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5 <TITLE>Documentation - MPlayer - The Movie Player for Linux</TITLE>
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12 <H1 ALIGN="center">MPlayer - The Movie Player for LINUX</H1>
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14 <H2 ALIGN="center">&copy; 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (A'rpi/ESP-team)<BR>
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15 <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu">http://www.mplayerhq.hu</A></H2>
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17 <P ALIGN="center">[ English ]
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18 <A HREF="Hungarian/documentation.html">[ Hungarian ]</A>
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19 <A HREF="German/documentation.html">[ German ]</A>
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21 <A HREF="Polish/documentation.html">[ Polish ]</A>
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23 <A HREF="Chinese/documentation.html">[ Chinese ]</A></P>
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27 <H2>Table of Contents</H2>
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31 <UL>
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32 <LI><A HREF="#reading">0. How to read this documentation</A></LI>
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33 <LI><A HREF="#introduction">1. Introduction</A>
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34 <UL>
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35 <LI><A HREF="#history">1.1 History</A></LI>
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36 <LI><A HREF="#installation">1.2 Installation</A></LI>
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37 <LI><A HREF="#gui">1.3 What about the GUI?</A></LI>
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38 <LI><A HREF="#subtitles_osd">1.4 Subtitles and OSD</A>
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40 <LI><A HREF="#mpsub">1.4.1 MPlayer's own subtitle format (MPsub)</A></LI>
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41 <LI><A HREF="#install_osd">1.4.2 Installing OSD and subtitles</A></LI>
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42 <LI><A HREF="#menu">1.4.3 OSD Menu</A></LI>
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48 <LI><A HREF="#features">2. Features</A>
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50 <LI><A HREF="formats.html">2.1 Supported formats</A>
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52 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#video_formats">2.1.1 Video formats</A>
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54 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#mpeg">2.1.1.1 MPEG files</A></LI>
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55 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#avi">2.1.1.2 AVI files</A></LI>
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56 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#asf">2.1.1.3 ASF/WMV files</A></LI>
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57 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#mov">2.1.1.4 QuickTime/MOV files</A></LI>
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58 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#vivo">2.1.1.5 VIVO files</A></LI>
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59 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#fli">2.1.1.6 FLI files</A></LI>
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60 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#real">2.1.1.7 RealMedia (RM) files</A></LI>
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61 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#nuppelvideo">2.1.1.8 NuppelVideo files</A></LI>
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63 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#film">2.1.1.10 FILM files</A></LI>
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65 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#ogg">2.1.1.12 OGG/OGM files</A></LI>
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67 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#pva">2.1.1.14 PVA files</A></LI>
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70 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#audio_formats">2.1.2 Audio formats</A>
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73 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#wav">2.1.2.2 WAV files</A></LI>
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77 <LI><A HREF="formats.html#cdda">2.1.2.6 CD audio</A></LI>
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88 <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#xanim">2.2.1.3 XAnim codecs</A></LI>
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95 <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#sorenson">2.2.1.10 Sorenson</A></LI>
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105 <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#qdesign">2.2.2.6 QDesign codecs</A></LI>
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106 <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#qclp">2.2.2.7 Qualcomm codec</A></LI>
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109 <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#importing">2.2.3 Win32 codec importing HOWTO</A>
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112 <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#importing_directshow">2.2.3.2 DirectShow codecs</A></LI>
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119 <LI><A HREF="video.html">2.3.1 Video output devices</A>
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122 <LI><A HREF="video.html#normal">2.3.1.2 Video outputs for traditional video cards</A>
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131 <LI><A HREF="video.html#xv_trident">2.3.1.2.1.6 Trident cards</A></LI>
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135 <UL>
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136 <LI><A HREF="video.html#dga_summary">2.3.1.2.2.1 Summary</A></LI>
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137 <LI><A HREF="video.html#dga_whatis">2.3.1.2.2.2 What is DGA</A></LI>
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161 </UL>
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237 <LI><A HREF="#controls_configuration">3.2.1 Controls configuration</A>
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247 <LI><A HREF="#streaming">3.3 Streaming from network or pipes</A></LI>
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248 </UL>
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250 <LI><A HREF="cd-dvd.html">4. CD/DVD section</A>
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252 <LI><A HREF="cd-dvd.html#drives">4.1 CD/DVD drives</A></LI>
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253 <LI><A HREF="cd-dvd.html#dvd">4.2 DVD playback</A></LI>
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254 <LI><A HREF="cd-dvd.html#vcd">4.3 VCD playback</A></LI>
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260 <LI><A HREF="faq.html#general">5.2 General questions</A></LI>
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261 <LI><A HREF="faq.html#playback">5.3 playback problems</A></LI>
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262 <LI><A HREF="faq.html#driver">5.4 Video/audio driver problems (vo/ao)</A></LI>
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264 <LI><A HREF="faq.html#features">5.6 Feature requests</A></LI>
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265 <LI><A HREF="faq.html#encoding">5.7 Encoding</A></LI>
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268 <LI><A HREF="#ports">6. Ports</A>
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280 </UL>
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281 </LI>
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282 <LI><A HREF="#solaris">6.3 Solaris</A></LI>
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283 <LI><A HREF="#strongarm">6.4 StrongARM</A></LI>
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284 <LI><A HREF="#sgi">6.5 Silicon Graphics / Irix</A></LI>
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285 <LI><A HREF="#qnx">6.6 QNX</A></LI>
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286 <LI><A HREF="#cygwin">6.7 Cygwin</A></LI>
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287 </UL>
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288 </LI>
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289 <LI><A HREF="#mailing_lists">Appendix A - Mailing lists</A></LI>
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290 <LI><A HREF="bugreports.html">Appendix B - How to report bugs</A>
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291 <UL>
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292 <LI><A HREF="tech/patches.txt">Appendix B2 - How to send patches</A></LI>
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293 </UL>
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294 </LI>
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295 <LI><A HREF="#known_bugs">Appendix C - Known bugs</A></LI>
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296 <LI><A HREF="skin-en.html">Appendix D - MPlayer skin format</A></LI>
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297 <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html">Appendix E - Developer Cries</A>
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298 <UL>
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299 <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#gcc">GCC 2.96</A></LI>
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300 <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#binary">Binary distribution</A></LI>
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301 <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#nvidia">nVidia</A></LI>
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302 <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#barr">Joe Barr</A></LI>
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303 </UL>
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304 </LI>
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305 </UL>
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307 <HR>
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311 <H1><A NAME="reading">0. How to read this documentation</A></H1>
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312
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313 <P>If you are a first-time installer: be sure to read everything from here to
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314 the end of the Installation section, and follow the links you will find. If
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315 you have any other questions, return to the Table of Contents and
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316 search for the topic, read the <A HREF="faq.html">FAQ</A>, or try grepping
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317 through the files.</P>
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318
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319 <P>The main rule of this documentation: if it's not documented, it
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320 <U>does not exist</U>. If I don't say you encode audio from TV tuner, you
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321 can't. A healthy quantity of combining ability is welcomed, though.
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322 Good luck. You'll need it :) And for another good advice, let me quote
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323 Chris Phillips from the
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324 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/">mplayer-users</A>
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325 mailing list:</P>
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326
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327 <BLOCKQUOTE>
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328 I said a while ago that there is such a difference between a newbie and
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329 a dumbass. No matter what you actually know about a system (linux, cars,
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330 girls :D) you should ALWAYS be able to take a step back and be objective,
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331 otherwise, you're just dumb IMHO. A girl i live with assumed the vacuum
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332 cleaner was broken because it didn't suck things up. never thought to change
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333 the bag, becasue she'd never done it before... now that's just stupid, not a
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334 case of simply not knowing what to do... Simply not being that familiar with
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335 your surroundings is no excuse for a) laziness and b) ignorance. So many
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336 people seem to see the word "error" and then stop... few seem to actually
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337 read the words on the OTHER side of the colon.
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338 </BLOCKQUOTE>
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340
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342 <H1><A NAME="introduction">1. Introduction</A></H1>
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343
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344
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345 <P>MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices, and
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346 <B>non-x86</B> CPUs, see the <A HREF="#ports">ports section</A>). It plays most
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347 MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg,
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348 FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and
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349 Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch <B>VideoCD</B>, <B>SVCD</B>, <B>DVD</B>,
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350 <B>3ivx</B>, <B>RealMedia</B>, and <B>DivX</B> movies too (and you don't need
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351 the avifile
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352 library at all!). Another big feature of MPlayer is the wide range of
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353 supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev,
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354 AAlib, DirectFB, but you can also use GGI and SDL (and this way all their
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355 drivers) and some lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon,
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356 Mach64, Permedia3) too! Most
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357 of them supports software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in
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358 fullscreen. MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG
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359 decoder boards, such as the <B><A HREF="video.html#dvb">DVB</A></B> and
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360 <B><A HREF="video.html#dxr3">DXR3/Hollywood+</A></B>. And what about the nice big antialiased
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361 shaded subtitles (<B>10 supported types</B>) with European/ISO 8859-1,2
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362 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic, Korean fonts, and the onscreen
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363 display (OSD)?</P>
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365 <P>The player is rock solid playing damaged MPEG files (useful for some VCDs),
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366 and it plays bad AVI files which are unplayable with the famous
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367 windows media player. Even AVI files without index chunk are playable, and
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368 you can temporarily rebuild their indexes with the <CODE>-idx</CODE> option, or
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369 permanently with MEncoder, thus enabling seeking!
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370 As you see, stability and quality are the most important things,
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371 but the speed is also amazing.</P>
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373 <P>MEncoder (MPlayer's Movie Encoder) is a simple movie encoder,
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374 designed to encode MPlayer-playable movies
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375 (<B>AVI/ASF/OGG/DVD/VCD/VOB/MPG/MOV/VIV/FLI/RM/NUV/NET/PVA</B>) to other
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376 MPlayer-playable formats (see below). It can encode with various codecs, like
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377 <B>DivX4</B> (1 or 2 passes), libavcodec,
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378 <B>PCM</B>/<B>MP3</B>/<B>VBR MP3</B> audio. Also has powerful plugin system
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379 for video manipulation.</P>
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380
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381 <H4>MEncoder features</H4>
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382
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383 <UL>
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384 <LI>encoding from the wide range of fileformats and decoders of MPlayer</LI>
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385 <LI>encoding to all the codecs of ffmpeg's
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386 <A HREF="codecs.html#libavcodec">libavcodec</A></LI>
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387 <LI>video encoding from <B>V4L compatible TV tuners</B></LI>
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388 <LI>encoding/multiplexing to interleaved AVI files with proper index</LI>
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389 <LI>creating files from external audio stream</LI>
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390 <LI>1, 2 or 3 pass encoding</LI>
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391 <LI><B>VBR</B> MP3 audio - <B>IMPORTANT NOTE:</B> VBR MP3 audio doesn't
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392 always play nicely on Windows players! On the other hand, currently
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393 MEncoder's CBR encoding is totally broken on Win32 players :)</LI>
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394 <LI>PCM audio</LI>
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395 <LI>stream copying</LI>
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396 <LI>input A/V synchronizing (PTS-based, can be disabled with -mc 0 option)</LI>
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397 <LI>FPS correction with <CODE>-ofps</CODE> option (useful when encoding
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398 29.97fps VOB to 24fps AVI)</LI>
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399 <LI>using our very powerful plugin system (crop, expand, flip, postprocess,
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400 rotate, scale, rgb/yuv conversion)</LI>
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401 <LI>can encode DVD/VOBsub <B>AND</B> text subtitles into the output file</LI>
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402 <LI>can rip DVD subtitles to Vobsub format</LI>
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403 </UL>
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404
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405 <H4>Planned features</H4>
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406
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407 <UL>
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408 <LI>even wider variety of available en/decoding formats/codecs
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409 (creating VOB files with DivX4/Indeo5/VIVO streams :)</LI>
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410 </UL>
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411
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412 <P>MPlayer and MEncoder can be distributed under the terms of the GNU General
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413 Public License Version 2.</P>
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414
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415
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416 <H2><A NAME="history">1.1 History</A></H2>
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418 <P>This began a year ago...
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419 I (A'rpi) have tried lots of players under linux (mtv,xmps,dvdview,livid/oms,videolan,
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420 xine,xanim,avifile,xmmp) but they all have some problem. Mostly with special
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421 files or with audio/video sync. Most of them is unable to play both MPEG1,
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422 MPEG2 and AVI (DivX) files. Many players have image quality or speed problems
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423 too. So I've decided to write/modify one...</P>
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425 <UL>
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426 <LI><B>mpg12play v0.1-v0.3:</B> Sep 22-25, 2000<BR>
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427 The first try, hacked together in a half hour!
