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big review

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	(NOT supported by us! Don't submit SDL bugreports!)
- null:	Null output (for speed tests/benchmarking)
- pgm:	PGM file output (for testing purposes)
- md5:	MD5sum output (for mpeg conformance tests)

NOTE: not all are available for AVI files

Supported audio output devices:                                              
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- OSS driver
- ALSA driver with OSS emulation
- ESD with the esddsp utility

NOTE: check DOCS/SOUNDCARDS !

Speed:
~~~~~~

5. If you have problem with display driver, please first check the list above,
   many of them isn't yet capable to AVI playing, and some of them are
   untested and/or unfinished.

6. If you have speed problems (too slow playing), then please first check that:
   - you don't use OpenGL driver while have software-only opengl (DRI disabled,
     or not yet installed, conflicting libs installed, or your hardware not
     supported etc...)
   - you have set up MTRR registers properly (many new cards are really
     slow without setting up MTRR registers. it's NOT done by X 3.3.x! Also,
     there are older K6-2's, which lack MTRR support /stepping=0/).
   - you have a fast machine (don't report that your 386 can't play DivX)
   - try with Null output (-vo null) and check CPU usage (first % value)

7. sound-related problems:
   - maybe your card doesn't support 48kHz playback and the movie requires it.

     for example:  mplayer -alsa -delay -0.75 test.avi
                   mplayer -abs 65536 -delay 0.3 test.mpg
   - to play AVI files with VBR MP3 audio use the  -mc 0  option!
   - no sound at all: check that you have working OSS driver (/dev/dsp),
     and it isn't used by another program (for example esd, xmms etc.)

8. unsupported codecs (AVI files):
   We may add support for your movie, but we need the following things:
   - the codec DLL file: find it in your WINDOWS directory. In the SYSTEM.INI
     there will be a listing of the installed codecs (vids.<codecname>=DLLfile)
   - a sample file encoded with that codec.

Contact information:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Homepage:  http://mplayer.sourceforge.net

281:6c3a2c2c966d

	(NOT supported by us! Don't submit SDL bugreports!)
- null:	Null output (for speed tests/benchmarking)
- pgm:	PGM file output (for testing purposes)
- md5:	MD5sum output (for mpeg conformance tests)

NOTE: check DOCS/VIDEOCARDS !
NOTE: maybe not all are available for AVI files

Supported audio output devices:                                              
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- OSS driver
- ALSA driver with OSS emulation (NOT recommended, causes annoying delays)
- ESD with the esddsp utility (not tested)

NOTE: check DOCS/SOUNDCARDS !

Speed:
~~~~~~

5. If you have problem with display driver, please first check the list above,
   many of them isn't yet capable to AVI playing, and some of them are
   untested and/or unfinished.

6. If you have speed problems (too slow playing), then please first check that:
   - you don't use OpenGL driver while have software-only opengl (Utah-GLX
     disabled, or not yet installed, conflicting libs installed, or your
     hardware not supported etc...)
   - you have set up MTRR registers properly (many new cards are really
     slow without setting up MTRR registers. it's NOT done by X 3.3.x! Also,
     there are older K6-2's, which lack MTRR support /stepping=0/).
     Check DOCS/MTRR !
   - you have a fast machine (don't report that your 386 can't play DivX)
   - try with Null output (-vo null) and check CPU usage (first % value)

7. sound-related problems:
   - maybe your card doesn't support 48kHz playback and the movie requires it.

     for example:  mplayer -alsa -delay -0.75 test.avi
                   mplayer -abs 65536 -delay 0.3 test.mpg
   - to play AVI files with VBR MP3 audio use the  -mc 0  option!
   - no sound at all: check that you have working OSS driver (/dev/dsp),
     and it isn't used by another program (for example esd, xmms etc.)
   - use OSS. If the problem persists, use ALSA ;)

8. unsupported codecs (AVI files):
   Check DOCS/CODECS

Contact information:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Homepage:  http://mplayer.sourceforge.net