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6 <P><B><A NAME=5>5. FAQ section</A></B></P>
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10 <TD COLSPAN=3><P><B><A NAME=5.1><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.1 Compilation</A></B></P>
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14 configure ends with this text, and MPlayer won't compile !<BR>
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15 <CODE>Your gcc does not support even i386 for '-march' and '-mcpu'.</CODE>
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17 Your gcc isn't installed correctly, check <CODE>config.log</CODE> file
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18 for details.
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22 What does "No such file or directory" means ?
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24 Probably there is no such file or directory.
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28 What's the problem with gcc 2.96 ?
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29 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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30 To be short: <B><I>DO NOT USE gcc 2.96 !!!</I></B><BR>
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31 Check <A HREF="gcc-2.96-3.0.html">this</A> and <A HREF="users_against_developers.html">this</A> texts!
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32 If you still really really want to do so, be sure to use the latest release.
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33 <BR>
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37 Great, I have gcc 3.0.1 from RedHat/Mandrake, then I'm fine--!
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38 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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39 No, since there have been/are issues with those compilers.<BR>
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40 Use 2.95.x series for reliability (not <A HREF="gcc-2.96-3.0.html">2.96</A>).
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41 Use the latest gcc 3.0.x (starting at 3.0.2) if you want to use a 3.0.x version.
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45 I tried to compile MPlayer, but I got this output:<BR>
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46 <PRE>
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47 In file included from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/std_cwchar.h:42,
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55 /usr/include/wchar.h: In function Long long int wcstoq(const wchar_t*,
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56 wchar_t**, int)':
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57 /usr/include/wchar.h:514: cannot convert `const wchar_t* __restrict' to
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58 `const
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59 </PRE>
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60 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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61 Upgrade your glibc to the newest. On Mandrake, use 2.2.4-8mdk .
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65 ...gcc 2.96... (yes, some people are STILL flaming about their gcc 2.96!!)
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66 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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67 <P>But we has idegs (the word 'ideg' is described further in the FAQ). And our
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68 idegcounters overflow again and again.</P>
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70 <P>Unfortunately MPlayer is out of our control. It's used by lamers, Linux users
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71 who can't even use windows, and never tried to compile a kernel. They installed
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72 (with default options) Mandrake or RedHat or Suse, and without RTFM'ing they
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73 send messages saying 'it doesn't work! help me! please! i'm new to the linux!
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74 help! oh! help me!'. We can't stop them, but at least we try to force them RTFM
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75 and to read messages of ./configure and mplayer.</P>
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77 <P>And you clever guys come and flame us with gcc 2.96 and binary packages.
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78 Instead of helping users or making patches to help solve problems.</P>
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80 <P>Half of our spare/free time is spent by answering silly mails here and
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81 making newer tricks and checks to configure to avoid such mails.</P>
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83 <P>And there is a balance. On one hand are you, clever guys, saying we are very
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84 bad because we don't like buggy gcc 2.96, and at the other hand there are the
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85 'new to linux' guys who are showing us gcc 2.96 is buggy.</P>
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87 <P>Conclusion: we can't be good. Half of people always will say we are bad.</P>
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89 <P>Maybe we should close the project, make it closed source, commercial, and
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90 provide install support for it. then we could leave current work, so
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91 development could go faster, and we earn lots of money with it and buy a big
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92 house, etc etc. Do you really want it? It seems.</P>
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94 <P ALIGN=RIGHT>Arpi (a mail on the mplayer-users list)</P>
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98 Where can I find information about gcc 2.96 bugs ?
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100 In <A HREF="gcc-2.96-3.0.html">this</A> documentation. And <A HREF="users_against_developers.html">this</A>
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101 documentation describes why RedHat released 2.96 and other interesting things.
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105 SDL output doesn't work or compile. Problem is ....
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107 It is tested with newest SDL (probably runs on 1.1.7+).
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108 It does NOT work with any previous version, so don't ask.
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112 I am still having trouble compiling with SDL support. gcc says something
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113 about "undefined reference to `SDL_EnableKeyRepeat'" What's now?