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428 I've used libmpeg3 from www.heroinewarrior.com up to the version 0.3,
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429 but there were image quality and speed problems with it.</LI>
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430 <LI><B>mpg12play v0.5-v0.87:</B> Sep 28-Oct 20, 2000<BR>
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431 Mpeg codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was a great stuff,
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432 but it was slow and was written in C++ (I hate C++!!!)</LI>
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433 <LI><B>mpg12play v0.9-v0.95pre5:</B> Oct 21-Nov 2, 2000<BR>
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434 Mpeg codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman &amp; Michel Lespinasse.
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435 It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect image quality and
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436 100% MPEG standard conformance.</LI>
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437 <LI><B>MPlayer v0.01:</B> Nov 11, 2000<BR>
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438 The first MPlayer.</LI>
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439 <LI><B>MPlayer v0.3-v0.9:</B> Nov 18-Dec 4, 2000<BR>
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440 It was a pack of two programs: mpg12play v0.95pre6 and my new simple AVI
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441 player 'avip' based on avifile's Win32 DLL loader.</LI>
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442 <LI><B>MPlayer v0.10:</B> Jan 1, 2001<BR>
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443 The MPEG and AVI player in a single binary!</LI>
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444 <LI><B>MPlayer v0.11pre series:</B><BR>
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445 Some new developers joined and from 0.11 the mplayer project is a team-work!
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446 Added .ASF file support, and OpenDivX (see www.projectmayo.com) en/decoding.</LI>
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447 <LI><B>MPlayer v0.17a "The IdegCounter"</B> Apr 27, 2001<BR>
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448 The release version of the 0.11pre after 4 months of heavy development!
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449 Try it, and be amazed! Thousands of new features added... and of course
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450 old code was improved too, bugs removed etc.</LI>
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451 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.18 "The BugCounter"</B> Jul 9, 2001<BR>
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452 2 months since 0.17 and here's a new release.. Completed ASF support,
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453 more subtitle formats, introduced libao (similar to libvo but to audio),
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454 even more stable than ever, and so on. It's a MUST!</LI>
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455 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.50 "The Faszom(C)ounter"</B> Oct 8, 2001<BR>
2002
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456 Hmm. Release again. Tons of new features, beta GUI version, bugs fixed,
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457 new vo and ao drivers, ported to many systems, including opensource DivX
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458 codecs and much more. Try it!</LI>
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459 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.60 "The RTFMCounter"</B> Jan 3, 2002<BR>
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460 MOV/VIVO/RM/FLI/NUV fileformats support, native CRAM, Cinepak, ADPCM codecs,
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461 and support for XAnim's binary codecs; DVD subtitles support, first
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462 release of MEncoder, TV grabbing, cache, liba52, countless fixes.</LI>
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463 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.90pre10 "The BirthdayCounter"</B> Nov 11, 2002<BR>
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464 Although this is not a release, I am going to mention it because it
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465 came out 2 years after MPlayer v0.01. Happy birthday, MPlayer!</LI>
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466 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.90rc1 "The CodecCounter"</B> Dec 7, 2002<BR>
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467 Again not a release, but after adding Sorenson 3 (QuickTime) and Windows
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468 Media 9 support, MPlayer is the world's first movie player with support
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469 for all known video formats!</LI>
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470 <LI><B>MPlayer 0.90 "?"</B> Date yet unknown</LI>
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471 </UL>
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472
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473
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474 <H2><A NAME="installation">1.2 Installation</A></H2>
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475
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476 <P>In this chapter I'll try to guide you through the compiling and
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477 configuring process of MPlayer. It's not easy, but it won't necessarily
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478 be hard. If you experience a different behavior than what I explain, please
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479 search through this documentation and you'll find your answers. If you
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480 see links, please follow them and read carefully what they contain. It
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481 will take some time, but it DOES worth it.</P>
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482
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483 <P>You need a fairly recent system. On Linux, 2.4.x kernels are recommended.</P>
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484
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485 <H4>Software requirements:</H4>
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486
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487 <UL>
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488 <LI><B>binutils</B> - suggested version is <B>2.11.x</B> . This program is
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489 responsible for generating MMX/3DNow!/etc instructions, thus very important.</LI>
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490 <LI><B>gcc</B> - suggested versions are: <B>2.95.3</B>, <B>2.95.4</B> and <B>3.1</B>.
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491 <B>NEVER</B> use 2.96 or 3.0.x! They generate faulty code for MPlayer.
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492 If you decide to change gcc from 2.96, then don't decide in favor of 3.0.x
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493 just because it's newer! Early releases of 3.0.x were even more buggy than
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494 2.96. So downgrade to 2.95.x (downgrade libstdc++ too, other programs may
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495 need it) or don't up/downgrade at all (but in this case, be prepared for
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496 runtime problems). If you vote for 3.x.x, try to use the latest version,
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497 early releases had various bugs, so be sure you use at least 3.1, it's
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498 tested and working. For detailed information about gcc 2.96's bugs (that are
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499 still NOT fixed, they have been WORKED AROUND in MPlayer!), see the
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500 <A HREF="users_against_developers.html#gcc">gcc 2.96</A> section and the
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501 <A HREF="faq.html">FAQ</A>.</LI>
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502 <LI><B>XFree86</B> - suggested version is <B>always the newest (4.2.1)</B>.
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503 Normally, everyone wants this, as starting with XFree86 4.0.2, it contains
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504 the <A HREF="video.html#xv">XVideo</A> extension (somewhere referred to
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505 as <B>Xv</B>) which is needed to enable the hardware YUV acceleration (fast
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506 image display) on cards that support it.<BR>
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507 Make sure its <B>development package</B> is installed, too, otherwise
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508 it won't work.<BR>
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509 For some video cards you don't need XFree86. See list below.</LI>
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510 <LI><B>make</B> - suggested version is <B>always the newest</B> (at least 3.79.x). This
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511 usually isn't important.</LI>
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512 <LI><B>SDL</B> - it's not mandatory, but can help in some cases (bad audio,
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513 video cards that lag strangely with the xv driver). Always use the newest
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514 (beginning from 1.2.x).</LI>
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515 <LI><B>libjpeg</B> - optional JPEG decoder, used by -mf and some QT MOV files.
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516 Useful for both MPlayer and MEncoder if you plan to work with jpeg files.</LI>
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517 <LI><B>libpng</B> - recommended and default (M)PNG decoder. Required for GUI.
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518 Useful for both MPlayer and MEncoder.</LI>
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519 <LI><B>lame</B> - recommended, needed for encoding MP3 audio with MEncoder,
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520 suggested version is <B>always the newest</B> (at least 3.90).</LI>
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521 <LI><B>libogg</B> - optional, needed for playing OGG file format.</LI>
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522 <LI><B>libvorbis</B> - optional, needed for playing OGG Vorbis audio.</LI>
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523 <LI><B><A HREF="http://www.live.com/mplayer/">LIVE.COM Streaming Media</A></B>
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524 - optional, needed for playing RTSP/RTP streams.</LI>
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525 <LI><B>directfb</B> - optional, from
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526 <A HREF="http://www.directfb.org">http://www.directfb.org</A></LI>
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527 <LI><B>cdparanoia</B> - optional, for CDDA support</LI>
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528 <LI><B>libfreetype</B> - optional, for TTF fonts support. At least 2.0.9 is
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529 required.</LI>
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530 </UL>
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531
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532 <H4>Codecs:</H4>
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533
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534 <UL>
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535 <LI><B>libavcodec</B>: This codec package is capable of decoding
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536 H263/MJPEG/RV10/DivX3/DivX4/DivX5/MP41/MP42/WMV1 encoded video streams and
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537 WMA (Windows Media Audio) v1/v2 audio streams, on
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538 multiple platforms. It is also known to be the fastest for this task.
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539 See the <A HREF="codecs.html#libavcodec">libavcodec</A> section for details.
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540 Features:<BR>
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541 <UL>
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542 <LI>gain decoding of videos mentioned above, on non-x86 machines</LI>
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543 <LI>encoding with most of the mentioned codecs</LI>
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544 <LI>this codec is the <B>fastest codec available</B> for DivX/3/4/5 and
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545 other MPEG4 types. Recommended!</LI>
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546 </UL>
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547 </LI>
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548 <LI><B>Win32 codecs</B>: If you plan to use MPlayer on x86
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549 architecture, you will possibly need them. Download and unzip w32codecs.zip
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550 to /usr/lib/win32 <B>BEFORE</B> compiling MPlayer, otherwise no Win32
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551 support will be compiled!<BR>
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552 <B>Note:</B> the avifile project has a similar codecs package, but it differs
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553 from ours. If you want to use all supported codecs, then install our package
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554 (do not worry, avifile works with it without problems). Features:<BR>
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555 <UL>
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556 <LI>you need this if you want to play or encode for example movies recorded
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557 with various hardware compressors, like tuner cards, digital cameras
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558 (example: DV, ATI VCR, MJPEG)</LI>
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559 <LI>needed if you want to play <B>WMV8, WMV9/WMA9 movies</B>.</LI>
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560 <LI>Not needed for old
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561 ASF's with MP41 or MP42 video (though VoxWare audio is frequent for these
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562 files - it's done by the Win32 codec), or WMV7. Also not needed
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563 for WMA (Windows Media Audio), libavcodec has opensource decoder
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564 for that.</LI>
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565 </UL>
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566 </LI>
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567 <LI><B>QuickTime codecs</B>: on x86 platforms these codecs can be used
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568 to decode Sorenson v1/v3, RPZA, and other QuickTime video, and
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569 QDesign audio streams. Installation instructions can be found in the
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570 <A HREF="codecs.html#sorenson">Sorenson video codec</A> section.</LI>
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571 <LI><B>DivX4/DivX5</B>: information about this codec is available in the
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572 <A HREF="codecs.html#divx">DivX4/DivX5</A> section. You possibly don't want
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573 this codec as <B>libavcodec</B> (see above) is much faster and has better
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574 quality than this, for both decoding and encoding.<BR>
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575 Features:
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576 <UL>
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577 <LI>1 pass or 2 pass encoding with
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578 <A HREF="encoding.html">MEncoder</A></LI>
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579 <LI>can play old <B>DivX3</B> movies much faster than the Win32 DLL but
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580 slower than <B>libavcodec</B>!</LI>
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581 <LI>it's closed-source, and only an x86 version is available.</LI>
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582 </UL>
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583 </LI>
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584 <LI><B>XviD</B>: Open source encoding alternative to Divx4Linux<BR>
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585 Features:
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586 <UL>
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587 <LI>1 pass or 2 pass encoding with
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588 <A HREF="encoding.html">MEncoder</A></LI>
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589 <LI>it's open-source, so it's multiplatform.</LI>
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590 <LI>it's about 2 times faster than DivX4 when encoding - about the same
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591 quality</LI>
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592 </UL>
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593 </LI>
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594 <LI>The <A HREF="codecs.html#xanim">XAnim codecs</A> are the best (full
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595 screen, hardware YUV zoom) for decoding <B>3ivx</B> and Indeo 3/4/5 movies,
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596 and some old formats. And they are multiplatform, so this is the only way to
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597 play Indeo on non-x86 platforms (well, apart from using XAnim:). But for
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598 example Cinepak movies are best played with MPlayer's own Cinepak
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599 decoder!</LI>
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600 <LI>For <B>Ogg Vorbis</B> audio decoding you need to install
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601 <CODE>libvorbis</CODE> properly. Use deb/rpm packages if available, or
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602 compile from
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603 <A HREF="http://ogg.org/ogg/vorbis/download/vorbis_nightly_cvs.tgz">source</A>
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604 (this is a nightly updated tarball of Vorbis CVS).</LI>
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605 <LI>MPlayer can use the libraries of RealPlayer 8 or RealONE to play
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606 files with <B>RealVideo 2.0 - 4.0</B> video, and Sipro/Cook audio. See
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607 <A HREF="formats.html#real">RealMedia file format</A> section for
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608 installation instructions and more information.</LI>
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609 </UL>
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610
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611 <H4>Video Cards</H4>
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612
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613 <P>There are generally two kind of video cards. One kind (the newer cards) has
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614 <B>hardware scaling and YUV acceleration</B> support, the other cards don't.</P>
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615
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616 <H4>YUV cards</H4>
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617
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618 <P>They can display and scale (zoom) the picture to any size that fits in
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619 their memory, with <B>small CPU usage</B> (even when zooming), thus
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620 fullscreen playing is nice and very fast.</P>
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621
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622 <UL>
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623 <LI><B>Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 cards</B>: although a
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624 <A HREF="video.html#vidix">Vidix driver</A> is provided, it is recommended
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625 to use the mga_vid kernel module instead, for it works much better.
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626 Please see the <A HREF="video.html#mga_vid">mga_vid</A> section about its
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627 installation and usage. It is important to do these steps <I>before</I>
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628 compiling MPlayer, otherwise no mga_vid support will be built. Also
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629 check out the <A HREF="video.html#tv-out_matrox">Matrox TV-out</A> section.
