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| 7047 | 13 <H3><A NAME="video">2.3.1 Video output devices</A></H3> |
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16 <H4><A NAME="mtrr">2.3.1.1 Setting up MTRR</A></H4> |
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| 1946 | 18 <P>It is VERY recommended to check if the MTRR registers are set up properly, |
| 6960 | 19 because they can give a big performance boost.</P> |
| 1946 | 20 |
| 6960 | 21 <P>Do a '<CODE>cat /proc/mtrr</CODE>':</P> |
| 1946 | 22 |
| 23 <P><CODE> | |
| 6960 | 24 --($:~)-- cat /proc/mtrr<BR> |
| 25 reg00: base=0xe4000000 (3648MB), size= 16MB: write-combining, count=9<BR> | |
| 6974 | 26 reg01: base=0xd8000000 (3456MB), size= 128MB: write-combining, count=1</CODE></P> |
| 1946 | 27 |
| 6599 | 28 <P>It's right, shows my Matrox G400 with 16MB memory. I did this from |
| 6960 | 29 XFree 4.x.x , which sets up MTRR registers automatically.</P> |
| 1946 | 30 |
| 6960 | 31 <P>If nothing worked, you have to do it manually. First, you have to find the |
| 32 base address. You have 3 ways to find it:</P> | |
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34 <UL> |
| 6960 | 35 <LI>from X11 startup messages, for example: |
| 36 <P><CODE>(--) SVGA: PCI: Matrox MGA G400 AGP rev 4, Memory @ 0xd8000000, 0xd4000000<BR> | |
| 37 (--) SVGA: Linear framebuffer at 0xD8000000</CODE></P></LI> | |
| 38 <LI>from /proc/pci (use lspci -v command): | |
| 39 <P> | |
| 40 <CODE>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc.: Unknown device 0525</CODE> | |
| 41 <CODE>Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)</CODE> | |
| 42 </P></LI> | |
| 7138 | 43 <LI>from mga_vid kernel driver messages (use <CODE>dmesg</CODE>): |
| 6960 | 44 <P><CODE>mga_mem_base = d8000000</CODE></P></LI> |
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45 </UL> |
| 1612 | 46 |
| 1682 | 47 <P>Then let's find the memory size. This is very easy, just convert video ram |
| 6960 | 48 size to hexadecimal, or use this table:</P> |
| 1612 | 49 |
| 1682 | 50 <TABLE BORDER=0> |
| 6974 | 51 <TR><TD> </TD><TD>1 MB</TD><TD WIDTH="10%"></TD><TD>0x100000</TD></TR> |
| 52 <TR><TD></TD><TD>2 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x200000</TD></TR> | |
| 53 <TR><TD></TD><TD>4 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x400000</TD></TR> | |
| 54 <TR><TD></TD><TD>8 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x800000</TD></TR> | |
| 55 <TR><TD></TD><TD>16 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x1000000</TD></TR> | |
| 56 <TR><TD></TD><TD>32 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x2000000</TD></TR> | |
| 1682 | 57 </TABLE> |
| 1612 | 58 |
| 59 | |
| 6599 | 60 <P>You know base address and memory size, let's setup MTRR registers! |
| 6960 | 61 For example, for the Matrox card above (base=0xd8000000) with 32MB |
| 62 ram (size=0x2000000) just execute:</P> | |
| 1612 | 63 |
| 64 | |
| 1682 | 65 <P><CODE> echo "base=0xd8000000 size=0x2000000 type=write-combining" >| /proc/mtrr</CODE></P> |
| 1612 | 66 |
| 67 | |
| 6599 | 68 <P>Not all CPUs support MTRRs. For example older K6-2's [around 266MHz, |
| 6960 | 69 stepping 0] doesn't support MTRR, but stepping 12's do ('<CODE>cat |
| 70 /proc/cpuinfo</CODE>' to check it').</P> | |
| 1612 | 71 |
| 8177 | 72 <H4><A NAME="normal">2.3.1.2 Video outputs for traditional video cards</A></H4> |
| 6974 | 73 |
| 8177 | 74 <H4><A NAME="xv">2.3.1.2.1 Xv</A></H4> |
| 1612 | 75 |
| 1682 | 76 <P>Under XFree86 4.0.2 or newer, you can use your card's hardware YUV routines |
| 6960 | 77 using the XVideo extension. This is what the option '-vo xv' uses. Also, |
| 78 this is driver supports adjusting brightness/contrast/hue/etc (unless you use | |
| 79 the old, slow DirectShow DivX codec, which supports it everywhere), see the | |
| 80 man page.</P> | |
| 4498 | 81 |
| 82 <P>In order to make this work, be sure to check the following:</P> | |
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84 <UL> |
| 6960 | 85 <LI>You have to use XFree86 4.0.2 or newer (former versions don't have |
| 86 XVideo)</LI> | |
| 87 <LI>Your card actually supports hardware acceleration (modern cards do)</LI> | |
| 88 <LI>X loads the XVideo extension, it's something like this: | |
| 1612 | 89 |
| 6960 | 90 <P><CODE> (II) Loading extension XVideo</CODE></P> |
| 91 | |
| 92 <P>in /var/log/XFree86.0.log</P> | |
| 1612 | 93 |
| 6960 | 94 <P>NOTE: this loads only the XFree86's extension. In a good install, this |
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95 is always loaded, and doesn't mean that the <B>card's</B> XVideo support is |
| 6960 | 96 loaded!</P> |
| 97 </LI> | |
| 98 <LI>Your card has Xv support under Linux. To check, try 'xvinfo', it is the | |
| 99 part of the XFree86 distribution. It should display a long text, similar | |
| 100 to this: | |
| 101 <PRE> | |
| 1612 | 102 X-Video Extension version 2.2 |
| 103 screen #0 | |
| 104 Adaptor #0: "Savage Streams Engine" | |
| 105 number of ports: 1 | |
| 106 port base: 43 | |
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107 operations supported: PutImage |
| 1612 | 108 supported visuals: |
| 109 depth 16, visualID 0x22 | |
| 110 depth 16, visualID 0x23 | |
| 111 number of attributes: 5 | |
| 112 (...) | |
| 113 Number of image formats: 7 | |
| 114 id: 0x32595559 (YUY2) | |
| 115 guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 | |
| 116 bits per pixel: 16 | |
| 117 number of planes: 1 | |
| 118 type: YUV (packed) | |
| 119 id: 0x32315659 (YV12) | |
| 120 guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 | |
| 121 bits per pixel: 12 | |
| 122 number of planes: 3 | |
| 123 type: YUV (planar) | |
| 124 (...etc...) | |
| 6960 | 125 </PRE> |
| 126 <P>It must support YUY2 packed, and YV12 planar pixel formats to be | |
| 7814 | 127 usable with MPlayer.</P> |
| 6960 | 128 </LI> |
| 7814 | 129 <LI>And finally, check if MPlayer was compiled with 'xv' support. |
| 6960 | 130 ./configure prints this.</LI> |
| 6974 | 131 </UL> |
| 1612 | 132 |
| 1682 | 133 |
| 8177 | 134 <H4><A NAME="xv_3dfx">2.3.1.2.1.1 3dfx cards</A></H4> |
| 1612 | 135 |
| 6960 | 136 <P>Older 3dfx drivers were known to have problems with XVideo acceleration, it |
| 137 didn't support either YUY2 or YV12, and so. Verify that you have XFree86 | |
| 138 version 4.2.0 or greater, it works OK with YV12 and YUY2. Previous versions, | |
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139 including 4.1.0, <B>crash with YV12</B>. If you experience strange effects |
| 6960 | 140 using -vo xv, try SDL (it has XVideo too) and see if it helps. Check the |
| 141 <A HREF="#sdl">SDL section</A> for details.</P> | |
| 1612 | 142 |
| 6960 | 143 <P><B>OR</B>, try the NEW -vo tdfxfb driver! See the |
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144 <A HREF="#tdfxfb">tdfxfb</A> section.</P> |
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| 2865 | 146 |
| 8177 | 147 <H4><A NAME="xv_s3">2.3.1.2.1.2 S3 cards</A></H4> |
| 1682 | 148 |
| 149 <P>S3 Savage3D's should work fine, but for Savage4, use XFree86 version 4.0.3 | |
| 6960 | 150 or greater (in case of image problems, try 16bpp). As for S3 Virge.. there is |
| 151 xv support, but the card itself is very slow, so you better sell it.</P> | |
| 1682 | 152 |
| 7640 | 153 <P><B>NOTE</B>: it's currently unclear which Savage models lack YV12 support, |
| 154 and convert by driver (slow). If you suspect your card, get a newer driver, | |
| 155 or ask politely on the mplayer-users mailing list for an MMX/3DNow enabled | |
| 6960 | 156 driver.</P> |
| 2865 | 157 |
| 158 | |
| 8177 | 159 <H4><A NAME="xv_nvidia">2.3.1.2.1.3 nVidia cards</A></H4> |
| 1612 | 160 |
| 6960 | 161 <P>nVidia isn't a very good choice under Linux (according to nVidia, this is |
| 162 <A HREF="users_against_developers.html#nvidia">not true</A>).. You'll have to | |
| 163 use the binary closed-source nVidia driver, available at nVidia's web site. | |
| 164 The standard XFree86 driver doesn't support XVideo for these cards, due to | |
| 165 nVidia's closed sources/specifications.</P> | |
| 1612 | 166 |
| 3290 | 167 <P>As far as I know the latest XFree86 driver contains XVideo support for |
| 6960 | 168 GeForce 2 and 3.</P> |
| 3290 | 169 |
| 6599 | 170 <P>Riva128 cards don't have XVideo support even with the nVidia driver :( |
| 6960 | 171 Complain to nVidia.</P> |
| 1612 | 172 |
| 173 | |
| 8177 | 174 <H4><A NAME="xv_ati">2.3.1.2.1.4 ATI cards</A></H4> |
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| 7937 | 177 <LI>The <A HREF="http://gatos.sourceforge.net">GATOS driver</A> (which you |
| 6960 | 178 should use, unless you have Rage128 or Radeon) has VSYNC enabled by |
| 179 default. It means that decoding speed (!) is synced to the monitor's | |
| 180 refresh rate. If playing seems to be slow, try disabling VSYNC somehow, or | |
| 181 set refresh rate to n*(fps of the movie) Hz.</LI> | |
| 182 <LI>Radeon VE - currently only XFree86 CVS has driver for this card, version | |
| 7814 | 183 4.1.0 doesn't. And no TV out support. Of course with MPlayer you can |
| 6960 | 184 happily get <B>accelerated</B> display, with or without <B>TV output</B>, and |
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| 8177 | 189 <H4><A NAME="xv_neomagic">2.3.1.2.1.5 NeoMagic cards</A></H4> |
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191 <P>These cards can be found in many laptops. Unfortunately, the driver in |
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192 X 4.2.0 can't do Xv, but we have a modified, Xv-capable driver for you. |
