT><CODE>-subpos &lt;0 - 100&gt;</CODE></DT>
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949 <DD>Specify the position of subtitles.</DD>
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950 </DL>
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951
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952 <P>If you experience a growing delay between the movie and the subtitles when
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953 using a MicroDVD subtitle file, most likely the frame rate of the movie and
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954 the subtitle file are different.<BR> Please note that the MicroDVD subtitle
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955 format uses absolute frame numbers for its timing, and therefore the
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956 <CODE>-subfps</CODE> option cannot be used with this format. As
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957 MPlayer has no way to guess the frame rate of the subtitle file, you
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958 have to manually convert the frame rate. There is a little perl script in the
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959 <CODE>contrib</CODE> directory of the MPlayer FTP site to do this conversion
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960 for you.</P>
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961
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962 <P>MPlayer will try to guess the subtitle files you want to use when playing a
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963 movie. If, like in most cases, subtitle and movie files have the same name and
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964 are in the same place, you do not need to set the subtitle options. Just play
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965 the movie, MPlayer will handle the subtitles automatically.</P>
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966
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967 <P>About DVD subtitles, read the <A HREF="cd-dvd.html#dvd">DVD section</A>.</P>
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968
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969
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970 <H3><A NAME="mpsub">1.4.1 MPlayer's own subtitle format (MPsub)</A></H3>
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971
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972 <P>MPlayer introduces a new subtitle format called <B>MPsub</B>. It was
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973 designed by Gabucino. Basically its main feature is being
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974 <I>dynamically</I> time-based (although it has frame-based mode too). Example
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975 (from
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976 <A HREF="../tech/mpsub.sub">DOCS/tech/mpsub.sub</A>):</P>
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977
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978 <P><CODE><I>
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979 FORMAT=TIME<BR>
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980 # first number : wait this much after previous subtitle disappeared<BR>
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981 # second number : display the current subtitle for this many seconds<BR>
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982 <BR>
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983 15 3<BR>
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984 A long long, time ago...<BR>
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985 <BR>
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986 0 3<BR>
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987 in a galaxy far away...<BR>
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988 <BR>
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989 0 3<BR>
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990 Naboo was under an attack.<BR></I></CODE></P>
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991
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992 <P>So you see, the main goal was to <B>make subtitle
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993 editing/timing/joining/cutting easy</B>. And, if you - say - get an SSA
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994 subtitle but it's badly timed/delayed to your version of the movie, you
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995 simply do a <CODE>mplayer dummy.avi -sub source.ssa -dumpmpsub</CODE>.
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996 A <CODE>dump.mpsub</CODE> file will be created in the current directory,
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997 which will contain the source subtitle's text, but in <B>MPsub</B> format.
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998 Then you can freely add/subtract seconds to/from the subtitle.</P>
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999
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1000 <P>Subtitles are displayed with a technique called <B>'OSD', On Screen
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1001 Display</B>. OSD is used to display current time, volume bar, seek bar
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1002 etc.</P>
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1003
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1004 <H3><A NAME="install_osd">1.4.2 Installing OSD and subtitles</A></H3>
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1005
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1006 <P>You need an MPlayer font package to be able to use OSD/SUB feature.
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1007 There are many ways to get it:</P>
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1008
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1009 <UL>
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1010 <LI>using a TrueType (TTF) font, by the means of the <B>freetype</B>
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1011 library. Version 2.0.9 or greater is mandatory! Then you
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1012 have two methods:
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1013 <UL>
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1014 <LI>use the <CODE>-font /path/to/arial.ttf</CODE> option to specify
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1015 a TrueType font file on every occasion</LI>
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1016 <LI>create a symlink: <CODE>ln -s /path/to/arial.ttf ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf</CODE></LI>
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1017 </UL>
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1018 </LI>
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1019 <LI>download ready-to-use font packages from MPlayer site.
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1020 Note: Currently available fonts are limited for iso 8859-1/2 support,
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1021 but there are some other (including Korean, Russian, 8859-8 etc) fonts
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1022 at contrib/font section of FTP, made by users.<BR>
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1023 <BR>
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1024 Font should have appropriate font.desc file which maps unicode font
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1025 positions to the actual code page of the subtitles text. Other solution is
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1026 to have subtitles encoded in utf8 encoding and use <CODE>-utf8</CODE>
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1027 option or just name the subtitles file &lt;video_name&gt;.utf and have it
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1028 in the same dir as the video file. Recoding from different codepages to
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1029 utf8 could be done by using konwert (Debian) or iconv (Red Hat)
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1030 programs.<BR>
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1031 Some URLs:
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1032 <UL>
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1033 <LI><A HREF="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/fonts/">ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/fonts/</A> - ISO fonts</LI>
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1034 <LI><A HREF="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/fonts/">ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/fonts/</A> - various fonts by users</LI>
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1035 <LI><A HREF="http://realtime.ssu.ac.kr/~lethean/mplayer/">http://realtime.ssu.ac.kr/~lethean/mplayer/</A> - Korean fonts &amp; RAW plugin</LI>
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1036 </UL>
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1037 </LI>
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1038 <LI>use the font generator tool at TOOLS/subfont-c
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1039 It's a complete tool to convert from TTF/Type1/etc font to mplayer font pkg.
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1040 (read TOOLS/subfont-c/README for details)</LI>
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1041 <LI>use the font generator GIMP plugin at TOOLS/subfont-GIMP
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1042 (note: you must have HSI RAW plugin too, see URL below)</LI>
1987
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1043 </UL>
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1044
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1045 <P>If you chose non-TTF fonts, UNZIP the file you downloaded to <CODE>~/.mplayer</CODE> or
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1046 <CODE>$PREFIX/share/mplayer</CODE>. Then rename or symlink one of the extracted directories to
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1047 <CODE>font</CODE> (like: <CODE>ln -s ~/.mplayer/arial-24
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1048 ~/.mplayer/font</CODE>). Now you have to see a timer at the upper left corner
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1049 of the movie (switch it off with the "o" key).</P>
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1050
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1051
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1052 <P>OSD has 4 states: (switch with 'o')</P>
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1053
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1054 <P>(subtitles are <I>always enabled</I>, for disabling them please read the man
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1055 page)</P>
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1056
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1057 <UL>
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1058 <LI>volume bar + seek bar (default)</LI>
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1059 <LI>volume bar + seek bar + timer + file position percentage on seeking</LI>
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1060 <LI>volume bar + seek bar + timer + total duration of media</LI>
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1061 <LI>subtitles only</LI>
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1062 </UL>
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1063
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1064 <P>You can change default behaviour by setting <CODE>osdlevel=</CODE> variable
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1065 in config file, or the <CODE>-osdlevel</CODE> command line option.</P>
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1066
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1067
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1068 <H3><A NAME="menu">1.4.3 OSD menu</A></H3>
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1069
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1070 <P>MPlayer has a completely user definiable OSD Menu interface.</P>
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1071
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1072 <P><B>NOTE:</B> the Preferences menu is currently UNIMPLEMENTED!</P>
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1073
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1074 <H4>Installation</H4>
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1075
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1076 <OL>
9098
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1077 <LI>compile MPlayer by passing the <CODE>--enable-menu</CODE> parameters to
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1078 <CODE>./configure</CODE></LI>
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1079 <LI>make sure you have an OSD font installed</LI>
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1080 <LI>copy <CODE>etc/menu.conf</CODE> to your <CODE>.mplayer</CODE>
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1081 directory</LI>
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1082 <LI>copy <CODE>etc/input.conf</CODE> to your <CODE>.mplayer</CODE>
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1083 directory, or to the system-wide MPlayer config dir (default:
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1084 <CODE>/usr/local/etc/mplayer</CODE>)</LI>
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1085 <LI>check and edit <CODE>input.conf</CODE> to enable menu movement
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1086 keys (it is described there).</LI>
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1087 <LI>start MPlayer by the following example:<BR>
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1088 <CODE>$ mplayer -menu file.avi</CODE></LI>
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1089 <LI>push any menu key you defined</LI>
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1090 </OL>
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1091
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1092
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1093 <H2><A NAME="rtc">1.5 RTC</A></H2>
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1094
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1095 There are three timing methods in MPlayer.
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1096
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1097 <UL>
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1098 <LI><B>To use the old method</B>, you don't have to do anything. It uses
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1099 <CODE>usleep()</CODE> to tune A/V sync, with +/- 10ms accuracy. However
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1100 sometimes the sync has to be tuned even finer.</LI>
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1101 <LI><B>The new timer</B> code uses PC's RTC (Real Time Clock) for this task,
9425
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1102 because it has precise 1ms timers. It is automatically enabled when
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1103 available, but requires root privileges, a <I>setuid root</I>
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1104 MPlayer binary or a properly set up kernel.
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1105 <BR>
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1106 If you are running kernel 2.4.19pre8 or later you can adjust the maximum
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1107 RTC frequency for normal users through the <CODE>/proc</CODE> filesystem.
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1108 Use this command to enable RTC for normal users:
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1109 <P>
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1110 <CODE>echo 1024 &gt; /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq</CODE>
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1111 </P>
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1112 If you do not have such a new kernel, you can also change one line in
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1113 <CODE>drivers/char/rtc.c</CODE> and recompile your kernel. Find the
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1114 section that reads
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1115 <PRE>
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1116 * We don't really want Joe User enabling more
3263d686e99a Created RTC section and moved RTC explanation there.
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1117 * than 64Hz of interrupts on a multi-user machine.
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1118 */
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diff changeset
1119 if ((rtc_freq &gt; 64) &amp;&amp; (!capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE)))
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1120 </PRE>
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1121 and change the 64 to 1024. You should really know what you are doing, though.
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1122 <BR>
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1123 You can see the new timer's efficiency in the status line.
