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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 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)

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">this file</A>,
and it is recommended to read it.</P>

<P>I didn't write any codecs, just some players. I spent
a lot of time finding the best way to parse bad damaged input files
(both MPEG and AVI) and to do perfect A-V sync with seeking ability.

<P><UL>
<LI><B>mpg12play v0.1-v0.3:</B><BR>
    The first try, hacked together in a half hour!
    I've used libmpeg3 from www.heroinewarrior.com up to the version 0.3,
    but there were image quality and speed problems with it.
<LI><B>mpg12play v0.5-v0.87:</B><BR>
    Mpeg codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was a great stuff,
    but it was slow and was written in C++ (I hate C++!!!)
<LI><B>mpg12play v0.9-v0.95pre5:</B><BR>
    Mpeg codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman & Michel Lespinasse.
    It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect image quality and
    100% MPEG standard conformance.
<LI><B>MPlayer v0.3-v0.9:</B><BR>
    It was a pack of two programs: mpg12playv0.95pre6 and my new simple AVI
    player 'avip' based on avifile's Win32 DLL loader.
<LI><B>MPlayer v0.10:</B><BR>
    The MPEG and AVI player in a single binary!
<LI><B>MPlayer v0.11:</B><BR>
    Some new developers joined and from 0.11 the mplayer project is a team-work!
    Added .ASF file support, and OpenDivX (see www.projectmayo.com) en/decoding.
<LI><B>MPlayer v0.17 "The IdegCounter"</B><BR>
    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.
<LI><B>MPlayer 0.18 "The BugCounter"</B><BR>
    2 months since 0.17 and here's a new release.. Completed ASF support,
    more subtitle formats, introduced libao (similar to libvo but to audio),
    even more stable than ever, and so on. It's a MUST !
<LI><B>MPlayer 0.50 "The Faszom(C)ounter"</B><BR>
    Hmm. Release again. Tons of new features, beta GUI version, bugs fixed,
    new vo and ao drivers, ported to many systems, including opensource DivX
    codecs and much more. Try it!

</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>
<LI><B>libavcodec</B> : If you want to use this DivX3/DivX4/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</I> playing on non-x86 machines</B></LI>
  <LI>RealVideo 1.0/MJPEG/h263/others playing and encoding</LI>
  <LI>this codec has the <B>greatest decoding speed</B> for DivX and DivX4
movies (even faster than the original DivX4 library itself) ! Recommended!</LI>
</UL>
</LI>

  <LI>needed if you want to play <B>WMV movies</B> or older ASF's</LI>
</UL>
</LI>

<LI><B>DivX4</B> : information about this codec is available in the
<A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.1.1">2.2.1.1</A> section. You possibly don't want this
codec as <B>libavcodec</B> (see above) is much faster than this.<BR>
Features :<UL>
  <LI>can play old <B>DivX3</B> movies much faster than the Win32 DLL but
    slower than <B>libavcodec</B> !</LI>
  <LI>it's closed-source, and only an x86 version is available.</LI>
</UL>
</LI>

<TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>1 or 2</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>adjust contrast</TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>3 or 4</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>adjust brightness</TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5 or 6</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>adjust hue</TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>7 or 8</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>adjust saturation</TD></TR>

<TR><TD COLSPAN=4><P><I><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>(the following keys are valid only with TV input support</I></P></TD></TR>

<TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>h  or  l</TD><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>select previous/next channel</TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>n</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>change norm</TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>b</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>change channel list</TD></TR>
</TABLE></P>

<P><B>GUI keyboard control</B></P>

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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 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)

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>I didn't write any codecs, just some players. I spent
a lot of time finding the best way to parse bad damaged input files
(both MPEG and AVI) and to do perfect A-V sync with seeking ability.

<P><UL>
<LI><B>mpg12play v0.1-v0.3:</B><BR>
    The first try, hacked together in a half hour!
    I've used libmpeg3 from www.heroinewarrior.com up to the version 0.3,
    but there were image quality and speed problems with it.</LI>
<LI><B>mpg12play v0.5-v0.87:</B><BR>
    Mpeg codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was a great stuff,
    but it was slow and was written in C++ (I hate C++!!!)</LI>
<LI><B>mpg12play v0.9-v0.95pre5:</B><BR>
    Mpeg codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman & Michel Lespinasse.
    It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect image quality and
    100% MPEG standard conformance.</LI>
<LI><B>MPlayer v0.3-v0.9:</B><BR>
    It was a pack of two programs: mpg12playv0.95pre6 and my new simple AVI
    player 'avip' based on avifile's Win32 DLL loader.</LI>
<LI><B>MPlayer v0.10:</B><BR>
    The MPEG and AVI player in a single binary!</LI>
<LI><B>MPlayer v0.11:</B><BR>
    Some new developers joined and from 0.11 the mplayer project is a team-work!
    Added .ASF file support, and OpenDivX (see www.projectmayo.com) en/decoding.</LI>
<LI><B>MPlayer v0.17 "The IdegCounter"</B><BR>
    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.</LI>
<LI><B>MPlayer 0.18 "The BugCounter"</B><BR>
    2 months since 0.17 and here's a new release.. Completed ASF support,
    more subtitle formats, introduced libao (similar to libvo but to audio),
    even more stable than ever, and so on. It's a MUST !</LI>
<LI><B>MPlayer 0.50 "The Faszom(C)ounter"</B><BR>
    Hmm. Release again. Tons of new features, beta GUI version, bugs fixed,
    new vo and ao drivers, ported to many systems, including opensource DivX
    codecs and much more. Try it!</LI>
<LI><B>MPlayer 0.60 "The RTFMCounter"</B><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>
<LI><B>libavcodec</B> : If you want to use this DivX3/DivX4/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</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
movies (even faster than the original DivX4 library itself) ! Recommended!</LI>
</UL>
</LI>

  <LI>needed if you want to play <B>WMV movies</B> or older ASF's</LI>
</UL>
</LI>

<LI><B>DivX4</B> : information about this codec is available in the
<A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.1.1">2.2.1.1</A> section. If you don't want to encode
with it, you possibly don't want this codec as <B>libavcodec</B> (see above) is
much faster than this.<BR>
Features :<UL>
  <LI>1 pass or 2 pass encoding with <A HREF="encoding.html">MEncoder</A></LI>
  <LI>can play old <B>DivX3</B> movies much faster than the Win32 DLL but
    slower than <B>libavcodec</B> !</LI>
  <LI>it's closed-source, and only an x86 version is available.</LI>
</UL>
</LI>

<TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>1 or 2</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>adjust contrast</TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>3 or 4</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>adjust brightness</TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5 or 6</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>adjust hue</TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>7 or 8</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>adjust saturation</TD></TR>
</TABLE></P>

<P><B>GUI keyboard control</B></P>

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