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193 <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/NeoMagic-driver/neomagic_drv.o.4.2.0.bz2">Download from here</A>. |
| 5359 | 194 Driver provided by Stefan Seyfried.</P> |
| 5378 | 195 |
| 6960 | 196 <P>To allow playback of DVD sized content change your XF86Config like this:</P> |
| 5378 | 197 |
| 6974 | 198 <P>Section "Device"<BR> |
| 6960 | 199 <I>[...]</I><BR> |
| 200 Driver "neomagic"<BR> | |
| 201 <B>Option "OverlayMem" "829440"</B><BR> | |
| 202 <I>[...]</I><BR> | |
| 6974 | 203 EndSection</P> |
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| 8177 | 206 <H4><A NAME="xv_trident">2.3.1.2.1.6 Trident cards</A></H4> |
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208 <P>If you want to use Xv with a Trident card, provided that it doesn't work |
| 7640 | 209 with 4.1.0, install XFree 4.2.0. 4.2.0 adds support for fullscreen xv |
| 210 support with the Cyberblade XP card.</P> | |
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217 <A HREF="http://www.powervr.com/">PowerVR site</A>.</P> |
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223 <H5>PREAMBLE</H5> |
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225 <P>This section tries to explain in some words what DGA is in general and what |
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226 the DGA video output driver for MPlayer can do (and what it can't).</P> |
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229 <H5>WHAT IS DGA</H5> |
| 1612 | 230 |
| 1682 | 231 <P>DGA is short for Direct Graphics Access and is a means for a program to |
| 6960 | 232 bypass the X-Server and directly modifying the framebuffer memory. |
| 233 Technically spoken this happens by mapping the framebuffer memory into | |
| 234 the memory range of your process. This is allowed by the kernel only | |
| 235 if you have superuser privileges. You can get these either by logging in | |
| 7814 | 236 as root or by setting the SUID bit on the MPlayer executable (<B>not |
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239 <P>There are two versions of DGA: DGA1 is used by XFree 3.x.x and DGA2 was |
| 6960 | 240 introduced with XFree 4.0.1.</P> |
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242 <P>DGA1 provides only direct framebuffer access as described above. For |
| 6960 | 243 switching the resolution of the video signal you have to rely on the |
| 244 XVidMode extension.</P> | |
| 1612 | 245 |
| 1682 | 246 <P>DGA2 incorporates the features of XVidMode extension and also allows |
| 6960 | 247 switching the depth of the display. So you may, although basically |
| 248 running a 32 bit depth X server, switch to a depth of 15 bits and vice | |
| 249 versa. </P> | |
| 1612 | 250 |
| 1682 | 251 <P>However DGA has some drawbacks. It seems it is somewhat dependent on the |
| 6960 | 252 graphics chip you use and on the implementation of the X server's video |
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253 driver that controls this chip. So it does not work on every system.</P> |
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256 <H5>INSTALLING DGA SUPPORT FOR MPLAYER</H5> |
| 1682 | 257 |
| 258 <P>First make sure X loads the DGA extension, see in /var/log/XFree86.0.log:</P> | |
| 259 | |
| 260 <P> <CODE>(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA</CODE></P> | |
| 261 | |
| 7814 | 262 <P>See, XFree86 4.0.x or greater is VERY RECOMMENDED! MPlayer's DGA |
| 6960 | 263 driver is autodetected on ./configure, or you can force it with |
| 264 --enable-dga.</P> | |
| 1612 | 265 |
| 1682 | 266 <P>If the driver couldn't switch to a smaller resolution, experiment with |
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268 the movie fits in. There is no converter right now :(</P> |
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270 <P>Become root. DGA needs root access to be able to write directly to video |
| 7814 | 271 memory. If you want to run it as user, then install MPlayer SUID |
| 6960 | 272 root:</P> |
| 1612 | 273 |
| 1682 | 274 <P><CODE> |
| 6960 | 275 chown root /usr/local/bin/mplayer<BR> |
| 276 chmod 750 /usr/local/bin/mplayer<BR> | |
| 277 chmod +s /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE></P> | |
| 1612 | 278 |
| 1682 | 279 <P>Now it works as a simple user, too.</P> |
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282 <B>Warning: security risk</B><BR> |
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283 This is a <B>big</B> security risk! <B>Never</B> do this on a server or on |
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| 6960 | 295 <P>The DGA driver allows for switching the resolution of the output signal. |
| 296 This avoids the need for doing (slow) software scaling and at the same time | |
| 297 provides a fullscreen image. Ideally it would switch to the exact resolution | |
| 298 (except for honoring aspect ratio) of the video data, but the X server only | |
| 299 allows switching to resolutions predefined in | |
| 300 <CODE>/etc/X11/XF86Config</CODE> (<CODE>/etc/X11/XF86Config-4</CODE> for | |
| 301 XFree 4.0.X respectively). Those are defined by so-called modelines and | |
| 302 depend on the capabilities of your video hardware. The X server scans this | |
| 303 config file on startup and disables the modelines not suitable for your | |
| 304 hardware. You can find out which modes survive with the X11 log file. It can | |
| 305 be found at: | |
| 306 <CODE>/var/log/XFree86.0.log</CODE>.</P> | |
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| 7814 | 327 <P>DGA is used in two places with MPlayer: The SDL driver can be made to |
| 6960 | 328 make use of it (-vo sdl:dga) and within the DGA driver (-vo dga). The above |
| 329 said is true for both; in the following sections I'll explain how the DGA | |
| 7814 | 330 driver for MPlayer works.</P> |
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| 6960 | 336 The default behavior is to switch to a resolution matching the original |
| 337 resolution of the video as close as possible. It deliberately ignores the | |
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| 6960 | 339 it always tries to cover as much area of your screen as possible by switching |
| 340 the video mode, thus refraining to use a single additional cycle of your CPU | |
| 341 to scale the image. | |
| 342 If you don't like the mode it chooses you may force it to choose the mode | |
| 343 matching closest the resolution you specify by -x and -y. | |
| 344 By providing the -v option, the DGA driver will print, among a lot of other | |
| 345 things, a list of all resolutions supported by your current XF86-Config | |
| 346 file. | |
| 347 Having DGA2 you may also force it to use a certain depth by using the -bpp | |
| 348 option. Valid depths are 15, 16, 24 and 32. It depends on your hardware | |
| 349 whether these depths are natively supported or if a (possibly slow) | |
| 350 conversion has to be done.</P> | |
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| 6960 | 353 put a whole image there, the DGA driver will use doublebuffering, which |
| 354 results in much smoother movie replaying. It will tell you whether double- | |
| 355 buffering is enabled or not.</P> | |
| 1612 | 356 |
| 1682 | 357 <P>Doublebuffering means that the next frame of your video is being drawn in |
| 6960 | 358 some offscreen memory while the current frame is being displayed. When the |
| 359 next frame is ready, the graphics chip is just told the location in memory | |
| 360 of the new frame and simply fetches the data to be displayed from there. | |
| 361 In the meantime the other buffer in memory will be filled again with new | |
| 362 video data.</P> | |
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| 6960 | 365 disabled with -nodouble. Current default option is to disable |
| 366 doublebuffering. When using the DGA driver, onscreen display (OSD) only | |
| 367 works with doublebuffering enabled. However, enabling doublebuffering may | |
| 368 result in a big speed penalty (on my K6-II+ 525 it used an additional 20% of | |
| 369 CPU time!) depending on the implementation of DGA for your hardware.</P> | |
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| 374 <P>Generally spoken, DGA framebuffer access should be at least as fast as using | |
| 6960 | 375 the X11 driver with the additional benefit of getting a fullscreen image. |
| 7814 | 376 The percentage speed values printed by MPlayer have to be interpreted |
| 6960 | 377 with some care, as for example, with the X11 driver they do not include the |
| 378 time used by the X-Server needed for the actual drawing. Hook a terminal to a | |
| 379 serial line of your box and start top to see what is really going on in your | |
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| 6960 | 383 highly depends on your graphics card and how well the X-Server module for it |
| 384 is optimized.</P> | |
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| 6960 | 387 only half the memory bandwidth of a 32 bit display.</P> |
| 1612 | 388 |
| 6960 | 389 <P>Using a depth of 24bit is even a good idea if your card natively just |
| 390 supports 32 bit depth since it transfers 25% less data compared to the 32/32 | |
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| 6599 | 393 <P>I've seen some AVI files already be replayed on a Pentium MMX 266. AMD K6-2 |
| 6960 | 394 CPUs might work at 400 MHZ and above.</P> |