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1124 <BR>
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1125 The power management functions of some notebook BIOSes with speedstep CPUs
3263d686e99a Created RTC section and moved RTC explanation there.
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1126 interact badly with RTC. Audio and video may get out of sync. Plugging the
3263d686e99a Created RTC section and moved RTC explanation there.
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1127 external power connector in before you power up your notebook seems to help.
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1128 You can always turn off RTC support with the <CODE>-nortc</CODE> option.
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1129 In some hardware combinations (confirmed during usage of non-DMA DVD
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1130 drive on an ALi1541 board) usage of the RTC timer causes skippy playback.
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1131 It's recommended to use the third method in these cases.</LI>
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1132 <LI><B>The third timer code</B> is turned on with the <CODE>-softsleep</CODE>
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1133 option. It has the efficiency of the RTC, but it doesn't use RTC. On the other
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1134 hand, it requires more CPU.</LI>
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1135 </UL>
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1136
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1137 <B>Note:</B> <B>NEVER install a setuid root MPlayer binary on a multiuser system!</B>
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1138 It's a clear way for everyone to become root.
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1139
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1140
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1141
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1142 <H1><A NAME="features">2. Features</A></H1>
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1143
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1144
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1145 <H2><A NAME="formats">2.1</A> <A HREF="formats.html">Supported formats</A></H2>
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1146
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1147
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1148 <H2><A NAME="codecs">2.2</A> <A HREF="codecs.html">Supported codecs</A></H2>
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1149
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1150
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1151 <H2><A NAME="output">2.3</A> <A HREF="video.html">Video</A> &amp; <A HREF="sound.html">Audio</A> output devices</H2>
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1152
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1153
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1154 <H2><A NAME="tv"><B>2.4 TV input</B></A></H2>
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1155
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1156 <P>This section is about how to enable <B>watching/grabbing from V4L compatible
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1157 TV tuner</B>. See the man page for a description of TV options and keyboard
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1158 controls.</P>
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1159
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1160 <H3><A NAME="tv_compilation">2.4.1 Compilation</A></H3>
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1161
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1162 <OL>
6766
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1163 <LI>First, you have to recompile. <CODE>./configure</CODE> will autodetect
f7cd3a7aaa13 Applied patch by Fabian Franz <FabianFranz@gmx.de>, adding a note to the TV
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1164 kernel headers of v4l stuff and the existence of <CODE>/dev/video*</CODE>
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1165 entries. If they exist, TV support will be built (see the output of
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1166 <CODE>./configure</CODE>).</LI>
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1167 <LI>Make sure your tuner works with another TV software in Linux, for example
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1168 xawtv.</LI>
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1169 </OL>
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1170
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1171 <H3><A NAME="tv_tips">2.4.2 Usage tips</A></H3>
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1172
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1173 The full listing of the options is available on the manual page. Here
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1174 are just a few tips:
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1175
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1176 <UL>
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1177 <LI>Use the <CODE>channels</CODE> option. An example:<BR>
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1178 <CODE>-tv channels=26-MTV1,23-TV2</CODE><BR>
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1179 Explanation: using this option, only the 26 and 23 channels will be usable,
c3975fb38cba tip for 'channels' TV option
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1180 and there will be a nice OSD text upon channel switching, displaying the
c3975fb38cba tip for 'channels' TV option
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1181 channel's name. Spaces in the channel name must be replaced by the "_"
c3975fb38cba tip for 'channels' TV option
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1182 character.</LI>
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1183 <LI>Choose some sane image dimensions. The dimensions of the resulting image
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1184 should be divisible by 16.</LI>
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1185 <LI>If you capture the video with the vertical resolution higher than half of
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1186 the full resolution (i.e. 288 for PAL or 240 for NTSC), make sure you
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1187 turned deinterlacing on. Otherwise you'll get a movie which is distorted
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1188 during fast-motion scenes and the bitrate controller will be probably even
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1189 unable to retain the specified bitrate as the interlacing artifacts produce
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1190 high amount of detail and thus consume lot of bandwidth. You can enable
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1191 deinterlacing with <CODE>-vf pp=DEINT_TYPE</CODE>. Usually
8095
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1192 <CODE>pp=lb</CODE> does a good job, but it can be matter of personal
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1193 preference. See other deinterlacing algorithms in the manual and give it a
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1194 try.</LI>
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1195 <LI>Crop out the dead space. When you capture the video, the areas at the
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1196 edges are usually black or contain some noise. These again consume lots of
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1197 unnecessary bandwidth. More precisely it's not the black areas themselves
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1198 but the sharp transitions between the black and the brighter video image
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1199 which do but that's not important for now. Before you start capturing,
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1200 adjust the arguments of the <CODE>crop</CODE> option so that all the crap
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1201 at the margins is cropped out. Again, don't forget to keep the resulting
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1202 dimensions sane.</LI>
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1203 <LI>Watch out for CPU load. It shouldn't cross the 90% boundary for most of
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
diego
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1204 the time. If you have a large capture buffer, MEncoder can survive an
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
diego
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1205 overload for few seconds but nothing more. It's better to turn off the 3D
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1206 OpenGL screensavers and similar stuff.</LI>
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1207 <LI>Don't mess with the system clock. MEncoder uses the system clock for
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
diego
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1208 doing A/V sync. If you adjust the system clock (especially backwards in
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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parents: 8079
diff changeset
1209 time), MEncoder gets confused and you will lose frames. This is an
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
diego
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diff changeset
1210 important issue if you are hooked to a network and run some time
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1211 synchronization software like NTP. You have to turn NTP off during the
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1212 capture process if you want to capture reliably.</LI>
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1213 <LI>Don't change the <CODE>outfmt</CODE> unless you know what you are doing
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1214 or your card/driver really doesn't support the default (YV12 colorspace).
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1215 In the older versions of MPlayer/MEncoder it was necessary to specify the
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1216 output format. This issue should be fixed in the current releases and
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1217 <CODE>outfmt</CODE> isn't required anymore, and the default suits the most
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1218 purposes. For example, if you are capturing into DivX using libavcodec and
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1219 specify <CODE>outfmt=RGB24</CODE> in order to increase the quality of the
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1220 captured images, the captured image will be actually later converted back
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1221 into YV12 so the only thing you achieve is a massive waste of CPU power.
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1222 </LI>
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1223 <LI>To specify the I420 colorspace (<CODE>outfmt=i420</CODE>), you have to
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1224 add an option <CODE>-vc rawi420</CODE> due to a fourcc conflict with an
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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parents: 8079
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1225 Intel Indeo video codec.</LI>
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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parents: 8079
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1226 <LI>There are several ways of capturing audio. You can grab the sound either
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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1227 using your soundcard via an external cable connection between video card
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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parents: 8079
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1228 and line-in, or using the built-in ADC in the bt878 chip. In the latter
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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parents: 8079
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1229 case, you have to load the <b>btaudio</b> driver. Read the
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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parents: 8079
diff changeset
1230 <CODE>linux/Documentation/sound/btaudio</CODE> file (in the kernel tree,
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
diego
parents: 8079
diff changeset
1231 not MPlayer's) for some instructions on using this driver.</LI>
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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parents: 8079
diff changeset
1232 <LI>If MEncoder cannot open the audio device, make sure that it is really
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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diff changeset
1233 available. There can be some trouble with the sound servers like arts
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
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diff changeset
1234 (KDE) or esd (GNOME). If you have a full duplex soundcard (almost any
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
diego
parents: 8079
diff changeset
1235 decent card supports it today), and you are using KDE, try to check the
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
diego
parents: 8079
diff changeset
1236 "full duplex" option in the sound server preference menu.</LI>
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parents: 7942
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1237 </UL>
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
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parents: 7942
diff changeset
1238
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636c1e894a27 Appendix B and E numbered, encoding moved to a separate section.
diego
parents: 8847
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1239 <H3><A NAME="tv_examples">2.4.3 Examples</A></H3>
2864
1a710f130a7f TV input documentation begin (examples, options)
gabucino
parents: 2855
diff changeset
1240
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1241 <P>Dummy output, to AAlib :)<BR>
9949
204a20abe5bf -tv on --> tv:// sync from xml/.
diego
parents: 9778
diff changeset
1242 <CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mplayer -tv driver=dummy:width=640:height=480 -vo aa tv://</CODE><BR>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
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diff changeset
1243 <BR>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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diff changeset
1244 Input from standard V4L<BR>
9949
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diego
parents: 9778
diff changeset
1245 <CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mplayer -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480 -vo xv tv://</CODE><BR>
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parents: 7942
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1246 <BR>
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
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parents: 7942
diff changeset
1247
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
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diff changeset
1248 A more sophisticated example. This makes MEncoder capture the full
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
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diff changeset
1249 PAL image, crop the margins, and deinterlace the picture using
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
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parents: 7942
diff changeset
1250 a linear blend algorithm. Audio is compressed with a constant
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
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parents: 7942
diff changeset
1251 bitrate of 64kbps, using LAME codec. This setup is suitable for
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
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parents: 7942
diff changeset
1252 capturing movies.<BR> <CODE> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mencoder -tv
9949
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diego
parents: 9778
diff changeset
1253 driver=v4l:width=768:height=576 \<BR>
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parents: 7942
diff changeset
1254 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-ovc lavc -lavcopts
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
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parents: 7942
diff changeset
1255 vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=900 \<BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-oac
9644
0fe056bdb135 vop -> vf change, small fixes. The Polish documentation should be checked for correctness.
