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DXR3 docs updated. Patch by David Holm <[e-mail]>, further spelling/consistency fixes by me.

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  the native OSD feature of DVB cards, as well as more fluent playback of
  non-25fps movies and realtime transcoding between MPEG2 and MPEG4 (partial
  decompression).</P>


<H4><A NAME="dxr3">2.3.1.17 DXR3</A></H4>

<P><B>MPlayer</B> supports hardware accelerated playback with the Creative DXR3
  and Sigma Designs Hollywood Plus cards.</P>

<P>First of all you will need properly installed DXR3/H+ drivers, version
  0.12.0 or later. You can find the drivers and installation instructions at
  the <A HREF="http://dxr3.sourceforge.net/">DXR3 &amp; Hollywood Plus for
  Linux</A> site. Configure should detect your card automatically, compilation
  should go without any problems.</P>

<H4>Usage:</H4>
<DL>
  <DT><CODE>-vo dxr3:&lt;noprebuf&gt;:&lt;codec&gt;:&lt;device&gt;</CODE></DT>
  <DD>Where <CODE>&lt;noprebuf&gt;</CODE> specifies turning off prebuffering.
    This is done automatically on Athlons. If playback is out of sync try
    disabling prebuffering. If noprebuf is left out prebuffering is enabled
    (except on Athlons).
    <BR>
    <CODE>&lt;codec&gt;</CODE> = fame/avcodec, avcodec produces better quality
    output, but fame is faster for those of you with slow machines. The default is
    to use libavcodec. Note that you need libavcodec properly installed (read
    DOCS/codecs.html).
    <BR>
    <CODE>&lt;device&gt;</CODE> = device number to use if you have more than one
    em8300 card.
    <BR>
    Any of these options may be left out, but they must be specified in this
    order, i.e. <CODE>dxr3:fame</CODE> works, <CODE>dxr3:1</CODE> works, but
    <CODE>dxr3:1:avcodec</CODE> will not.</DD>

  <DT><CODE>-ao oss:/dev/em8300_ma-X</CODE></DT>
  <DD>For audio output, where <CODE>X</CODE> is the device number
    (0 if one card).</DD>

  <DT><CODE>-ac hwac3</CODE></DT>
  <DD>For digital instead of analog audio output.</DD>

  <DT><CODE>-vc mpegpes</CODE></DT>
  <DD>Force hardware acceleration, only works with MPEG1/2.</DD>

  <DT><CODE>-aop list=resample:fout=xxxxx</CODE></DT>
  <DD>If sample rate is below 44100Hz, select either 44100Hz or 48000Hz
    depending on which one matches closest. I.e. if the movie uses 22050Hz use
    44100Hz as 44100 / 2 = 22050, if it is 24000Hz use 48000Hz as 48000 / 2 = 24000
    and so on. This does not work with digital audio output
    (<CODE>-ac hwac3</CODE>).</DD>
</DL>

<H4>Overlay</H4>

<P>To get overlay run dxr3view that comes with the em8300 package before

<H4>MPEG1, MPEG2, VCD and DVD Notes</H4>

<P>MPEG1/2 content should now automatically be detected by <B>MPlayer</B> and
  it will use the hardware acceleration of the DXR3 to play it. If not, you can
  force it to hardware acceleration with <CODE>-vc mpegpes</CODE>. Also, if you
  plan to use any postprocessing filters you must use <CODE>-vc
  mpeg12</CODE>.</P>

<P>In some instances, subtitles may not appear properly in sync with the A/V
  stream when using hardware decoding (<CODE>-vc mpegpes</CODE>). This is a
  known bug. The em8300 will also improperly handle subtitles that are too big,
  and may hang for a second or two. At this time, the only workaround is to use
  <CODE>-vc mpeg12</CODE> when viewing DVDs with subtitles.</P>


<H4><A NAME="tv-out">2.3.1.A TV-out support</A></H4>

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  the native OSD feature of DVB cards, as well as more fluent playback of
  non-25fps movies and realtime transcoding between MPEG2 and MPEG4 (partial
  decompression).</P>


<H4><A NAME="dxr3">2.3.1.17 DXR3/Hollywood+</A></H4>

<P><B>MPlayer</B> supports hardware accelerated playback with the Creative DXR3
  and Sigma Designs Hollywood Plus cards. These cards both use the em8300 MPEG
  decoder chip from Sigma Designs.</P>

