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<P><B><A NAME=1.1>1.1. Overview</A></B></P>

<P><B>MPlayer</B> is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices, and
<B>non-x86</B> CPUs, see <A HREF="#6">section 6</A>). It plays most MPEG, VOB,
AVI, VIVO, ASF/WMV, QT/MOV, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ files,
supported by many native, XAnim, and
Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch <B>VideoCD</B>, <B>SVCD</B>, <B>DVD</B>,
<B>3ivx</B>, and even <B>DivX</B> movies too (and you don't need the avifile
library at all!). The another big feature of mplayer is the wide range of
supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev,
AAlib, DirectFB, but you can use GGI and SDL (and this way all their drivers)

decoder boards, such as the <B><A HREF="DVB">DVB</A></B> and <B> <A
HREF="DXR3">DXR3/Hollywood+</A></B> ! And what about the nice big antialiased
shaded subtitles (<B>10 supported types!!!</B>) with european/ISO 8859-1,2
(hungarian, english, czech, etc), cyrillic, korean fonts, and OSD?</P>

<P><B>MPlayer</B> is basically GPL, but contains some non-GPL code which is not
allowed to be distributed in binary form, and also contains the OpenDivX
library which has special license. We are still developing towards GPL.</P>

<P>Distributing <B>MPlayer</B> in the form of binaries and/or binary packages
is currently impossible, speaking about both <B>technical</B> and <B>law</B>
areas. Detailed information can be found in the second part of <A HREF="users_against_developers.html#binary">this file</A>,
and it is recommended to read it.</P>

<P>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 temporarily rebuild their indexes with the -idx option, or

    codecs and much more. Try it!</LI>
<LI><B>MPlayer 0.60 "The RTFMCounter"</B> Jan 3, 2002<BR>
    MOV/VIVO/RM/FLI/NUV fileformats support, native CRAM, Cinepak, ADPCM codecs,
    and support for XAnim's binary codecs; DVD subtitles support, first
    release of MEncoder, TV grabbing, cache, liba52, countless fixes.</LI>
</UL></P>

<P><B><A NAME=1.3>1.3. Installation</A></B></P>

<P>In this chapter I'll try to guide you through the compiling and

</UL>

<P><B><I>CODECS</I></B></P>

<UL>
<LI><B>libavcodec</B> : If you want to use this DivX3/DivX4/DivX5/etc codec, check the
<A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.1.2">2.2.1.2</A> section before compiling. Features :<BR>
<UL>
  <LI>you can <B>gain <I>DivX/DivX4/DivX5</I> playing on non-x86 machines</B></LI>
  <LI>RealVideo 1.0/VIVO/MJPEG/h263/others playing and encoding</LI>
  <LI>this codec has the <B>greatest decoding speed</B> for DivX and DivX4/DivX5
movies (even faster than the original DivX4 library itself) ! Recommended!</LI>
</UL>
</LI>

<LI><B>ATI cards</B> : see the <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.A.2">ATI cards
section</A> of the TV-out documentation, to know what features of your card is
supported under Linux/MPlayer. If you have a <B>Radeon</B>, <B>Rage128</B>
or <B>Mach64</B> (Rage XL/Mobility, Xpert98) card, we have a
<B>XXX_vid</B> driver for you, with optional TV out ! Check <A
HREF="video.html#2.3.1.14">this</A> section ! <U><B>If you are non-Linux
user</B></U>, read <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.15">Vidix</A> documentation !</LI>

<LI><B>S3 cards</B> : the Savage and Virge/DX chips have hardware acceleration. Use as
new XFree86 version as possible, older drivers are buggy. Savage chips

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<P><B><A NAME=1.1>1.1. Overview</A></B></P>

<P><B>MPlayer</B> is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices, and
<B>non-x86</B> CPUs, see <A HREF="#6">section 6</A>). It plays most MPEG, VOB,
AVI, OGG, VIVO, ASF/WMV, QT/MOV, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ
files, supported by many native, XAnim, and
Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch <B>VideoCD</B>, <B>SVCD</B>, <B>DVD</B>,
<B>3ivx</B>, and even <B>DivX</B> movies too (and you don't need the avifile
library at all!). The another big feature of mplayer is the wide range of
supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev,
AAlib, DirectFB, but you can use GGI and SDL (and this way all their drivers)

decoder boards, such as the <B><A HREF="DVB">DVB</A></B> and <B> <A
HREF="DXR3">DXR3/Hollywood+</A></B> ! And what about the nice big antialiased
shaded subtitles (<B>10 supported types!!!</B>) with european/ISO 8859-1,2
(hungarian, english, czech, etc), cyrillic, korean fonts, and OSD?</P>

<P><B>MPlayer</B> is under GPL v2 license.</P>

<P>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 temporarily rebuild their indexes with the -idx option, or

    codecs and much more. Try it!</LI>
<LI><B>MPlayer 0.60 "The RTFMCounter"</B> Jan 3, 2002<BR>
    MOV/VIVO/RM/FLI/NUV fileformats support, native CRAM, Cinepak, ADPCM codecs,
    and support for XAnim's binary codecs; DVD subtitles support, first
    release of MEncoder, TV grabbing, cache, liba52, countless fixes.</LI>
<LI><B>MPlayer 0.90 "?"</B> May? ??, 2002<BR>
    </LI>
</UL></P>

<P><B><A NAME=1.3>1.3. Installation</A></B></P>

<P>In this chapter I'll try to guide you through the compiling and

</UL>

<P><B><I>CODECS</I></B></P>

<UL>
<LI><B>libavcodec</B> : If you want to use this DivX3/DivX4/DivX5/MP42/etc
codec, check the
<A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.1.2">2.2.1.2</A> section before compiling. Features :<BR>
<UL>
  <LI>you can <B>gain <I>DivX/DivX4/DivX5/MP42</I> playing on non-x86
    machines</B></LI>
  <LI>RealVideo 1.0/VIVO/MJPEG/h263/others playing and encoding</LI>
  <LI>this codec has the <B>greatest decoding speed</B> for DivX and DivX4/DivX5
movies (even faster than the original DivX4 library itself) ! Recommended!</LI>
</UL>
</LI>

<LI><B>ATI cards</B> : see the <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.A.2">ATI cards
section</A> of the TV-out documentation, to know what features of your card is
supported under Linux/MPlayer. If you have a <B>Radeon</B>, <B>Rage128</B>
or <B>Mach64</B> (Rage XL/Mobility, Xpert98) card, we have a
<B>Vidix</B> driver for you, with optional TV out ! Check <A
HREF="video.html#2.3.1.14">this</A> section ! <U><B>If you are non-Linux
user</B></U>, read <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.15">Vidix</A> documentation !</LI>

<LI><B>S3 cards</B> : the Savage and Virge/DX chips have hardware acceleration. Use as
new XFree86 version as possible, older drivers are buggy. Savage chips