jonas
parents: 9617
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1256 mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=64 \<BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-vf
9949
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diego
parents: 9778
diff changeset
1257 crop=720:544:24:16,pp=lb -o output.avi tv://</CODE><BR>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1258
7955
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henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1259 <BR>
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1260 This will additionally rescale the image to 384x288 and compresses
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1261 the video with the bitrate of 350kbps in high quality mode. The
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1262 vqmax option looses the quantizer and allows the video compressor to
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1263 actualy reach so low bitrate even at the expense of the
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1264 quality. This can be used for capturing long TV series, where the
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1265 video quality isn't so important.<BR>
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1266 <CODE>
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diego
parents: 9778
diff changeset
1267 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mencoder -tv driver=v4l:width=768:height=576 \<BR>
7955
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henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1268 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=350:vhq:vqmax=31:keyint=300 \<BR>
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1269 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=48 \<BR>
9949
204a20abe5bf -tv on --> tv:// sync from xml/.
diego
parents: 9778
diff changeset
1270 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-vf crop=720:540:24:18,pp=tn/lb,scale=384:288 -sws 1 -o output.avi tv://
7955
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henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1271 </CODE><BR>
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1272
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1273 It's also possible to specify smaller image dimensions in the
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1274 <CODE>-tv</CODE> option and omit the software scaling but this
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1275 approach uses the maximum available information and is a little more
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1276 resistant to noise. The bt8x8 chips can do the pixel averaging only
8095
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
diego
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diff changeset
1277 in the horizontal direction due to a hardware limitation.</P>
6766
f7cd3a7aaa13 Applied patch by Fabian Franz <FabianFranz@gmx.de>, adding a note to the TV
diego
parents: 6732
diff changeset
1278
2864
1a710f130a7f TV input documentation begin (examples, options)
gabucino
parents: 2855
diff changeset
1279
8851
636c1e894a27 Appendix B and E numbered, encoding moved to a separate section.
diego
parents: 8847
diff changeset
1280 <H2><A NAME="edl">2.5 Edit Decision Lists (EDL)</A></H2>
8551
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1281
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1282 <P>The edit decision list (EDL) system allows you to automatically skip or mute
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1283 sections of videos during playback, based on a movie specific EDL
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1284 configuration file.</P>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1285
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1286 <P>This is useful for those who may want to watch a film in "family-friendly"
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1287 mode. You can cut out any violence, profanity, Jar-Jar Binks .. from a movie
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1288 according to your own personal preferences. Aside from this, there are other
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1289 uses, like automatically skipping over commercials in video files you
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1290 watch.</P>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1291
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1292 <P>The EDL file format is pretty bare-bones. Once the EDL system has reached a
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1293 certain level of maturity, an XML-based file format will probably be
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1294 implemented (keeping backwards compatibility with previous EDL formats).</P>
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parents: 10460
diff changeset
1295
8551
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1296 <P>The maximum number of EDL entries for the current incarnation of EDL is 1000.
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1297 If you happen to need more, change the <CODE>#define MAX_EDL_ENTRIES</CODE>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1298 in the <CODE>edl.h</CODE> file.</P>
10530
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diego
parents: 10460
diff changeset
1299
8851
636c1e894a27 Appendix B and E numbered, encoding moved to a separate section.
diego
parents: 8847
diff changeset
1300 <H3><A NAME="edl_using">2.5.1 Using an EDL file</A></H3>
8551
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1301
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1302 <P>Include the <CODE>-edl &lt;filename&gt;</CODE> flag when you run MPlayer,
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1303 with the name of the EDL file you want applied to the video.</P>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1304
8851
636c1e894a27 Appendix B and E numbered, encoding moved to a separate section.
diego
parents: 8847
diff changeset
1305 <H3><A NAME="edl_making">2.5.2 Making an EDL file</A></H3>
8551
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1306
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1307 <P>The current EDL file format is:</P>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1308
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
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diff changeset
1309 <CODE>[begin second] [end second] [action]</CODE>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
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diff changeset
1310
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1311 <P>Where the seconds are floating-point numbers and the action is either
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1312 <CODE>0</CODE> for skip or <CODE>1</CODE> for mute. Example:</P>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
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diff changeset
1313
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1314 <PRE>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1315 5.3 7.1 0
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1316 15 16.7 1
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
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diff changeset
1317 420 422 0
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1318 </PRE>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1319
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1320 <P>This will skip from second 5.3 to second 7.1 of the video, then mute at
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1321 15 seconds, unmute at 16.7 seconds and skip from second 420 to second
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1322 422 of the video. These actions will be performed when the playback timer
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
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diff changeset
1323 reaches the times given in the file.</P>
10530
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diff changeset
1324
8551
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1325 <P>To create an EDL file to work from, use the
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1326 <CODE>-edlout &lt;filename&gt;</CODE> flag. During playback, when you want to
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1327 mark the previous two seconds to skip over, hit <CODE>i</CODE>. A
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1328 corresponding entry will be written to the file for that time. You can then go
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1329 back and fine-tune the generated EDL file.</P>
10530
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diego
parents: 10460
diff changeset
1330
8551
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1331
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parents: 6970
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1332
7047
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1333 <H1><A NAME="usage">3. Usage</A></H1>
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1334
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1335
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1336 <H2><A NAME="command_line">3.1 Command line</A></H2>
4177
cab4ac1467e4 many small updates
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parents: 4153
diff changeset
1337
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1338 <P>MPlayer utilizes a complex playtree. It consists of global options
4177
cab4ac1467e4 many small updates
gabucino
parents: 4153
diff changeset
1339 written as first (for example <CODE>mplayer -vfm 5</CODE>), and options
cab4ac1467e4 many small updates
gabucino
parents: 4153
diff changeset
1340 written after filenames, that apply only to the given filename/URL/whatever
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1341 (for example <CODE>mplayer -vfm 5 movie1.avi movie2.avi -vfm 4</CODE>).<BR>
5715
71843ef1a085 video filter layer documentation begun (maybe audio layer should be
gabucino
parents: 5704
diff changeset
1342 You can group filenames/URLs together using { and }. It's useful with
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1343 option -loop: <CODE>mplayer { 1.avi -loop 2 2.avi } -loop 3</CODE>
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1344 will play files in this order: 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 2<BR>
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1345 </P>
4177
cab4ac1467e4 many small updates
gabucino
parents: 4153
diff changeset
1346
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a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1347 <TABLE BORDER=0>
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parents: 6970
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1348 <TR><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD>file</TD><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] [path/]filename</CODE></TD></TR>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1349 <TR><TD></TD><TD>files</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [default options] [path/]filename1 [options for filename1] filename2 [options for filename2] ...</CODE></TD></TR>
10186
b2deb0fdbc69 Changed a few remaining -dvd and -vcd options to dvd:// and vcd://.
diego
parents: 10130
diff changeset
1350 <TR><TD></TD><TD>VCD</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] vcd:// trackno [-cdrom-device /dev/cdrom]</CODE></TD></TR>
b2deb0fdbc69 Changed a few remaining -dvd and -vcd options to dvd:// and vcd://.
diego
parents: 10130
diff changeset
1351 <TR><TD></TD><TD>DVD</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] dvd:// titleno [-dvd-device /dev/dvd]</CODE></TD></TR>
7813
76940a39405a RTSP/RTP documentation, patch by Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com>.
diego
parents: 7792
diff changeset
1352 <TR><TD></TD><TD>WWW</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] http://site.com/file.asf (playlists can be used, too)</CODE></TD></TR>
76940a39405a RTSP/RTP documentation, patch by Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com>.
diego
parents: 7792
diff changeset
1353 <TR><TD></TD><TD>RTSP</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] rtsp://server.example.com/streamName</CODE></TD></TR>
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1354 </TABLE>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1355
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1356 <PRE>
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1357 mplayer -vo x11 /mnt/Films/Contact/contact2.mpg
10186
b2deb0fdbc69 Changed a few remaining -dvd and -vcd options to dvd:// and vcd://.
diego
parents: 10130
diff changeset
1358 mplayer vcd://2 -cdrom-device /dev/hdc
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1359 mplayer -afm 3 /mnt/DVDtrailers/alien4.vob
10186
b2deb0fdbc69 Changed a few remaining -dvd and -vcd options to dvd:// and vcd://.
diego
parents: 10130
diff changeset
1360 mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/hdc
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1361 mplayer -abs 65536 -delay -0.4 -nobps ~/movies/test.avi
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1362 </PRE>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1363
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1364
7047
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1365 <H2><A NAME="control">3.2 Control</A></H2>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1366
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1367 <P>MPlayer has a fully configurable, command driven, control layer which
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1368 lets you control MPlayer with keyboard, mouse, joystick or remote
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1369 control (using LIRC). See the man page for the complete list of keyboard
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1370 controls.</P>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1371
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1372
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1373 <H3><A NAME="controls_configuration">3.2.1 Controls configuration</A></H3>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1374
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1375 <P>MPlayer allows you bind any key/button to any MPlayer command
6493
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1376 using a simple config file. The syntax consist of a key name followed by a
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1377 command. The default config file location is
6593
a2937bae0651 Expanded RTC section. It now explains how to allow RTC via /proc on newer
diego
parents: 6583
diff changeset
1378 <CODE>$HOME/.mplayer/input.conf</CODE> but it can be overridden using the
9138
42667fd91d4a changing "switch" -> "option" (unwritten DOCS rule)
gabucino
parents: 9137
diff changeset
1379 <CODE>-input</CODE> conf option (relative path are relative to
6493
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1380 <CODE>$HOME/.mplayer</CODE>).