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| 1682 | 398 |
| 6599 | 399 <P>Well, according to some developers of XFree, DGA is quite a beast. They |
| 6960 | 400 tell you better not to use it. Its implementation is not always flawless |
| 401 with every chipset driver for XFree out there.</P> | |
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| 6960 | 404 <LI>With XFree 4.0.3 and nv.o there is a bug resulting in strange |
| 405 colors.</LI> | |
| 406 <LI>ATI driver requires to switch mode back more than once after finishing | |
| 407 using of DGA.</LI> | |
| 408 <LI>Some drivers simply fail to switch back to normal resolution (use | |
| 409 Ctrl-Alt-Keypad +, - to switch back manually).</LI> | |
| 410 <LI>Some drivers simply display strange colors.</LI> | |
| 411 <LI>Some drivers lie about the amount of memory they map into the process's | |
| 412 address space, thus vo_dga won't use doublebuffering (SIS?).</LI> | |
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| 1612 | 421 |
| 6583 | 422 <P>SDL (Simple Directmedia Layer) is basically a unified video/audio |
| 3988 | 423 interface. Programs that use it know only about SDL, and not about what video |
| 424 or audio driver does SDL actually use. For example a Doom port using SDL can | |
| 425 run on svgalib, aalib, X, fbdev, and others, you only have to specify the | |
| 426 (for example) video driver to use with the SDL_VIDEODRIVER environment | |
| 427 variable. Well, in theory.</P> | |
| 428 | |
| 7814 | 429 <P>With MPlayer, we used its X11 driver's software scaler ability for |
| 3988 | 430 cards/drivers that doesn't support XVideo, until we made our own (faster, |
| 431 nicer) software scaler. Also we used its aalib output, but now we have ours | |
| 432 which is more comfortable. Its DGA mode was better than ours, until | |
| 433 recently. Get it now? :)</P> | |
| 434 | |
| 435 <P>It also helps with some buggy drivers/cards if the video is jerky | |
| 436 (not slow system problem), or audio is lagging.</P> | |
| 437 | |
| 5119 | 438 <P>SDL video output supports displaying subtitles under the movie, on the (if |
| 439 present) black bar.</P> | |
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| 457 <TR><TD COLSPAN=4><P><B>SDL Keys:</B></P></TD></TR> | |
| 458 <TR><TD></TD><TD><CODE>F</CODE></TD><TD></TD><TD>toggles fullscreen/windowed mode</TD></TR> | |
| 459 <TR><TD></TD><TD><CODE>C</CODE></TD><TD></TD><TD>cycles available fullscreen modes</TD></TR> | |
| 460 <TR><TD></TD><TD><CODE>W/S</CODE></TD><TD></TD><TD>mappings for * and / (mixer control)</TD></TR> | |
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| 465 <UL> | |
| 466 <LI>Keys pressed under sdl:aalib console driver repeat forever. (use -vo aa!) | |
| 467 It's bug in SDL, I can't change it (tested with SDL 1.2.1).</LI> | |
| 8145 | 468 <LI>DO NOT USE SDL with GUI! It won't work as it should.</LI> |
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| 7047 | 475 |
| 476 <P>You'll have to install svgalib and its development package in order for | |
| 7814 | 477 MPlayer build its SVGAlib driver (autodetected, but can be forced), |
| 6499 | 478 and don't forget to edit /etc/vga/libvga.config to suit your card & |
| 479 monitor.</P> | |
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| 6499 | 484 scaler, and it's slow. If you really need it, use the <CODE>-sws 4</CODE> |
| 485 option which will produce bad quality, but is somewhat faster.</P> | |
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| 7047 | 488 |
| 7814 | 489 <P>SVGAlib incorporates EGAlib, and MPlayer has the possibility to |
| 6499 | 490 display any movie in 16 colors, thus usable in the following sets:</P> |
| 1612 | 491 |
| 6499 | 492 <UL> |
| 493 <LI>EGA card with EGA monitor: 320x200x4bpp, 640x200x4bpp, 640x350x4bpp</LI> | |
| 494 <LI>EGA card with CGA monitor: 320x200x4bpp, 640x200x4bpp</LI> | |
| 495 </UL> | |
| 496 | |
| 497 <P>The bpp (bits per pixel) value must be set to 4 by hand:<BR> | |
| 498 <CODE>-bpp 4</CODE><BR> | |
| 499 The movie probably must be scaled down to fit in EGA mode:<BR> | |
| 500 <CODE>-vop scale=640:350</CODE> or<BR> | |
| 501 <CODE>-vop scale=320:200</CODE><BR> | |
| 502 For that we need fast but bad quality scaling routine:<BR> | |
| 503 <CODE>-sws 4</CODE><BR> | |
| 504 Maybe automatic aspect correction has to be shut off:<BR> | |
| 6974 | 505 <CODE>-noaspect</CODE></P> |
| 6499 | 506 |
| 9078 | 507 <P><B>NOTE:</B> according to my experience the best image quality on EGA |
| 508 screens can be achieved by decreasing the brightness a bit: <CODE>-vop | |
| 9086 | 509 eq=-20:0</CODE>. I also needed to lower the audio samplerate on my box, |
| 510 because the sound was broken on 44kHz: <CODE>-srate 22050</CODE>.</P> | |
| 9078 | 511 |
| 512 <P>You can turn on OSD and subtitles only with the <CODE>expand</CODE> filter, | |
| 513 see the man page for exact parameters.</P> | |
| 514 | |
| 1612 | 515 |
| 8177 | 516 <H4><A NAME="fbdev">2.3.1.2.5 Framebuffer output (FBdev)</A></H4> |
| 1682 | 517 |
| 518 <P>Whether to build the FBdev target is autodetected during ./configure . | |
| 6960 | 519 Read the framebuffer documentation in the kernel sources |
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| 1612 | 521 |
| 1682 | 522 <P>If your card doesn't support VBE 2.0 standard (older ISA/PCI |
| 6960 | 523 cards, such as S3 Trio64), only VBE 1.2 (or older?): |
| 524 Well, VESAfb is still available, but you'll have to load SciTech Display | |
| 8177 | 525 Doctor (formerly UniVBE) before booting Linux. Use a DOS boot disk or |
| 526 whatever. And don't forget to register your UniVBE ;))</P> | |
| 1612 | 527 |
| 1682 | 528 <P>The FBdev output takes some additional parameters above the others:</P> |
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534 <DT><CODE>-fbmode</CODE></DT> |
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537 <DT><CODE>-fbmodeconfig</CODE></DT> |
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538 <DD>config file of modes (default /etc/fb.modes)</DD> |
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540 <DT><CODE>-monitor_hfreq</CODE></DT> |
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541 <DT><CODE>-monitor_vfreq</CODE></DT> |
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542 <DT><CODE>-monitor_dotclock</CODE></DT> |
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543 <DD><STRONG>Important</STRONG> values, see <CODE>example.conf</CODE></DD> |
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544 </DL> |
| 1612 | 545 |
| 1682 | 546 <P>If you want to change to a specific mode, then use</P> |
| 1612 | 547 |
| 1682 | 548 <P><CODE> mplayer -vm -fbmode (NameOfMode) filename</CODE></P> |
| 1612 | 549 |
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550 <UL> |
| 6960 | 551 <LI><B>-vm</B> alone will choose the most suitable mode from /etc/fb.modes. |
| 552 Can be used together with -x and -y options too. The -flip option is | |
| 553 supported only if the movie's pixel format matches the video mode's pixel | |
| 554 format. Pay attention to the bpp value, fbdev driver tries to use the | |
| 555 current, or if you specify the -bpp option, then that.</LI> | |
| 556 <LI><B>-zoom</B> option isn't supported (software scaling is slow). -fs | |
| 557 option isn't supported. You can't use 8bpp (or less) modes.</LI> | |
| 558 <LI>you possibly want to turn the cursor off: <CODE>echo -e | |
| 559 '\033[?25l'</CODE> or <CODE>setterm -cursor off</CODE><BR> | |
| 560 and the screen saver: <CODE>setterm -blank 0</CODE><BR> | |
| 561 To turn the cursor back on: <CODE>echo -e '\033[?25h'</CODE> | |
| 562 or <CODE>setterm -cursor on</CODE></LI> | |
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563 </UL> |
| 1612 | 564 |
| 1682 | 565 <P>NOTE: FBdev video mode changing _does not work_ with the VESA framebuffer, |
| 7814 | 566 and don't ask for it, since it's not an MPlayer limitation.</P> |
| 1612 | 567 |
| 6974 | 568 |
| 8177 | 569 <H4><A NAME="mga_vid">2.3.1.2.6 Matrox framebuffer (mga_vid)</A></H4> |
| 1612 | 570 |
| 1992 | 571 <P>This section is about the Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 BES (Back-End Scaler) |
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572 support, the mga_vid kernel driver. It's actively developed by A'rpi, and |
| 6960 | 573 it has hardware VSYNC support with triple buffering. It works on both |
| 574 framebuffer console and under X.</P> | |
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577 you can use <A HREF="#vidix">VIDIX</A> instead!</P> |
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579 <P><B>Installation:</B></P> |
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580 <OL> |
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581 <LI>To use it, you first have to compile mga_vid.o: |
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582 <P><CODE>cd drivers<BR> |
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583 make</CODE></P></LI> |
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584 <LI>Then create the <CODE>/dev/mga_vid</CODE> device: |
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585 <P><CODE>mknod /dev/mga_vid c 178 0</CODE></P> |
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586 <P>and load the driver with</P> |
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587 <P><CODE>insmod mga_vid.o</CODE></P></LI> |
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588 <LI>You should verify the memory size detection using the <CODE>dmesg</CODE> |