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115 Where did you install the SDL library? If you installed in /usr/local
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116 (the default) then edit the top level config.mak and add
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117 "-L/usr/local/lib " after "X_LIBS=" Now type make. You're done!
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121 It doesn't compile, and it misses uint64_t inttypes.h and similar things...
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123 copy etc/inttypes.h to <B>MPlayer</B> directory (cp etc/inttypes.h .)
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124 try again...
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128 I have Pentium III but ./configure doesn't detect SSE
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130 Only kernel versions 2.4.x supports SSE (or try latest 2.2.19 or newer, but
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131 be prepared for problems)
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135 I have G200/G400, how to compile/use mga_vid driver?
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137 Read all this documentation.
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138 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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141 Are there rpm/deb/... packages of <B>MPlayer</B>?
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142 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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143 You can make a .deb package for yourself, check section <A HREF="documentation.html#6.1">6.1</A>.
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144 It's _STRONGLY_ discouraged to use precompiled packages
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145 of <B>MPlayer</B>, since it (currently) _highly_ depends on compile-time
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146 options and optimizations!
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147 Precompiled packages are COMPLETELY unsupported by the <B>MPlayer</B> team!
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148 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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151 During 'make', MPlayer complains about X11 libraries. I don't understand,
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152 I DO have X installed!?
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153 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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154 ...but you don't have the X development package installed. Or not
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155 correctly. It's called XFree86-devel* under RedHat, and xlib6g-dev* under
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156 Debian. Also check if the /usr/X11 symlink exists (this can be a problem on
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157 Mandrake systems). It can be created with the<BR>
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158 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>$ ln -sf /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11</CODE><BR>
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159 command. Also check the /usr/include/X11 link :<BR>
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160 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>$ ln -sf /usr/X11R6/include/X11 /usr/include/X11</CODE><BR>
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161 Your distribution may differ from the Linux Filesystem Standard.
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162 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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163
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165 What about DGA driver? I can't find it!!!
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166 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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167 ./configure autodetects your DGA driver. If -vo help doesn't show
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168 DGA, then there's a problem with your X installation.
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169 Try ./configure --enable-dga (and RTFM)
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170 Alternatively, try SDL's DGA driver with '-vo sdl:dga' options.
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171 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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174 I can't compile SVGAlib.. I'm using 2.3/2.4 kernel.
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176 You have to edit SVGAlib's Makefile.cfg and comment "BACKGROUND = y" out.
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177 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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180 I compiled MPlayer with libdvdcss/libdivxdecore support, but when
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181 I try to start it, it says:<BR>
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182 <CODE>&gt; error while loading shared libraries: lib*.so.0: cannot load
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183 shared object file: No such file or directory</CODE><BR>
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184 I checked up on the file and it IS there in /usr/local/lib.
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185 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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186 Add /usr/local/lib to <B>/etc/ld.so.conf</B> and run <B>ldconfig</B> .
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187 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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188
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189 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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190 MPlayer doesn't seem to find my libcss. What am I doing wrong ?
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191 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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192 It's normal. <B>MPlayer</B> no longer depends on libcss to play a DVD. You
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193 have to install <B>libdvdread</B> and <B>libdvdcss</B>. Check for DVD Playback
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194 part <A HREF="cd-dvd.html">here</A>. libcss is to be used for example when you
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195 want to play encrypted VOB files from hard disk (not for general users).
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196 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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198 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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199 Hmm, strange. When loading the mga_vid.o kernel module, I found this in the logs:<BR>
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200 <CODE>Warning: loading mga_vid.o will taint the kernel: no license</CODE>
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201 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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202 The latest kernels modules needs require a flag indicating its license (mainly
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203 to avoid kernel hackers' debugging closed sources drivers).
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204 Upgrade your kernel and your modutils and <B>MPlayer</B>.
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205 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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206
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208 When compiling <B>MEncoder</B>, it segfaults at linking !!!
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209 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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210 Dunno, upgrading binutils should help (2.11.92.* or newer should be good). Not our fault, do NOT report!
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211 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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212
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214 I'd like to compile <B>MPlayer</B> on Minix !
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215 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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216 Me too. :)
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217 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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219
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220 <TD COLSPAN=3><B><A NAME=5.2><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.2. General questions</A></B>
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221 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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224 What about DVD playing ?