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1381
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1382 <P>Example:</P>
6493
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1383
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1384 <PRE>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1385 ##
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1386 ## MPlayer input control file
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1387 ##
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1388
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1389 RIGHT seek +10
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1390 LEFT seek -10
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1391 - audio_delay 0.100
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1392 + audio_delay -0.100
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1393 q quit
7076
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1394 &gt; pt_step 1
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1395 &lt; pt_step -1
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1396 ENTER pt_step 1 1
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1397 </PRE>
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1398
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1399
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1400 <H4><A NAME="key_names">3.2.1.1 Key names</A></H4>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1401
6493
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1402 <P>You can have a full list by running <CODE>mplayer -input keylist</CODE></P>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1403
7099
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7093
diff changeset
1404 <H4>Keyboard:</H4>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1405
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1406 <UL>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1407 <LI>Any printable character</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1408 <LI>SPACE</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1409 <LI>ENTER</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1410 <LI>TAB</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1411 <LI>CTRL</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1412 <LI>BS</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1413 <LI>DEL</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1414 <LI>INS</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1415 <LI>HOME</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1416 <LI>END</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1417 <LI>PGUP</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1418 <LI>PGDWN</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1419 <LI>ESC</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1420 <LI>RIGHT</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1421 <LI>LEFT</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1422 <LI>UP</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1423 <LI>DOWN</LI>
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1424 </UL>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1425
7099
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7093
diff changeset
1426 <H4>Mouse (only supported under X):</H4>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1427
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1428 <UL>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1429 <LI>MOUSE_BTN0 (Left button)</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1430 <LI>MOUSE_BTN1 (Right button)</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1431 <LI>MOUSE_BTN2 (Middle button)</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1432 <LI>MOUSE_BTN3 (Wheel)</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1433 <LI>MOUSE_BTN4 (Wheel)</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1434 <LI>...</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1435 <LI>MOUSE_BTN9</LI>
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1436 </UL>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1437
7099
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7093
diff changeset
1438 <H4>Joystick (support must be enabled at compile time):</H4>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1439
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1440 <UL>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1441 <LI>JOY_RIGHT or JOY_AXIS0_PLUS</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1442 <LI>JOY_LEFT or JOY_AXIS0_MINUS</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1443 <LI>JOY_UP or JOY_AXIS1_MINUS</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1444 <LI>JOY_DOWN or JOY_AXIS1_PLUS</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1445 <LI>JOY_AXIS2_PLUS</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1446 <LI>JOY_AXIS2_MINUS</LI>
7099
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7093
diff changeset
1447 <LI>...</LI>
6974
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diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1448 <LI>JOY_AXIS9_PLUS</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1449 <LI>JOY_AXIS9_MINUS</LI>
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1450 </UL>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1451
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1452
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1453 <H4><A NAME="commands">3.2.1.2 Commands</A></H4>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1454
6493
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1455 <P>You can have a full list of known commands by running "mplayer -input cmdlist"</P>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1456
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1457 <UL>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1458 <LI><B>seek</B> (int) val [(int) type=0]
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1459 <P>Seek to some place in the movie.<BR>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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parents: 6970
diff changeset
1460 Type 0 is a relative seek of +/- val seconds.<BR>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1461 Type 1 seek to val % in the movie.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1462 <LI><B>audio_delay</B> (float) val
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1463 <P>Adjust the audio delay of val seconds</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1464 <LI><B>quit</B>
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1465 <P>Quit MPlayer</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1466 <LI><B>pause</B>
6974
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diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1467 <P>Pause/unpause the playback</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1468 <LI><B>grap_frames</B>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1469 <P>Somebody know ?</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1470 <LI><B>pt_step</B> (int) val [(int) force=0]
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1471 <P>Go to next/previous entry in playtree. Val sign tell the direction.<BR>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1472 If no other entry is available in the given direction it won't do anything
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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diff changeset
1473 unless force is non 0.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1474 <LI><B>pt_up_step</B> (int) val [(int) force=0]
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1475 <P>Like pt_step but it jump to next/previous in the parent list. It's useful
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1476 to break inner loop in the playtree.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1477 <LI><B>alt_src_step</B> (int) val
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1478 <P>When more than one source is available it select the next/previous one
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1479 (only supported by asx playlist).</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1480 <LI><B>sub_delay</B> (float) val [(int) abs=0]
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1481 <P>Adjust the subtitles delay of +/- val seconds or set it to val seconds
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1482 when abs is non zero.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1483 <LI><B>osd</B> [(int) level=-1]
7076
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1484 <P>Toggle osd mode or set it to level when level &gt; 0.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1485 <LI><B>volume</B> (int) dir
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1486 <P>Increase/decrease volume</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1487 <LI><B>contrast</B> (int) val [(int) abs=0]</LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1488 <LI><B>brightness</B> (int) val [(int) abs=0]</LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1489 <LI><B>hue</B> (int) val [(int) abs=0]</LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1490 <LI><B>saturation</B> (int) val [(int) abs=0]
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1491 <P>Set/Adjust video parameters. Val range from -100 to 100.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1492 <LI><B>frame_drop</B> [(int) type=-1]
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1493 <P>Toggle/Set frame dropping mode.</P></LI>
7628
d6608342591d This patch adds the functionality to disable/enable subtitles while playing
arpi
parents: 7455
diff changeset
1494 <LI><B>sub_visibility</B>
d6608342591d This patch adds the functionality to disable/enable subtitles while playing
arpi
parents: 7455
diff changeset
1495 <P>Toggle subtitle visibility.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1496 <LI><B>sub_pos</B> (int) val
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1497 <P>Adjust subtitles position.</P></LI>
8548
b29982e68d8c Subtitle usage updated by hephooey@fastmail.fm.
diego
parents: 8474
diff changeset
1498 <LI><B>vobsub_lang</B>
b29982e68d8c Subtitle usage updated by hephooey@fastmail.fm.
diego
parents: 8474
diff changeset
1499 <P>Change the language of VobSub subtitles.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1500 <LI><B>vo_fullscreen</B>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1501 <P>Switch fullscreen mode.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1502 <LI><B>tv_step_channel</B> (int) dir
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1503 <P>Select next/previous tv channel.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1504 <LI><B>tv_step_norm</B>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1505 <P>Change TV norm.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1506 <LI><B>tv_step_chanlist</B>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1507 <P>Change channel list.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1508 <LI><B>gui_loadfile</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1509 <LI><B>gui_loadsubtitle</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1510 <LI><B>gui_about</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1511 <LI><B>gui_play</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1512 <LI><B>gui_stop</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1513 <LI><B>gui_playlist</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1514 <LI><B>gui_preferences</B></LI>
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1515 <LI><B>gui_skinbrowser</B>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1516 <P>GUI actions</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1517 </UL>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1518
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1519
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1520 <H3><A NAME="lirc">3.2.2 Control from LIRC</A></H3>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1521
2848
33c32f3d9f1f many small updates, fixes (some/more to be completed soon)
gabucino
parents: 2761
diff changeset
1522 <P>Linux Infrared Remote Control - use an easy to build home-brewn IR-receiver,
6998
83a386e88f9e Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday at varoshaza . nagyatad . hu>
diego
parents: 6981
diff changeset
1523 an (almost) arbitrary remote control and control your Linux box with it!
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1524 More about it at <A HREF="http://www.lirc.org">www.lirc.org</A>.</P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1525
5969
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1526 <P>If you have installed the lirc-package, configure will autodetect it. If
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1527 everything went fine, MPlayer will print a message like "Setting up
5969
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1528 lirc support..." on startup. If an error occurs it will tell you. If it
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1529 doesn't tell you anything about LIRC there's no support compiled in. That's
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1530 it :-)</P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1531
7942
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1532 <P>The application name for MPlayer is - oh wonder - <CODE>mplayer</CODE>.
5969
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1533 You can use any mplayer commands and even pass more than one command by
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1534 separating them with \n. Don't forget to enable the repeat flag in .lircrc
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1535 when it make sense (seek, volume, etc). Here's an excerpt from my
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1536 .lircrc:</P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1537
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1538 <PRE>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1539 begin
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1540 button = VOLUME_PLUS
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1541 prog = mplayer
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1542 config = volume 1
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1543 repeat = 1
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1544 end
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1545
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1546 begin
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1547 button = VOLUME_MINUS
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1548 prog = mplayer
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1549 config = volume -1
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1550 repeat = 1
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1551 end
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1552
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1553 begin
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1554 button = CD_PLAY
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1555 prog = mplayer
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1556 config = pause
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1557 end
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1558
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1559 begin
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1560 button = CD_STOP
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1561 prog = mplayer
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1562 config = seek 0 1\npause
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1563 end
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1564 </PRE>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1565
2848
33c32f3d9f1f many small updates, fixes (some/more to be completed soon)
gabucino
parents: 2761
diff changeset
1566 <P>If you don't like the standard location for the lirc-config file (~/.lircrc)
9138
42667fd91d4a changing "switch" -> "option" (unwritten DOCS rule)
gabucino
parents: 9137
diff changeset
1567 use the -lircconf &lt;filename&gt; option to specify another file.</P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1568
6493
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1569
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1570 <H3><A NAME="slave">3.2.3 Slave mode</A></H3>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1571
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1572 <P>The slave mode allow you to build simple frontend to MPlayer. When
9138
42667fd91d4a changing "switch" -> "option" (unwritten DOCS rule)
gabucino
parents: 9137
diff changeset
1573 enabled (with the <CODE>-slave</CODE> option) MPlayer will read
6593
a2937bae0651 Expanded RTC section. It now explains how to allow RTC via /proc on newer
diego
parents: 6583
diff changeset
1574 commands separated by new line (\n) from stdin.</P>
6493
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1575
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1576
7047
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1577 <H2><A NAME="streaming">3.3 Streaming from network or pipes</A></H2>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1578
10739
eeb2bc115b91 FTP support
gabucino
parents: 10650
diff changeset
1579 <P>MPlayer can play files from network, using the HTTP, FTP, MMS or RTSP/RTP
7813
76940a39405a RTSP/RTP documentation, patch by Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com>.
diego
parents: 7792
diff changeset
1580 protocol.</P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1581
6960
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1582 <P>Playing goes by simply using adding the URL to the command line.
