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<P>Unfortunately MPlayer is out of our control. It's used by lamers, Linux users
who can't even use windows, and never tried to compile a kernel. They installed
(with default options) Mandrake or RedHat or Suse, and without RTFM'ing they
send messages saying 'it doesn't work! help me! please! i'm new to the linux!
help! oh! help me!'. We can't stop them, but at least we try to force them RTFM
and to read fuckin' messages of ./configure and mplayer.</P>

<P>And you clever guys come and flame us with gcc 2.96 and binary packages.
Instead of helping users or making patches to help solve problems.</P>

<P>Half of our spare/free time is spent by answering silly mails here and

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<TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
The GUI isn't usable with icewm, because some panel are over the movie!!
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Known, icewm is shit and dictatoric. Unsolvable. In detail: icewm sucks
because its taskbar overrides GUI's window resize queries. If it asks for
resize to 800x600, then it resizes window to 800x(600-taskbar_size). It's bad.
Very bad. In short: shit.
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I can't access the GUI menu. I press right click, but I can't access any
menu items !

<CODE>DEMUXER: Too many (945 in 8390980 bytes) video packets in the buffer!</CODE>
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This can have multiple reasons.<BR>
  <LI>your CPU <B>and/or</B> video card <B>and/or</B> bus is too SLOW. <B>MPlayer</B>
  displays a message if this is the case. (and the dropped frames counter is going up fast)</LI>
  <LI>if it is an AVI, maybe it has shit interleaving. Try the <I>-ni</I> option.</LI>
  <LI>your sound driver is shit, or you use ALSA 0.5 with <I>-ao oss</I>. See the <A HREF="sound.html">soundcards section</A>.</LI>
  <LI>the AVI has shit header, try with the <I>-nobps</I> option, and/or <I>-mc 0</I> .</LI>
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I have an MJPEG file which works with other players but displays only black
image in MPlayer.

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OpenGL (-vo gl) output doesn't work (hangup/black window/X11 errors/...).
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Your opengl driver doesn't support dynamic texture changes (glTexSubImage)
It's known not to work with nVidia's binary shit.
It's known to work with Utah-GLX/DRI and Matrox G400 card. Also with
DRI and Radeon card. It won't work with DRI others than these.
it will not work with 3DFX cards because the 256x256 texture size limit.
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<TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
I'd like to seek +/- 1 frames, instead of 10 seconds.
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This won't be done. It was, but then it fucked up A/V sync. Feel free to
implement it, and send a patch. Don't ask for it.
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<TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
  Where is the Windows version ?

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<P>Unfortunately MPlayer is out of our control. It's used by lamers, Linux users
who can't even use windows, and never tried to compile a kernel. They installed
(with default options) Mandrake or RedHat or Suse, and without RTFM'ing they
send messages saying 'it doesn't work! help me! please! i'm new to the linux!
help! oh! help me!'. We can't stop them, but at least we try to force them RTFM
and to read messages of ./configure and mplayer.</P>

<P>And you clever guys come and flame us with gcc 2.96 and binary packages.
Instead of helping users or making patches to help solve problems.</P>

<P>Half of our spare/free time is spent by answering silly mails here and

</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>

<TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
The GUI isn't usable with icewm, because some panel are over the movie!!
</B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
Known, icewm is dictatoric. Unsolvable. In detail:
its taskbar overrides GUI's window resize queries. If it asks for
resize to 800x600, then it resizes window to 800x(600-taskbar_size). It's bad.
Very bad.
</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>

<TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
I can't access the GUI menu. I press right click, but I can't access any
menu items !

<CODE>DEMUXER: Too many (945 in 8390980 bytes) video packets in the buffer!</CODE>
</B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
This can have multiple reasons.<BR>
  <LI>your CPU <B>and/or</B> video card <B>and/or</B> bus is too SLOW. <B>MPlayer</B>
  displays a message if this is the case. (and the dropped frames counter is going up fast)</LI>
  <LI>if it is an AVI, maybe it has bad interleaving. Try the <I>-ni</I> option.</LI>
  <LI>your sound driver is buggy, or you use ALSA 0.5 with <I>-ao oss</I>. See the <A HREF="sound.html">soundcards section</A>.</LI>
  <LI>the AVI has bad header, try with the <I>-nobps</I> option, and/or <I>-mc 0</I> .</LI>
</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>

<TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
I have an MJPEG file which works with other players but displays only black
image in MPlayer.

<TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
OpenGL (-vo gl) output doesn't work (hangup/black window/X11 errors/...).
</B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
Your opengl driver doesn't support dynamic texture changes (glTexSubImage)
It's known not to work with nVidia's binary stuff.
It's known to work with Utah-GLX/DRI and Matrox G400 card. Also with
DRI and Radeon card. It won't work with DRI others than these.
it will not work with 3DFX cards because the 256x256 texture size limit.
</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>

</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>

<TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
I'd like to seek +/- 1 frames, instead of 10 seconds.
</B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
This won't be done. It was, but then it messed up A/V sync. Feel free to
implement it, and send a patch. Don't ask for it.
</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3>&nbsp;</TD><TR>

<TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
  Where is the Windows version ?