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 <P><CENTER><B>MPlayer - Movie Player for LINUX (C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy (A'rpi/ESP-team)</B><BR>
-<BR><A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu">http://www.mplayerhq.hu</A></CENTER></P>
+<BR><A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu">http://www.mplayerhq.hu</A><BR><BR>
+<A HREF="Hungarian/documentation.html">[ Hungarian translation ]</A></CENTER></P>
 <P><HR></P>
 <P>Table of Contents</P>
 </LI></UL>
 </LI><LI><A HREF="#A">A. Authors</A>
 </LI><UL><LI><A HREF="#A2">A/2. Maintainers</A></LI></UL>
 </LI><LI><A HREF="#B">B. Mailing lists</A>
 </LI><LI><A HREF="bugreports.html">C. How to report bugs</A>
+</LI><LI><A HREF="#D">D. Known bugs</A>
 </LI></UL></P>
 <P><HR></P>
 even more stable than ever, and so on. It's a MUST !
 </UL></P>
 <P><B><A NAME=1.3>1.3. Installation</A></B></P>
+<P>You'll need the following packages and versions if you don't want to
+experience any problems:<BR>
+<UL>
+<LI><B>binutils</B> - suggested version is <B>2.11.x</B> . This program is
+responsible for generating MMX/3DNow!/etc instructions, thus very important.</LI>
+<LI><B>gcc</B> - suggested version is from <B>2.95.2</B> to <B>2.95.4</B>.
+<B>NEVER</B> use 2.96 or 3.x.x !!! They generate faulty code.</LI>
+<LI><B>XFree86</B> - suggested version is <B>always the newest (4.1.0)</B>. Normally
+everyone wants this. If you don't know why, you <B>do</B> need it.</LI>
+<LI><B>make</B> - suggested version is <B>always the newest</B> (at least 3.79.x). This
+usually isn't important.</LI>
+</UL>
+</P>
+<P>Read the following before trying to compile <B>MPlayer</B>:</P>
 <UL>
 <LI>If you plan to use <B>MPlayer</B> on x86 architecture, you possibly want to use
 Win32 codecs. Download and unzip w32codecs.zip to /usr/lib/win32 .
 Note: the avifile project has similar codecs package, but it differs
 from ours, so if you want to use all supported codecs, then use
 our package! However, you can use our codecs package with avifile.</LI>
 <LI>If you own a Matrox G200/G400/G450 card, then please see the <A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.7">2.2.1.7</A>
 section in order to gain big speedup. It is important to do these steps
-_before_ compiling <B>MPlayer</B>, otherwise no Matrox-specific support will be
+<I>before</I> compiling <B>MPlayer</B>, otherwise no Matrox-specific support will be
 built.</LI>
 <LI>If you plan to use the ProjectMayo's <B>DivX4</B> codec, check the
 <A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.2.1">2.1.2.1</A> section before compiling.
 This codec can play <B>DivX</B> movies much faster than the Win32 DLL, and
 audio playback, because the video/audio codecs using the Win32 DLLs
 are not available. However, <B>DivX/OpenDivX</B> movies should work,
 when using libavcodec.</P>
 <P>On <B>UltraSPARC</B>s, <B>MPlayer</B> takes advantage of their <B>VIS</B>
-extensions (equivalent to MMX), currently only(?) in <I>libmpeg2</I> and <I>libvo</I>, not
+extensions (equivalent to MMX), currently only in <I>libmpeg2</I>,
-libavcodec/mp3lib. You can watch a VOB file on a 400Mhz CPU. You'll need
+<I>libvo</I> and <I>libavcodec</I>, but not in mp3lib. You can watch a VOB file
-<A HREF="http://www.sun.com/sparc/vis/mediaLib.html">mLib</A> installed.</P>
+on a 400Mhz CPU. You'll need <A
+HREF="http://www.sun.com/sparc/vis/mediaLib.html">mLib</A> installed.</P>
 <P>To build the package you will need GNU make (gmake, /opt/sfw/gmake), native
 Solaris make will not work. Typical error you get when building with solaris'