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1583 MPlayer also honors the http_proxy environment variable, and uses
6960
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1584 proxy if available. Proxy usage can also be forced:</P>
4153
2bb77282b2a6 streaming with proxy
gabucino
parents: 4135
diff changeset
1585
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1586 <P><CODE>mplayer http_proxy://proxy.micorsops.com:3128/http://micorsops.com:80/stream.asf</CODE></P>
2001
05189dbfb847 more fixes
gabucino
parents: 1994
diff changeset
1587
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1588 <P>MPlayer can read from stdin (NOT named pipes). This can be for example
6960
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1589 used to play from FTP:</P>
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1590
6583
4b7d097a9c69 big update
gabucino
parents: 6574
diff changeset
1591 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;wget ftp://micorsops.com/something.avi -O - | mplayer -</CODE></P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1592
6960
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1593 <P>Note: it's also recommended to enable CACHE when playback from network:</P>
6868
f6e17d2b448e The rectangle of the rectangle plugin is not necessarily white.
diego
parents: 6849
diff changeset
1594
6583
4b7d097a9c69 big update
gabucino
parents: 6574
diff changeset
1595 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;wget ftp://micorsops.com/something.avi -O - | mplayer -cache 8192 -</CODE></P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1596
6496
9c4fb5264e43 more fix
gabucino
parents: 6493
diff changeset
1597
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1598
7076
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1599 <H1><A NAME="faq">4.</A> <A HREF="faq.html">FAQ section</A></H1>
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1600
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1601
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1602
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1603 <H1><A NAME="cd/dvd">5.</A> <A HREF="cd-dvd.html">CD/DVD section</A></H1>
7047
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1604
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1605
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1606
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1607 <H1><A NAME="ports">6. Ports</A></H1>
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1608
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1609
8636
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1610 <H2><A NAME="linux">6.1 Linux</A></H2>
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1611
9137
8d6431bea500 skin-en.html ---> skin.html, a typo and reversed Gabu's Cygwin "fix".
diego
parents: 9129
diff changeset
1612 <P>The main development platform is Linux on x86, although MPlayer works on many
9460
93c91fea7a18 binary package updates
diego
parents: 9425
diff changeset
1613 other Linux ports. Binary packages of MPlayer are available from several
9475
6d4d66421b29 binary packages not supported
diego
parents: 9471
diff changeset
1614 sources. However, <B>none of these packages are supported.</B> Report problems
6d4d66421b29 binary packages not supported
diego
parents: 9471
diff changeset
1615 to the authors, not to us.</P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1616
8636
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1617
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1618 <H3><A NAME="debian">6.1.1 Debian packaging</A></H3>
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1619
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1620 <P>To build a Debian package, run the following command in the MPlayer source
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1621 directory:</P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1622
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1623 <PRE>
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1624 fakeroot debian/rules binary
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1625 </PRE>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1626
8636
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1627 <P>As root you can then install the <CODE>.deb</CODE> package as usual:</P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1628
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1629 <PRE>
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1630 dpkg -i ../mplayer_&lt;version&gt;.deb
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1631 </PRE>
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1632
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1633 <P>Christian Marillat has been making unofficial Debian MPlayer, MEncoder and
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1634 font packages for a while, you can (apt-)get them from his
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1635 <A HREF="http://marillat.free.fr/">homepage</A>.</P>
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1636
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1637
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diff changeset
1638 <H3><A NAME="rpm">6.1.2 RPM packaging</A></H3>
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
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diff changeset
1639
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
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parents: 8635
diff changeset
1640 <P>Dominik Mierzejewski created and maintains official Red Hat RPM packages of
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1641 MPlayer. He has packaged the player, the GUI, fonts, skins, several drivers
93c91fea7a18 binary package updates
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diff changeset
1642 and codecs. All of this is available from his
93c91fea7a18 binary package updates
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parents: 9425
diff changeset
1643 <A HREF="http://www.piorunek.pl/~dominik/linux/pkgs/mplayer/">homepage</A>.</P>
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db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1644
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1645 <P>Mandrake RPM packages are available from the
93c91fea7a18 binary package updates
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1646 <A HREF="http://plf.zarb.org/">P.L.F</A>. SuSE includes a crippled version of
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1647 MPlayer in their distribution. You can get working SuSE RPMs from
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1648 <A HREF="http://packman.links2linux.de/?action=128">links2linux.de</A>.</P>
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1649
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1650
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1651 <H3><A NAME="arm">6.1.3 ARM</A></H3>
7da2d67e8ef4 Moved ARM to the Linux ports section where it belongs.
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1652
7da2d67e8ef4 Moved ARM to the Linux ports section where it belongs.
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1653 <P>MPlayer works on Linux PDAs with ARM CPU e.g. Sharp Zaurus, Compaq Ipaq.
7da2d67e8ef4 Moved ARM to the Linux ports section where it belongs.
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parents: 8831
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1654 The easiest way to obtain MPlayer is to get it from one of the
9409
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1655 <A HREF="http://www.openzaurus.org">OpenZaurus</A> package feeds.
8847
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1656 If you want to compile it yourself, you should look at the
7da2d67e8ef4 Moved ARM to the Linux ports section where it belongs.
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1657 <A HREF="http://openzaurus.bkbits.net:8080/buildroot/src/packages/mplayer?nav=index.html|src/.|src/packages">mplayer</A>
7da2d67e8ef4 Moved ARM to the Linux ports section where it belongs.
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1658 and the
7da2d67e8ef4 Moved ARM to the Linux ports section where it belongs.
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1659 <A HREF="http://openzaurus.bkbits.net:8080/buildroot/src/packages/libavcodec?nav=index.html|src/.|src/packages">libavcodec</A>
7da2d67e8ef4 Moved ARM to the Linux ports section where it belongs.
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diff changeset
1660 directory in the OpenZaurus distribution buildroot. These always have the
7da2d67e8ef4 Moved ARM to the Linux ports section where it belongs.
diego
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1661 latest Makefile and patches used for building a CVS MPlayer with libavcodec.
7da2d67e8ef4 Moved ARM to the Linux ports section where it belongs.
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diff changeset
1662 <BR>If you need a GUI frontend, you can use xmms-embedded.</P>
7da2d67e8ef4 Moved ARM to the Linux ports section where it belongs.
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1663
7da2d67e8ef4 Moved ARM to the Linux ports section where it belongs.
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1664
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1665 <H2><A NAME="bsd">6.2 *BSD</A></H2>
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1666
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1667 <P>MPlayer runs on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, BSD/OS and Darwin. There are
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
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1668 ports/pkgsrc/fink/etc versions of MPlayer available that are probably easier
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
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1669 to use than our raw sources.</P>
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
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1670
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
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1671 <P>To build MPlayer you will need GNU make (gmake - native BSD make will not
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
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1672 work) and a recent version of binutils.</P>
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diff changeset
1673
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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1674 <P>If MPlayer complains about not finding <CODE>/dev/cdrom</CODE> or
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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diff changeset
1675 <CODE>/dev/dvd</CODE>, create an appropiate symbolic link:<BR>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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1676 <CODE>ln -s /dev/(your_cdrom_device) /dev/cdrom</CODE>.</P>
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1677
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1678 <P>To use Win32 DLLs with MPlayer you will need to re-compile the kernel with
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
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diff changeset
1679 "<CODE>option USER_LDT</CODE>" (unless you run FreeBSD -CURRENT, where this
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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diff changeset
1680 is the default).</P>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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diff changeset
1681
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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1682 <H3><A NAME="freebsd">6.2.1 FreeBSD</A></H3>
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1683
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1684 <P>If your CPU has SSE, recompile your kernel with "options CPU_ENABLE_SSE" to
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1685 use it (FreeBSD-STABLE or kernel patches required).</P>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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diff changeset
1686
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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1687 <H3><A NAME="openbsd">6.2.2 OpenBSD</A></H3>
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1688
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1689 <P>Due to limitations in different versions of gas (relocation vs MMX), you will
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1690 need to compile in two steps: First make sure that the non-native as is first
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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parents: 7814
diff changeset
1691 in your <CODE>$PATH</CODE> and do a <CODE>gmake -k</CODE>, then make sure that
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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diff changeset
1692 the native version is used and do <CODE>gmake</CODE>.</P>
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1693
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1694
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1695 <H2><A NAME="solaris">6.3 Solaris</A></H2>
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1696
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1697 <P>MPlayer should work on Solaris 2.6 or newer.</P>
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1698
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1699 <P>On <B>UltraSPARC</B>s, MPlayer takes advantage of their <B>VIS</B>
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1700 extensions (equivalent to MMX), currently only in <I>libmpeg2</I>,
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1701 <I>libvo</I> and <I>libavcodec</I>, but not in mp3lib. You can watch a VOB
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1702 file on a 400MHz CPU. You'll need
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1703 <A HREF="http://www.sun.com/sparc/vis/mediaLib.html">mLib</A> installed.</P>
1731
07e2dfca67a3 can't stop commiting :)
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1704
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1705 <P>To build the package you will need GNU make (gmake, /opt/sfw/gmake), native
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1706 Solaris make will not work. Typical error you get when building with Solaris'
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1707 make instead of GNU make:</P>
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1708
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1709 <PRE>
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1710 % /usr/ccs/bin/make
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1711 make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 25: Unexpected end of line seen
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1712 </PRE>
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1713
1682
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1714 <P>On Solaris SPARC, you need the GNU C/C++ Compiler; it does not matter
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1715 if GNU C/C++ compiler is configured with or without the GNU assembler.</P>
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1716
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1717 <P>On Solaris x86, you need the GNU assembler and the GNU C/C++ compiler,
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
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parents: 6950
diff changeset
1718 configured to use the GNU assembler! The mplayer code on the x86 platform
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1719 makes heavy use of MMX, SSE and 3DNOW! instructions that cannot be compiled
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1720 using Sun's assembler <CODE>/usr/ccs/bin/as</CODE>.</P>
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1721
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1722 <P>The configure script tries to find out, which assembler program is used by
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parents: 6950
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1723 your "gcc" command (in case the autodetection fails, use the
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
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1724 <CODE>--as=/whereever/you/have/installed/gnu-as</CODE> option to tell the
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1725 configure script where it can find GNU "as" on your system).</P>
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1726
1682
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1727 <P>Error message from configure on a Solaris x86 system using GCC
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1728 without GNU assembler:</P>
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1729
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1730 <PRE>
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
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1731 % configure
1612
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1732 ...