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589 command. If it's bad, use the <CODE>mga_ram_size</CODE> option |
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590 (<CODE>rmmod mga_vid</CODE> first), specify card's memory size in MB: |
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591 <P><CODE>insmod mga_vid.o mga_ram_size=16</CODE></P></LI> |
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592 <LI>To make it load/unload automatically when needed, first insert the |
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593 following line at the end of <CODE>/etc/modules.conf</CODE>: |
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594 <P><CODE>alias char-major-178 mga_vid</CODE></P> |
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595 <P>Then copy the <CODE>mga_vid.o</CODE> module to the appropriate place |
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596 under <CODE>/lib/modules/<kernel version>/somewhere</CODE>.</P> |
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597 <P>Then run</P> |
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598 <P><CODE>depmod -a</CODE></P></LI> |
| 7814 | 599 <LI>Now you have to (re)compile MPlayer, <CODE>configure</CODE> will |
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600 detect <CODE>/dev/mga_vid</CODE> and build the 'mga' driver. Using it from |
| 7814 | 601 MPlayer goes by <CODE>-vo mga</CODE> if you have matroxfb console, |
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602 or <CODE>-vo xmga</CODE> under XFree86 3.x.x or 4.x.x.</LI> |
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603 </OL> |
| 1682 | 604 |
| 2108 | 605 <P>The mga_vid driver cooperates with Xv.</P> |
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| 4504 | 607 <P>The <CODE>/dev/mga_vid</CODE> device file can be read (for example by |
| 608 <CODE>cat /dev/mga_vid</CODE>) for some info, and written for brightness | |
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609 change: <CODE>echo "brightness=120" > /dev/mga_vid</CODE></P> |
| 4504 | 610 |
| 1612 | 611 |
| 8177 | 612 <H4><A NAME="tdfxfb">2.3.1.2.7 3dfx YUV support (tdfxfb)</A></H4> |
| 1612 | 613 |
| 1992 | 614 <P>This driver uses the kernel's tdfx framebuffer driver to play movies with |
| 6960 | 615 YUV acceleration. You'll need a kernel with tdfxfb support, and recompile |
| 616 with <CODE>./configure --enable-tdfxfb</CODE></P> | |
| 1612 | 617 |
| 6974 | 618 |
| 8177 | 619 <H4><A NAME="opengl">2.3.1.2.8 OpenGL output</A></H4> |
| 1612 | 620 |
| 7814 | 621 <P>MPlayer supports displaying movies using OpenGL, but if your |
| 6960 | 622 platform/driver supports xv as should be the case on a PC with Linux, use xv |
| 623 instead, OpenGL performance is considerably worse. If you have an X11 | |
| 624 implementation without xv support, OpenGL is a viable alternative.</P> | |
| 6309 | 625 |
| 626 <P>Unfortunately not all drivers support this feature. The Utah-GLX drivers | |
| 6960 | 627 (for XFree86 3.3.6) support it for all cards. See |
| 628 <A HREF="http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net">http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net</A> | |
| 629 for details about how to install it.</P> | |
| 1612 | 630 |
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631 <P>XFree86(DRI) 4.0.3 or later supports OpenGL with Matrox and Radeon cards, |
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632 4.2.0 or later supports Rage128. See |
| 6960 | 633 <A HREF="http://dri.sourceforge.net">http://dri.sourceforge.net</A> |
| 634 for download and installation instructions.</P> | |
| 1612 | 635 |
| 6974 | 636 |
| 8177 | 637 <H4><A NAME="aalib">2.3.1.2.9 AAlib - text mode displaying</A></H4> |
| 1612 | 638 |
| 1682 | 639 <P><B>AAlib</B> is a library for displaying graphics in text mode, using powerful |
| 6960 | 640 ASCII renderer. There are LOTS of programs already supporting it, like Doom, |
| 7814 | 641 Quake, etc. MPlayer contains a very usable driver for it. |
| 6960 | 642 If ./configure detects aalib installed, the aalib libvo driver will be |
| 643 built.</P> | |
| 1612 | 644 |
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645 <TABLE BORDER=0> |
| 6974 | 646 <TR><TD COLSPAN=4><P><B>You can use some keys in the AA Window to change rendering options:</B></P></TD></TR> |
| 647 <TR><TD> </TD><TD><CODE>1</CODE></TD><TD> </TD><TD>decrease contrast</TD></TR> | |
| 648 <TR><TD></TD><TD><CODE>2</CODE></TD><TD></TD><TD>increase contrast</TD></TR> | |
| 649 <TR><TD></TD><TD><CODE>3</CODE></TD><TD></TD><TD>decrease brightness</TD></TR> | |
| 650 <TR><TD></TD><TD><CODE>4</CODE></TD><TD></TD><TD>increase brightness</TD></TR> | |
| 651 <TR><TD></TD><TD><CODE>5</CODE></TD><TD></TD><TD>switch fast rendering on/off</TD></TR> | |
| 652 <TR><TD></TD><TD><CODE>6</CODE></TD><TD></TD><TD>set dithering mode (none, error distribution, Floyd Steinberg)</TD></TR> | |
| 653 <TR><TD></TD><TD><CODE>7</CODE></TD><TD></TD><TD>invert image</TD></TR> | |
| 7814 | 654 <TR><TD></TD><TD><CODE>a</CODE></TD><TD></TD><TD>toggles between aa and MPlayer control)</TD></TR> |
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655 </TABLE> |
| 1612 | 656 |
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657 <P><B>The following command line options can be used:</B></P> |
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658 <DL> |
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659 <DT><CODE>-aaosdcolor=V</CODE></DT> |
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660 <DD>change OSD color</DD> |
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662 <DT><CODE>-aasubcolor=V</CODE></DT> |
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663 <DD>change subtitle color |
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664 <P><I>where V can be: (0/normal, 1/dark, 2/bold, 3/bold font, 4/reverse, |
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665 5/special)</I></P></DD> |
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666 </DL> |
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668 <P><B>AAlib itself provides a large sum of options. |
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669 Here are some important:</B></P> |
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670 <DL> |
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671 <DT><CODE>-aadriver</CODE></DT> |
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672 <DD>set recommended aa driver (X11, curses, Linux)</DD> |
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674 <DT><CODE>-aaextended</CODE></DT> |
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675 <DD>use all 256 characters</DD> |
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677 <DT><CODE>-aaeight</CODE></DT> |
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678 <DD>use eight bit ASCII</DD> |
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680 <DT><CODE>-aahelp</CODE></DT> |
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681 <DD>prints out all aalib options</DD> |
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682 </DL> |
| 1682 | 683 |
| 684 <P>NOTE: the rendering is very CPU intensive, especially when using AA-on-X | |
| 6960 | 685 (using aalib on X), and it's least CPU intensive on standard, |
| 686 non-framebuffer console. Use SVGATextMode to set up a big textmode, | |
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687 then enjoy! (secondary head Hercules cards rock :)) (but imho you can use |
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688 <CODE>-vop 1bpp</CODE> option to get graphics on hgafb:)</P> |
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690 <P>Use the <CODE>-framedrop</CODE> option if your computer isn't fast enough to |
| 6960 | 691 render all frames!</P> |
| 1612 | 692 |
| 6960 | 693 <P>Playing on terminal you'll get better speed and quality using the Linux |
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| 8177 | 695 <CODE>/dev/vcsa<terminal></CODE>. That isn't autodetected by aalib, but vo_aa tries |
| 696 to find the best mode. See | |
| 6960 | 697 <A HREF="http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/tune/">http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/tune/</A> |
| 698 for further tuning issues.</P> | |
| 1612 | 699 |
| 2471 | 700 |
| 8177 | 701 <H4><A NAME="vesa">2.3.1.2.10 VESA - output to VESA BIOS</A></H4> |
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| 6960 | 703 <P>This driver was designed and introduced as a <B>generic driver</B> for any |
| 7651 | 704 video card which has VESA VBE 2.0+ compatible BIOS. Another advantage of this |
| 6960 | 705 driver is that it tries to force TV output on.<BR> |
| 706 <B>VESA BIOS EXTENSION (VBE) Version 3.0 Date: September 16, 1998</B> (Page | |
| 707 70) says:</P> | |
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| 6974 | 710 <B>Dual-Controller Designs</B><BR> |
| 6960 | 711 VBE 3.0 supports the dual-controller design by assuming that since both |
| 712 controllers are typically provided by the same OEM, under control of a | |
| 713 single BIOS ROM on the same graphics card, it is possible to hide the fact | |
| 714 that two controllers are indeed present from the application. This has the | |
| 715 limitation of preventing simultaneous use of the independent controllers, | |
| 716 but allows applications released before VBE 3.0 to operate normally. The | |
| 717 VBE Function 00h (Return Controller Information) returns the combined | |