 make instead of GNU make:</P>
 </LI><LI>J�rgen Keil and Marcus Comstedt: &lt;jk@tools.de&gt; &lt;marcus@idonex.se&gt;
 <UL><LI>patched <B>MPlayer</B> to work on Solaris 8 x86
 </LI><LI>configure fixes
 </LI><LI>various fixes (win32, configure, etc)
 </LI><LI>SUN audio driver in libao2
+</LI><LI>mediaLib support in libavcodec
 </LI></UL>
 </LI><LI>Vladimir Kushnir: &lt;vkushnir@Alfacom.net&gt;
 <UL><LI>patched <B>MPlayer</B> to work on FreeBSD x86
 </LI></UL>
 otherwise.  Please do not send messages using other language!</P>
 <P><B><A NAME=C><A HREF="bugreports.html">Appendix C</A> - How to report bugs</A></B></P>
+<P><B><A NAME=D>Appendix D - Known bugs</A></B></P>
+<P>Special system/cpu-specific bugs/problems:</P>
+<UL>
+<LI> SIGILL (signal 4) in draw_frame, on P3 (mostly with 2.2.x kernels):<BR>
+Problem: movups is crashing in libvo/fastmemcpy.h<BR>
+Workaround:  ./configure --disable-fastmemcpy<BR>
+SOLVED: disabled SSE code in fastmemcpy.h ;(</LI>
+<LI>No image (black image) in RGB 15/16bpp (x11,dga,fbdev,svga) playing
+MPEG or OpenDivX files:<BR>
+Problem: gcc 2.96 bug<BR>
+Workaround: ./configure --disable-mmx, or use gcc 2.95.x<BR>
+SOLVED: code fixed<LI>
+<LI>SIGILL (signal 4) or other fault at loading l3codeca.acm:<BR>
+Problem: shared libs are loaded to 0x00xxxxxx instead of 0x40xxxxxx<BR>
+Workaround: mplayer -afm 1 ...<BR>
+SOLVED: you are using some security kernel patch, like OpenWall etc.</LI>
+<LI>SIGILL (signal 4) on P3 using 2.2.x kernels:<BR>
+Problem: kernel 2.2.x doesn't have proper (working) SSE support<BR>
+Solution: upgrade kernel to 2.4.x<BR>
+Workaround: ./configure --disable-sse<BR>
+<LI>General SIGILL (signal 4):<BR>
+Problem: you compiled and run mplayer in different machines
+(for example compiled on P3 and running on celeron)<BR>
+Solution: compile MPlayer on the same machine where you will use it!<BR>
+Workaround: ./configure --disable-sse etc. options<BR>
+</UL>
+<P>Various A-V sync and other audio problems:</P>
+General audio delay or jerky sound (exists with all or many files):<BR>
+<UL>
+<LI>audio buffer problems (buffer size badly detected)<BR>
+Workaround:  mplayer -abs option</LI>
+<LI>slow machine (cpu or vga)<BR>
+try with -vo null, if it plays well, then you have slow VGA card/driver<BR>
+Workaround: buy a faster card or read this documentation about how to speed up<BR>
+SOLVED: try -framedrop</LI>
+</UL><BR>
+Audio delay/de-sync specific to one or a few files:<BR>
+<UL>
+<LI>bad file (please upload the file, so we can check & fix)<BR>
+Workaround: -ni or -bps option   (for non-interlaved or bad files)<BR>
+-mc 0   (required for files with VBR audio)<BR>
+-delay option or +/- keys at runtime to adjust delay</LI>
+<LI>your soundcard doesn't support 48Khz playback<BR>
+Workaround: buy a better soundcard...  or try to decrease fps by 10% (use -fps 27 for a 30fps movie)</LI>
+<LI>slow machine<BR>
+(if A-V is not around 0, and the last number in the status line increasing)<BR>
+Workaround: -framedrop</LI>
+</UL><BR>
+No sound at all:<BR>
+<UL>
+<LI>your file uses an unsupported codec<BR>
+Workaround: read the documentation and help us adding support for it</LI>
+</UL>
+<P>Video-out problems:</P>
+<P>First note: options -fs -vm and -zoom are just recommendations, not (yet)
+supported by all drivers. So it isn't a bug if it doesn't work.
+Only a few driver supports scaling/zooming, don't expect this from x11 or dga.</P>
+<P>OSD/sub flickering:<BR>
+- x11 driver: sorry, it can't be fixed now<BR>
+- xv driver: use -double option</P>
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