|
1612
|
1 <HTML>
|
|
|
2 <BODY>
|
|
|
3
|
|
1682
|
4 <P><B><A NAME=2.1>2.1. Video Formats, Audio & Video Codecs</A></B></P>
|
|
1612
|
5
|
|
1682
|
6 <P><B><A NAME=2.1.1>2.1.1. Supported input formats</A></B></P>
|
|
1612
|
7
|
|
1682
|
8 <P><B>MPlayer</B> can read/play from the following devices/formats:<BR>
|
|
|
9 <UL>
|
|
|
10 <LI> VCD (Video CD) directly from CD-ROM or from CDRwin's .bin image file
|
|
|
11 <LI> DVD, directly from your DVD disk, using optional libcss for decryption
|
|
|
12 <LI> MPEG 1/2 System Stream (PS/PES/VOB) and Elementary Stream (ES) file
|
|
|
13 formats
|
|
|
14 <LI> RIFF AVI file format
|
|
|
15 <LI> ASF 1.0 file format
|
|
|
16 <LI> supports reading from file, stdin, DVD drive or network via HTTP
|
|
|
17 </UL></P>
|
|
1612
|
18
|
|
1682
|
19 <P>Note: about quicktime (.mov/.qt) and realmedia (.ra/.rm) support read the FAQ!</P>
|
|
1612
|
20
|
|
|
21
|
|
1682
|
22 <P><B><A NAME=2.1.2>2.1.2. Supported audio & video codecs</A></B></P>
|
|
1612
|
23
|
|
1682
|
24 <P>See http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/DOCS/codecs.html for the complete,
|
|
|
25 daily updated list!!!</P>
|
|
1612
|
26
|
|
1682
|
27 <P>The most important video codecs:<BR>
|
|
|
28 <UL>
|
|
|
29 <LI>MPEG1 (VCD) and MPEG2 (DVD) video
|
|
|
30 <LI>DivX, FFmpeg, OpenDivX and other MPEG4 variants
|
|
|
31 <LI>Windows Media Video 7 (WMV1) and Windows Media Video 8 used in .wmv files
|
|
|
32 <LI>Intel Indeo codecs (3.1,3.2,4.1,5.0)
|
|
|
33 <LI>MJPEG, ASV2 and other hardware formats
|
|
|
34 </UL></P>
|
|
1612
|
35
|
|
1682
|
36 <P>The most important audio codecs:<BR>
|
|
|
37 <UL>
|
|
|
38 <LI>MPEG layer 2, and layer 3 (MP3) audio (native code, with 3dnow optimization)
|
|
|
39 <LI>AC3 dolby audio (native code, with 3dnow optimization)
|
|
|
40 <LI>Voxware audio
|
|
|
41 <LI>alaw, msgsm, pcm and other simple old audio formats
|
|
|
42 </UL></P>
|
|
1612
|
43
|
|
1682
|
44 <P>If you have a codec not listed here, and not supported yet, just
|
|
|
45 read http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/DOCS/codecs.html
|
|
|
46 to get info about its status and about how to help us adding support for it!</P>
|
|
1612
|
47
|
|
|
48
|
|
1682
|
49 <P><B><A NAME=2.1.2.1>2.1.2.1. DivX4</A></B></P>
|
|
1612
|
50
|
|
1682
|
51 <P>This section contains information about the DivX4 codec of
|
|
|
52 <A HREF="http://www.projectmayo.com">ProjectMayo</A>. Their first available alpha version was the OpenDivX 4.0
|
|
|
53 alpha 47 and 48. Support for this was/is included in <B>MPlayer</B>, and built by
|
|
|
54 default. We even used its postprocessing code to optionally enhance visual
|
|
|
55 quality of MPEG1/2 movies.</P>
|
|
1612
|
56
|
|
1682
|
57 <P>The new generation of this codec can even decode movies made with the
|
|
|
58 infamous DivX codec! And it's not everything, it's MUCH faster than the
|
|
|
59 traditional Win32 DivX DLL's. See below for configuration. The only
|
|
|
60 disadvantage of this codec is that it's currently closed-source. :(</P>
|
|
1612
|
61
|
|
1682
|
62 <P>The codec can be downloaded from the following URL:</P>
|
|
|
63
|
|
|
64 <P> <CODE>http://download2.projectmayo.com/dnload/divx4linux/divx4linux-20010718.zip</CODE></P>
|
|
1612
|
65
|
|
1682
|
66 <P>No automatic installing available at this time, so install it manually,
|
|
|
67 EXACTLY as described here. Unpack it, and copy files to their place:</P>
|
|
1612
|
68
|
|
1682
|
69 <P><CODE>cp libdivxdecore.so.0.0.0 /usr/local/lib/<BR>
|
|
|
70 ln -s /usr/local/lib/libdivxdecore.so.0.0.0 /usr/local/lib/libdivxdecore.so.0<BR>
|
|
|
71 ln -s /usr/local/lib/libdivxdecore.so.0 /usr/local/lib/libdivxdecore.so<BR>
|
|
|
72 ldconfig<BR>
|
|
|
73 cp decore.h /usr/local/include/</CODE></P>
|
|
1612
|
74
|
|
|
75
|
|
1682
|
76 <P><B>MPlayer</B> autodetects if DivX4 is (properly) installed, just compile
|
|
|
77 as usual. If it doesn't detect it, you didn't install it exactly as above,
|
|
|
78 and/or has fucked up config (see last question of 5.1 section).</P>
|
|
|
79
|
|
|
80 <P>Using it is a bit tricky. As it conflicts with the old OpenDivX (it's API is
|
|
|
81 very similar to OpenDivX's), OpenDivX code is disabled, and the OpenDivX
|
|
|
82 driver calls this library too.</P>
|
|
|
83
|
|
|
84 <P>Generally we can pinpoint this issue to that you have two options to use
|
|
|
85 this codec:</P>
|
|
|
86
|
|
|
87 <P><TABLE BORDER=0>
|
|
|
88 <TD> </TD><TD VALIGN=top>-vc odivx</TD><TD> </TD>
|
|
|
89 <TD>using divx4 codec as a new version of OpenDivX.