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1733 Checking assembler (/usr/ccs/bin/as) ... , failed
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1734 Please upgrade(downgrade) binutils to 2.10.1...
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
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1735 </PRE>
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1736
1682
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1737 <P>(Solution: Install and use a gcc configured with "--with-as=gas")</P>
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parents:
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1738
1682
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1739 <P>Typical error you get when building with a GNU C compiler that does
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1740 not use GNU as:</P>
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1741
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1742 <PRE>
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
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1743 % gmake
1612
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1744 ...
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parents: 2761
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1745 gcc -c -Iloader -Ilibvo -O4 -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -ffast-math
1612
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parents:
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1746 -fomit-frame-pointer -I/usr/local/include -o mplayer.o mplayer.c
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
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parents:
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1747 Assembler: mplayer.c
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
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1748 "(stdin)", line 3567 : Illegal mnemonic
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
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parents:
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1749 "(stdin)", line 3567 : Syntax error
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1750 ... more "Illegal mnemonic" and "Syntax error" errors ...
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
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parents: 6393
diff changeset
1751 </PRE>
1682
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1752
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diff changeset
1753 <P>Due to bugs in Solaris 8, you may not be able to play DVD discs larger
6998
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diego
parents: 6981
diff changeset
1754 than 4 GB:</P>
1682
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parents: 1668
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1755
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1756 <UL>
8781
8e3e71a8c414 Remove an obsolete link in the solaris section of the documentation
jkeil
parents: 8759
diff changeset
1757 <LI>The sd(7D) driver on Solaris 8 x86 has a bug when accessing a disk
7076
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1758 block &gt;4GB on a device using a logical blocksize != DEV_BSIZE (i.e. CD-ROM
6998
83a386e88f9e Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday at varoshaza . nagyatad . hu>
diego
parents: 6981
diff changeset
1759 and DVD media). Due to a 32Bit int overflow, a disk address modulo 4GB is
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diff changeset
1760 accessed.
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parents: 6950
diff changeset
1761 (<A HREF="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22516">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22516</A>)
8781
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jkeil
parents: 8759
diff changeset
1762 <P>
8930
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parents: 8891
diff changeset
1763 This problem does not exist in the SPARC version of Solaris 8.
gabucino
parents: 8891
diff changeset
1764 </P>
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1765 </LI>
6998
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diego
parents: 6981
diff changeset
1766 <LI>A similar bug is present in the hsfs(7FS) filesystem code (aka
8781
8e3e71a8c414 Remove an obsolete link in the solaris section of the documentation
jkeil
parents: 8759
diff changeset
1767 ISO9660), hsfs may not not support partitions/disks larger than 4GB, all data
6998
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diego
parents: 6981
diff changeset
1768 is accessed modulo 4GB.
8781
8e3e71a8c414 Remove an obsolete link in the solaris section of the documentation
jkeil
parents: 8759
diff changeset
1769 (<A HREF="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22592">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22592</A>).
8e3e71a8c414 Remove an obsolete link in the solaris section of the documentation
jkeil
parents: 8759
diff changeset
1770 <P>
8930
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parents: 8891
diff changeset
1771 The hsfs problem can be fixed by installing patch 109764-04 (sparc) /
gabucino
parents: 8891
diff changeset
1772 109765-04 (x86).
gabucino
parents: 8891
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1773 </P>
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1774 </LI>
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1775 </UL>
1682
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1776
1688
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1777 <P>On Solaris with an UltraSPARC CPU, you can get some extra speed by
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parents: 1686
diff changeset
1778 using the CPU's VIS instructions for certain time consuming operations.
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1779 VIS acceleration can be used in MPlayer by calling functions in Sun's
1688
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1780 <A HREF="http://www.sun.com/sparc/vis/mediaLib.html">mediaLib</A>.</P>
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1781
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1782 <P>VIS accelerated operations from mediaLib are used for mpeg2 video
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1783 decoding and for color space conversion in the video output drivers.</P>
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1784
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1785
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1786 <H2><A NAME="sgi">6.4 Silicon Graphics / IRIX</A></H2>
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1787
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1788 <P>You can either try to install the GNU install program, and (if you did not
6dd42a044681 a little (my first!) patch to add some info about MPlayer on Irix 6.5 to
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1789 put it in your global path) then point to the location with:</P>
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1790
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1791 <PRE>
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1792 ./configure --install-path=PATH
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1793 </PRE>
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1794
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1795 <P>Or you can use the default install delivered with IRIX 6.5 in which case you
10458
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1796 will have to edit the Makefile by hand a little bit. Change the following
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1797 line:</P>
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1798
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1799 <PRE>
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1800 $(INSTALL) -c -m 644 DOCS/mplayer.1 $(MANDIR)/man1/mplayer.1
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1801 </PRE>
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1802
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1803 <P>to:</P>
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1804
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1805 <PRE>
6dd42a044681 a little (my first!) patch to add some info about MPlayer on Irix 6.5 to
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1806 $(INSTALL) -m 644 mplayer.1 $(MANDIR)/man1/
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1807 </PRE>
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1808
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1809 <P>And then do (from within the MPlayer source dir):</P>
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1810
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1811 <PRE>
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1812 cp DOCS/mplayer.1 .
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1813 </PRE>
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1814
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1815 <P>and then go on with building and installing.</P>
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1816
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1817
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1818 <H2><A NAME="qnx">6.5 QNX</A></H2>
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1819
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1820 <P>Works. You'll need to download SDL for QNX, and install it. Then run
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
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1821 MPlayer with <CODE>-vo sdl:photon</CODE> and <CODE>-ao sdl:nto</CODE>
4500
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1822 options, and it should be fast.</P>
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1823
c2be8678fdfb QNX updates
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1824 <P>The <CODE>-vo x11</CODE> output will be even slower than on Linux, since
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b5d956f0b6ea sok ize, mutyur, bizbasz.
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1825 QNX has only X <I>emulation</I> which is VERY slow. Use SDL.</P>
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7b85ba8c9be5 mostly fixes, some updates
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1826
7b85ba8c9be5 mostly fixes, some updates
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1827
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1828 <H2><A NAME="windows">6.6 Windows</A></H2>
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a04a7dc31ebb openbsd updates by Bj«Órn Sandell <biorn@dce.chalmers.se>
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1829
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1830 <P>Yes, MPlayer runs on Windows under
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
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1831 <A HREF="http://www.cygwin.com/">Cygwin</A> and
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
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1832 <A HREF="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW</A>.
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1833 It does not have a GUI yet, but the command line version is almost completely
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
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1834 functional. <A HREF="../tech/patches.txt">Patches</A> are always welcome.
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1835 You should check out the
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b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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parents: 7814
diff changeset
1836 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cygwin/">mplayer-cygwin</A>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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1837 mailing list for help and latest information.</P>
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a04a7dc31ebb openbsd updates by Bj«Órn Sandell <biorn@dce.chalmers.se>
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1838
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1839 <P>Best results are achieved with the native DirectX video output driver
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
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1840 (<CODE>-vo directx</CODE>) and the native Windows waveout audio driver
10563
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diff changeset
1841 (<CODE>-ao win32</CODE>) as OpenGL does not work and SDL is known to
10559
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
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parents: 10530
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1842 distort sound and image or crash on some systems. You can make the movie
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
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parents: 10530
diff changeset
1843 window stay on top with <CODE>-vo directx:ontop</CODE>. If the image is
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
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1844 distorted, try turning off hardware acceleration with
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
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1845 <CODE>-vo directx:noaccel</CODE>. Download
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
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parents: 10530
diff changeset
1846 <A HREF="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/dx7headers.tgz">DirectX 7 header files</A>
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
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1847 to compile the DirectX video output driver.</P>
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
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parents: 10530
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1848
10650
6f51d17ecfc8 Binary codecs finally work as they should on Windows.
diego
parents: 10645
diff changeset
1849 <P>Win32 codecs, QuickTime DLLs and Real Win32 codecs (not Real Linux codecs)
6f51d17ecfc8 Binary codecs finally work as they should on Windows.
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diff changeset
1850 also work. Put the codecs somewhere in your path or pass
6f51d17ecfc8 Binary codecs finally work as they should on Windows.