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225 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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226 Read the CD/DVD section in <A HREF="cd-dvd.html">this page</A>.
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227 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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228
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229 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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230 -xy or -fs option doesn't work with x11 driver (-vo x11)
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231 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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232 It does, but you have to explicitly specify software scaling (it's SLOW!) with
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233 the <CODE>-zoom</CODE> option. You better use XF86VidMode support:
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234 you must specify the -vm and the -fs switch, and you're done.
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235 Make sure you have the right Modelines in your XF86Config file, and
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236 try if the DGA driver (and SDL's DGA driver, see RTFM) works for you.
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237 It's much faster. If SDL's DGA works too, use that, it'll be EVEN faster!
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238 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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240 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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241 What is the meaning of numbers in the status line?
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242 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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243 See: <CODE><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A: 2.1 V: 2.2 A-V: -0.167 ct: 0.042 57 41% 0% 2.6% 0 4</CODE><BR>
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244 <UL>
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245 <LI><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A: audio position in seconds
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246 <LI>V: video position in seconds
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247 <LI>A-V: audio-video difference in seconds (delay)
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248 <LI>ct: total A-V sync correction done
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249 <LI>frames played (counting from last seek)
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250 <LI>video codec cpu usage in percent (for mpeg it includes video_out too!)
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251 <LI>video_out cpu usage for avi, 0 for mpg (see above)
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252 <LI>audio codec cpu usage in percent
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253 <LI>frames needed to drop to maintain A-V sync
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254 <LI>current level of image postprocessing (when using -autoq)
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255 </UL>
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256 <I>Most of them are for debug purposes, and will be removed soon.</I>
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257 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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259 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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260 What if I don't want them to appear?
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262 Then you use the -quiet option, and read the manpage.
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263 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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264
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266 Why is video_out cpu usage zero (0%) for mpeg files?
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268 It's not zero, but it's built in into codec, so can't be measured separated.
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269 You should try to play the file using -vo null and then -vo ... and check
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270 the difference to see video_out speed...
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271 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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274 What's XMMP? (is it XMMS or XMPS but mispelled?)
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275 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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276 It's a new project, see http://frozenproductions.com for details
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277 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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278
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280 There are error messages about file not found /usr/lib/win32/....
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282 Download <A HREF="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/w32codec.zip">w32codec.zip</A>
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283 from *our* FTP (avifile's codec package has different DLL set).
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284 Install it.
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285 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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287 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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288 Are there any mailing lists on MPlayer?
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289 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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290 Yes! See RTFM on how to subscribe them!
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291 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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292
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293 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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294 I've found a nasty bug when I tried to play my favourite video!!
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295 Who should I inform?
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296 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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297 See Appendix <A HREF="bugreports.html">C</A>.
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298 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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299
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300 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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301 I have problems playing files with ... codec. Can I use'em?
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302 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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303 Check <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html">http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html</A>,
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304 if it doesn't contain your codec, read
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305 <A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.3">section 2.1.3</A>, and contact us.
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306 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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307
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308 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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309 Umm, what is "IdegCounter"?
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310 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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311 A mixture of a hungarian and an english word. In english, "Ideg" means
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312 "nerve", and is pronounced as something like "ydaegh" . It was first used
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313 to measure the nervousness of A'rpi, after some (umm) "mystic" disappearance
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314 of CVS code ;)
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315 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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316
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317 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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318 And what is "Faszom(C)ounter" ?
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319 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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320 "Fasz" is a hungarian word you don't want to know, the others are in
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321 connection with the pervert minds of the MPlayer developers.
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322 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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323
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324 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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325 LIRC doesn't work, because ...
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326 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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327 Are you sure you use "mplayer_lirc" instead of "mplayer"?
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328 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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329
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330 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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331 Subtitles are very nice, the most beautiful I've ever seen, but they slow
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332 down the playing! I know it's unlikely...
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333 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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334 After running ./configure , edit config.h and replace <CODE>#undef FAST_OSD</CODE> with
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335 <CODE>#define FAST_OSD</CODE>. Then recompile.
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336 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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338 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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339 The OSD is flickering!