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630 <U><B>If you don't use Linux</B></U>, your only possibility is the VIDIX
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631 driver: read the <A HREF="video.html#vidix">VIDIX</A> section.</LI>
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632 <LI><B>3Dfx Voodoo3/Banshee cards</B>: please see the
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633 <A HREF="video.html#tdfxfb">tdfxfb</A> section in order to gain big
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634 speedup. It is important to do these steps <B>before</B> compiling
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635 MPlayer, otherwise no 3Dfx support will be built. Also see the <A
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636 HREF="video.html#tv-out_voodoo">3dfx TV-out section</A>. If you use X, use
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637 <B>at least 4.2.0</B>, as the 3dfx Xv driver was broken in 4.1.0 and earlier
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638 releases.</LI>
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639 <LI><B>ATI cards</B>: <A HREF="video.html#vidix">Vidix driver</A> is
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640 provided for the following cards:
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641 <B>Radeon</B>, <B>Rage128</B>, <B>Mach64</B> (Rage XL/Mobility, Xpert98).
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642 Also see the <A HREF="video.html#tv-out_ati">ATI cards
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643 section</A> of the TV-out documentation, to know if you card's TV-out is
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644 supported under Linux/MPlayer.</LI>
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645 <LI><B>S3 cards</B>: the Savage and Virge/DX chips have hardware acceleration.
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646 Use as new XFree86 version as possible, older drivers are buggy. Savage chips
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647 have problems with YV12 display, see <A HREF="video.html#xv_s3">S3 Xv
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648 section</A> for details. Older, Trio cards have no, or slow hardware
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649 support.</LI>
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650 <LI><B>nVidia cards</B>: may or may not be good choice for video playing.
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651 If you do not have a GeForce2 (or newer) card, it's not likely to work
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652 without bugs.
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653 <B>The built-in nVidia driver in XFree86 does not support hardware YUV
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654 acceleration on all nVidia cards.</B> You have to download nVidia's
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655 closed-source drivers from nVidia.com. See the
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656 <A HREF="video.html#xv_nvidia">nVidia Xv driver</A> section for
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657 details. Please also check the <A HREF="video.html#tv-out_nvidia">nVidia
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658 TV-out section</A> if you wish to use a TV.</LI>
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659 <LI><B>3DLabs GLINT R3 and Permedia3</B>: a VIDIX driver is provided
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660 (pm3_vid). Please see the <A HREF="video.html#vidix">VIDIX</A> section for
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661 details.</LI>
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662 <LI><B>Other cards</B>: None of the above?
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663 <UL>
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664 <LI>Try if the XFree86 driver (and your card) supports hardware
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665 acceleration. See the <A HREF="video.html#xv">Xv section</A> for
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666 details.</LI>
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667 <LI>If it doesn't, then your card's video features aren't supported under
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668 your operating system :(<BR>
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669 If hardware scaling works under Windows, it doesn't mean it will work
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670 under Linux or other operating systems: it depends on the drivers. Most
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671 manufacturers neither make Linux drivers nor release specifications
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672 for their chips, so you are unlucky using their cards.
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673 See 'Non-YUV cards'.</LI>
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674 </UL>
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675 </LI>
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676 </UL>
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677
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678 <H4>Non-YUV cards</H4>
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679
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680 <P>Fullscreen playing can be achieved by either enabling <B>software scaling</B>
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681 (use the <CODE>-zoom</CODE> or <CODE>-vop scale</CODE>
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682 option, but I warn you: this is slow), or switching to a small resolution
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683 video mode, for example 352x288. If you don't have YUV acceleration, the
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684 latter method is recommended. Video mode switching can be enabled by
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685 using the <CODE>-vm</CODE> option and it works with the following drivers:</P>
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686
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687 <UL>
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688 <LI><B>using</B> XFree86: see the
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689 <A HREF="video.html#dga">DGA driver</A> and
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690 <A HREF="video.html#x11">X11 driver</A> sections for details. DGA is
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691 recommended! Also try DGA via SDL, sometimes it's better.</LI>
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692 <LI><B>not using</B> XFree86: try the drivers in the following order:
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693 <A HREF="video.html#vesa">vesa</A>,
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694 <A HREF="video.html#fbdev">fbdev</A>,
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695 <A HREF="video.html#svgalib">svgalib</A>,
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696 <A HREF="video.html#aalib">aalib</A>.</LI>
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697 </UL>
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698
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699 <H4>Some cards:</H4>
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700
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701 <UL>
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702 <LI><B>Cirrus Logic cards</B>:
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703 <UL>
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704 <LI>GD 7548: present on-board and tested in Compaq Armada 41xx notebook
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705 series.
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706 <UL>
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707 <LI>XFree86 3: works in 8/16bpp modes. However, the driver is
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708 dramatically slow and buggy in 800x600@16bpp.
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709 <B>Recommended: 640x480@16bpp</B></LI>
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710 <LI>XFree86 4: the Xserver freezes soon after start unless
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711 acceleration is disabled, but then the whole thing gets
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712 slower than XFree86 3. No XVideo.</LI>
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713 <LI>FBdev: framebuffer can be turned on with the <CODE>clgenfb</CODE>
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714 driver in the kernel, though for me it worked only in 8bpp, thus
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715 unusable. The clgenfb source had to be extended with the 7548 ID
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716 before compilation.</LI>
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717 <LI>VESA: the card is only VBE 1.2 capable, so VESA output can't be
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718 used. Can't be workarounded with UniVBE.</LI>
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719 <LI>SVGAlib: detects an older Cirrus chip. Usable but slow with
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720 <CODE>-bpp 8</CODE>.</LI>
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721 </UL>
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722 </LI>
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723 </UL>
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724 </LI>
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725 </UL>
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726
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727
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728 <H4>Sound cards:</H4>
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729
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730 <UL>
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731 <LI><B>Soundblaster Live!</B>: with this card you can use 4 or 6 (<B>5.1</B>)
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732 channels AC3 decoding instead of 2. Read the
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733 <A HREF="codecs.html#software_ac3">Software AC3 decoding</A> section.
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734 For hardware AC3 passthrough you <B>must</B> use ALSA 0.9 with OSS emulation!</LI>
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735 <LI><B>C-Media with SP/DIF out</B>: hardware AC3 passthrough is possible
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736 with these cards, see
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737 <A HREF="codecs.html#hardware_ac3">Hardware AC3 decoding</A> section.</LI>
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738 <LI>Features of <B>other cards</B> aren't supported by MPlayer.
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739 <U>It's very recommended to read the <A HREF="sound.html">sound card
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740 section</A>!</U></LI>
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741 </UL>
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742
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743 <H4>Features:</H4>
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744
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745 <UL>
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746 <LI>Decide if you need GUI. If you do, see the <A HREF="#gui">GUI section</A>
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747 before compiling.</LI>
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748 <LI>If you want to install MEncoder (our great all-purpose encoder),
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749 see the <A HREF="encoding.html">MEncoder section</A>.</LI>
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750 <LI>If you have a V4L compatible <B>TV tuner</B> card, and wish to watch/grab
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751 and encode movies with MPlayer, read the <A HREF="#tv">TV input</A>
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752 section.</LI>
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753 <LI>There is a neat <B>OSD Menu</B> support ready to be used. Check the
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754 <A HREF="#menu">OSD Menu</A> section.</LI>
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755 </UL>
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756
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757 <P>Then build MPlayer:</P>
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758
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759 <PRE>
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760 ./configure
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761 make
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762 make install
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763 </PRE>
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764
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765 <P>At this point, MPlayer is ready to use. The directory
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766 <CODE>$PREFIX/etc/mplayer</CODE> contains the <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE>
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767 file, which is used to tell the program all the codecs and their
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768 capabilities. This file should always be kept up to date together with the
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769 main binary.<BR>
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770 Check if you have <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE> in your home directory
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771 (<CODE>~/.mplayer/codecs.conf</CODE>) left from old MPlayer versions, and remove it.</P>
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772
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773 <P><B>Debian users</B> can build a <CODE>.deb</CODE> package for themselves,
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774 it's very simple. Just exec <CODE>fakeroot debian/rules binary</CODE> in
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775 MPlayer's root directory. See
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776 <A HREF="documentation.html#debian">Debian packaging</A> for detailed
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777 instructions.</P>
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778
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779 <P><B>Always browse the output of <CODE>./configure</CODE></B>, and the
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780 <CODE>configure.log</CODE> file, they contain information about what will be
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781 built, and what will not. You may also want to view <CODE>config.h</CODE> and
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782 <CODE>config.mak</CODE> files.<BR>
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783 If you have some libraries installed, but not detected by
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784 <CODE>./configure</CODE>, then check if you also have the proper header files
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785 (usually the -dev packages) and their version matches. The
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786 <CODE>configure.log</CODE> file usually tells you what is missing.</P>
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787
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788 <P>Though not mandatory, the fonts should be installed in order to gain OSD,
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789 and subtitle functionality. The recommended method is installing a TTF
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790 font file and telling MPlayer to use it. See the
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791 <A HREF="#install_osd">Subtitles and OSD</A> section for details.</P>
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792
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793
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794
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795 <H2><A NAME="gui">1.3 What about the GUI?</A></H2>
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796
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797 <P>The GUI needs GTK (it isn't GTK, but the panels are). The skins are stored
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798 in PNG format, so gtk, libpng (and their devel stuff) has to be installed.
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799 You can build it by specifying <CODE>--enable-gui</CODE> during
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800 <CODE>./configure</CODE>. Then, to turn on GUI mode, you either</P>
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801 <UL>
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802 <LI>specify <CODE>gui=yes</CODE> in your config file</LI>
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803 <LI><CODE>ln -s $PREFIX/bin/mplayer $PREFIX/bin/gmplayer</CODE> ,
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804 and call <CODE>gmplayer</CODE> instead.</LI>
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805 </UL>
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806
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807 <P>Currently you can't use the <CODE>-gui</CODE> option on the command line,
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808 due to technical reasons.</P>
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diff changeset
809
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810 <P>As MPlayer doesn't have a skin included, you have to download them if
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811 you want to use the GUI. See the
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812 <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html">download page</A>.