| 718 information of both controllers, including the combined list of available | |
| 719 modes. When the application selects a mode, the appropriate controller is | |
| 720 activated. Each of the remaining VBE functions then operates on the active | |
| 721 controller. | |
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| 6960 | 724 <P>So you have chances to get working TV-out by using this driver.<BR> |
| 725 (I guess that TV-out frequently is standalone head or standalone output | |
| 726 at least.)</P> | |
| 727 | |
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728 <H5>ADVANTAGES</H5> |
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731 <LI>You have the possibility to watch movies <B>even if Linux doesn't know</B> |
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733 <LI>You don't need to have installed any graphics' related things on your Linux |
| 6960 | 734 (like X11 (aka XFree86), fbdev and so on). This driver can be run from |
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735 <B>text-mode</B>.</LI> |
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736 <LI>You have chances to get <B>working TV-out</B>. (It's known at least for |
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737 ATI's cards).</LI> |
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738 <LI>This driver calls <B>int 10h</B> handler thus it's not an emulator - it |
| 6960 | 739 calls <B>real</B> things of <B>real</B> BIOS in <B>real</B>-mode. (Finely - |
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740 in vm86 mode).</LI> |
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741 <LI>You can use VIDIX with it, thus getting accelerated video display |
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742 <B>AND</B> TV output at the same time! (recommended for ATI cards)</LI> |
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743 <LI>If you have VESA VBE 3.0+, and you had specified <CODE>monitor_hfreq</CODE>, |
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745 file, or commandline) you will get the highest possible refresh rate. (Using |
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746 General Timing Formula). To enable this feature you have to specify |
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747 <B>all</B> your monitor options.</LI> |
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748 </UL> |
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750 <H5>DISADVANTAGES</H5> |
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| 6960 | 758 <P>Don't use this driver with <B>GCC 2.96</B>! It won't work!</P> |
| 3141 | 759 |
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760 <H5>COMMAND LINE OPTIONS AVAILABLE FOR VESA</H5> |
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762 <DT><CODE>-vo vesa:opts</CODE></DT> |
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763 <DD>currently recognized: <B>dga</B> to force dga mode and <B>nodga</B> to |
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764 disable dga mode. In dga mode you can enable double buffering via the |
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765 <CODE>-double</CODE> option. Note: you may omit these parameters to enable |
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766 <B>autodetection</B> of dga mode.</DD> |
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767 </DL> |
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769 <H5>KNOWN PROBLEMS AND WORKAROUNDS</H5> |
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772 <LI>If you have installed <B>NLS</B> font on your Linux box and run VESA |
| 7814 | 773 driver from text-mode then after terminating MPlayer you will have |
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775 by using <B><I>setsysfont</I></B> utility from the Mandrake distribution |
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776 for example.<BR> |
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777 (<B>Hint:</B> The same utility is used for the localization of fbdev).</LI> |
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778 <LI>Some <B>Linux graphics drivers</B> don't update active <B>BIOS mode</B> in |
| 6960 | 779 DOS memory. So if you have such problem - always use VESA driver only from |
| 780 <B>text-mode</B>. Otherwise text-mode (#03) will be activated anyway and | |
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781 you will need restart your computer.</LI> |
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782 <LI>Often after terminating VESA driver you get <B>black screen</B>. To return |
| 6960 | 783 your screen to original state - simply switch to other console (by pressing |
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784 <B>Alt-Fx</B>) then switch to your previous console by the same way.</LI> |
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785 <LI>To get <B>working TV-out</B> you need have plugged TV-connector in before |
| 6960 | 786 booting your PC since video BIOS initializes itself only once during POST |
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787 procedure.</LI> |
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788 </UL> |
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| 8177 | 791 <H4><A NAME="x11">2.3.1.2.11 X11</A></H4> |
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793 <P>Avoid if possible. Outputs to X11 (uses shared memory extension), with no |
| 6960 | 794 hardware acceleration at all. Supports (MMX/3DNow/SSE accelerated, but still |
| 795 slow) software scaling, use the options <CODE>-fs -zoom</CODE>. Most cards | |
| 796 have hardware scaling support, use the <CODE>-vo xv</CODE> output for them, | |
| 797 or <CODE>-vo xmga</CODE> for Matroxes.</P> | |
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| 6960 | 799 <P>The problem is that most cards' driver doesn't support hardware acceleration |
| 800 on the second head/TV. In those cases, you see green/blue colored window | |
| 801 instead of the movie. This is where this driver comes in handy, but you need | |
| 802 powerful CPU to use software scaling. Don't use the SDL driver's software | |
| 803 output+scaler, it has worse image quality!</P> | |
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804 |
| 6960 | 805 <P>Software scaling is very slow, you better try changing video modes instead. |
| 806 It's very simple. See the <A HREF="#dga_modelines">DGA section's modelines</A>, | |
| 807 and insert them into your XF86Config.</P> | |
| 808 | |
| 3290 | 809 <UL> |
| 810 <LI>If you have XFree86 4.x.x - use the <CODE>-vm</CODE> option. It will | |
| 6960 | 811 change to a resolution your movie fits in. If it doesn't:</LI> |
| 3290 | 812 <LI>With XFree86 3.x.x - you have to cycle through available resolutions |
| 813 with the <B>CTRL-ALT-plus</B> and <B>minus</B> keys.</LI> | |
| 814 </UL> | |
| 815 | |
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816 <P>If you can't find the modes you inserted, browse XFree86's output. Some |
| 6960 | 817 drivers can't use low pixelclocks that are needed for low resolution |
| 818 video modes.</P> | |
| 3290 | 819 |
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| 8177 | 821 <H4><A NAME="vidix">2.3.1.2.12 VIDIX</A></H4> |
| 4199 | 822 |
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823 <H5>PREAMBLE</H5> |
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825 <P>VIDIX is the abbreviation for <B>VID</B>eo <B>I</B>nterface for *ni<B>X</B>. |
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826 It was designed and introduced as an interface for fast user-space drivers |
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827 providing such video performance as mga_vid does for Matrox cards. It's also |
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828 very portable.</P> |
| 4199 | 829 |
| 830 <P>This interface was designed as an attempt to fit existing video acceleration | |
| 6583 | 831 interfaces (known as mga_vid, rage128_vid, radeon_vid, pm3_vid) into a fixed scheme. It |
| 4199 | 832 provides highlevel interface to chips which are known as BES (BackEnd |
| 833 scalers) or OV (Video Overlays). It doesn't provide lowlevel interface to | |
| 834 things which are known as graphics servers. (I don't want to compete with X11 | |
| 835 team in graphics mode switching). I.e. main goal of this interface is to | |
| 6974 | 836 maximize the speed of video playback.</P> |
| 4199 | 837 |
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838 <H5>USAGE</H5> |
| 4199 | 839 |
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| 4199 | 841 <LI>You can use standalone video output driver: <CODE>-vo xvidix</CODE><BR> |
| 8177 | 842 This driver was developed as X11's front end to VIDIX technology. It |
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844 directly accesses the hardware and circumvents the X driver, pixmaps |
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845 cached in the graphics card's memory may be corrupted. You can prevent |
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846 this by limiting the amount of video memory used by X with the XF86Config |
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847 option "VideoRam" in the device section. You should set this to the amount |
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848 of memory installed on your card minus 4MB. If you have less than 8MB of |
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849 video ram, you can use the option "XaaNoPixmapCache" in the screen section |