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340 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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341 You use a vo driver with single buffering (x11,xv). With xv,
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342 use -double option.
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343 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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344
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346 What exactly is this libavcodec?
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347 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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348 See the <A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.2.2">2.1.2.2 section</A>.
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349 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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350
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351 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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352 But configure tells me "Checking for libavcodec ... no"!
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353 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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354 You need to get libavcodec from FFmpeg's CVS. Read the instructions in
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355 the <A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.2.2">ffmpeg section</A>.
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356 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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359 The GUI isn't usable with icewm, because some panel are over the movie!!
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360 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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361 Known, icewm is dictatoric. Unsolvable. In detail:
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362 its taskbar overrides GUI's window resize queries. If it asks for
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363 resize to 800x600, then it resizes window to 800x(600-taskbar_size). It's bad.
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364 Very bad.
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365 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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367 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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368 I can't access the GUI menu. I press right click, but I can't access any
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369 menu items !
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370 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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371 Are you using FVWM ? Try the following :<BR>
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372 Start -&gt; Settings -&gt; Configuration -&gt; Base Configuration<BR>
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373 <BR>
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374 Set "Use Applications position hints" to Yes.
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375 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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376
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377 <TD COLSPAN=3>
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378 <B><A NAME=5.3><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.3. File playing problems</A></B>
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379 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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381 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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382 ...... works with avifile/aviplay while doesn't with MPlayer.
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383 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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384 <B>MPlayer</B> != avifile
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385 The only common thing between these players is the Win32 DLL loader.
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386 The codecs (dll) sets, syncronization, demultiplexing etc is totaly
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387 different and shouldn't be compared.
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388 If something works with aviplay it doesn't mean that <B>MPlayer</B> should do
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389 it and vice versa.
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390 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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391
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393 Audio goes out of sync playing .avi file.
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394 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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395 Try with -bps or -nobps option
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396 if still bad, send me (upload to ftp) that file, I'll check.
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397 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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400 Indeo 3.x/4.x movies are viewed upside-down!!!?
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401 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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402 It's a known bug (really it's a bug/limitation of the DLL codec)
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403 Try if your vo driver supports the -flip switch.
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404 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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405
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406 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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407 Indeo 3.x,4.x video doesn't work at 32bpp resolutions (16,24 bpp are ok).
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408 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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409 It's a known bug (really it's a bug/limitation of the DLL codec).
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410 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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411
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412 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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413 MPlayer exits with something error when using l3codeca.acm.
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414 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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415 Check 'ldd /usr/local/bin/mplayer' output. If it contains<BR>
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416 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4???????)</CODE><BR>
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417 where "?" is any number then it's ok, the error is not here. If it is:<BR>
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418 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00??????)</CODE><BR>
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419 then there is problem with your kernel/libc. Maybe you are using some
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420 security patches (for example Solar Designer's OpenWall patch) which
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421 forces loading libraries to very low addresses.
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422 Because l3codeca.acm is a non-relocatable DLL, it must be loaded to
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423 0x00400000, we can't change this. You should use non-patched kernel,
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424 or use <B>MPlayer</B>'s -afm 1 option to disable using l3codeca.acm.
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425 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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427 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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428 My computer plays M$ DivX AVIs with resolutions ~ 640x300 and stereo mp3
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429 sound too slow. When I use -nosound switch, everything is ok (but quiet).
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430 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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431 Ok son, your machine is too slow. RTFM or anything.
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432 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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433
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434 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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435 MPlayer dies with "MPlayer interrupted by signal 4 in module: decode_video".
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436 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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437 Try running <B>MPlayer</B> on the machine you compiled on. Or recompile. Don't
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438 use <B>MPlayer</B> on different CPU than it was compiled on.
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439 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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440
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441 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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442 I have problems with [your window manager] and fullscreen xv/xmga/sdl/x11 modes..
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443 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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444 Use the -fsmode switch. See example.conf or manpage.
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445 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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446
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447 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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448 But it works with avifile!
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449 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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450 So what?
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451 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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452
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453 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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454 Then avifile is better!
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455 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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456 Then use avifile, it has nice GUI and nice C++ code :)
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457 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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458
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459 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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460 I got this playing mpeg files: Can't find codec for video format 0x10000001!