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813 They should be extracted to the usual system-wide directory
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814 (<CODE>$PREFIX/share/mplayer/Skin</CODE>), or to
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815 <CODE>$HOME/.mplayer/Skin</CODE>. MPlayer by default looks in these
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816 directories for a directory named <I>default</I>, but you can use the
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817 <CODE>-skin newskin</CODE> option, or the <CODE>skin=newskin</CODE> config
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818 file directive to use the skin in <CODE>*/Skin/newskin</CODE> directory.</P>
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819
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820
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821 <H2><A NAME="subtitles_osd">1.4 Subtitles and OSD</A></H2>
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diff changeset
822
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823 <P>
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824 MPlayer can display subtitles along with movie files. Currently the following
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825 formats are supported:</P>
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826 <UL>
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827 <LI>VobSub</LI>
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828 <LI>Microdvd</LI>
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829 <LI>SubRip</LI>
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830 <LI>SubViewer</LI>
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831 <LI>Sami</LI>
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832 <LI>VPlayer</LI>
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833 <LI>RT</LI>
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834 <LI>SSA</LI>
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835 <LI>MPsub</LI>
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836 <LI>AQTitle</LI>
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837 <LI>JACOsub</LI>
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838 </UL>
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839
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840 <P>MPlayer can dump the previously listed subtitle formats into the following
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841 destination formats, with the given options:</P>
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842
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843 <UL>
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844 <LI>MPsub: <CODE>-dumpmpsub</CODE></LI>
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845 <LI>SubRip: <CODE>-dumpsrtsub</CODE></LI>
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846 <LI>Microdvd: <CODE>-dumpmicrodvdsub</CODE></LI>
8396
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847 <LI>JACOsub: <CODE>-dumpjacosub</CODE></LI>
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848 <LI>Sami: <CODE>-dumpsami</CODE></LI>
8177
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849 </UL>
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850
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851 <P>The command line options differ slightly for the different formats:</P>
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852
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853 <H4>VobSub subtitles</H4>
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854
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855 <P>VobSub subtitles consist of a big (some megabytes) .SUB file, and optional
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856 .IDX and/or .IFO files.<BR>
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857 Usage: If you have files like <CODE>sample.sub</CODE>,
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858 <CODE>sample.ifo</CODE> (optional), <CODE>sample.idx</CODE> - you have to pass
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859 MPlayer the <CODE>-vobsub sample [-vobsubid &lt;id&gt;]</CODE> options (full
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860 path optional). The <CODE>-vobsubid</CODE> option is like <CODE>-sid</CODE>
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861 for DVDs, you can choose between subtitle tracks (languages) with it. In case
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862 that <CODE>-vobsubid</CODE> is omitted, MPlayer will try to use the languages
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863 given by the <CODE>-slang</CODE> option and fall back to the
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864 <CODE>langidx<CODE> item in the .IDX file to set the subtitle language. If
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865 that fails, there will be no subtitles.</P>
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866
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867 <H4>Other subtitles</H4>
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868
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869 <P>The other formats consist of a single text file containing timing,
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870 placement and text information.<BR>
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871 Usage: If you have a file like <CODE>sample.txt</CODE>, you have to pass the
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872 option <CODE>-sub sample.txt</CODE> (full path optional).</P>
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873
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874 <H4>Adjusting subtitle timing and placement:</H4>
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875
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876 <DL>
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877 <DT><CODE>-subdelay &lt;sec&gt;</CODE></DT>
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878 <DD>Delays subtitles by &lt;sec&gt; seconds. Can be negative.</DD>
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879
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880 <DT><CODE>-subfps &lt;rate&gt;</CODE></DT>
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881 <DD>Specify frame/sec rate of subtitle file (float number)</DD>
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882
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883 <DT><CODE>-subpos &lt;0 - 100&gt;</CODE></DT>
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884 <DD>Specify the position of subtitles.</DD>
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885 </DL>
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886
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887 <P>If you experience a growing delay between the movie and the subtitles when
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888 using a MicroDVD subtitle file, most likely the frame rate of the movie and
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889 the subtitle file are different.<BR> Please note that the MicroDVD subtitle
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890 format uses absolute frame numbers for its timing, and therefore the
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891 <CODE>-subfps</CODE> option cannot be used with this format. As
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892 MPlayer has no way to guess the frame rate of the subtitle file, you
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893 have to manually convert the frame rate. There is a little perl script in the
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894 <CODE>contrib</CODE> directory of the MPlayer FTP site to do this conversion
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895 for you.</P>
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896
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897 <P>MPlayer will try to guess the subtitle files you want to use when playing a
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898 movie. If, like in most cases, subtitle and movie files have the same name and
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899 are in the same place, you do not need to set the subtitle options. Just play
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900 the movie, MPlayer will handle the subtitles automatically.</P>
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901
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902 <P>About DVD subtitles, read the <A HREF="cd-dvd.html#dvd">DVD section</A>.</P>
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903
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904
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905 <H3><A NAME="mpsub">1.4.1 MPlayer's own subtitle format (MPsub)</A></H3>
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906
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907 <P>MPlayer introduces a new subtitle format called <B>MPsub</B>. It was
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908 designed by me (Gabucino). Basically its main feature is being
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909 <I>dynamically</I> time-based (although it has frame-based mode too). Example
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910 (from
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911 <A HREF="tech/mpsub.sub">DOCS/tech/mpsub.sub</A>):</P>
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912
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913 <P><CODE><I># first number : wait this much after previous subtitle disappeared<BR>
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914 # second number : display the current subtitle for this many seconds<BR>
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915 <BR>
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916 15 3<BR>
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917 A long long, time ago...<BR>
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918 <BR>
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919 0 3<BR>
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920 in a galaxy far away...<BR>
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921 <BR>
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922 0 3<BR>
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923 Naboo was under an attack.<BR></I></CODE></P>
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924
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925 <P>So you see, the main goal was to <B>make subtitle
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926 editing/timing/joining/cutting easy</B>. And, if you - say - get an SSA
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927 subtitle but it's badly timed/delayed to your version of the movie, you
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928 simply do a <CODE>mplayer dummy.avi -sub source.ssa -dumpmpsub</CODE>.
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929 A <CODE>dump.mpsub</CODE> file will be created in the current directory,
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930 which will contain the source subtitle's text, but in <B>MPsub</B> format.
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931 Then you can freely add/subtract seconds to/from the subtitle.</P>
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932
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933 <P>Subtitles are displayed with a technique called <B>'OSD', On Screen
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934 Display</B>. OSD is used to display current time, volume bar, seek bar
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935 etc.</P>
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936
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937 <H3><A NAME="install_osd">1.4.2 Installing OSD and subtitles</A></H3>
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938
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939 <P>You need an MPlayer font package to be able to use OSD/SUB feature.
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940 There are many ways to get it:</P>
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941
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942 <UL>
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943 <LI>download ready-to-use font packages from MPlayer site.
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944 Note: currently available fonts are limited for iso 8859-1/2 support,
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945 but there are some other (including Korean, Russian, 8859-8 etc) fonts
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946 at contrib/font section of FTP, made by users.<BR>
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947 <BR>
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948 Font should have appropriate font.desc file which maps unicode font
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949 positions to the actual code page of the subtitles text. Other solution is
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950 to have subtitles encoded in utf8 encoding and use <CODE>-utf8</CODE>
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951 option or just name the subtitles file &lt;video_name&gt;.utf and have it
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952 in the same dir as the video file. Recoding from different codepages to
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953 utf8 could be done by using konwert (Debian) or iconv (Red Hat)
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954 programs.<BR>
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955 Some URLs:
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956 <UL>
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957 <LI><A HREF="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/fonts/">ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/fonts/</A> - ISO fonts</LI>
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958 <LI><A HREF="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/fonts/">ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/fonts/</A> - various fonts by users</LI>
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959 <LI><A HREF="http://realtime.ssu.ac.kr/~lethean/mplayer/">http://realtime.ssu.ac.kr/~lethean/mplayer/</A> - Korean fonts &amp; RAW plugin</LI>
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960 </UL>
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961 </LI>
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962 <LI>use the font generator tool at TOOLS/subfont-c
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963 It's a complete tool to convert from TTF/Type1/etc font to mplayer font pkg.
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964 (read TOOLS/subfont-c/README for details)</LI>
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965 <LI>use the font generator GIMP plugin at TOOLS/subfont-GIMP
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966 (note: you must have HSI RAW plugin too, see URL below)</LI>
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967 <LI>using a TrueType (TTF) font, by the means of the <B>freetype</B>
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968 library. Version 2.0.9 or greater is mandatory! Then you
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969 have two methods:
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970 <UL>
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971 <LI>use the <CODE>-font /path/to/arial.ttf</CODE> option to specify
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972 a TrueType font file on every occassion</LI>
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973 <LI>create a symlink: <CODE>ln -s /path/to/arial.ttf ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf</CODE></LI>
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974 </UL>
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975 </LI>
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976 </UL>
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977
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978 <P>If you chose non-TTF fonts, UNZIP the file you downloaded to <CODE>~/.mplayer</CODE> or
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979 <CODE>$PREFIX/share/mplayer</CODE>. Then rename or symlink one of the extracted directories to
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980 <CODE>font</CODE> (like: <CODE>ln -s ~/.mplayer/arial-24
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981 ~/.mplayer/font</CODE>). Now you have to see a timer at the upper left corner
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982 of the movie (switch it off with the "o" key).</P>
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983
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984
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985 <P>OSD has 3 states: (switch with 'o')</P>
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986
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987 <UL>
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988 <LI>timer + volume bar + seek bar + subtitles</LI>
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989 <LI>volume bar + seek bar + subtitles (default)</LI>
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990 <LI>subtitles only</LI>
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991 </UL>
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992
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993 <P>You can change default behaviour by setting <CODE>osdlevel=</CODE> variable
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994 in config file.</P>
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995
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996
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997 <H3><A NAME="menu">1.4.3 OSD menu</A></H3>
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998
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999 <P>MPlayer has a completely user definiable OSD Menu interface.</P>
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1000
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1001 <H4>Installation</H4>
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1002
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1003 <OL>
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1004 <LI>compile MPlayer by passing the <CODE>--enable-new-conf
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1005 --enable-menu</CODE> parameters to <CODE>./configure</CODE></LI>
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1006 <LI>make sure you have an OSD font installed</LI>
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1007 <LI>copy <CODE>etc/menu.conf</CODE> to your <CODE>.mplayer</CODE>
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1008 directory</LI>
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1009 <LI>copy <CODE>etc/input.conf</CODE> to your <CODE>.mplayer</CODE>
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1010 directory, or to the system-wide MPlayer config dir (default:
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1011 <CODE>/usr/local/etc/mplayer</CODE>)</LI>
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1012 <LI>check and edit <CODE>input.conf</CODE> to enable menu movement
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1013 keys (it is described there).</LI>
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1014 <LI>start MPlayer by the following example:<BR>
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1015 <CODE>$ mplayer -menu file.avi</CODE></LI>
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1016 <LI>push any menu key you defined</LI>
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1017 </OL>
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1018
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1019 <P>
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1020
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1021
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1022 <H2><A NAME="rtc">1.5 RTC</A></H2>
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1023
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1024 There are three timing methods in MPlayer.
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1025
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1026 <UL>
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1027 <LI><B>To use the old method</B>, you don't have to do anything. It uses
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1028 <CODE>usleep()</CODE> to tune A/V sync, with +/- 10ms accuracy. However
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1029 sometimes the sync has to be tuned even finer.</LI>
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1030 <LI><B>The new timer</B> code uses PC's RTC (Real Time Clock) for this task,
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1031 because it has precise 1ms timers. It is automagically enabled when
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1032 available, but requires root privileges, a <I>setuid root</I>
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1033 MPlayer binary or a properly set up kernel.
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1034 <BR>
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1035 If you are running kernel 2.4.19pre8 or later you can adjust the maximum
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1036 RTC frequency for normal users through the <CODE>/proc</CODE> filesystem.
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1037 Use this command to enable RTC for normal users:
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1038 <P>
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1039 <CODE>echo 1024 &gt; /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq</CODE>
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1040 </P>
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1041 If you do not have such a new kernel, you can also change one line in
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1042 <CODE>drivers/char/rtc.c</CODE> and recompile your kernel. Find the
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1043 section that reads
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1044 <PRE>
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1045 * We don't really want Joe User enabling more
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1046 * than 64Hz of interrupts on a multi-user machine.
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1047 */
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1048 if ((rtc_freq &gt; 64) &amp;&amp; (!capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE)))
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1049 </PRE>
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1050 and change the 64 to 1024. You should really know what you are doing, though.
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1051 <BR>
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1052 You can see the new timer's efficiency in the status line.
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1053 <BR>
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1054 The power management functions of some notebook BIOSes with speedstep CPUs
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1055 interact badly with RTC. Audio and video may get out of sync. Plugging the
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1056 external power connector in before you power up your notebook seems to help.
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1057 You can always turn off RTC support with the <CODE>-nortc</CODE> switch.
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1058 In some hardware combinations (confirmed during usage of non-DMA DVD
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1059 drive on an ALi1541 board) usage of the RTC timer causes skippy playback.
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1060 It's recommended to use the third method in these cases.</LI>
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1061 <LI><B>The third timer code</B> is turned on with the <CODE>-softsleep</CODE>
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1062 option. It has the efficiency of the RTC, but it doesn't use RTC. On the other
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1063 hand, it requires more CPU.</LI>
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1064 </UL>
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1065
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1066 <B>Note:</B> <B>NEVER install a setuid root MPlayer binary on a multiuser system!</B>
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1067 It's a clear way for everyone to become root.
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1068
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1069
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1070
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1071 <H1><A NAME="features">2. Features</A></H1>
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1072
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1073
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1074 <H2><A NAME="formats">2.1</A> <A HREF="formats.html">Supported formats</A></H2>
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1075
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1076
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1077 <H2><A NAME="codecs">2.2</A> <A HREF="codecs.html">Supported codecs</A></H2>
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1078
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1079
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1080 <H2><A NAME="output">2.3</A> <A HREF="video.html">Video</A> &amp; <A HREF="sound.html">Audio</A> output devices</H2>
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1081
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1082
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1083 <H2><A NAME="encoding">2.4</A> <A HREF="encoding.html">MEncoder - An All-Purpose Encoder</A></H2>
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1084
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1085
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1086 <H2><A NAME="tv"><B>2.5 TV input</B></A></H2>
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1087
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1088 <P>This section is about how to enable <B>watching/grabbing from V4L compatible
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1089 TV tuner</B>. See the man page for a description of TV options and keyboard
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1090 controls.</P>
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1091
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1092 <H3><A NAME="tv_compilation">2.5.1 Compilation</A></H3>
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1093
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1094 <OL>
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1095 <LI>First, you have to recompile. <CODE>./configure</CODE> will autodetect
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1096 kernel headers of v4l stuff and the existence of <CODE>/dev/video*</CODE>
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1097 entries. If they exist, TV support will be built (see the output of
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1098 <CODE>./configure</CODE>).</LI>
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1099 <LI>Make sure your tuner works with another TV software in Linux, for example
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1100 xawtv.</LI>
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1101 </OL>
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1102
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1103 <H3><A NAME="tv_tips">2.5.2 Usage tips</A></H3>
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1104
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1105 The full listing of the options is available on the manual page. Here
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1106 are just a few tips:
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1107
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1108 <UL>
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1109 <LI>Choose some sane image dimensions. The dimensions of the resulting image
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1110 should be divisible by 16.</LI>
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1111 <LI>If you capture the video with the vertical resolution higher than half of
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1112 the full resolution (i.e. 288 for PAL or 240 for NTSC), make sure you
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1113 turned deinterlacing on. Otherwise you'll get a movie which is distorted
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1114 during fast-motion scenes and the bitrate controller will be probably even
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1115 unable to retain the specified bitrate as the interlacing artifacts produce
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1116 high amount of detail and thus consume lot of bandwidth. You can enable
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1117 deinterlacing with <CODE>-vop pp=DEINT_TYPE</CODE>. Usually
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1118 <CODE>pp=lb</CODE> does a good job, but it can be matter of personal
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1119 preference. See other deinterlacing algorithms in the manual and give it a
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1120 try.</LI>
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1121 <LI>Crop out the dead space. When you capture the video, the areas at the
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1122 edges are usually black or contain some noise. These again consume lots of
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1123 unnecessary bandwidth. More precisely it's not the black areas themselves
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1124 but the sharp transitions between the black and the brighter video image
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1125 which do but that's not important for now. Before you start capturing,
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1126 adjust the arguments of the <CODE>crop</CODE> option so that all the crap
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1127 at the margins is cropped out. Again, don't forget to keep the resulting
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1128 dimensions sane.</LI>
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1129 <LI>Watch out for CPU load. It shouldn't cross the 90% boundary for most of
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1130 the time. If you have a large capture buffer, MEncoder can survive an
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1131 overload for few seconds but nothing more. It's better to turn off the 3D
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1132 OpenGL screensavers and similar stuff.</LI>
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1133 <LI>Don't mess with the system clock. MEncoder uses the system clock for
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1134 doing A/V sync. If you adjust the system clock (especially backwards in
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1135 time), MEncoder gets confused and you will lose frames. This is an
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1136 important issue if you are hooked to a network and run some time
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1137 synchronization software like NTP. You have to turn NTP off during the
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1138 capture process if you want to capture reliably.</LI>
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1139 <LI>Don't change the <CODE>outfmt</CODE> unless you know what you are doing
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1140 or your card/driver really doesn't support the default (YV12 colorspace).
