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    another option is to start MPlayer with artsdsp.</DD>
  <DD>&nbsp;</DD>

  <DT>Q: I have an AVI that produces a gray screen when played with
    <CODE>-vc odivx</CODE> and a green one with <CODE>-vc divx4</CODE>.</DT>
  <DD>A: It's not a DivX file, but an M$ MPEG4v3 . Update your codecs.conf.</DD>
  <DD>&nbsp;</DD>

  <DT>Q: When I play this movie I get video-audio desync and/or MPlayer crashes
    with the following message:<BR>
    <CODE>DEMUXER: Too many (945 in 8390980 bytes) video packets in the buffer!</CODE></DT>

  <DT>Q: I get very strange percentage values (way too big) while playing files
    on my notebook.</DT>
  <DD>A: It's an effect of the power management / power saving system of your
    notebook (BIOS, not kernel). Plug the external power connector in
    <B>before</B> you power on your notebook. You can also try whether
    <A HREF="http://www.brodo.de/cpufreq">cpufreq</A> (a SpeedStep interface
    for Linux) helps you.</DD>
  <DD>&nbsp;</DD>

  <DT>Q: The audio/video gets totally out of sync when I run MPlayer as root on
    my notebook. It works normal when i run it as a user.</DT>

<DL>

  <DT>Q: What about DVD navigation?</DT>
  <DD>A: Support for dvdnav in MPlayer is currently broken, normal playback
    does work, though. If you want to have fancy menus, you will have to use
    another player like <A HREF="http://xine.sourceforge.net/">xine</A> or
    <A HREF="http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd">Ogle</A>. If you care
    about DVD navigation, send a <A HREF="tech/patches.txt">patch</A>.</DD>
  <DD>&nbsp;</DD>

  <DT>Q: While playing a DVD, I encountered this error:<BR>
    <CODE>mplayer: ifo_read.c:1143: ifoRead_C_ADT_internal: Assertion

  <DT>Q: Where can I get libdvdread and libdvdcss packages?</DT>
  <DD>A: You don't need to. Use <B>libmpdvdkit2</B>, which is present in the
    MPlayer source, and used by default. You can get the mentioned packages
    from the
    <A HREF="http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd">Ogle site</A>.</DD>
  <DD>&nbsp;</DD>

  <DT>Q: Is it possible to play/encode only selected chapters?</DT>
  <DD>A: Yes, try the <CODE>-chapter</CODE> option.</DD>
  <DD>&nbsp;</DD>

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    another option is to start MPlayer with artsdsp.</DD>
  <DD>&nbsp;</DD>

  <DT>Q: I have an AVI that produces a gray screen when played with
    <CODE>-vc odivx</CODE> and a green one with <CODE>-vc divx4</CODE>.</DT>
  <DD>A: It's not a DivX file, but an M$ MPEG4v3. Update your codecs.conf.</DD>
  <DD>&nbsp;</DD>

  <DT>Q: When I play this movie I get video-audio desync and/or MPlayer crashes
    with the following message:<BR>
    <CODE>DEMUXER: Too many (945 in 8390980 bytes) video packets in the buffer!</CODE></DT>

  <DT>Q: I get very strange percentage values (way too big) while playing files
    on my notebook.</DT>
  <DD>A: It's an effect of the power management / power saving system of your
    notebook (BIOS, not kernel). Plug the external power connector in
    <B>before</B> you power on your notebook. You can also try whether
    <A HREF="http://www.brodo.de/cpufreq/">cpufreq</A> (a SpeedStep interface
    for Linux) helps you.</DD>
  <DD>&nbsp;</DD>

  <DT>Q: The audio/video gets totally out of sync when I run MPlayer as root on
    my notebook. It works normal when i run it as a user.</DT>

<DL>

  <DT>Q: What about DVD navigation?</DT>
  <DD>A: Support for dvdnav in MPlayer is currently broken, normal playback
    does work, though. If you want to have fancy menus, you will have to use
    another player like <A HREF="http://xine.sourceforge.net">xine</A> or
    <A HREF="http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/">Ogle</A>. If you care
    about DVD navigation, send a <A HREF="tech/patches.txt">patch</A>.</DD>
  <DD>&nbsp;</DD>

  <DT>Q: While playing a DVD, I encountered this error:<BR>
    <CODE>mplayer: ifo_read.c:1143: ifoRead_C_ADT_internal: Assertion

  <DT>Q: Where can I get libdvdread and libdvdcss packages?</DT>
  <DD>A: You don't need to. Use <B>libmpdvdkit2</B>, which is present in the
    MPlayer source, and used by default. You can get the mentioned packages
    from the
    <A HREF="http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/">Ogle site</A>.</DD>
  <DD>&nbsp;</DD>

  <DT>Q: Is it possible to play/encode only selected chapters?</DT>
  <DD>A: Yes, try the <CODE>-chapter</CODE> option.</DD>
  <DD>&nbsp;</DD>