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461 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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462 You have old version of codecs.conf at ~/.mplayer/. Upgrade it from etc/<BR>
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463 <B>OR</B> you have the <CODE>vc=</CODE> option or similar, in your
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464 config file(s).
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465 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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466
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467 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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468 After starting mplayer under KDE(1/2) I just get a black screen and nothing
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469 happens, after about one minute the video starts playing.
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470 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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471 The KDE arts sound daemon is blocking the sound device, either wait the time
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472 until video starts or you disable the arts-daemon in kontrollcenter.
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473 If you want to use arts sound, specify audio output via SDL (ao=sdl), and
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474 make sure your SDL can handle arts sound. Yet another option is to start
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475 mplayer with artsdsp.
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476 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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477
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478 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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479 I have an AVI that plays with grey screen with -vc odivx, and green with -vc divx4 .
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480 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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481 It's not a DivX file, but an M$ MPEG4v3 . Update your codecs.conf.
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482 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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483
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484 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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485 There this movie is, and when I play it I get video-audio desync and/or MPlayer crashes with the following:<BR>
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486 <CODE>DEMUXER: Too many (945 in 8390980 bytes) video packets in the buffer!</CODE>
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487 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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488 This can have multiple reasons.<BR>
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489 <LI>your CPU <B>and/or</B> video card <B>and/or</B> bus is too SLOW. <B>MPlayer</B>
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490 displays a message if this is the case. (and the dropped frames counter is going up fast)</LI>
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491 <LI>if it is an AVI, maybe it has bad interleaving. Try the <I>-ni</I> option.</LI>
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492 <LI>your sound driver is buggy, or you use ALSA 0.5 with <I>-ao oss</I>. See the <A HREF="sound.html">soundcards section</A>.</LI>
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493 <LI>the AVI has bad header, try with the <I>-nobps</I> option, and/or <I>-mc 0</I> .</LI>
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494 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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495
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496 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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497 I have an MJPEG file which works with other players but displays only black
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498 image in MPlayer.
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499 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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500 Disable the Windows DLL in <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE>, or use <CODE>-vc ffmjpeg</CODE> option (you have to
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501 compile MPlayer with libavcodec).
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502 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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504 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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505 When I try to grab from my tuner, it works, but colors are strange. It's ok
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506 with other applications.
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507 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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508 Your card probably misreports its colorspace capacity. Try with YUY2 instead
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509 of default YV12 (see TV input documentation).
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510 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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511
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512 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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513 When I try to start playing, I get this message, but playing is good :<BR>
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514 <CODE>Linux RTC init: ioctl (rtc_pie_on): Permission denied</CODE>
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515 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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516 See the <A HREF="documentation.html#1.3">Installation section</A>. The part
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517 about new sync code.
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518 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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519
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520 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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521 I have A/V sync problems. Some of my AVIs play fine, but some play with
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522 double speed !
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523 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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524 You have buggy soundcard/driver. Most likely it's fixed at 44100Hz, and
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525 you try to play a file which has 22050Hz audio. Try the <CODE>-ao sdl</CODE>
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526 driver.
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527 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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528
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529 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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530 All the WMV (or other..) files I play gives green/gray window and there is
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531 only sound! It prints:<BR>
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532 <CODE>Detected video codec: [null] drv:0 (NULL codec (no decoding))</CODE>
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533 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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534 Update your <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE>
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535 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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536
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537
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538 <TD COLSPAN=3>
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539 <B><A NAME=5.4><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.4. Video/audio driver problems (vo/ao)</A></B>
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540 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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541
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543 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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544 Ok, -vo help shows DGA driver, but it is babbling about permissions!
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545 Help me!
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546 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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547 It works only if running as root! It's a DGA limitation.
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548 You should become to root (su -), and try again.