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1141 In the older versions of MPlayer/MEncoder it was necessary to specify the
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1142 output format. This issue should be fixed in the current releases and
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1143 <CODE>outfmt</CODE> isn't required anymore, and the default suits the most
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1144 purposes. For example, if you are capturing into DivX using libavcodec and
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1145 specify <CODE>outfmt=RGB24</CODE> in order to increase the quality of the
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1146 captured images, the captured image will be actually later converted back
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1147 into YV12 so the only thing you achieve is a massive waste of CPU power.
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1148 </LI>
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1149 <LI>To specify the I420 colorspace (<CODE>outfmt=i420</CODE>), you have to
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1150 add an option <CODE>-vc rawi420</CODE> due to a fourcc conflict with an
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1151 Intel Indeo video codec.</LI>
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1152 <LI>There are several ways of capturing audio. You can grab the sound either
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1153 using your soundcard via an external cable connection between video card
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1154 and line-in, or using the built-in ADC in the bt878 chip. In the latter
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1155 case, you have to load the <b>btaudio</b> driver. Read the
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1156 <CODE>linux/Documentation/sound/btaudio</CODE> file (in the kernel tree,
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1157 not MPlayer's) for some instructions on using this driver.</LI>
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1158 <LI>If MEncoder cannot open the audio device, make sure that it is really
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1159 available. There can be some trouble with the sound servers like arts
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1160 (KDE) or esd (GNOME). If you have a full duplex soundcard (almost any
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1161 decent card supports it today), and you are using KDE, try to check the
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1162 "full duplex" option in the sound server preference menu.</LI>
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1163 </UL>
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1164
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1165 <H3><A NAME="tv_examples">2.5.3 Examples</A></H3>
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1166
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1167 <P>Dummy output, to AAlib :)<BR>
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1168 <CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mplayer -tv on:driver=dummy:width=640:height=480 -vo aa</CODE><BR>
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1169 <BR>
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1170 Input from standard V4L<BR>
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1171 <CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mplayer -tv
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1172 on:driver=v4l:width=640:height=480 -vo xv</CODE><BR>
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1173 <BR>
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1174
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1175 A more sophisticated example. This makes MEncoder capture the full
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1176 PAL image, crop the margins, and deinterlace the picture using
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1177 a linear blend algorithm. Audio is compressed with a constant
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1178 bitrate of 64kbps, using LAME codec. This setup is suitable for
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1179 capturing movies.<BR> <CODE> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mencoder -tv
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1180 on:driver=v4l:width=768:height=576 \<BR>
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1181 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-ovc lavc -lavcopts
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1182 vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=900 \<BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-oac
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1183 mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=64 \<BR> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-vop
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1184 pp=lb,crop=720:544:24:16 -o output.avi </CODE><BR>
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1185
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1186 <BR>
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1187 This will additionally rescale the image to 384x288 and compresses
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1188 the video with the bitrate of 350kbps in high quality mode. The
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1189 vqmax option looses the quantizer and allows the video compressor to
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1190 actualy reach so low bitrate even at the expense of the
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1191 quality. This can be used for capturing long TV series, where the
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1192 video quality isn't so important.<BR>
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1193 <CODE>
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1194 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mencoder -tv on:driver=v4l:width=768:height=576 \<BR>
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1195 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=350:vhq:vqmax=31:keyint=300 \<BR>
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1196 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=48 \<BR>
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1197 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-vop scale=384:288,pp=tn/lb,crop=720:540:24:18 -sws 1 -o output.avi
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1198 </CODE><BR>
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1199
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1200 It's also possible to specify smaller image dimensions in the
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1201 <CODE>-tv</CODE> option and omit the software scaling but this
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1202 approach uses the maximum available information and is a little more
26ddd166422e updated v4l section
henry
parents: 7942
diff changeset
1203 resistant to noise. The bt8x8 chips can do the pixel averaging only
8095
6b4200d4b64b cosmetics
diego
parents: 8079
diff changeset
1204 in the horizontal direction due to a hardware limitation.</P>
6766
f7cd3a7aaa13 Applied patch by Fabian Franz <FabianFranz@gmx.de>, adding a note to the TV
diego
parents: 6732
diff changeset
1205
2864
1a710f130a7f TV input documentation begin (examples, options)
gabucino
parents: 2855
diff changeset
1206
8551
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1207 <H2><A NAME="edl">2.6 Edit Decision Lists (EDL)</A></H2>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1208
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1209 <P>The edit decision list (EDL) system allows you to automatically skip or mute
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1210 sections of videos during playback, based on a movie specific EDL
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1211 configuration file.</P>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1212
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1213 <P>This is useful for those who may want to watch a film in "family-friendly"
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1214 mode. You can cut out any violence, profanity, Jar-Jar Binks .. from a movie
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1215 according to your own personal preferences. Aside from this, there are other
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1216 uses, like automatically skipping over commercials in video files you
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1217 watch.</P>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1218
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1219 <P>The EDL file format is pretty bare-bones. Once the EDL system has reached a
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1220 certain level of maturity, an XML-based file format will probably be
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1221 implemented (keeping backwards compatibility with previous EDL formats).</P>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1222
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1223 <P>The maximum number of EDL entries for the current incarnation of EDL is 1000.
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1224 If you happen to need more, change the <CODE>#define MAX_EDL_ENTRIES</CODE>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1225 in the <CODE>edl.h</CODE> file.</P>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1226
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1227 <H3><A NAME="edl_using">2.6.1 Using an EDL file</A></H3>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1228
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1229 <P>Include the <CODE>-edl &lt;filename&gt;</CODE> flag when you run MPlayer,
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1230 with the name of the EDL file you want applied to the video.</P>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1231
8625
9fd3e7d26b9a 10l by others
gabucino
parents: 8582
diff changeset
1232 <H3><A NAME="edl_making">2.6.2 Making an EDL file</A></H3>
8551
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1233
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1234 <P>The current EDL file format is:</P>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1235
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1236 <CODE>[begin second] [end second] [action]</CODE>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1237
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1238 <P>Where the seconds are floating-point numbers and the action is either
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1239 <CODE>0</CODE> for skip or <CODE>1</CODE> for mute. Example:</P>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1240
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1241 <PRE>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1242 5.3 7.1 0
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1243 15 16.7 1
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1244 420 422 0
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1245 </PRE>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1246
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1247 <P>This will skip from second 5.3 to second 7.1 of the video, then mute at
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1248 15 seconds, unmute at 16.7 seconds and skip from second 420 to second
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1249 422 of the video. These actions will be performed when the playback timer
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1250 reaches the times given in the file.</P>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1251
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1252 <P>To create an EDL file to work from, use the
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1253 <CODE>-edlout &lt;filename&gt;</CODE> flag. During playback, when you want to
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1254 mark the previous two seconds to skip over, hit <CODE>i</CODE>. A
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1255 corresponding entry will be written to the file for that time. You can then go
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1256 back and fine-tune the generated EDL file.</P>
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1257
c8d63449741b EDL section added, based on patch by Michael Halcrow <mah69@email.byu.edu>.
diego
parents: 8548
diff changeset
1258
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1259
7047
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1260 <H1><A NAME="usage">3. Usage</A></H1>
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1261
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1262
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1263 <H2><A NAME="command_line">3.1 Command line</A></H2>
4177
cab4ac1467e4 many small updates
gabucino
parents: 4153
diff changeset
1264
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1265 <P>MPlayer utilizes a complex playtree. It consists of global options
4177
cab4ac1467e4 many small updates
gabucino
parents: 4153
diff changeset
1266 written as first (for example <CODE>mplayer -vfm 5</CODE>), and options
cab4ac1467e4 many small updates
gabucino
parents: 4153
diff changeset
1267 written after filenames, that apply only to the given filename/URL/whatever
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1268 (for example <CODE>mplayer -vfm 5 movie1.avi movie2.avi -vfm 4</CODE>).<BR>
5715
71843ef1a085 video filter layer documentation begun (maybe audio layer should be
gabucino
parents: 5704
diff changeset
1269 You can group filenames/URLs together using { and }. It's useful with
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1270 option -loop: <CODE>mplayer { 1.avi -loop 2 2.avi } -loop 3</CODE>
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1271 will play files in this order: 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 2<BR>
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1272 </P>
4177
cab4ac1467e4 many small updates
gabucino
parents: 4153
diff changeset
1273
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1274 <TABLE BORDER=0>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1275 <TR><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD>file</TD><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] [path/]filename</CODE></TD></TR>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1276 <TR><TD></TD><TD>files</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [default options] [path/]filename1 [options for filename1] filename2 [options for filename2] ...</CODE></TD></TR>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1277 <TR><TD></TD><TD>VCD</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] -vcd trackno [-cdrom-device /dev/cdrom]</CODE></TD></TR>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1278 <TR><TD></TD><TD>DVD</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] -dvd titleno [-dvd-device /dev/dvd]</CODE></TD></TR>
7813
76940a39405a RTSP/RTP documentation, patch by Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com>.
diego
parents: 7792
diff changeset
1279 <TR><TD></TD><TD>WWW</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] http://site.com/file.asf (playlists can be used, too)</CODE></TD></TR>
76940a39405a RTSP/RTP documentation, patch by Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com>.
diego
parents: 7792
diff changeset
1280 <TR><TD></TD><TD>RTSP</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] rtsp://server.example.com/streamName</CODE></TD></TR>
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1281 </TABLE>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1282
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1283 <P>
7813
76940a39405a RTSP/RTP documentation, patch by Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com>.
diego
parents: 7792
diff changeset
1284 Latest versions of MPlayer also accept VCD and DVD tracks in URL style, just like
76940a39405a RTSP/RTP documentation, patch by Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com>.
diego
parents: 7792
diff changeset
1285 xine does: <CODE>mplayer dvd://1</CODE> or <CODE>mplayer vcd://1</CODE></P>
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1286
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1287 <PRE>
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1288 mplayer -vo x11 /mnt/Films/Contact/contact2.mpg
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1289 mplayer -vcd 2
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1290 mplayer -afm 3 /mnt/DVDtrailers/alien4.vob
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1291 mplayer -dvd 1 -dvd-device /dev/hdc
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1292 mplayer -abs 65536 -delay -0.4 -nobps ~/movies/test.avi
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1293 </PRE>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1294
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1295
7047
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1296 <H2><A NAME="control">3.2 Control</A></H2>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1297
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1298 <P>MPlayer has a fully configurable, command driven, control layer which
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1299 lets you control MPlayer with keyboard, mouse, joystick or remote
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1300 control (using LIRC). See the man page for the complete list of keyboard
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1301 controls.</P>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1302
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1303
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1304 <H3><A NAME="controls_configuration">3.2.1 Controls configuration</A></H3>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1305
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1306 <P>MPlayer allows you bind any key/button to any MPlayer command
6493
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1307 using a simple config file. The syntax consist of a key name followed by a
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1308 command. The default config file location is
6593
a2937bae0651 Expanded RTC section. It now explains how to allow RTC via /proc on newer
diego
parents: 6583
diff changeset
1309 <CODE>$HOME/.mplayer/input.conf</CODE> but it can be overridden using the
6493
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1310 <CODE>-input</CODE> conf switch (relative path are relative to
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1311 <CODE>$HOME/.mplayer</CODE>).