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parents: 10645
diff changeset
1851 <CODE>--with-codecsdir=c:/path/to/your/codecs</CODE> (alternatively
6f51d17ecfc8 Binary codecs finally work as they should on Windows.
diego
parents: 10645
diff changeset
1852 <CODE>--with-codecsdir=/path/to/your/codecs</CODE> only on Cygwin) to
6f51d17ecfc8 Binary codecs finally work as they should on Windows.
diego
parents: 10645
diff changeset
1853 <CODE>configure</CODE>. We have had some reports that Real DLLs need to
6f51d17ecfc8 Binary codecs finally work as they should on Windows.
diego
parents: 10645
diff changeset
1854 be writable by the user running MPlayer, but only on some systems. Try
6f51d17ecfc8 Binary codecs finally work as they should on Windows.
diego
parents: 10645
diff changeset
1855 making them writable if you have problems.</P>
10645
558d0bc8354d Windows hints as discussed on mplayer-cygwin
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1856
558d0bc8354d Windows hints as discussed on mplayer-cygwin
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parents: 10615
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1857 <P>The Cygwin/MinGW console is rather slow. Redirecting output or using the
558d0bc8354d Windows hints as discussed on mplayer-cygwin
diego
parents: 10615
diff changeset
1858 <CODE>-quiet</CODE> option has been reported to improve performance on some
558d0bc8354d Windows hints as discussed on mplayer-cygwin
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parents: 10615
diff changeset
1859 systems. Direct rendering (<CODE>-dr</CODE>) may also help. You can prevent
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diego
parents: 10615
diff changeset
1860 OSD flicker through double buffering with the <CODE>-double</CODE> option.
558d0bc8354d Windows hints as discussed on mplayer-cygwin
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parents: 10615
diff changeset
1861 If playback is jerky, try <CODE>-autosync 100</CODE>. If some of
558d0bc8354d Windows hints as discussed on mplayer-cygwin
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parents: 10615
diff changeset
1862 these options help you, you may want to put them in your config file.</P>
10559
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parents: 10530
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1863
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
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parents: 10530
diff changeset
1864 <P>There are precompiled binary versions made by Sascha Sommer available for
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
diego
parents: 10530
diff changeset
1865 download from
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
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parents: 10530
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1866 <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/">our homepage</A>.
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
diego
parents: 10530
diff changeset
1867 Joey Parrish has been making
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
diego
parents: 10530
diff changeset
1868 <A HREF="http://joey.nicewarrior.org/cygmp/">unofficial Windows packages</A>
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
diego
parents: 10530
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1869 complete with installer.</P>
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
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parents: 10530
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1870
10563
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1871
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parents: 10530
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1872 <H3><A NAME="cygwin">6.6.1 Cygwin</A></H3>
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
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parents: 10530
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1873
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parents: 10530
diff changeset
1874 <P>Cygwin versions prior to 1.5.0 do not include <CODE>inttypes.h</CODE>. You
10190
d465fb532f37 -vo directx:ontop, console output, inttypes.h
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parents: 10187
diff changeset
1875 will have to copy or symlink <CODE>etc/cygwin_inttypes.h</CODE> from the
8642
30bb40f02e1e Win32 DLLs and OpenGL do not work on Cygwin. Automatically disable them and
diego
parents: 8639
diff changeset
1876 MPlayer source directory to <CODE>/usr/include/inttypes.h</CODE> in order to
30bb40f02e1e Win32 DLLs and OpenGL do not work on Cygwin. Automatically disable them and
diego
parents: 8639
diff changeset
1877 make MPlayer compile.</P>
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parents: 6950
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1878
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1879 <P>DirectX header files need to be extracted to <CODE>/usr/include/</CODE> or
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
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parents: 10530
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1880 <CODE>/usr/local/include/</CODE>.</P>
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b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
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parents: 7814
diff changeset
1881
8184
4d948b753e9d SDL + Cygwin link added.
diego
parents: 8177
diff changeset
1882 <P>Instructions and files for making SDL run under Cygwin can be found on the
4d948b753e9d SDL + Cygwin link added.
diego
parents: 8177
diff changeset
1883 <A HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/extras/win32/cygwin/">libsdl site</A>.</P>
4d948b753e9d SDL + Cygwin link added.
diego
parents: 8177
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1884
9042
c9b6b6f38d31 VCDs, DVDs and QT DLLs should work on Cygwin.
diego
parents: 8999
diff changeset
1885 <P>You can play VCDs by playing the <CODE>.DAT</CODE> or <CODE>.MPG</CODE> files
c9b6b6f38d31 VCDs, DVDs and QT DLLs should work on Cygwin.
diego
parents: 8999
diff changeset
1886 that Windows exposes on VCDs. It works like this (adjust for the drive letter
c9b6b6f38d31 VCDs, DVDs and QT DLLs should work on Cygwin.
diego
parents: 8999
diff changeset
1887 of your CD-ROM):</P>
c9b6b6f38d31 VCDs, DVDs and QT DLLs should work on Cygwin.
diego
parents: 8999
diff changeset
1888
c9b6b6f38d31 VCDs, DVDs and QT DLLs should work on Cygwin.
diego
parents: 8999
diff changeset
1889 <P><CODE>mplayer d:/mpegav/avseq01.dat</CODE></P>
c9b6b6f38d31 VCDs, DVDs and QT DLLs should work on Cygwin.
diego
parents: 8999
diff changeset
1890
9493
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1891 <P><CODE>mplayer /cygdrive/d/MPEG2/AVSEQ01.MPG</CODE></P>
9042
c9b6b6f38d31 VCDs, DVDs and QT DLLs should work on Cygwin.
diego
parents: 8999
diff changeset
1892
c9b6b6f38d31 VCDs, DVDs and QT DLLs should work on Cygwin.
diego
parents: 8999
diff changeset
1893 <P>DVDs also work, just set the DVD device correctly to whatever your CD-ROM
c9b6b6f38d31 VCDs, DVDs and QT DLLs should work on Cygwin.
diego
parents: 8999
diff changeset
1894 device is:</P>
c9b6b6f38d31 VCDs, DVDs and QT DLLs should work on Cygwin.
diego
parents: 8999
diff changeset
1895
10186
b2deb0fdbc69 Changed a few remaining -dvd and -vcd options to dvd:// and vcd://.
diego
parents: 10130
diff changeset
1896 <P><CODE>mplayer dvd://&lt;title&gt; -dvd-device '\\.\d:'</CODE></P>
9042
c9b6b6f38d31 VCDs, DVDs and QT DLLs should work on Cygwin.
diego
parents: 8999
diff changeset
1897
10563
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parents: 10559
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1898
10559
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1899 <H3><A NAME="mingw">6.6.2 MinGW</A></H3>
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1900
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
diego
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1901 <P>Installing a version of MinGW that could compile MPlayer used to be quite
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
diego
parents: 10530
diff changeset
1902 tricky, but only consists of three simple steps now and should work out of
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
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parents: 10530
diff changeset
1903 the box soon.</P>
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
diego
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1904
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
diego
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1905 <OL>
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
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1906 <LI>Install MinGW 3.0.0 or later.</LI>
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
diego
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diff changeset
1907 <LI>Install MSYS 1.0.9 or later and tell the MSYS postinstall that
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
diego
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diff changeset
1908 MinGW is installed.</LI>
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
diego
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diff changeset
1909 <LI>Replace <CODE>/mingw/include/sys/types.h</CODE> with this
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
diego
parents: 10530
diff changeset
1910 <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/contrib/types.h"><CODE>types.h</CODE></A>.</LI>
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
diego
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1911 </OL>
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
diego
parents: 10530
diff changeset
1912
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
diego
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diff changeset
1913 <P>Extract DirectX header files to <CODE>/mingw/include/</CODE>.</P>
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
diego
parents: 10530
diff changeset
1914
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
diego
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1915 <P>VCDs and DVDs work almost like Cygwin (adjust for the drive letter of your
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
diego
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diff changeset
1916 CD-ROM):</P>
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
diego
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diff changeset
1917
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diff changeset
1918 <P><CODE>mplayer d:/mpegav/avseq01.dat</CODE></P>
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
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1919
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
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diff changeset
1920 <P><CODE>mplayer /d/MPEG2/AVSEQ01.MPG</CODE></P>
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diego
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diff changeset
1921
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
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1922 <P><CODE>mplayer dvd://&lt;title&gt; -dvd-device /d/</CODE></P>
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
diego
parents: 10530
diff changeset
1923
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
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diff changeset
1924
c958cd92337a new Windows section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
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diff changeset
1925
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
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1926
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1927
8851
636c1e894a27 Appendix B and E numbered, encoding moved to a separate section.
diego
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diff changeset
1928 <H1><A NAME="encoding">7.</A> <A HREF="encoding.html">Encoding with MEncoder</A></H1>
636c1e894a27 Appendix B and E numbered, encoding moved to a separate section.
diego
parents: 8847
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1929
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1930
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1931
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1932 <H1><A NAME="mailing_lists">Appendix A - Mailing lists</A></H1>
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1933
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1934 <P>There are some public mailing lists on MPlayer. Unless explicitly
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1935 stated otherwise the language of these lists is <B>English</B>. Please do
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1936 not send messages in other languages or HTML mail! Message size limit is 80k.
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1937 If you have something bigger put it up for download somewhere. Click the
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1938 links to subscribe. On the mailing lists, the same rules about writing
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1939 and quoting apply as on usenet. Please follow them, it makes the life of
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1940 those who read your mails a lot easier. If you do not know them please
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1941 read <A HREF="http://learn.to/edit_messages">HOWTO edit messages</A> or
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1942 (if you are in a hurry)
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1943 <A HREF="http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html">
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1944 Quoting HOWTO</A>.</P>
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1945
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1946 <UL>
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1947 <LI>MPlayer announce list:
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1948 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-announce">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-announce</A><BR>
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1949 List for MPlayer announcements. Subscribe here if you want to get
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1950 announcements about new features.</LI>
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1951 <LI>MPlayer developers list:
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1952 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng</A><BR>
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1953 This list is about MPlayer development! Talking about interface/API
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1954 changes, new libraries, code optimization, configure changes is ontopic
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1955 here. Send patches but <B>not</B> bug reports, user questions, feature
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1956 requests or flames here to keep the list traffic low.</LI>
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1957 <LI>MPlayer users list:
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1958 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users</A>
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1959 <UL>
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1960 <LI>Send bug reports here after reading the <A HREF="#known_bugs">Known Bugs</A>
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1961 and <A HREF="bugreports.html">bug reporting section</A>).</LI>
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1962 <LI>Send feature requests here (after reading the <B>whole</B>
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1963 documentation).</LI>
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1964 <LI>Send user questions here (after reading the <B>whole</B>
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1965 documentation).</LI>
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1966 </UL>
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1967 </LI>
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1968 <LI>MPlayer Hungarian users list:
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1969 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-felhasznalok">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-felhasznalok</A>
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1970 <UL>
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1971 <LI>Hungarian language list</LI>
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1972 <LI>Topic? We'll see about it... mostly flame and RTFM questions up to
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1973 now :(</LI>
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1974 </UL>
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1975 </LI>
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1976 <LI>MPlayer &amp; Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 users:
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1977 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-matrox">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-matrox</A><BR>
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1978 Matrox related questions like
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1979 <UL>
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1980 <LI>things about mga_vid</LI>
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1981 <LI>Matrox's official beta drivers (for X 4.x.x)</LI>
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1982 <LI>matroxfb-TVout stuff</LI>
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1983 </UL>
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1984 </LI>
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1985 <LI>MPlayer &amp; DVB card users:
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1986 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dvb">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dvb</A><BR>
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1987 Things related to the hardware decoder card called DVB (<B>not</B> DXR3!).