|
|
|
90 in this case it produces YV12 image in its own buffer,
|
|
|
91 and <B>MPlayer</B> (libvo) does colorspace conversion.</TD><TR>
|
|
|
92 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>-vc divx4</TD><TD></TD>
|
|
|
93 <TD>using divx4 codec's colorspace conversion.
|
|
|
94 in this mode, you can use YUY2/UYVY too.</TD><TR>
|
|
|
95 </TABLE></P>
|
|
1612
|
96
|
|
1682
|
97 <P>The 'odivx' method is usually faster, due to the fact that it transfers
|
|
|
98 image data in YV12 (planar YUV 4:2:0) format, thus requiring much less
|
|
|
99 bandwidth on the bus. For packed YUV modes (YUY2, UYVY) use the 'divx4'
|
|
|
100 method. For RGB modes you can choose freely, their speed is same, maybe
|
|
|
101 differ according to the current bpp.</P>
|
|
|
102
|
|
|
103 <P>Note: it supports postprocessing too, but range of values is strange:</P>
|
|
1612
|
104
|
|
1682
|
105 <P><TABLE BORDER=0>
|
|
|
106 <TD> </TD><TD>0</TD><TD> </TD>
|
|
|
107 <TD>no postproc</TD><TR>
|
|
|
108 <TD></TD><TD>10 .. 20</TD>
|
|
|
109 <TD></TD><TD>postprocessing, normal (like level 2 with divxds)</TD><TR>
|
|
|
110 <TD></TD><TD>30 .. 60</TD>
|
|
|
111 <TD></TD><TD>hard prostprocessing, eats many CPU (like level 4 with divxds</TD><TR>
|
|
|
112 </TABLE></P>
|
|
1612
|
113
|
|
1682
|
114 <P><B><A NAME=2.1.2.2>2.1.2.2. ffmpeg's DivX/libavcodec</A></B></P>
|
|
|
115
|
|
|
116 <P>Beginning with version 0.4.2 , <A HREF="http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net">ffmpeg</A> contains an <B>opensource</B> DivX codec,
|
|
|
117 which is compatible with the traditional DivX. <B>MPlayer</B> supports this codec,
|
|
|
118 and this makes it possible to <B>watch DivX movies on non-x86 platforms!</B>
|
|
|
119 It was removed from <B>MPlayer</B>'s cvs tree, you have to download it
|
|
|
120 manually directly from <B>FFmpeg</B>'s tree:</P>
|
|
|
121
|
|
|
122 <P><CODE>
|
|
1612
|
123 cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.ffmpeg.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ffmpeg login
|
|
|
124 cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.ffmpeg.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ffmpeg co ffmpeg
|
|
1682
|
125 </CODE></P>
|
|
1612
|
126
|
|
1682
|
127 <P>Note: <I>if you copy with CVS subdirs, next time it's enough to do
|
|
|
128 'cvs update'.</I></P>
|
|
1612
|
129
|
|
1682
|
130 <P>Now, move the newly downloaded ffmpeg source's <B>libavcodec</B> directory,
|
|
|
131 (with all it's subdirectories) to <B>MPlayer</B>'s tree, so it will look
|
|
|
132 like this:</P>
|
|
1612
|
133
|
|
1682
|
134 <P> <CODE>main/libavcodec</CODE></P>
|
|
1612
|
135
|
|
1682
|
136 <P>Symlinking is NOT enough, you have to copy it.</P>
|
|
1668
|
137
|
|
1682
|
138 <P>./configure detects if it can be built. At the moment it doesn't support
|
|
|
139 postprocessing, and is under optimization (it's faster than the DS/VfW DivX
|
|
|
140 codec).</P>
|
|
1612
|
141
|
|
1682
|
142 <P>In order to use it, refresh your codecs.conf file, and do as the manpage,
|
|
|
143 or the example.conf says (the -vfm option).</P>
|
|
1612
|
144
|
|
1682
|
145 <P>Note: libavcodec contains other codecs as well, but at the moment we mostly
|
|
|
146 focus on ffdivx, and it's unlikely that this will change.</P>
|
|
1612
|
147
|
|
|
148
|
|
1682
|
149 <P><B><A NAME=2.1.4>2.1.4. Codec importing howto</A></B></P>
|
|
|
150
|
|
|
151 <P><B><A NAME=2.1.4.1>2.1.4.1. VFW codecs</A></B></P>
|
|
|
152
|
|
|
153 <P>VfW (Video for Windows) is the old Video API for Windows. Its codecs have
|
|
|
154 the .DLL or (rarely) .DRV extension.