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1312
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1313 <P>Example:</P>
6493
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1314
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1315 <PRE>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1316 ##
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1317 ## MPlayer input control file
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1318 ##
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1319
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1320 RIGHT seek +10
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1321 LEFT seek -10
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1322 - audio_delay 0.100
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1323 + audio_delay -0.100
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1324 q quit
7076
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1325 &gt; pt_step 1
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1326 &lt; pt_step -1
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1327 ENTER pt_step 1 1
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1328 </PRE>
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1329
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1330
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1331 <H4><A NAME="key_names">3.2.1.1 Key names</A></H4>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1332
6493
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1333 <P>You can have a full list by running <CODE>mplayer -input keylist</CODE></P>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1334
7099
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7093
diff changeset
1335 <H4>Keyboard:</H4>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1336
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1337 <UL>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1338 <LI>Any printable character</LI>
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1339 <LI>SPACE</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1340 <LI>ENTER</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1341 <LI>TAB</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1342 <LI>CTRL</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1343 <LI>BS</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1344 <LI>DEL</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1345 <LI>INS</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1346 <LI>HOME</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1347 <LI>END</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1348 <LI>PGUP</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1349 <LI>PGDWN</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1350 <LI>ESC</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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parents: 6970
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1351 <LI>RIGHT</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1352 <LI>LEFT</LI>
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diego
parents: 6970
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1353 <LI>UP</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1354 <LI>DOWN</LI>
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a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1355 </UL>
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1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1356
7099
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7093
diff changeset
1357 <H4>Mouse (only supported under X):</H4>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1358
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a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1359 <UL>
6974
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parents: 6970
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1360 <LI>MOUSE_BTN0 (Left button)</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1361 <LI>MOUSE_BTN1 (Right button)</LI>
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parents: 6970
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1362 <LI>MOUSE_BTN2 (Middle button)</LI>
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diego
parents: 6970
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1363 <LI>MOUSE_BTN3 (Wheel)</LI>
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diego
parents: 6970
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1364 <LI>MOUSE_BTN4 (Wheel)</LI>
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diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1365 <LI>...</LI>
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parents: 6970
diff changeset
1366 <LI>MOUSE_BTN9</LI>
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diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1367 </UL>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1368
7099
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7093
diff changeset
1369 <H4>Joystick (support must be enabled at compile time):</H4>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1370
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a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1371 <UL>
6974
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diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1372 <LI>JOY_RIGHT or JOY_AXIS0_PLUS</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1373 <LI>JOY_LEFT or JOY_AXIS0_MINUS</LI>
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diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1374 <LI>JOY_UP or JOY_AXIS1_MINUS</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1375 <LI>JOY_DOWN or JOY_AXIS1_PLUS</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1376 <LI>JOY_AXIS2_PLUS</LI>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1377 <LI>JOY_AXIS2_MINUS</LI>
7099
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7093
diff changeset
1378 <LI>...</LI>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1379 <LI>JOY_AXIS9_PLUS</LI>
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diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1380 <LI>JOY_AXIS9_MINUS</LI>
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a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1381 </UL>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1382
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1383
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1384 <H4><A NAME="commands">3.2.1.2 Commands</A></H4>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1385
6493
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1386 <P>You can have a full list of known commands by running "mplayer -input cmdlist"</P>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1387
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1388 <UL>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1389 <LI><B>seek</B> (int) val [(int) type=0]
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1390 <P>Seek to some place in the movie.<BR>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1391 Type 0 is a relative seek of +/- val seconds.<BR>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1392 Type 1 seek to val % in the movie.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1393 <LI><B>audio_delay</B> (float) val
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1394 <P>Adjust the audio delay of val seconds</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1395 <LI><B>quit</B>
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1396 <P>Quit MPlayer</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1397 <LI><B>pause</B>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1398 <P>Pause/unpause the playback</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1399 <LI><B>grap_frames</B>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1400 <P>Somebody know ?</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1401 <LI><B>pt_step</B> (int) val [(int) force=0]
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1402 <P>Go to next/previous entry in playtree. Val sign tell the direction.<BR>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1403 If no other entry is available in the given direction it won't do anything
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1404 unless force is non 0.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1405 <LI><B>pt_up_step</B> (int) val [(int) force=0]
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1406 <P>Like pt_step but it jump to next/previous in the parent list. It's useful
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1407 to break inner loop in the playtree.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1408 <LI><B>alt_src_step</B> (int) val
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1409 <P>When more than one source is available it select the next/previous one
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1410 (only supported by asx playlist).</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1411 <LI><B>sub_delay</B> (float) val [(int) abs=0]
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1412 <P>Adjust the subtitles delay of +/- val seconds or set it to val seconds
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1413 when abs is non zero.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1414 <LI><B>osd</B> [(int) level=-1]
7076
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1415 <P>Toggle osd mode or set it to level when level &gt; 0.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1416 <LI><B>volume</B> (int) dir
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1417 <P>Increase/decrease volume</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1418 <LI><B>contrast</B> (int) val [(int) abs=0]</LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1419 <LI><B>brightness</B> (int) val [(int) abs=0]</LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1420 <LI><B>hue</B> (int) val [(int) abs=0]</LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1421 <LI><B>saturation</B> (int) val [(int) abs=0]
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1422 <P>Set/Adjust video parameters. Val range from -100 to 100.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1423 <LI><B>frame_drop</B> [(int) type=-1]
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1424 <P>Toggle/Set frame dropping mode.</P></LI>
7628
d6608342591d This patch adds the functionality to disable/enable subtitles while playing
arpi
parents: 7455
diff changeset
1425 <LI><B>sub_visibility</B>
d6608342591d This patch adds the functionality to disable/enable subtitles while playing
arpi
parents: 7455
diff changeset
1426 <P>Toggle subtitle visibility.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1427 <LI><B>sub_pos</B> (int) val
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1428 <P>Adjust subtitles position.</P></LI>
8548
b29982e68d8c Subtitle usage updated by hephooey@fastmail.fm.
diego
parents: 8474
diff changeset
1429 <LI><B>vobsub_lang</B>
b29982e68d8c Subtitle usage updated by hephooey@fastmail.fm.
diego
parents: 8474
diff changeset
1430 <P>Change the language of VobSub subtitles.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1431 <LI><B>vo_fullscreen</B>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1432 <P>Switch fullscreen mode.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1433 <LI><B>tv_step_channel</B> (int) dir
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1434 <P>Select next/previous tv channel.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1435 <LI><B>tv_step_norm</B>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1436 <P>Change TV norm.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1437 <LI><B>tv_step_chanlist</B>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1438 <P>Change channel list.</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1439 <LI><B>gui_loadfile</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1440 <LI><B>gui_loadsubtitle</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1441 <LI><B>gui_about</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1442 <LI><B>gui_play</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1443 <LI><B>gui_stop</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1444 <LI><B>gui_playlist</B></LI>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1445 <LI><B>gui_preferences</B></LI>
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1446 <LI><B>gui_skinbrowser</B>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1447 <P>GUI actions</P></LI>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1448 </UL>
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1449
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1450
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1451 <H3><A NAME="lirc">3.2.2 Control from LIRC</A></H3>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1452
2848
33c32f3d9f1f many small updates, fixes (some/more to be completed soon)
gabucino
parents: 2761
diff changeset
1453 <P>Linux Infrared Remote Control - use an easy to build home-brewn IR-receiver,
6998
83a386e88f9e Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday at varoshaza . nagyatad . hu>
diego
parents: 6981
diff changeset
1454 an (almost) arbitrary remote control and control your Linux box with it!
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1455 More about it at <A HREF="http://www.lirc.org">www.lirc.org</A>.</P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1456
5969
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1457 <P>If you have installed the lirc-package, configure will autodetect it. If
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1458 everything went fine, MPlayer will print a message like "Setting up
5969
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1459 lirc support..." on startup. If an error occurs it will tell you. If it
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1460 doesn't tell you anything about LIRC there's no support compiled in. That's
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1461 it :-)</P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1462
7942
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1463 <P>The application name for MPlayer is - oh wonder - <CODE>mplayer</CODE>.
5969
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1464 You can use any mplayer commands and even pass more than one command by
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1465 separating them with \n. Don't forget to enable the repeat flag in .lircrc
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1466 when it make sense (seek, volume, etc). Here's an excerpt from my
f9860f0594ae Arpi Is Right(TM)
gabucino
parents: 5968
diff changeset
1467 .lircrc:</P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1468
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1469 <PRE>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1470 begin
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1471 button = VOLUME_PLUS
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1472 prog = mplayer
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1473 config = volume 1
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1474 repeat = 1
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1475 end
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1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1476
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1477 begin
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1478 button = VOLUME_MINUS
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1479 prog = mplayer
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1480 config = volume -1
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1481 repeat = 1
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1482 end
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1483
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1484 begin
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1485 button = CD_PLAY
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1486 prog = mplayer
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1487 config = pause
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1488 end
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1489
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1490 begin
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1491 button = CD_STOP
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1492 prog = mplayer
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1493 config = seek 0 1\npause
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1494 end
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a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
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1495 </PRE>
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gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1496
2848
33c32f3d9f1f many small updates, fixes (some/more to be completed soon)
gabucino
parents: 2761
diff changeset
1497 <P>If you don't like the standard location for the lirc-config file (~/.lircrc)
6960
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1498 use the -lircconf &lt;filename&gt; switch to specify another file.</P>
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gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1499
6493
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1500
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1501 <H3><A NAME="slave">3.2.3 Slave mode</A></H3>
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1502
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1503 <P>The slave mode allow you to build simple frontend to MPlayer. When
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1504 enabled (with the <CODE>-slave</CODE> switch) MPlayer will read
6593
a2937bae0651 Expanded RTC section. It now explains how to allow RTC via /proc on newer
diego
parents: 6583
diff changeset
1505 commands separated by new line (\n) from stdin.</P>
6493
c4109cc97fe0 input dox fixed, cosmetixed
gabucino
parents: 6468
diff changeset
1506
5850
1b1943b3d987 input/lirc/slavemode doc by Albeu
arpi
parents: 5826
diff changeset
1507
7047
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1508 <H2><A NAME="streaming">3.3 Streaming from network or pipes</A></H2>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1509
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1510 <P>MPlayer can play files from network, using the HTTP, MMS or RTSP/RTP
7813
76940a39405a RTSP/RTP documentation, patch by Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com>.
diego
parents: 7792
diff changeset
1511 protocol.</P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1512
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gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1513 <P>Playing goes by simply using adding the URL to the command line.
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1514 MPlayer also honors the http_proxy environment variable, and uses
6960
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1515 proxy if available. Proxy usage can also be forced:</P>
4153
2bb77282b2a6 streaming with proxy
gabucino
parents: 4135
diff changeset
1516
5105
3411814cc3e5 a "few" "small" "fixes" ...
arpi
parents: 5096
diff changeset
1517 <P><CODE>mplayer http_proxy://proxy.micorsops.com:3128/http://micorsops.com:80/stream.asf</CODE></P>
2001
05189dbfb847 more fixes
gabucino
parents: 1994
diff changeset
1518
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1519 <P>MPlayer can read from stdin (NOT named pipes). This can be for example
6960
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gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1520 used to play from FTP:</P>
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1521
6583
4b7d097a9c69 big update
gabucino
parents: 6574
diff changeset
1522 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;wget ftp://micorsops.com/something.avi -O - | mplayer -</CODE></P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1523
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gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1524 <P>Note: it's also recommended to enable CACHE when playback from network:</P>
6868
f6e17d2b448e The rectangle of the rectangle plugin is not necessarily white.
diego
parents: 6849
diff changeset
1525
6583
4b7d097a9c69 big update
gabucino
parents: 6574
diff changeset
1526 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;wget ftp://micorsops.com/something.avi -O - | mplayer -cache 8192 -</CODE></P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1527
6496
9c4fb5264e43 more fix
gabucino
parents: 6493
diff changeset
1528
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1529
7076
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1530 <H1><A NAME="faq">4.</A> <A HREF="faq.html">FAQ section</A></H1>
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1531
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1532
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1533
3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
diego
parents: 7061
diff changeset
1534 <H1><A NAME="cd/dvd">5.</A> <A HREF="cd-dvd.html">CD/DVD section</A></H1>
7047
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1535
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1536
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1537
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1538 <H1><A NAME="ports">6. Ports</A></H1>
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1539
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1540
8636
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1541 <H2><A NAME="linux">6.1 Linux</A></H2>
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1542
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1543 <P>The main development platform is Linux on x86, altough MPlayer works on many
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1544 other Linux ports.</P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1545
8636
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1546
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1547 <H3><A NAME="debian">6.1.1 Debian packaging</A></H3>
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1548
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1549 <P>To build a Debian package, run the following command in the MPlayer source
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1550 directory:</P>
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1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1551
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1552 <PRE>
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1553 fakeroot debian/rules binary
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1554 </PRE>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1555
8636
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1556 <P>As root you can then install the <CODE>.deb</CODE> package as usual:</P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1557
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1558 <PRE>
8636
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1559 dpkg -i ../mplayer_&lt;version&gt;.deb
6436
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1560 </PRE>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1561
8636
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1562 <P>Christian Marillat has been making unofficial Debian MPlayer, MEncoder and
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1563 font packages for a while, you can (apt-)get them from his
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1564 <A HREF="http://marillat.free.fr/">homepage</A>. These packages are highly
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1565 unofficial, however, as Christian made and redistributed these packages when
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1566 MPlayer was still not fully GPLed and
8639
f18ef6a69b27 Small grammar improvement (missing "was").
rathann
parents: 8636
diff changeset
1567 <A HREF="users_against_developers.html#binary">binary redistribution</A> was
8636
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1568 not allowed. Christian ignored requests to stop redistributing his packages,
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1569 which caused bad blood with MPlayer developers. Binary redistribution is not
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1570 a problem anymore, but we <B>do not support</B> these packages!</P>
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1571
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1572
8636
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1573 <H3><A NAME="rpm">6.1.2 RPM packaging</A></H3>
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1574
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1575 <P>Dominik Mierzejewski created and maintains official Red Hat RPM packages of
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1576 MPlayer. They are available from his
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1577 <A HREF="http://www.piorunek.pl/~dominik/linux/pkgs/mplayer/">homepage</A>.