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850 instead.</LI> |
| 4199 | 851 <LI>You can use VIDIX subdevice which was applied to several video output |
| 852 drivers, such as:<BR> | |
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| 4199 | 862 because I tested it in text mode - it works but has awful output ;) Use |
| 863 AAlib for that).<BR> | |
| 864 <I>Note: Everyone can try this trick by commenting out mode switching in | |
| 865 vo_vesa driver.</I></LI> | |
| 7814 | 866 <LI>MPlayer's video output driver should know active video mode and be |
| 4199 | 867 able to tell to VIDIX subdevice some video characteristics of server.</LI> |
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| 4199 | 873 video mode configuration is performed by video output device |
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| 7814 | 875 MPlayer the same keys as for vo_server. In addition it understands |
| 4199 | 876 <CODE>-double</CODE> key as globally visible parameter. (I recommend using |
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| 6960 | 878 As for <CODE>-vo xvidix</CODE>: currently it recognizes the following |
| 6974 | 879 options: <CODE>-fs -zoom -x -y -double</CODE>.</P> |
| 4199 | 880 |
| 881 <P>Also you can specify VIDIX's driver directly as third subargument in command | |
| 6960 | 882 line:<BR> |
| 4199 | 883 <BR> |
| 884 <code>mplayer -vo xvidix:mga_vid.so -fs -zoom -double | |
| 885 file.avi</code><BR> | |
| 886 or<BR> | |
| 887 <code>mplayer -vo vesa:vidix:radeon_vid.so -fs -zoom -double -bpp | |
| 888 32 file.avi</code><BR> | |
| 889 <BR> | |
| 890 But it's dangerous, and you shouldn't do that. In this case given driver will | |
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| 4339 | 892 computer). You should do that ONLY if you are absolutely sure it will work, |
| 7814 | 893 and MPlayer doesn't do it automatically. Please tell about it to the |
| 4339 | 894 developers. The Right Way is to use VIDIX without arguments to enable driver |
| 6974 | 895 autodetection.</P> |
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903 risk!</B>). Alternatively, you can use a special kernel module, like this:</P> |
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909 <LI><B>OR</B> download a version made by Alex especially for usage with |
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920 <CODE>libdha/Makefile</CODE>.</LI> |
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| 8177 | 961 <H4><A NAME="directfb">2.3.1.2.13 DirectFB</A></H4> |
| 7192 | 962 |
| 8177 | 963 <P><I>"DirectFB is a graphics library which was designed with embedded systems in |
| 964 mind. It offers maximum hardware accelerated performance at a minimum of | |
| 965 resource usage and overhead."</I> - quoted from | |
| 966 <A HREF="http://www.directfb.org">http://www.directfb.org</A>.</P> | |
| 7192 | 967 |
| 8177 | 968 <P>I'll exclude DirectFB features from this section.</P> |
| 7192 | 969 |
| 8177 | 970 <P>Though MPlayer is not supported as a "video provider" in DirectFB, this |
| 971 output driver will enable video playback through DirectFB. It will - | |
| 972 of course - be accelerated, on my Matrox G400 DirectFB's speed was the | |
| 973 same as XVideo.</P> | |
| 4339 | 974 |
| 8177 | 975 <P>Always try to use the newest version of DirectFB. You can use DirectFB |
| 976 options on the command line, using the <CODE>-dfbopts</CODE> option. | |
| 977 Layer selection can be done by the subdevice method, e.g.: <CODE>-vo | |
| 978 directfb:2</CODE> (layer -1 is default: autodetect)</P> | |
| 4339 | 979 |
| 7367 | 980 |
| 8177 | 981 <H4><A NAME="dfbmga">2.3.1.2.14 DirectFB/Matrox (dfbmga)</A></H4> |
| 982 | |
| 8332 | 983 <P>Please read the <A HREF="#directfb">main DirectFB section</A> for general |
| 8177 | 984 informations.</P> |
| 985 | |
| 986 <P>This video output driver will enable CRTC2 (on the second head) on the | |
| 987 Matrox G400 card, displaying video <B>independently</B> of the first head.</P> | |
| 988 | |
| 8449 | 989 <P>Instructions on how to make it work can be found in the |
| 990 <A HREF="tech/directfb.txt">tech section</A> | |
| 991 or directly on Ville Syrjala's | |
| 992 <A HREF="http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/directfb/readme.txt">home page</A>.</P> | |
| 8177 | 993 |
| 994 <P>Note: we haven't been able to make this work, but others did. Anyway, | |
| 995 porting of the CRTC2 code to <B>mga_vid</B> is underway.</P> | |
| 996 | |
| 997 | |
| 998 <H4><A NAME="mpegdec">2.3.1.3 MPEG decoders</A></H4> | |
| 999 | |
| 1000 <H4><A NAME="dvb">2.3.1.3.1 DVB</A></H4> | |
| 6729 | 1001 |
| 7814 | 1002 <P>MPlayer supports cards with the Siemens DVB chipset from vendors like |
| 8177 | 1003 Siemens, Technotrend, Galaxis or Hauppauge. The latest DVB drivers are |
| 6960 | 1004 available from the <A HREF="http://www.linuxtv.org">Linux TV site</A>. If you |
| 1005 want to do software transcoding you should have at least a 1GHz CPU.</P> | |
| 6729 | 1006 |
| 8420 | 1007 <P>Configure should detect your DVB card. If it did not, force detection with</P> |
| 6729 | 1008 |
| 1009 <PRE> | |
| 1010 ./configure --enable-dvb | |
| 1011 </PRE> | |
| 1012 | |
| 1013 <P>If you have ost headers at a non-standard path, set the path with</P> | |
| 1014 | |
| 1015 <PRE> | |
| 1016 ./configure --with-extraincdir=<DVB source directory>/ost/include | |
| 1017 </PRE> | |
| 1018 | |
| 1019 <P>Then compile and install as usual.</P> | |
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| 6729 | 1023 <P>Hardware decoding (playing standard MPEG1/2 files) can be done with this |
| 6960 | 1024 command:</P> |
| 6729 | 1025 |
| 1026 <PRE> | |
| 1027 mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes file.mpg|vob | |
| 1028 </PRE> | |
| 1029 | |
| 1030 <P>Software decoding or transcoding different formats to MPEG1 can be achieved | |
| 6960 | 1031 using a command like this:</P> |
| 6729 | 1032 |
| 1033 <PRE> | |
| 1034 mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes -vop lavc yourfile.ext | |
| 1035 mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes -vop fame,expand yourfile.ext | |
| 1036 </PRE> | |
| 1037 | |
| 1038 <P>Note that DVB cards only support heights 288 and 576 for PAL or 240 and 480 | |
| 6960 | 1039 for NTSC. You <B>must</B> rescale for other heights by adding |
| 1040 <CODE>scale=width:height</CODE> with the width and height you want to the | |
| 1041 <CODE>-vop</CODE> option. DVB cards accept various widths, like 720, 704, | |
| 1042 640, 512, 480, 352 etc and do hardware scaling in horizontal direction, so | |
| 1043 you do not need to scale horizontally in most cases. For a 512x384 (aspect | |
| 1044 4:3) DivX try:</P> | |
| 6729 | 1045 |
| 1046 <PRE> | |
| 1047 mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes -vop lavc,scale=512:576 | |
| 1048 </PRE> | |
| 1049 | |
| 1050 <P>If you have a widescreen movie and you do not want to scale it to full height, | |
| 8420 | 1051 you can use the <CODE>expand=w:h</CODE> filter to add black bands. To view a |
| 6960 | 1052 640x384 DivX, try:</P> |
| 6729 | 1053 |
| 1054 <PRE> | |
| 1055 mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes -vop lavc,expand=640:576 file.avi | |
| 1056 </PRE> | |
| 1057 | |
| 1058 <P>If your CPU is too slow for a full size 720x576 DivX, try downscaling:</P> | |
| 1059 | |
| 1060 <PRE> | |
| 1061 mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes -vop lavc,scale=352:576 file.avi | |
| 1062 </PRE> | |
| 1063 | |
| 1064 <P>If speed does not improve, try vertical downscaling, too:</P> | |
| 1065 | |
| 1066 <PRE> | |
| 1067 mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes -vop lavc,scale=352:288 file.avi | |
| 1068 </PRE> | |
| 1069 | |
| 8420 | 1070 <P>For OSD and subtitles use the OSD feature of the expand filter. So, instead |
| 6960 | 1071 of <CODE>expand=w:h</CODE> or <CODE>expand=w:h:x:y</CODE>, use |
| 1072 <CODE>expand=w:h:x:y:1</CODE> (the 5th parameter <CODE>:1</CODE> at the end | |
| 1073 will enable OSD rendering). You may want to move the image up a bit to get a | |
| 1074 bigger black zone for subtitles. You may also want to move subtitles up, if | |
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| 6960 | 1076 to adjust this (<CODE>-subpos 80</CODE> is a good choice).</P> |
| 6729 | 1077 |
| 1078 <P>In order to play non-25fps movies on a PAL TV or with a slow CPU, add the | |
| 6960 | 1079 <CODE>-framedrop</CODE> option.</P> |
| 6729 | 1080 |
| 1081 <P>To keep the aspect ratio of DivX files and get the optimal scaling parameters | |
| 6960 | 1082 (hardware horizontal scaling and software vertical scaling while keeping the |
| 8420 | 1083 right aspect ratio), use the new dvbscale filter:</P> |
| 6729 | 1084 |
| 1085 <PRE> | |
| 8420 | 1086 for 3:4 TV: -vop lavc,expand=-1:576:-1:-1:1,scale=-1:0,dvbscale |
| 1087 for 16:9 TV: -vop lavc,expand=-1:576:-1:-1:1,scale=-1:0,dvbscale=1024 | |
| 6729 | 1088 </PRE> |
| 1089 | |
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| 6729 | 1092 <P>If you have questions or want to hear feature announcements and take part in |
| 6960 | 1093 discussions on this subject, join our |
| 1094 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dvb">MPlayer-DVB</A> | |
| 1095 mailing list. Please remember that the list language is English.</P> | |
| 6729 | 1096 |
| 1097 <P>In the future you may expect the ability to display OSD and subtitles using | |
| 6960 | 1098 the native OSD feature of DVB cards, as well as more fluent playback of |