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549 Another solution is making mplayer SUID root, but its NOT RECOMMENDED!<BR>
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550 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>chown root /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE><BR>
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551 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>chmod 750 /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE><BR>
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552 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>chmod +s /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE><BR>
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553 <B>!!!! BUT STAY TUNED !!!!</B><BR>
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554 This is a *BIG* security risk! *NEVER* do this on a server or on a computer
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555 can be accessed by more people than only you because they can gain root
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556 privilegies through suid root mplayer!!!<BR>
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557 <B>!!!! SO YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ... !!!!</B>
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558 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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559
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560 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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561 When using Xvideo, my Voodoo 3/Banshee says:<BR>
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562 <CODE>X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)<BR>
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563 &nbsp;&nbsp;Major opcode of failed request: 147 (MIT-SHM)<BR>
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564 &nbsp;&nbsp;Minor opcode of failed request: 1 (X_ShmAttach)<BR>
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565 &nbsp;&nbsp;Serial number of failed request: 26<BR>
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566 &nbsp;&nbsp;Current serial number in output stream:27</CODE><BR>
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567 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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568 Your driver is old, update it. Either download (at least) DRI version 0.6
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569 from <A HREF="http://dri.sourceforge.net">http://dri.sourceforge.net</A>,
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570 or use the DRI cvs.
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571 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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572
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573 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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574 When using Xvideo, I can't play DivX avis with my Voodoo 3/Banshee!
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575 It says:<BR>
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576 ...<BR>
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577 <CODE>Xvideo image format: 0x32315659 (YV12) planar<BR>
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578 Xvideo image format: 0x30323449 (I420) planar<BR></CODE>
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579 ...
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580 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">A1:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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581 See the previous answer.
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582 </TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">A2:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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583 Since 0.18pre4 we support libavcodec from the ffmpeg package. It contains
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584 a C language DivX and OpenDivX decoder. The DivX decoder uses YV12 format
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585 for output, thus it should work for you. Compile in libavcodec support.
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586 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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587
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588 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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589 OpenGL (-vo gl) output doesn't work (hangup/black window/X11 errors/...).
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590 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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591 Your opengl driver doesn't support dynamic texture changes (glTexSubImage)
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592 It's known not to work with nVidia's binary mess.
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593 It's known to work with Utah-GLX/DRI and Matrox G400 card. Also with
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594 DRI and Radeon card. It won't work with DRI others than these.
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595 it will not work with 3DFX cards because the 256x256 texture size limit.
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596 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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597
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598 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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599 I have an nVidia TNT/TNT2 card, and I have a band with strange colours,
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600 right under the movie! Whose fault is this?
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601 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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602 It's the nVidia X driver's. These bugs are ONLY with the TNT/TNT2 cards,
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603 and we can't do anything about it, it's not our bug. UPDATE : it's fixed
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604 in newest drivers, at last..
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605 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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606
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607 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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608 I have an nVidia XYZ card, and when I click on the GUI's diplay window to toggle
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609 displaying the GUI panel, a black square appears where I clicked. I have
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610 the newest driver.
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611 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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612 Yes, nvidia corrected a previous bug (above), and implemented a new one. Let's
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613 congratule them.
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614 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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615
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616 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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617 When I use the GUI with SDL video output, a second video window is created.
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618 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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619 Known, don't use SDL for GUI yet.
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620 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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621
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622 <TD COLSPAN=3>
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623 <B><A NAME=5.5><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.5. Feature requests</A></B>
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624 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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626 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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627 Is there a hint on how to watch RealMedia movies in MPlayer?
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628 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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629 There's no way to do it. Therefore this format deserves to die in flames.
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630 Theoretically you can reverse engineer Real codecs built for Linux (they
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631 are available as .so files), but in practice that's really difficult, even
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632 if you know how the compiler used by Real is making assembler code.
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633 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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634
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635 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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636 When will be &lt;your favourite video feature&gt; (like subtitle placement) implemented?
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637 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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638 Wait for libvo2.
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639 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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641 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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642 I want to play MP3 files with MPlayer !
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643 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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644 This feature is not planned. There are much better players (mpg123, 3pm, xmms)
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645 for this task, use them. BTW, MPlayer stands for Movie Player.
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10136e4b128a *** empty log message ***
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646 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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647
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648 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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649 I'd like to seek +/- 1 frames, instead of 10 seconds.
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650 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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651 This won't be done. It was, but then it messed up A/V sync. Feel free to
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652 implement it, and send a patch. Don't ask for it.