<P>First of all you will need properly installed DXR3/H+ drivers, version
  0.12.0 or later. You can find the drivers and installation instructions at
  the <A HREF="http://dxr3.sourceforge.net/">DXR3 &amp; Hollywood Plus for
  Linux</A> site. Configure should detect your card automatically, compilation
  should go without problems.</P>

<H4>Usage:</H4>
<DL>
  <DT><CODE>-vo dxr3:noprebuf:&lt;device&gt;</CODE></DT>
  <DD><CODE>noprebuf</CODE> turns off prebuffering. Prebuffering is a feature
    of the em8300 chip that enables it to hold more than one frame of video at
    a time. This means that when you are running with prebuffering (default)
    <B>MPlayer</B> will try to keep the video buffer filled with data at all
    times. If you are on a slow machine <B>MPlayer</B> will probably use close
    to, or precisely 100% of CPU. This is especially common if you play pure MPEG
    streams (like DVDs, SVCDs a.s.o.) since <B>MPlayer</B> will not have to
    reencode it to MPEG it will fill the buffer very fast.<BR>
    With prebuffering video playback is <B>much</B> less sensitive to other
    programs hogging the CPU, it will not drop frames unless applications hog
    the CPU for a long time.<BR>
    Prebuffering does not work on all machines (especially Athlons where it is
    turned off automatically). If you experience problems with video/audio sync
    use <CODE>noprebuf</CODE>. When running without prebuffering the em8300 is
    much more sensitive to CPU load, so it is highly suggested that you turn on
    <B>MPlayer's</B> <CODE>-framedrop</CODE> option to avoid further loss of
    sync.<BR>
    <CODE>&lt;device&gt;</CODE> = device number to use if you have more than one
    em8300 card.
    <BR>
    Any of these options may be left out, but they must be specified in this
    exact order, i.e. <CODE>dxr3:noprebuf</CODE> works, <CODE>dxr3:1</CODE>
    works, but <CODE>dxr3:1:noprebuf</CODE> will not.</DD>

  <DT><CODE>-ao oss:/dev/em8300_ma-X</CODE></DT>
  <DD>For audio output, where <CODE>X</CODE> is the device number
    (0 if one card).</DD>

  <DT><CODE>-aop list=resample:fout=xxxxx</CODE></DT>
  <DD>The em8300 cannot play back samplerates lower than 44100Hz. If the sample
    rate is below 44100Hz select either 44100Hz or 48000Hz depending on which
    one matches closest. I.e. if the movie uses 22050Hz use 44100Hz as
    44100 / 2 = 22050, if it is 24000Hz use 48000Hz as 48000 / 2 = 24000 and so
    on. This does not work with digital audio output (<CODE>-ac hwac3</CODE>).</DD>

  <DT><CODE>-vop lavc/fame</CODE></DT>
  <DD>To watch non-MPEG content on the em8300 (i.e. DivX or RealVideo) you have
    to specify an MPEG1 video filter such as libavcodec (lavc) or libfame
    (fame). At the moment lavc is both faster and gives better image quality, it
    is suggested that you use that unless you have problems with it. See the man
    page for further info about <CODE>-vop lavc/fame</CODE>.</DD>
  
  <DT><CODE>-ac hwac3</CODE></DT>
  <DD>The em8300 supports playing back AC3 audio (surround sound) through the
    digital audio output of the card. Read
    <A HREF="codecs.html#hardware_ac3">hardware AC3</A> section for further
    information on AC3.</DD>
</DL>

<H4>Overlay</H4>

<P>To get overlay run dxr3view that comes with the em8300 package before

<H4>MPEG1, MPEG2, VCD and DVD Notes</H4>

<P>MPEG1/2 content should now automatically be detected by <B>MPlayer</B> and
  it will use the hardware acceleration of the DXR3 to play it. If not, you can
  force it to hardware acceleration with <CODE>-vc mpegpes</CODE>. Also, if you
  plan to use postprocessing filters you must use <CODE>-vc mpeg12</CODE>.</P>

<P>In some instances, subtitles may not appear properly in sync with the A/V
  stream when using hardware decoding (<CODE>-vc mpegpes</CODE>). This is a
  known bug. The em8300 will also improperly handle subtitles that are too big,
  and may hang for a second or two. At this time, the only workaround is to use
  <CODE>-vc mpeg12</CODE> when viewing DVDs with subtitles. When running with
  <CODE>-vc mpeg12</CODE> <B>MPlayer</B> will reencode video to MPEG (even if it
  already is MPEG). This means that it will need more CPU power, and you might
  loose some picture quality.</P>


<H4><A NAME="tv-out">2.3.1.A TV-out support</A></H4>