| 1099 non-25fps movies and realtime transcoding between MPEG2 and MPEG4 (partial | |
| 1100 decompression).</P> | |
| 6729 | 1101 |
| 4496 | 1102 |
| 8177 | 1103 <H4><A NAME="dxr2">2.3.1.3.2 DXR2</A></H4> |
| 1104 | |
| 1105 <P>TODO: somebody please fill this section with information.</P> | |
| 1106 | |
| 1107 | |
| 1108 <H4><A NAME="dxr3">2.3.1.3.3 DXR3/Hollywood+</A></H4> | |
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| 7814 | 1110 <P>MPlayer supports hardware accelerated playback with the Creative DXR3 |
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| 6960 | 1114 <P>First of all you will need properly installed DXR3/H+ drivers, version |
| 1115 0.12.0 or later. You can find the drivers and installation instructions at | |
| 1116 the <A HREF="http://dxr3.sourceforge.net/">DXR3 & Hollywood Plus for | |
| 1117 Linux</A> site. Configure should detect your card automatically, compilation | |
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1122 <DT><CODE>-vo dxr3:prebuf:sync:norm=x:<device></CODE></DT> |
| 8088 | 1123 <DD><CODE>overlay</CODE> activates the overlay instead of TVOut. It requires |
| 1124 that you have a properly configured overlay setup to work right. The easiest | |
| 1125 way to configure the overlay is to first run autocal. Then run mplayer with | |
| 1126 dxr3 output and without overlay turned on, run dxr3view. In dxr3view you can | |
| 1127 tweak the overlay settings and see the effects in realtime, perhaps this | |
| 1128 feature will be supported by the MPlayer GUI in the future. When overlay is | |
| 1129 properly set up you will no longer need to use dxr3view.<BR> | |
| 1130 <CODE>prebuf</CODE> turns on prebuffering. Prebuffering is a feature | |
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1132 a time. This means that when you are running with prebuffering |
| 7814 | 1133 MPlayer will try to keep the video buffer filled with data at all |
| 1134 times. If you are on a slow machine MPlayer will probably use close | |
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| 7814 | 1136 streams (like DVDs, SVCDs a.s.o.) since MPlayer will not have to |
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1138 With prebuffering video playback is <B>much</B> less sensitive to other |
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1140 the CPU for a long time.<BR> |
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| 7969 | 1142 load, so it is highly suggested that you turn on MPlayer's |
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1143 <CODE>-framedrop</CODE> option to avoid further loss of sync.<BR> |
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1144 <CODE>sync</CODE> will turn on the new sync-engine. This is currently an |
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1146 clock will be monitored at all times, if it starts to deviate from MPlayer's |
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1147 clock it will be reset causing the em8300 to drop any frames that are lagging |
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| 8998 | 1153 looking at the frame rate of the movie. norm = 0 (default) does not |
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| 6974 | 1155 <CODE><device></CODE> = device number to use if you have more than one |
| 1156 em8300 card. | |
| 1157 <BR> | |
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| 8998 | 1159 <CODE>:prebuf:sync</CODE> seems to work great when playing DivX movies. |
| 1160 People have reported problems using the <CODE>prebuf</CODE> option when playing | |
| 1161 MPEG1/2 files. You might want to try running without any options first, if you | |
| 1162 have sync problems, or DVD subtitle problems, give <CODE>:sync</CODE> a | |
| 1163 try.</DD> | |
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1189 fact.</DD> |
| 8177 | 1190 |
| 1191 <DT><CODE>-vop lavc,expand=-1:-1:-1:-1:1</CODE></DT> | |
| 1192 <DD>Altough the DXR3 driver can put some OSD onto the MPEG1/2/4 video, | |
| 1193 it has much lower quality than MPlayer's traditional OSD, and has several | |
| 1194 refresh problems as well. The command line above will firstly convert the | |
| 1195 input video to MPEG4 (this is mandatory, sorry), then apply an expand | |
| 1196 filter which won't expand anything (-1: default), but apply the normal OSD | |
| 1197 onto the picture (that's what the "1" at the end does).</DD> | |
| 1198 | |
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| 7640 | 1201 digital audio output of the card. See the <CODE>-ao oss</CODE> option |
| 1202 above, it must be used to specify the DXR3's output instead of | |
| 8998 | 1203 a soundcard.</DD> |
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| 8177 | 1207 <H4><A NAME="other">2.3.1.4 Other visualization hardware</A></H4> |
| 1208 | |
| 1209 <H4><A NAME="zr">2.3.1.4.1 Zr</A></H4> | |
| 1210 | |
| 1211 <P>This is a display-driver (<CODE>-vo zr</CODE>) for a number of MJPEG | |
| 1212 capture/playback cards (tested for DC10+ and Buz, and it should work for the | |
| 1213 LML33 and the original DC10). The driver works by encoding the frame to jpeg | |
| 1214 and then sending it to the card. For the jpeg encoding <B>libavcodec</B> is | |
| 1215 used, and required. With the special <I>cinerama</I> mode, you can watch | |
| 1216 movies in true wide screen provided that you have two beamers and two | |
| 1217 MJPEG cards. Depending on resolution and quality settings, this driver | |
| 1218 may require a lot of CPU power, remember to specify <CODE>-framedrop</CODE> | |
| 1219 if your machine is too slow. Note: My AMD K6-2 350MHz is (with <CODE> | |
| 1220 -framedrop</CODE>) quite adequate for watching VCD sized material and | |
| 9174 | 1221 downscaled movies.</P> |
| 8177 | 1222 |
| 1223 <P>This driver talks to the kernel driver available at | |
| 1224 <A HREF="http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net">http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net</A>, so | |
| 1225 you must get it working first. The presence of an MJPEG card is autodetected | |
| 9174 | 1226 by the configure script, if autodetection fails, force detection with</P> |
| 8177 | 1227 |
| 1228 <PRE> | |
| 1229 ./configure --enable-zr | |
| 1230 </PRE> | |
| 1231 | |
| 1232 <P>The output can be controlled by several options, a long description of the | |
| 1233 options can be found in the man page, a short list of options can be | |
| 9174 | 1234 viewed by running</P> |
| 8177 | 1235 |
| 1236 <PRE> | |
| 1237 mplayer -zrhelp | |
| 1238 </PRE> | |
| 1239 | |
| 1240 <P>Things like scaling and the OSD (on screen display) are not handled by | |
| 1241 this driver but can be done using the video filters. For example, | |
| 1242 suppose that you have a movie with a resolution of <CODE>512x272</CODE> and | |
| 1243 you want to view it fullscreen on your DC10+. There are three main | |
| 1244 possibilities, you may scale the movie to a width of <CODE>768</CODE>, | |
| 1245 <CODE>384</CODE> or <CODE>192</CODE>. For performance and quality reasons, | |
| 1246 I would choose to scale the movie to <CODE>384x204</CODE> using the fast | |
| 9174 | 1247 bilinear software scaler. The commandline is</P> |
| 8177 | 1248 |
| 1249 <PRE> | |
| 1250 mplayer -vo zr -sws 0 -vop scale=384:204 movie.avi | |
| 1251 </PRE> | |
| 1252 | |
| 1253 <P>Cropping can be done by the <CODE>crop</CODE> filter and by | |
| 1254 this driver itself. Suppose that a movie is too wide for display on your | |
| 1255 Buz and that you want to use <CODE>-zrcrop</CODE> to make the movie less | |
| 9174 | 1256 wide, the you would issue the following command</P> |
| 8177 | 1257 |
| 1258 <PRE> | |
| 1259 mplayer -vo zr -zrcrop 720x320+80+0 benhur.avi | |
| 1260 </PRE> | |
| 1261 | |
| 9174 | 1262 <P>if you want to use the <CODE>crop</CODE> filter, you would do</P> |
| 8177 | 1263 |
| 1264 <PRE> | |
| 1265 mplayer -vo zr -vop crop=720:320:80:0 benhur.avi | |
| 1266 </PRE> | |
| 1267 | |
| 1268 <P>Extra occurances of <CODE>-zrcrop</CODE> invoke <I>cinerama</I> mode, i.e. | |
| 1269 you can distribute the movie over several TV's or beamers to create a larger | |
| 1270 screen. Suppose you have two beamers. The left one is connected to your Buz | |
| 1271 at <CODE>/dev/video1</CODE> and the right one is connected to your DC10+ at | |
| 1272 <CODE>/dev/video0</CODE>. The movie has a resolution of <CODE>704x288</CODE>. | |
| 1273 Suppose also that you want the right beamer in black and white and that | |
| 1274 the right beamer should have jpeg frames at quality <CODE>10</CODE>, | |
| 9174 | 1275 then you would issue the following command</P> |
| 8177 | 1276 |
| 1277 <PRE> | |
| 1278 mplayer -vo zr -zrdev /dev/video0 -zrcrop 352x288+352+0 -zrxdoff 0 -zrbw \ | |
| 1279 -zrcrop 352x288+0+0 -zrdev /dev/video1 -zrquality 10 movie.avi | |
| 1280 </PRE> | |
| 1281 | |
| 1282 <P>You see that the options appearing before the second <CODE>-zrcrop</CODE> | |
| 1283 only apply to the DC10+ and that the options after the second | |
| 1284 <CODE>-zrcrop</CODE> apply to the Buz. The maximum number of MJPEG cards | |
| 1285 participating in <I>cinerama</I> is four, so you can buid a <CODE>2x2</CODE> | |
| 1286 vidiwall.</P> | |
| 1287 | |
| 1288 <P>Finally an important remark: Do not start or stop XawTV on the playback | |
| 1289 device during playback, it will crash your computer. It is, however, fine to | |
| 1290 <B>FIRST</B> start XawTV, <B>THEN</B> start MPlayer, wait for | |
| 1291 MPlayer to finish and <B>THEN</B> stop XawTV.</P> | |