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653 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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654
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655 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
153fc4f5464f ehh too much
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656 Where is the Windows version ?
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657 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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658 It's not released, and won't be. Look around the windows scene (opensource
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659 ASF parsers, opensource ASF encoders, etc) and you'll know why. We don't
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660 want to go to jail.
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661 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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662
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663
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664 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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665 What card you may suggest me to buy?</font></font></b></td>
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666 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A0:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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667 It's for your opinion only but our issues are:</font></font>
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668 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A1:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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669 Speed:</font></font>
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670 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>This
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671 parameter can be computed very easy:</font></font>
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672 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>a)</b>
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673 which movies do you plan to watch:</font></font>
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674 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>-
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675 MPEG1:</b> 320x200@32=256000</font></font>
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676 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>so
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677 you need only 256*25fps=6.4Mb/sec bandwidth (This format can be played
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678 in real-time on any PC since P-100 + S3Virge)</font></font>
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679 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>-
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680 MPEG4:</b> 640x480@32=1228800</font></font>
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681 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>you
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682 need videobandwidth 1.2*25fps=30Mb/sec To watch such movie in real-time
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683 you need enough power PC: (Celeron-450+DIMM based video card)</font></font>
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684 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>-
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685 MPEG2 (aka DVD or SDTV):</b> 1024x768@32=3145728</font></font>
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686 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>you
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687 need videobandwidth 3*30fps=90Mb/sec In extremal cases (if your video card
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688 supports IDCT decoding) this can be played on the same PC as for MPEG4</font></font>
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689 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>-
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690 HDTV (HighData TeleVision):</b> 2000x2000@32=16000000</font></font>
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691 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>i.e.
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692 videobandwidth = 16*30fps=480Mb/sec (This means also that you need at least
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693 32Mb of video memory to watch this stream: 16Mb for RGB area and 16Mb for
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694 YUV area)</font></font>
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695 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>b)</b>
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696 Bandwidth of PCI slot is: 33Mhz*32bit=132Mb/sec And PCI2.1 has 66MHz*32bit=265Mb/sec
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697 that is far enough for any movie playback (except HDTV streams which really
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698 require AGP bus).</font></font>
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699 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>c)</b>
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700 What memory type should be installed on video card:</font></font>
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701 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>SIMM</b>
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702 - avoid that</font></font>
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703 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>DIMM</b>
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704 - good if your video card has 128-bit memory access.</font></font>
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705 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>DDR</b>
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706 - is far enough for all types.</font></font>
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707 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>Note:
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708 By DGA comparision - there is no any visible difference between video cards
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709 which have installed the same type of video memory.</font></font>
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710 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>Resume:</b>
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711 If you have enough power CPU (Celeron-450 or K6-2-500) it would be enough
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712 to buy any video card which has at least 8Mb of DIMM or DDR memory.</font></font>
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713 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A2:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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714 Quality:</font></font>
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715 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>This
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716 question was investigated in depth at:</font></font>
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717 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.anandtech.com">http://www.anadtech.com</a>
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718 AnandTech - Video Card Roundup - DVD Quality, Features &amp; Performance
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719 (October 2000)</font></font>
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720 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A3:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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721 WORKING features under Linux:</font></font>
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722 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>If
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723 you are win32 user then probably you have support (from driver and DirectX8
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724 side) for any feature which was introduced in your chip.</font></font>
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725 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>But
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726 for <b>linux </b>users:</font></font>
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727 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>Currently
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728 I know only several vendors which have more or less advanced support under
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729 Linux:</font></font>
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730 <br>&nbsp;
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731 <table BORDER COLS=5 WIDTH="100%" NOSAVE >
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732 <tr>
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733 <td>&nbsp;</td>
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734
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735 <td>
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736 <center>Matrox</center>
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737 </td>
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738
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739 <td>
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740 <center>ATI</center>
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741 </td>
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742
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743 <td>
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744 <center>NVidia</center>
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745 </td>
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746
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747 <td>
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748 <center>S4 Savage</center>
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749 </td>
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750 </tr>
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751
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752 <tr>
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753 <td>Driver's provider</td>
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754
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755 <td>enthusiasts</td>
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756
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757 <td>enthusiasts</td>
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758
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759 <td>OEM + enthusiasts</td>
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760
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761 <td>enthusiasts</td>
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762 </tr>