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1988 </LI>
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1989 <LI>MPlayer CVS-log:
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1990 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog</A><BR>
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1991 All changes in MPlayer code are automatically sent to this list. Only
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1992 questions about these changes belong here (if you do not understand why a
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1993 change is required or you have a better fix or you have noticed a possible
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1994 bug/problem in the commit).
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1995 </LI>
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1996 <LI>MPlayer Cygwin-porting list:
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1997 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cygwin">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cygwin</A><BR>
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1998 List for discussion about MPlayer's Cygwin port.
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1999 </LI>
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2000 <LI>MPlayer OS/2-porting list:
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2001 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-os2">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-os2</A><BR>
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2002 List for discussion about MPlayer's OS/2 port.
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2003 </LI>
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2004 <LI>MPlayer Weekly News' editors and translators list:
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2005 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-mwn">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-mwn</A><BR>
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2006 List for discussion about the Weekly News releases.
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2007 </LI>
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2008 </UL>
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2009
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2010 <P><B>Note:</B> You can reach the searchable mailing list archives at
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2011 <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch">http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch</A>.
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
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2012
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
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2013
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
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2014
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2015 <H1><A NAME="bug_reports">Appendix B</A> - <A HREF="bugreports.html">How to report bugs</A></H1>
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2016
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
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2017
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
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2018
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2019 <H1><A NAME="known_bugs">Appendix C - Known bugs</A></H1>
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2020
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2021 <P>Special system/CPU-specific bugs/problems:</P>
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2022 <UL>
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2023
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2024 <LI>SIGILL (signal 4) on P3 using 2.2.x kernels:<BR>
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2025 Problem: kernel 2.2.x doesn't have proper (working) SSE support<BR>
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2026 Solution: upgrade kernel to 2.4.x<BR>
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2027 Workaround: <CODE>./configure --disable-sse</CODE></LI>
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2028
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2029 <LI>General SIGILL (signal 4):<BR>
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2030 Problem: you compiled and run MPlayer on different machines
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2031 (for example compiled on P3 and running on Celeron)<BR>
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2032 Solution: compile MPlayer on the same machine where you will use it!<BR>
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2033 Workaround: <CODE>./configure --disable-sse</CODE> etc. options</LI>
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2034
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2035 <LI>"Internal buffer inconsistency" during MEncoder run:<BR>
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2036 Problem: known problem when lame &lt; 3.90 was compiled with gcc 2.96 or 3.x.<BR>
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2037 Solution: use lame &gt;=3.90.<BR>
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2038 Workaround: compile lame with gcc 2.95.x and remove any already installed
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2039 lame packages, they may have been compiled with gcc 2.96.</LI>
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2040
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2041 <LI>Messed up MP2/MP3 sound on PPC:<BR>
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2042 Problem: known GCC miscompilation bug on PPC platforms, no fix yet.<BR>
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2043 Workaround: use FFmpeg's (slow) MP1/MP2/MP3 decoder (<CODE>-ac ffmpeg</CODE>)</LI>
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2044
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2045 <LI>sig11 in libmpeg2, when scaling+encoding:<BR>
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2046 Problem: known GCC 2.95.2 MMX bug, upgrade to 2.95.3.</LI>
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2047 </UL>
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2049 <P>Various A-V sync and other audio problems:</P>
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2050
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2051 General audio delay or jerky sound (exists with all or many files):
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2052 <UL>
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2053 <LI>most common: buggy audio driver! - try to use different drivers, try
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2054 ALSA 0.9 OSS emulation with -ao oss, also try -ao sdl, sometimes it helps.
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2055 If your file plays fine with -nosound, then you can be sure it's sound card
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2056 (driver) problem.</LI>
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2057 <LI>audio buffer problems (buffer size badly detected)<BR>
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2058 Workaround: mplayer -abs option</LI>
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2059 <LI>samplerate problems - maybe your card doesn't support the samplerate
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2060 used in your files - try the resampling plugin (-aop)</LI>
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2061 <LI>slow machine (CPU or VGA)<BR>
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2062 try with -vo null, if it plays well, then you have slow VGA card/driver<BR>
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2063 Workaround: buy a faster card or read this documentation about how to speed up<BR>
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2064 Also try -framedrop</LI>
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2065 </UL>
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2066
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2067 Audio delay/de-sync specific to one or a few files:
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2068 <UL>
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2069 <LI>bad file<BR>
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2070 Workaround:
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2071 <UL>
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2072 <LI>-ni or -nobps option (for non-interleaved or bad files)<BR>
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2073 and/or</LI>
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2074 <LI>-mc 0 (required for files with badly interleaved VBR audio)<BR>
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2075 and/or</LI>
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2076 <LI>-delay option or +/- keys at runtime to adjust delay</LI>
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2077 </UL>
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2078 If none of these help, please upload the file, we'll check (and fix).
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2079 </LI>
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2080 <LI>your sound card doesn't support 48kHz playback<BR>
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diego
parents: 6970
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2081 Workaround: buy a better sound card... or try to decrease fps by 10% (use
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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2082 -fps 27 for a 30fps movie) or use the resampler plugin</LI>
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2083 <LI>slow machine<BR>
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diego
parents: 6970
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2084 (if A-V is not around 0, and the last number in the status line increasing)<BR>
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2085 Workaround: -framedrop</LI>
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
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2086 </UL>
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
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2087
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
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2088 No sound at all:
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gabucino
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2089 <UL>
6974
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2090 <LI>your file uses an unsupported audio codec<BR>
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2091 Workaround: read the documentation and help us adding support for it</LI>
1748
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gabucino
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2092 </UL>
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gabucino
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2093
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diego
parents: 6393
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2094 No picture at all (just plain grey/green window):
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
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2095 <UL>
6974
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diego
parents: 6970
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2096 <LI>your file uses an unsupported video codec<BR>
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diego
parents: 6970
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2097 Workaround: read the documentation and help us adding support for it</LI>
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diego
parents: 6970
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2098 <LI>auto-selected codec can't decode the file, try to select another using -vc
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diego
parents: 6970
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2099 or -vfm options</LI>
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parents: 6970
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2100 <LI>you try to play DivX 3.x file with OpenDivX decoder or XviD (-vc odivx)
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diego
parents: 6970
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2101 - install Divx4Linux and recompile player</LI>
5105
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arpi
parents: 5096
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2102 </UL>
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parents: 5096
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2103
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2104 <P>Video-out problems:</P>
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gabucino
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2105
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2106 <P>First note: options -fs -vm and -zoom are just recommendations, not (yet)
6974
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2107 supported by all drivers. So it isn't a bug if it doesn't work.
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2108 Only a few driver supports scaling/zooming, don't expect this from x11 or dga.</P>
1748
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gabucino
parents: 1731
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2109
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parents: 1731
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2110 <P>OSD/sub flickering:<BR>
6974
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diego
parents: 6970
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2111 - x11 driver: sorry, it can't be fixed now<BR>
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parents: 6970
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2112 - xv driver: use -double option</P>
1748
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gabucino
parents: 1731
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2113
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3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
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2114 <P>Green image using mga_vid (-vo mga / -vo xmga):<BR>
6974
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diego
parents: 6970
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2115 - mga_vid misdetected your card's RAM amount, reload it using mga_ram_size option</P>
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
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parents: 5096
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2116
7365
822923446b66 Removed authors and maintainers section, now in txt format.
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2117
822923446b66 Removed authors and maintainers section, now in txt format.
diego
parents: 7363
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2118
9137
8d6431bea500 skin-en.html ---> skin.html, a typo and reversed Gabu's Cygwin "fix".
diego
parents: 9129
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2119 <H1><A NAME="skin">Appendix D</A> - <A HREF="skin.html">MPlayer skin format</A></H1>
7365
822923446b66 Removed authors and maintainers section, now in txt format.
diego
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2120
822923446b66 Removed authors and maintainers section, now in txt format.
diego
parents: 7363
diff changeset
2121
822923446b66 Removed authors and maintainers section, now in txt format.
diego
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2122
822923446b66 Removed authors and maintainers section, now in txt format.
diego
parents: 7363
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2123 <H1><A NAME="flame_wars">Appendix E</A> - <A HREF="users_against_developers.html">Developer Cries</A></H1>
822923446b66 Removed authors and maintainers section, now in txt format.
diego
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2124
822923446b66 Removed authors and maintainers section, now in txt format.
diego
parents: 7363
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2125
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636c1e894a27 Appendix B and E numbered, encoding moved to a separate section.
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2126
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72c0458c854a update of links regarding tech/ dir
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2127 <H1><A NAME="patches">Appendix F</A> - <A HREF="../tech/patches.txt">How to send patches</A></H1>
8851
636c1e894a27 Appendix B and E numbered, encoding moved to a separate section.
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2128
636c1e894a27 Appendix B and E numbered, encoding moved to a separate section.
diego
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2129
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gabucino
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2130 </BODY>
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gabucino
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2131 </HTML>