| 1612 | 1292 |
| 6974 | 1293 |
| 8177 | 1294 <H4><A NAME="blinken">2.3.1.4.2 Blinkenlights</A></H4> |
| 1295 | |
| 9254 | 1296 <P>This driver is capable of playback using the Blinkenlights UDP protocol. |
| 1297 If you don't know what <A HREF="http://www.blinkenlights.de/">Blinkenlights</A> | |
| 1298 is, you don't need this driver.</P> | |
| 8177 | 1299 |
| 1300 | |
| 1301 <H4><A NAME="tv-out">2.3.1.5 TV-out support</A></H4> | |
| 1302 | |
| 1303 | |
| 1304 <H4><A NAME="tv-out_matrox">2.3.1.5.1 Matrox G400 cards</A></H4> | |
| 1612 | 1305 |
| 6960 | 1306 <P>Under Linux you have 2 methods to get G400 TV out working:</P> |
| 5116 | 1307 |
| 7377 | 1308 <P><B>IMPORTANT:</B> for Matrox G450/G550 TV-out instructions, please see the |
| 1309 next section!</P> | |
| 2309 | 1310 |
| 2486 | 1311 <UL> |
| 1312 <LI><B>XFree86</B>: using the driver and the HAL module, available from | |
| 1313 <A HREF="http://www.matrox.com">Matrox's site</A>. This will give you X on | |
| 1314 the TV.<BR> <B>This method doesn't give you accelerated playback</B> as | |
| 1315 under Windoze! The second head has only YUV framebuffer, the <I>BES</I> | |
| 1316 (Back End Scaler, the YUV scaler on G200/G400/G450/G550 cards) doesn't work | |
| 7061 | 1317 on it! The Windows driver somehow works around this, probably by using the |
| 2486 | 1318 3D engine to zoom, and the YUV framebuffer to display the zoomed |
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| 6599 | 1320 options, but it will be <B>SLOW</B>, and has <B>Macrovision</B> copy protection |
| 4177 | 1321 enabled (you can "workaround" Macrovision using |
| 1322 <A HREF="http://avifile.sourceforge.net/mgamacro.pl">this</A> perl | |
| 1323 script.</LI> | |
| 2486 | 1324 <LI><B>Framebuffer</B>: using the <B>matroxfb modules</B> in the 2.4 kernels. |
| 1325 2.2 kernels don't have the TVout feature in them, thus unusable for this. | |
| 3030 | 1326 You have to enable ALL matroxfb-specific feature during compilation (except |
| 5713 | 1327 MultiHead), and compile them into <B>modules</B>! You'll also need I2C |
| 1328 enabled. | |
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| 2486 | 1330 <LI> |
| 1331 Enter <CODE>TVout/matroxset</CODE> and type <CODE>make</CODE>. Install | |
| 1332 <CODE>matroxset</CODE> into somewhere in your PATH.</LI> | |
| 1333 <LI> | |
| 1334 If you don't have <CODE>fbset</CODE> installed, enter | |
| 1335 <CODE>TVout/fbset</CODE> and type <CODE>make</CODE>. Install | |
| 1336 <CODE>fbset</CODE> into somewhere in your PATH.</LI> | |
| 1337 <LI> | |
| 7814 | 1338 Then enter into the <CODE>TVout/</CODE> directory in the MPlayer |
| 2486 | 1339 source, and execute <CODE>./modules</CODE> as root. Your text-mode console |
| 1340 will enter into framebuffer mode (no way back!).</LI> | |
| 7454 | 1341 <LI>Next, EDIT and run the <CODE>./matroxtv</CODE> script. This will present you |
| 2486 | 1342 to a very simple menu. Press <B>2</B> and <B>ENTER</B>. Now you should |
| 7454 | 1343 have the same picture on your monitor, and TV. If |
| 1344 the TV (PAL by default) picture has some weird stripes on it, the script wasn't able to | |
| 1345 set the resolution correctly (to 640x512 by default). Try other | |
| 1346 resolutions from the menu and/or experiment with fbset.</LI> | |
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| 2486 | 1348 |
| 6974 | 1349 <P>Yoh. Next task is to make the cursor on tty1 (or whatever) to disappear, |
| 2486 | 1350 and turn off screen blanking. Execute the following commands:</P> |
| 1351 | |
| 6974 | 1352 <P><CODE>echo -e '\033[?25l'</CODE> or <CODE>setterm -cursor off<BR> |
| 1353 setterm -blank 0</CODE></P> | |
| 2486 | 1354 |
| 6974 | 1355 <P>You possibly want to put the above into a script, and also clear |
| 6960 | 1356 the screen.. To turn the cursor back:<BR><CODE>echo -e '\033[?25h'</CODE> |
| 6974 | 1357 or <CODE>setterm -cursor on</CODE></P> |
| 2486 | 1358 |
| 1359 <P>Yeah kewl. Start movie playing with <CODE>mplayer -vo mga -fs -screenw 640 | |
| 1360 -screenh 512 <filename></CODE><BR> | |
| 6960 | 1361 (if you use X, now change to matroxfb with for example CTRL-ALT-F1!)<BR> |
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| 6974 | 1363 <B>Enjoy the ultra-fast ultra-featured Matrox TV output (better than Xv)!</B></P> |
| 2486 | 1364 </LI> |
| 1365 </UL> | |
| 2309 | 1366 |
| 8177 | 1367 <H4>Building a Matrox TV-out cable</H4> |
| 2309 | 1368 |
| 9059 | 1369 <P>No one takes any responsibility, nor guarantee for any damage caused by this |
| 1370 documentation.</P> | |
| 8177 | 1371 |
| 9059 | 1372 <P><B>Cable for G400</B>: The CRTC2 connector's fourth pin is the composite video signal. The ground |
| 1373 are the sixth, seventh and eighth pins. (info contributed from Balázs | |
| 1374 Rácz)</P> | |
| 8177 | 1375 |
| 9059 | 1376 <P><B>Cable for G450</B>: The CRTC2 connector's first pin is the composite video |
| 1377 signal. The ground are the fifth, sixth, seventh, and fifteenth | |
| 1378 (5, 6, 7, 15) pins. (info contributed from Balázs Kerekes)</P> | |
| 8177 | 1379 |
| 1380 <H4><A NAME="tv-out_matrox_g450">2.3.1.5.2 Matrox G450/G550 cards</A></H4> | |
| 7377 | 1381 |
| 1382 <P>TV output support for these cards has only been recently introduced, and is | |
| 1383 not yet in the mainstream kernel. Currently the <B>mga_vid</B> module | |
| 1384 can't be used AFAIK, because the G450/G550 driver works only in one | |
| 1385 configuration: the first CRTC chip (with much more features) on the first | |
| 1386 display (on monitor), and the second CRTC (no <B>BES</B> - for explanation | |
| 1387 on BES, please see the G400 section above) on TV. So you can only use | |
| 7969 | 1388 MPlayer's <I>fbdev</I> output driver at the present.</P> |
| 7377 | 1389 |
| 1390 <P>The first CRTC can't be routed to the second head currently. | |
| 1391 The author of the kernel matroxfb driver - Petr Vandrovec - will maybe make | |
| 1392 support for this, by displaying the first CRTC's output onto both of the | |
| 1393 heads at once, as currently recommended for G400, see the section above.</P> | |
| 1394 | |
| 1395 <P>The necessary kernel patch and the detailed howto is downloadable from | |
| 7937 | 1396 <A HREF="http://www3.sympatico.ca/dan.eriksen/matrox_tvout/">http://www3.sympatico.ca/dan.eriksen/matrox_tvout/</A></P> |
| 7377 | 1397 |
| 1398 | |
| 8177 | 1399 <H4><A NAME="tv-out_ati">2.3.1.5.3 ATI cards</A></H4> |
| 2206 | 1400 |
| 7047 | 1401 <H5>PREAMBLE</H5> |
| 1402 | |
| 1403 <P>Currently ATI doesn't want to support any of its TV-out chips under Linux, | |
| 6960 | 1404 because of their licensed Macrovision technology.</P> |
| 6583 | 1405 |
| 7047 | 1406 <H5>ATI CARDS TV-OUT STATUS ON LINUX</H5> |
| 2206 | 1407 |
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| 8332 | 1409 <LI><B>ATI Mach64</B>: Supported by |
| 6960 | 1410 <A HREF="http://gatos.sf.net">gatos</A>.</LI> |
| 8332 | 1411 <LI><B>ASIC Radeon VIVO</B>: Supported by |
| 6960 | 1412 <A HREF="http://gatos.sf.net">gatos</A>.</LI> |
| 8332 | 1413 <LI><B>Radeon</B> and <B>Rage128</B>: Supported by MPlayer! |
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1414 Check <a href="#vesa">VESA driver</a> and <A HREF="#vidix">VIDIX</A> |
| 6960 | 1415 sections.</LI> |
| 8332 | 1416 <LI><B>Rage Mobility P/M, Radeon, Rage 128, Mobility M3/M4</B>: Supported by |
| 1417 <A HREF="http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/projects/atitvout/"> | |
| 1418 atitvout</A>. | |
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| 2206 | 1420 |
| 6974 | 1421 <P>On other cards, just use the <a href="#vesa">VESA driver</a>, without |
| 1422 VIDIX. Powerful CPU is needed, though.</P> | |
| 2206 | 1423 |
| 6583 | 1424 <P>Only thing you need to do - <B>have TV connector plugged in before |
| 1425 booting your PC</B> since video BIOS initializes itself only once during | |
| 6974 | 1426 POST procedure.</P> |
| 2206 | 1427 |
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| 6974 | 1431 <P>Check <A HREF="http://www.iki.fi/too/tvout-voodoo3-3000-xfree">this URL</A>.</P> |
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| 8260 | 1433 |
| 1434 <H4><A NAME="tv-out_nvidia">2.3.1.5.5 nVidia</A></H4> | |
| 1435 | |
| 1436 <P>First, you MUST download the closed-source drivers from | |
| 1437 <A HREF="http://nvidia.com">http://nvidia.com</A>. I will not describe the | |
| 1438 installation and configuration process because it does not cover the | |
| 1439 scope of this documentation.</P> | |
| 1440 | |
| 1441 <P>After XFree86, XVideo, and 3D acceleration is properly working, | |
| 1442 edit your card's Device section in the <CODE>XF86Config</CODE> file, | |
| 1443 according to the following example (adapt for your card/TV):</P> | |
| 1444 | |
| 1445 <PRE> | |
| 1446 Section "Device" | |
| 1447 Identifier "GeForce" | |
| 1448 VendorName "ASUS" | |
| 1449 BoardName "nVidia GeForce2/MX 400" | |
| 1450 Driver "nvidia" | |
| 1451 #Option "NvAGP" "1" | |
| 1452 Option "NoLogo" | |
| 1453 Option "CursorShadow" "on" | |
| 1454 | |
| 1455 Option "TwinView" | |
| 1456 Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone" | |
| 1457 Option "MetaModes" "1024x768,640x480" | |
| 1458 Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT, TV" | |
| 1459 Option "TVStandard" "PAL-B" | |
| 1460 Option "TVOutFormat" "Composite" | |
| 1461 | |
| 1462 EndSection | |
| 1463 </PRE> | |
| 1464 | |
| 1465 <P>Of course the important thing is the TwinView part.</P> | |
| 1466 | |
| 1612 | 1467 </BODY> |
| 1468 </HTML> |