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763
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764 <tr>
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765 <td>Driver's quality</td>
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766
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767 <td>Best(X11,kernel)</td>
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768
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769 <td>Best(X11,GATOS,kernel)</td>
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770
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771 <td>Buggy(X11 only)</td>
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772
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773 <td>Best(X11 only)</td>
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774 </tr>
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775
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776 <tr>
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777 <td>VIDEO OVERLAY</td>
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778
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779 <td></td>
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780
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781 <td></td>
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782
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783 <td></td>
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784
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785 <td></td>
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786 </tr>
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787
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788 <tr>
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789 <td>BES and YV2RGB</td>
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790
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791 <td>YES</td>
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792
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793 <td>YES</td>
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794
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795 <td>YES</td>
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796
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797 <td>YES</td>
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798 </tr>
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799
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800 <tr>
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801 <td>scaling filters</td>
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802
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803 <td>N/A</td>
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804
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805 <td>YES</td>
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806
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807 <td>N/A</td>
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808
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809 <td>N/A</td>
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810 </tr>
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811
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812 <tr>
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813 <td>adaptive deinterlace</td>
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814
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815 <td>NO</td>
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816
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817 <td>YES</td>
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818
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819 <td>N/A</td>
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820
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821 <td>N/A</td>
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822 </tr>
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823
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824 <tr>
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825 <td>Video equalizer (hue, contrast, saturation, color correction)</td>
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826
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827 <td>N/A</td>
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828
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829 <td>PARTLY&nbsp;(under devel)</td>
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830
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831 <td>N/A</td>
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832
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833 <td>N/A</td>
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834 </tr>
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835
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836 <tr>
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837 <td>Alpha blending, color and video keys</td>
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838
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839 <td>PARTLY</td>
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840
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841 <td>PARTLY&nbsp;(under devel)</td>
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842
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843 <td>N/A</td>
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844
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845 <td>N/A</td>
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846 </tr>
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847
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848 <tr>
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849 <td>Video capture</td>
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850
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851 <td>N/A</td>
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852
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853 <td>YES(GATOS)</td>
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854
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855 <td>N/A</td>
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856
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857 <td>N/A</td>
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858 </tr>
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859
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860 <tr>
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861 <td>TV-out</td>
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862
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863 <td>YES</td>
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864
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865 <td>YES</td>
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866
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867 <td>N/A</td>
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868
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869 <td>N/A</td>
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870 </tr>
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871 </table>
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872
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873 <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>Well
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874 - it's very rude observing of video card. Indeed we should pay our attention
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875 for models of video card:</font></font>
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876 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>For
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877 example if MatroxG400(G450) drivers support TV-out then G550 has no such
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878 support.</font></font>
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879 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>Other
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880 sample: Adaptive deinterlacing exists only since Rage128 chip and isn't
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881 present on Mach64+ ones. Same as 3D features are far different from Mach64
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882 to Radeon2 8500 with trueform possibilities.</font></font>
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883 <p><b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>ANYWAY
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884 - MPLAYER'S TEAM DOESN'T ACCEPT ANY CLAIMS IF YOU AFTER</font></font></b>
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885 <br><b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>READING
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886 OF THIS MATERIAL WILL BUY CARD WHICH IS UNSUCCESSFUL FOR YOU!!!</font></font></b>
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887 <br><b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>THIS
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888 MATERIAL IS ONLY OUR VISION.</font></font></b>
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889 <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>Q:</b>
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890 If PCI slot is far enough for most types of movies then why S3 Virge</font></font>
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891 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>is
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892 too slow for them?</font></font>
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893 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>A:</b>
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894 Due to its SIMM memory.</font></font>
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895 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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896
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897 <TD COLSPAN=3>
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898 <B><A NAME=5.6><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.6. Encoding</A></B>
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899 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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900
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901 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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902 How can I encode ?
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903 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
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904 Check <A HREF="encoding.html">this documentation</A>.
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905 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>
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906
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907 </TABLE>
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908
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909 </BODY>
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910 </HTML>