|
|
|
155 If <B>MPlayer</B> fails with your AVI:</P>
|
|
|
156
|
|
|
157 <P> <CODE>UNKNOWN video codec: HFYU (0x55594648)</CODE></P>
|
|
1612
|
158
|
|
1682
|
159 <P>It means your AVI is encoded with a codec which has the HFYU fourcc (HFYU =
|
|
|
160 HuffYUV codec, DIV3 = DivX Low Motion, etc...). Now that we know this, we'll
|
|
|
161 have to find out which DLL Windows loads in order to play this file. In our
|
|
|
162 case, the system.ini contains this (with many others):</P>
|
|
1612
|
163
|
|
1682
|
164 <P> <CODE>VIDC.HFYU=huffyuv.dll</CODE></P>
|
|
|
165
|
|
|
166 <P>So we'll need the huffyuv.dll file. Note that the audio codecs are specified
|
|
|
167 with the MSACM prefix:</P>
|
|
|
168
|
|
|
169 <P> <CODE>msacm.l3acm=L3codeca.acm</CODE></P>
|
|
1612
|
170
|
|
|
171
|
|
1682
|
172 <P>This is the MP3 codec.
|
|
|
173 So, now we have all the info needed (fourcc, codec file, sample AVI), submit
|
|
|
174 your codec support request in mail, and upload these files to the FTP:</P>
|
|
1612
|
175
|
|
1682
|
176 <P> <CODE>ftp://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming/[codecname]/</CODE></P>
|
|
1612
|
177
|
|
|
178
|
|
1682
|
179 <P><B><A NAME=2.1.4.2>2.1.4.2. DirectShow codecs</A></B></P>
|
|
1612
|
180
|
|
1682
|
181 <P>DirectShow is the newer Video API, which is even worse than its predecessor.
|
|
|
182 Things are harder with DirectShow, since
|
|
|
183 <UL>
|
|
|
184 <LI>system.ini doesn't contain the needed information, instead it's stored in
|
|
|
185 the registry :(
|
|
|
186 <LI>we'll need the GUID of the codec.
|
|
|
187 </UL></P>
|
|
1612
|
188
|
|
1682
|
189 <P>So let's search that goddamn registry..
|
|
|
190 <UL>
|
|
|
191 <LI>Start 'regedit'
|
|
|
192 <LI>press ctrl-f, disable the first two checkbox, and enable the third. Type
|
|
|
193 the fourcc of the codec. (for ex.: TM20)
|
|
|
194 <LI>you should see a field which contains the path and filename
|
|
|
195 (for ex. : C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\TM20DEC.AX)
|
|
|
196 <LI>now that we have the file, we'll need the GUID. Try searching again, but
|
|
|
197 now we'll search for the codec's name, not the fourcc. Its name can be acquired
|
|
|
198 when Media Player is playing that file, by checking File/Properties/Advanced.
|
|
|
199 If not, bad luck ;) Try guessing.
|
|
|
200 (for ex. search for : TrueMotion)
|
|
|
201 <LI>if found (in registry), there should be a FriendlyName field, and a CLSID
|
|
|
202 field. Write down that 16 byte of CLSID, this is the GUID required by us.
|
|
|
203 </UL></P>
|
|
|
204
|
|
|
205 <P>NOTE: if searching fails, try to enable all the checkboxes.. you may have
|
|
|
206 false hits, but maybe you'll have the right, too...</P>
|
|
|
207 <P>NOTE: dump that M$ shit.</P>
|
|
1612
|
208
|
|
|
209
|
|
1682
|
210 <P>So, now we have all the info needed (fourcc, GUID, codec file, sample AVI),
|
|
|
211 submit your codec support request in mail, and upload these files to the FTP:<BR>
|
|
|
212 ftp://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming/[codecname]/</P>
|
|
1612
|
213
|
|
1682
|
214 <BR>
|
|
|
215 <HR>MPlayer documentation project
|
|
1612
|
216
|
|
|
217 </BODY>
|
|
|
218 </HTML>
|
