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big review ! (translators curse me:)

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MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX. It plays most mpeg, avi and asf files,
supported by many native and win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VCD, DVD and
even DivX movies too. The another big feature of mplayer is the wide range
of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib,
fbdev, but you can use SDL (and this way all drivers of SDL) and some 
lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox/3dfx/SiS) too! Most of them
supports software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen.
And what about the nice big antialiased shaded subtitles (.sub files) with
hungarian, english, cyrillic, czech, korean fonts, and OSD?

- MPlayer v0.17 "The IdegCounter"
  The release version of the 0.11pre after 4 months of heavy development!
  Try it, and be amazed! Thousands of new features added... and of course
  old code was improved too, bugs removed etc.

As you see, I didn't write any codecs, just some players. But I spent
a lot of time finding the best way to parse bad damaged input files
(both mpg and avi) and to do perfect A-V sync with seeking ability.
My player is rock solid playing damaged mpeg files (useful for some VCDs),
and it plays bad AVI files which are unplayable with the famous
windows media player. Even AVI files without index chunk are playable!
As you see, stability and quality are the most important things for me,
speed has lower priority, but is still very important.

What about the GUI?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I'm not a GUI programmer. I hate GUIs, I like the pure black 80x25 console.
So the player has only keyboard control from the controlling console/xterm now.
But there is a GUI development for the player, coordinated by Pontscho/Fresh!
It's still under development, but it will be merged and released soon.
BTW he needs some nice skins, if you are a good graphician, contact him!!!

Supported input formats:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- VCD (Video CD) directly from CD-ROM or from CDRwin's .bin image file

- AC3 dolby audio
- Voxware audio
- alaw, msgsm, pcm and other simple old audio formats

If you have a codec not listed here, and not supported yet, just
read DOCS/CODECS to get info about its status or about
how to help us adding support for it!

Supported video output devices:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
General:
- x11:	X11 with SHM extension

- fsdga:X11 DGA extension with fullscreen scaling (only 24/32bpp and MPEG!)
- fbdev:Output to general framebuffers
- svga: Output to SVGAlib
- sdl:	SDL >= v1.1.7 driver (supports software scaling, and versions >=1.1.8
        even support Xvideo (thus hardware rendering) and with >=1.2.0 aalib)

Card specific:
- mga:	Matrox G200/G400 hardware YUV overlay via the mga_vid device
- xmga:	Matrox G200/G400 overlay (mga_vid) in X11 window
	(Xv emulation on X 3.3.x !)

NOTE: check DOCS/SOUNDCARDS for details!

Speed:
~~~~~~
Most of time-critical parts are optimized for MMX/MMXext/SSE/3DNow!.
You can improve rendering speed by setting up MTRR registers, see doc in MTRR.
Some *old* benchmark results can be found in the doc file SPEED.

Usage:
~~~~~~

Mailing lists:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There are some public mailing lists on MPlayer. Subscribing can be achieved on
the following addresses:

- MPlayer users list:  (send your ideas, bugreports, feature requests here)
	http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-users

- MPlayer & Matrox G200/G400/G450 users: (about TV-out, mga_vid, syncfb, Xv)
	http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-matrox

- MPlayer developers list:  (send your patches here)
	http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng

- MPlayer announce:    (information about new releases or big changes in CVS)
	http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-announce

- MPlayer CVS-log:     (announce about _every_ CVS commit)
	http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog

NOTE: language of above lists are ENGLISH. Please do not send there
      messages using other language!

License:                                                                     
~~~~~~~~
Since MPlayer incorporates a lot of code from other projects, this isn't
decided yet. We're going for GPL (will be pretty hard, though).

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~~~~~~
MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX. It plays most mpeg, avi and asf files,
supported by many native and win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VCD, DVD and
even DivX movies too. The another big feature of mplayer is the wide range
of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib,
fbdev, AAlib, but you can use SDL (and this way all drivers of SDL) and some 
lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox/3dfx/SiS) too! Most of them
supports software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen.
And what about the nice big antialiased shaded subtitles (.sub files) with
hungarian, english, cyrillic, czech, korean fonts, and OSD?

- MPlayer v0.17 "The IdegCounter"
  The release version of the 0.11pre after 4 months of heavy development!
  Try it, and be amazed! Thousands of new features added... and of course
  old code was improved too, bugs removed etc.

As you see, I didn't write any codecs, just some players. Instead I spent
a lot of time finding the best way to parse bad damaged input files
(both mpg and avi) and to do perfect A-V sync with seeking ability.
My player is rock solid playing damaged mpeg files (useful for some VCDs),
and it plays bad AVI files which are unplayable with the famous
windows media player. Even AVI files without index chunk are playable, and
you can rebuild their indexes with the -idx option, thus enabling seeking!
As you see, stability and quality are the most important things for me,
speed has lower priority, but is still very important.

What about the GUI?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I'm not a GUI programmer. I hate GUIs, I like the pure black 80x25 console.
So the player has only keyboard control from the controlling console/xterm now.
But there is a GUI development for the player, coordinated by Pontscho/Fresh!
It's still under development, but it will be merged and released real soon.
BTW he needs some nice skins, if you are a good graphician, contact him!!!

Supported input formats:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- VCD (Video CD) directly from CD-ROM or from CDRwin's .bin image file

- AC3 dolby audio
- Voxware audio
- alaw, msgsm, pcm and other simple old audio formats

If you have a codec not listed here, and not supported yet, just
read http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/DOCS/codecs.html and DOCS/CODECS
to get info about its status and about how to help us adding support for it!

Supported video output devices:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
General:
- x11:	X11 with SHM extension

- fsdga:X11 DGA extension with fullscreen scaling (only 24/32bpp and MPEG!)
- fbdev:Output to general framebuffers
- svga: Output to SVGAlib
- sdl:	SDL >= v1.1.7 driver (supports software scaling, and versions >=1.1.8
        even support Xvideo (thus hardware rendering) and with >=1.2.0 aalib)
- aalib:Textmode rendering (through SDL, native driver is coming soon!)

Card specific:
- mga:	Matrox G200/G400 hardware YUV overlay via the mga_vid device
- xmga:	Matrox G200/G400 overlay (mga_vid) in X11 window
	(Xv emulation on X 3.3.x !)

NOTE: check DOCS/SOUNDCARDS for details!

Speed:
~~~~~~
Most of time-critical parts are optimized for MMX/MMXext/SSE/3DNow!/3Dnow!Ex.
You can improve rendering speed by setting up MTRR registers, see doc in MTRR.
Some *old* benchmark results can be found in the doc file SPEED.

Usage:
~~~~~~

Mailing lists:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There are some public mailing lists on MPlayer. Subscribing can be achieved on
the following addresses:

- MPlayer core/hungarian developers list:  (HUNGARIAN language ONLY!)
	http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-devel

- MPlayer developers list:  (send your patches here)
	http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng

- MPlayer users list:  (send your ideas, bugreports, feature requests here)
	http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-users

- MPlayer & Matrox G200/G400/G450 users: (about TV-out, mga_vid, syncfb, Xv)
	http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-matrox

- MPlayer announce:    (information about new releases or big changes in CVS)
	http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-announce

- MPlayer CVS-log:     (announce about _every_ CVS commit)
	http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog

NOTE: language of above lists are ENGLISH, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
      Please do not send messages using other language!

License:                                                                     
~~~~~~~~
Since MPlayer incorporates a lot of code from other projects, this isn't
decided yet. We're going for GPL (will be pretty hard, though).