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1578 Please read the instructions there and report problems to him, not us.</P>
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1579
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1580 <P>There are other RPM versions (SuSE now includes MPlayer in their official
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1581 distribution, Mandrake packages are available from the
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1582 <A HREF="http://plf.zarb.org/">P.L.F</A>) of MPlayer, but none of them is
db4a1b1254cb Linux ports section reworked, RPM section added, based on a patch by Alex.
diego
parents: 8635
diff changeset
1583 officially supported.</P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1584
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1585
7942
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1586 <H2><A NAME="bsd">6.2 *BSD</A></H2>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1587
8079
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
diego
parents: 8070
diff changeset
1588 <P>MPlayer runs on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, BSD/OS and Darwin. There are
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
diego
parents: 8070
diff changeset
1589 ports/pkgsrc/fink/etc versions of MPlayer available that are probably easier
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
diego
parents: 8070
diff changeset
1590 to use than our raw sources.</P>
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
diego
parents: 8070
diff changeset
1591
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
diego
parents: 8070
diff changeset
1592 <P>To build MPlayer you will need GNU make (gmake - native BSD make will not
714d18011757 Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
diego
parents: 8070
diff changeset
1593 work) and a recent version of binutils.</P>
7942
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1594
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1595 <P>If MPlayer complains about not finding <CODE>/dev/cdrom</CODE> or
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1596 <CODE>/dev/dvd</CODE>, create an appropiate symbolic link:<BR>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1597 <CODE>ln -s /dev/(your_cdrom_device) /dev/cdrom</CODE>.</P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1598
7942
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1599 <P>To use Win32 DLLs with MPlayer you will need to re-compile the kernel with
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1600 "<CODE>option USER_LDT</CODE>" (unless you run FreeBSD -CURRENT, where this
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1601 is the default).</P>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1602
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1603 <H3><A NAME="freebsd">6.2.1 FreeBSD</A></H3>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1604
7942
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1605 <P>If your CPU has SSE, recompile your kernel with "options CPU_ENABLE_SSE" to
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1606 use it (FreeBSD-STABLE or kernel patches required).</P>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1607
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1608 <H3><A NAME="openbsd">6.2.2 OpenBSD</A></H3>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1609
7942
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1610 <P>Due to limitations in different versions of gas (relocation vs MMX), you will
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1611 need to compile in two steps: First make sure that the non-native as is first
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1612 in your <CODE>$PATH</CODE> and do a <CODE>gmake -k</CODE>, then make sure that
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1613 the native version is used and do <CODE>gmake</CODE>.</P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1614
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1615
7047
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7043
diff changeset
1616 <H2><A NAME="solaris">6.3 Solaris</A></H2>
1688
5fd4e5a76468 *** empty log message ***
gabucino
parents: 1686
diff changeset
1617
5fd4e5a76468 *** empty log message ***
gabucino
parents: 1686
diff changeset
1618 <P>MPlayer should work on Solaris 2.6 or newer.</P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1619
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1620 <P>On <B>UltraSPARC</B>s, MPlayer takes advantage of their <B>VIS</B>
6960
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gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1621 extensions (equivalent to MMX), currently only in <I>libmpeg2</I>,
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1622 <I>libvo</I> and <I>libavcodec</I>, but not in mp3lib. You can watch a VOB
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1623 file on a 400MHz CPU. You'll need
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1624 <A HREF="http://www.sun.com/sparc/vis/mediaLib.html">mLib</A> installed.</P>
1731
07e2dfca67a3 can't stop commiting :)
gabucino
parents: 1716
diff changeset
1625
1682
dba45a1aafad *** empty log message ***
gabucino
parents: 1668
diff changeset
1626 <P>To build the package you will need GNU make (gmake, /opt/sfw/gmake), native
6960
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1627 Solaris make will not work. Typical error you get when building with Solaris'
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1628 make instead of GNU make:</P>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1629
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a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1630 <PRE>
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1631 % /usr/ccs/bin/make
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1632 make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 25: Unexpected end of line seen
a2eb6f519855 Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1633 </PRE>
1612
1b011d6150c7 new, splitted, etc dox
gabucino
parents:
diff changeset
1634
1682
dba45a1aafad *** empty log message ***
gabucino
parents: 1668
diff changeset
1635 <P>On Solaris SPARC, you need the GNU C/C++ Compiler; it does not matter
6960
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1636 if GNU C/C++ compiler is configured with or without the GNU assembler.</P>
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1637
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1638 <P>On Solaris x86, you need the GNU assembler and the GNU C/C++ compiler,
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1639 configured to use the GNU assembler! The mplayer code on the x86 platform
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1640 makes heavy use of MMX, SSE and 3DNOW! instructions that cannot be compiled
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1641 using Sun's assembler <CODE>/usr/ccs/bin/as</CODE>.</P>
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1642
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1643 <P>The configure script tries to find out, which assembler program is used by
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6950
diff changeset
1644 your "gcc" command (in case the autodetection fails, use the
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
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1645 <CODE>--as=/whereever/you/have/installed/gnu-as</CODE> option to tell the
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1646 configure script where it can find GNU "as" on your system).</P>
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1648 <P>Error message from configure on a Solaris x86 system using GCC
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1649 without GNU assembler:</P>
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1651 <PRE>
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1652 % configure
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1653 ...
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1654 Checking assembler (/usr/ccs/bin/as) ... , failed
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1655 Please upgrade(downgrade) binutils to 2.10.1...
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1656 </PRE>
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1657
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1658 <P>(Solution: Install and use a gcc configured with "--with-as=gas")</P>
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1659
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1660 <P>Typical error you get when building with a GNU C compiler that does
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1661 not use GNU as:</P>
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1662
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1663 <PRE>
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1664 % gmake
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1665 ...
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1666 gcc -c -Iloader -Ilibvo -O4 -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -ffast-math
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1667 -fomit-frame-pointer -I/usr/local/include -o mplayer.o mplayer.c
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1668 Assembler: mplayer.c
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1669 "(stdin)", line 3567 : Illegal mnemonic
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1670 "(stdin)", line 3567 : Syntax error
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1671 ... more "Illegal mnemonic" and "Syntax error" errors ...
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1672 </PRE>
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1673
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1674 <P>For DVD support you must have the patched libcss installed. Patch:
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1675 <A HREF="http://www.tools.de/solaris/mplayer/">http://www.tools.de/solaris/mplayer/</A>.</P>
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1676
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1677 <P>Due to two bugs in Solaris 8 x86, you cannot reliably play DVD discs larger
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1678 than 4 GB:</P>
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1679
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1680 <UL>
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1681 <LI>The sd(7D) driver on Solaris 8 x86 driver has bug when accessing a disk
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1682 block &gt;4GB on a device using a logical blocksize != DEV_BSIZE (i.e. CD-ROM
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1683 and DVD media). Due to a 32Bit int overflow, a disk address modulo 4GB is
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1684 accessed.
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1685 (<A HREF="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22516">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22516</A>)
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1686 </LI>
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1687 <LI>A similar bug is present in the hsfs(7FS) filesystem code (aka
83a386e88f9e Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday at varoshaza . nagyatad . hu>
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diff changeset
1688 ISO9660), hsfs currently does not support partitions/disks larger than 4GB, all data
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1689 is accessed modulo 4GB.
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1690 (<A HREF="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22592">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22592</A>)
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1691 </LI>
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1692 </UL>
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1693
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1694 <P>On Solaris with an UltraSPARC CPU, you can get some extra speed by
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1695 using the CPU's VIS instructions for certain time consuming operations.
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1696 VIS acceleration can be used in MPlayer by calling functions in Sun's
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1697 <A HREF="http://www.sun.com/sparc/vis/mediaLib.html">mediaLib</A>.</P>
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1698
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1699 <P>VIS accelerated operations from mediaLib are used for mpeg2 video
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1700 decoding and for color space conversion in the video output drivers.</P>
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1701
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1702
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1703 <H2><A NAME="strongarm">6.4 StrongARM</A></H2>
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1704
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1705 <P>MPlayer is reported to compile on StrongARM. Use the following command line:</P>
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1706
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1707 <PRE>
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1708 ./configure --target=arm-linux --disable-css --with-x11libdir=/usr/arm/lib
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1709 --with-x11incdir=/usr/arm/lib --disable-gcc-checking
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1710 </PRE>
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1711
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1712
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1713 <H2><A NAME="sgi">6.5 Silicon Graphics / IRIX</A></H2>
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1714
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1715 <P>You can either try to install the GNU install program, and (if you did not
6dd42a044681 a little (my first!) patch to add some info about MPlayer on Irix 6.5 to
arpi
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1716 put it in your global path) then point to the location with:</P>
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arpi
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1717 <PRE>
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arpi
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1718 ./configure --install-path=PATH
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1719 </PRE>
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arpi
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1720 <P>Or you can use the default install delivered with IRIX 6.5 in which case you
6dd42a044681 a little (my first!) patch to add some info about MPlayer on Irix 6.5 to
arpi
parents: 8351
diff changeset
1721 will have to edit the Makefile a littlebit by hand. Change the following two
6dd42a044681 a little (my first!) patch to add some info about MPlayer on Irix 6.5 to
arpi
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diff changeset
1722 lines:</P>
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arpi
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1723 <PRE>
6dd42a044681 a little (my first!) patch to add some info about MPlayer on Irix 6.5 to
arpi
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1724 $(INSTALL) -c -m 644 DOCS/mplayer.1 $(MANDIR)/man1/mplayer.1
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arpi
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1725
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arpi
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1726 $(INSTALL) -c -m 644 etc/codecs.conf $(CONFDIR)/codecs.conf
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1727 </PRE>
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arpi
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1728 <P>to:</P>
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arpi
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1729 <PRE>
6dd42a044681 a little (my first!) patch to add some info about MPlayer on Irix 6.5 to
arpi
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diff changeset
1730 $(INSTALL) -m 644 mplayer.1 $(MANDIR)/man1/
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1731
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arpi
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diff changeset
1732 $(INSTALL) -m 644 codecs.conf $(CONFDIR)/
6dd42a044681 a little (my first!) patch to add some info about MPlayer on Irix 6.5 to
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1733 </PRE>
6dd42a044681 a little (my first!) patch to add some info about MPlayer on Irix 6.5 to
arpi
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1734 <P>And then do (from within the MPlayer source dir):</P>
6dd42a044681 a little (my first!) patch to add some info about MPlayer on Irix 6.5 to
arpi
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diff changeset
1735 <PRE>
6dd42a044681 a little (my first!) patch to add some info about MPlayer on Irix 6.5 to
arpi
parents: 8351
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1736 cp DOCS/mplayer.1 . ; cp etc/codecs.conf .
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arpi
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1737 </PRE>
6dd42a044681 a little (my first!) patch to add some info about MPlayer on Irix 6.5 to
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1738 <P>and then go on with building and installing.</P>
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1739
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1740
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1741 <H2><A NAME="qnx">6.6 QNX</A></H2>
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1742
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1743 <P>Works. You'll need to download SDL for QNX, and install it. Then run
7814
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diego
parents: 7813
diff changeset
1744 MPlayer with <CODE>-vo sdl:photon</CODE> and <CODE>-ao sdl:nto</CODE>
4500
c2be8678fdfb QNX updates
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1745 options, and it should be fast.</P>
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1746
c2be8678fdfb QNX updates
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1747 <P>The <CODE>-vo x11</CODE> output will be even slower than on Linux, since
4680
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parents: 4632
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1748 QNX has only X <I>emulation</I> which is VERY slow. Use SDL.</P>
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1749
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1750
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diego
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1751 <H2><A NAME="cygwin">6.7 Cygwin</A></H2>
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parents: 5863
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1752
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diego
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1753 <P>The Cygwin port is still in its infancy and could use some love,
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1754 <A HREF="tech/patches.txt">patches</A> are always welcome. You should also
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1755 check out the
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1756 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cygwin/">mplayer-cygwin</A>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1757 mailing list for help and latest information.</P>
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parents: 5863
diff changeset
1758
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parents: 8442
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1759 <P>To get native DirectX video (<CODE>-vo directx</CODE>), extract the
7942
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diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1760 <A HREF="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/dx7headers.tgz">DirectX 7 header files</A>
8443
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parents: 8442
diff changeset
1761 into <CODE>/usr/include/<CODE> or <CODE>/usr/local/include/<CODE> and
ac4162fbfa5f DirectX installation clarified.
diego
parents: 8442
diff changeset
1762 recompile. This, together with <CODE>-ao win32</CODE> should give you best
8332
8368a516019e small updates, ATI TV-out, -vo directx:noaccel
diego
parents: 8330
diff changeset
1763 results. If the image is distorted, try turning off hardware acceleration with
8368a516019e small updates, ATI TV-out, -vo directx:noaccel
diego
parents: 8330
diff changeset
1764 <CODE>-vo directx:noaccel</CODE>.</P>
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1765
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1766 <P>You will have to go to the MPlayer directory, and copy or symlink
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1767 <CODE>etc/cygwin_inttypes.h</CODE> to <CODE>/usr/include/inttypes.h</CODE> to
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parents: 7813
diff changeset
1768 make MPlayer compile. Otherwise it will complain about missing
8571
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parents: 8566
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1769 <CODE>inttypes.h</CODE>.</P>
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diego
parents: 6436
diff changeset
1770
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diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1771 <P>Since there is no support for Win32 DLLs under Cygwin and OpenGL and mpdvdkit
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1772 do not work/compile, you should disable them in configure with
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1773 <CODE>./configure --disable-win32 --disable-gl --disable-mpdvdkit</CODE>.</P>
b582c6fb0053 Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
diego
parents: 7814
diff changeset
1774
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diego
parents: 8177
diff changeset
1775 <P>Instructions and files for making SDL run under Cygwin can be found on the
4d948b753e9d SDL + Cygwin link added.
diego
parents: 8177
diff changeset
1776 <A HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/extras/win32/cygwin/">libsdl site</A>.</P>
4d948b753e9d SDL + Cygwin link added.
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parents: 8177
diff changeset
1777
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diego
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1778
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6970
diff changeset
1779
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parents: 7363
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1780 <H1><A NAME="mailing_lists">Appendix A - Mailing lists</A></H1>
1682
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1781
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1782 <P>There are some public mailing lists on MPlayer. Unless explicitly
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diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1783 stated otherwise the language of these lists is <B>English</B>. Please do
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
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1784 not send messages in other languages or HTML mail! Message size limit is 80k.
4a39a8bac5de Mailing list section reworded and updated. This should at some point be
diego
parents: 7699
diff changeset
1785 If you have something bigger put it up for download somewhere. Click the
7787
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attila
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diff changeset
1786 links to subscribe. On the mailing lists, the same rules about writing
7792
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1787 and quoting apply as on usenet. Please follow them, it makes the life of
a1465b7f3221 Keyboard controls and options are described in the man page, removed the
diego
parents: 7787
diff changeset
1788 those who read your mails a lot easier. If you do not know them please
7787
05e518badc1b doc fixes part 1 (more will come when i find the time to read the rest)
attila
parents: 7700
diff changeset
1789 read <A HREF="http://learn.to/edit_messages">HOWTO edit messages</A> or
05e518badc1b doc fixes part 1 (more will come when i find the time to read the rest)
attila
parents: 7700
diff changeset
1790 (if you are in a hurry)
05e518badc1b doc fixes part 1 (more will come when i find the time to read the rest)
attila
parents: 7700
diff changeset
1791 <A HREF="http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html">
05e518badc1b doc fixes part 1 (more will come when i find the time to read the rest)
attila
parents: 7700
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1792 Quoting HOWTO</A>.</P>
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1793
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1794 <UL>
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1795 <LI>MPlayer announce list:
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1796 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-announce">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-announce</A><BR>
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1797 List for MPlayer announcements. Subscribe here if you want to get
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1798 announcements about new features.</LI>
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1799 <LI>MPlayer developers list:
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1800 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng</A><BR>
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1801 This list is about MPlayer development! Talking about interface/API
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1802 changes, new libraries, code optimization, configure changes is ontopic
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1803 here. Send patches but <B>not</B> bug reports, user questions, feature
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1804 requests or flames here to keep the list traffic low.</LI>
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1805 <LI>MPlayer users list:
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1806 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users</A>
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1807 <UL>
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1808 <LI>Send bug reports here after reading the <A HREF="#known_bugs">Known Bugs</A>
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1809 and <A HREF="bugreports.html">bug reporting section</A>).</LI>
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1810 <LI>Send feature requests here (after reading the <B>whole</B>
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1811 documentation).</LI>
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1812 <LI>Send user questions here (after reading the <B>whole</B>
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1813 documentation).</LI>
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1814 </UL>
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1815 </LI>
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1816 <LI>MPlayer Hungarian users list:
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1817 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-felhasznalok">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-felhasznalok</A>
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1818 <UL>
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1819 <LI>Hungarian language list</LI>
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1820 <LI>Topic? We'll see about it... mostly flame and RTFM questions up to
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1821 now :(</LI>
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1822 </UL>
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1823 </LI>
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1824 <LI>MPlayer &amp; Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 users:
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1825 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-matrox">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-matrox</A><BR>
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1826 Matrox related questions like
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1827 <UL>
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1828 <LI>things about mga_vid</LI>
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1829 <LI>Matrox's official beta drivers (for X 4.x.x)</LI>
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1830 <LI>matroxfb-TVout stuff</LI>
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1831 </UL>
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1832 </LI>
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1833 <LI>MPlayer &amp; DVB card users:
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1834 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dvb">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dvb</A><BR>
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1835 Things related to the hardware decoder card called DVB (<B>not</B> DXR3!).
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1836 </LI>
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1837 <LI>MPlayer CVS-log:
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1838 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog</A><BR>
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1839 All changes in MPlayer code are automatically sent to this list. Only
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1840 questions about these changes belong here (if you do not understand why a
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1841 change is required or you have a better fix or you have noticed a possible
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1842 bug/problem in the commit).
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1843 </LI>
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1844 <LI>MPlayer CygWin-porting list:
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1845 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cygwin">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cygwin</A><BR>
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1846 List for discussion about MPlayer's CygWin port.
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1847 </LI>
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1848 <LI>MPlayer OS/2-porting list:
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1849 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-os2">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-os2</A><BR>
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1850 List for discussion about MPlayer's OS/2 port.
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1851 </LI>
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1852 <LI>MPlayer Weekly News' editors and translators list:
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1853 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-mwn">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-mwn</A><BR>
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1854 List for discussion about the Weekly News releases.
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1855 </LI>
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1856 </UL>
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1857
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1858 <P><B>Note:</B> You can reach the searchable mailing list archives at
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1859 <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch">http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch</A>.
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1860
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1861
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1862
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1863 <H1><A NAME="bug_reports">Appendix B</A> - <A HREF="bugreports.html">How to report bugs</A></H1>
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1864
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1865
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1866
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1867 <H1><A NAME="known_bugs">Appendix C - Known bugs</A></H1>
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1868
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1869 <P>Special system/CPU-specific bugs/problems:</P>
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1870 <UL>
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1871
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1872 <LI>SIGILL (signal 4) on P3 using 2.2.x kernels:<BR>
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1873 Problem: kernel 2.2.x doesn't have proper (working) SSE support<BR>
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1874 Solution: upgrade kernel to 2.4.x<BR>
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1875 Workaround: <CODE>./configure --disable-sse</CODE></LI>
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1876
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1877 <LI>General SIGILL (signal 4):<BR>
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1878 Problem: you compiled and run mplayer in different machines
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1879 (for example compiled on P3 and running on Celeron)<BR>
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1880 Solution: compile MPlayer on the same machine where you will use it!<BR>
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1881 Workaround: <CODE>./configure --disable-sse</CODE> etc. options</LI>
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1882
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1883 <LI>"Internal buffer inconsistency" during MEncoder run:<BR>
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1884 Problem: known problem when lame &lt; 3.90 was compiled with gcc 2.96 or 3.x.<BR>
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1885 Solution: use lame &gt;=3.90.<BR>
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1886 Workaround: compile lame with gcc 2.95.x and remove any already installed
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1887 lame packages, they may have been compiled with gcc 2.96.</LI>
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1888
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1889 <LI>Messed up MP2/MP3 sound on PPC:<BR>
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1890 Problem: known GCC miscompilation bug on PPC platforms, no fix yet.<BR>
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1891 Workaround: use FFmpeg's (slow) MP1/MP2/MP3 decoder (<CODE>-ac ffmpeg</CODE>)</LI>
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1892
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1893 <LI>sig11 in libmpeg2, when scaling+encoding:<BR>
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1894 Problem: known GCC 2.95.2 MMX bug, upgrade to 2.95.3.</LI>
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1895 </UL>
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1896
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1897 <P>Various A-V sync and other audio problems:</P>
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1898
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1899 General audio delay or jerky sound (exists with all or many files):
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1900 <UL>
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1901 <LI>most common: buggy audio driver! - try to use different drivers, try
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1902 ALSA 0.9 OSS emulation with -ao oss, also try -ao sdl, sometimes it helps.
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1903 If your file plays fine with -nosound, then you can be sure it's sound card
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1904 (driver) problem.</LI>
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1905 <LI>audio buffer problems (buffer size badly detected)<BR>
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1906 Workaround: mplayer -abs option</LI>
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1907 <LI>samplerate problems - maybe your card doesn't support the samplerate
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1908 used in your files - try the resampling plugin (-aop)</LI>
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1909 <LI>slow machine (CPU or VGA)<BR>
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1910 try with -vo null, if it plays well, then you have slow VGA card/driver<BR>
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1911 Workaround: buy a faster card or read this documentation about how to speed up<BR>
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1912 Also try -framedrop</LI>
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1913 </UL>
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1914
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1915 Audio delay/de-sync specific to one or a few files:
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1916 <UL>
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1917 <LI>bad file<BR>
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1918 Workaround:
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1919 <UL>
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1920 <LI>-ni or -nobps option (for non-interleaved or bad files)<BR>
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1921 and/or</LI>
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1922 <LI>-mc 0 (required for files with badly interleaved VBR audio)<BR>
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1923 and/or</LI>
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1924 <LI>-delay option or +/- keys at runtime to adjust delay</LI>
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1925 </UL>
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1926 If none of these help, please upload the file, we'll check (and fix).
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1927 </LI>
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1928 <LI>your sound card doesn't support 48kHz playback<BR>
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1929 Workaround: buy a better sound card... or try to decrease fps by 10% (use
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1930 -fps 27 for a 30fps movie) or use the resampler plugin</LI>
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1931 <LI>slow machine<BR>
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1932 (if A-V is not around 0, and the last number in the status line increasing)<BR>
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1933 Workaround: -framedrop</LI>
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1934 </UL>
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1935
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1936 No sound at all:
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1937 <UL>
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1938 <LI>your file uses an unsupported audio codec<BR>
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1939 Workaround: read the documentation and help us adding support for it</LI>
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1940 </UL>
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1941
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1942 No picture at all (just plain grey/green window):
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1943 <UL>
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1944 <LI>your file uses an unsupported video codec<BR>
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1945 Workaround: read the documentation and help us adding support for it</LI>
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1946 <LI>auto-selected codec can't decode the file, try to select another using -vc
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1947 or -vfm options</LI>
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1948 <LI>you try to play DivX 3.x file with OpenDivX decoder or XviD (-vc odivx)
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1949 - install Divx4Linux and recompile player</LI>
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1950 </UL>
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1951
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1952 <P>Video-out problems:</P>
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1953
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1954 <P>First note: options -fs -vm and -zoom are just recommendations, not (yet)
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1955 supported by all drivers. So it isn't a bug if it doesn't work.
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1956 Only a few driver supports scaling/zooming, don't expect this from x11 or dga.</P>
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1957
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1958 <P>OSD/sub flickering:<BR>
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1959 - x11 driver: sorry, it can't be fixed now<BR>
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1960 - xv driver: use -double option</P>
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1961
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1962 <P>Green image using mga_vid (-vo mga / -vo xmga):<BR>
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1963 - mga_vid misdetected your card's RAM amount, reload it using mga_ram_size option</P>
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1967 <H1><A NAME="skin">Appendix D</A> - <A HREF="skin-en.html">MPlayer skin format</A></H1>
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1971 <H1><A NAME="flame_wars">Appendix E</A> - <A HREF="users_against_developers.html">Developer Cries</A></H1>
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1974 </BODY>
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1975 </HTML>