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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, but you can use SDL (and this way all drivers of
SDL) and some lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon) too!
Most of them supports software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in
fullscreen. And what about the nice big antialiased shaded subtitles (8
supported types!!!) with european/ISO 8859-1,2 (hungarian, english, czech, etc), cyrillic,
korean fonts, and OSD?</P>

<P><B>MPlayer</B> is basically GPL, but contains some non-GPL code which is not
allowed to be distributed in binary form, and also contains the OpenDivX
library which has special license.</P>

    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 0.50pre "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>

directive to use the skin in <CODE>*/Skin/newskin</CODE> directory.</P>

<P><B><A NAME=1.5>1.5. Subtitles and OSD</A></B></P>

<P>Yes, <B>MPlayer</B> also supports many kinds of subtitles. Currently
7 kinds of subtitle can be used by the subreader code. To see what are
these subtitle formats, see subreader.c, line ~20.</P>

<P>Subtitles are displayed with a technique called <B>'OSD', On Screen Display</B>.
OSD is used to display current time, volume bar, seek bar etc.</P>

<P><B>INSTALLING OSD and SUB</B></P>

</LI><LI>HTMLization of documentation
</LI></UL>

</LI><LI>Gábor Bérczi (Gabucino):  &lt;[e-mail]&gt;
<UL><LI>documentation maintainer
</LI><LI>hungarian translation of documentation
</LI><LI>second webpage design&amp;gfx
</LI><LI>webpage maintainer
</LI><LI>testing, codecs quality &amp; speed comparsions
</LI><LI>IRC channels operator
(#MPlayer is user channel)
</LI><LI>experimental MINIX port :)
</LI></UL>

</LI><LI>Szabolcs Berecz (Szabi): &lt;[e-mail]&gt;
<UL><LI>codecs.conf file parser
</LI><LI>config file and command line parser

</LI><LI>flipping support (for Indeo 3/4, etc)
</LI><LI>SDL audio driver in libao2
</LI><LI>RAW PCM/WAVE file writer for libao2
</LI><LI>OggVorbis audio support
</LI><LI>Various aspect code
</LI></UL>

</LI><LI>TeLeNiEkO: &lt;[e-mail]&gt;
<UL><LI>spanish translation of documentation
</LI></UL>

<UL><LI>native AAlib driver (-vo aa)
</LI></UL>

</LI><LI>Kamil Toman &lt;[e-mail]&gt;
<UL><LI>czech fonts
</LI></UL>

</LI></UL></P>

<P>Main testers:</P>

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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, but you can use SDL (and this way all drivers of
SDL) and some lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon) too!
Most of them supports software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in
fullscreen. And what about the nice big antialiased shaded subtitles (<B>8
supported types!!!</B>) with european/ISO 8859-1,2 (hungarian, english, czech, etc), cyrillic,
korean fonts, and OSD?</P>

<P><B>MPlayer</B> is basically GPL, but contains some non-GPL code which is not
allowed to be distributed in binary form, and also contains the OpenDivX
library which has special license.</P>

    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>

directive to use the skin in <CODE>*/Skin/newskin</CODE> directory.</P>

<P><B><A NAME=1.5>1.5. Subtitles and OSD</A></B></P>

<P>Yes, <B>MPlayer</B> also supports many kinds of subtitles. Currently
8 kinds of subtitle can be used by the subreader code. To see what are
these subtitle formats, see subreader.c, line ~30.</P>

<P><B>MPlayer</B> introduces a new subtitle format called <B><I>MPsub</I></B>.
It was designed by me (Gabucino). Basically its main feature is being
<I>dynamically</I> time-based (although it has frame-based mode too). Example (from
<A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/mpsub.sub">DOCS/tech/mpsub.sub</A>) :
</P>

<P><CODE><I>
# first number  : wait this much after previous subtitle disappeared<BR>
# second number : display the current subtitle for this many seconds<BR>
<BR>
15 3<BR>
A long, long time ago...<BR>
<BR>
0 3<BR>
in a galaxy far away...<BR>
<BR>
0 3<BR>
Naboo was under an attack.<BR>
</I></CODE></P>

<P>So you see, the main goal was to <B>make subtitle editing/timing/joining/cutting easy</B>. And,
if you - say - get an SSA subtitle but it's badly timed/delayed to your
version of the movie, you simply do a <I>mplayer dummy.avi -sub source.ssa
-dumpmpsub</I> . A <CODE>dump.mpsub</CODE> file will be created in the
current directory, which will contain the source subtitle's text, but in
<B>MPsub</B> format. Then you can freely add/substract seconds to/from the
subtitle.</P>

<P>Subtitles are displayed with a technique called <B>'OSD', On Screen Display</B>.
OSD is used to display current time, volume bar, seek bar etc.</P>

<P><B>INSTALLING OSD and SUB</B></P>

</LI><LI>HTMLization of documentation
</LI></UL>

</LI><LI>Gábor Bérczi (Gabucino):  &lt;[e-mail]&gt;
<UL><LI>documentation maintainer
</LI><LI>hungarian translation of documentation and homepage
</LI><LI>second webpage design&amp;gfx
</LI><LI>webpage maintainer
</LI><LI>testing, codecs quality &amp; speed comparsions
</LI><LI>IRC channels operator
(#MPlayer is user channel)
</LI><LI>experimental MINIX port :)
</LI><LI>MPsub subtitle format design
</LI></UL>

</LI><LI>Szabolcs Berecz (Szabi): &lt;[e-mail]&gt;
<UL><LI>codecs.conf file parser
</LI><LI>config file and command line parser

</LI><LI>flipping support (for Indeo 3/4, etc)
</LI><LI>SDL audio driver in libao2
</LI><LI>RAW PCM/WAVE file writer for libao2
</LI><LI>OggVorbis audio support
</LI><LI>Various aspect code
</LI><LI>Win32 port
</LI></UL>

</LI><LI>TeLeNiEkO: &lt;[e-mail]&gt;
<UL><LI>spanish translation of documentation
</LI></UL>

<UL><LI>native AAlib driver (-vo aa)
</LI></UL>

</LI><LI>Kamil Toman &lt;[e-mail]&gt;
<UL><LI>czech fonts
</LI></UL>

</LI><LI>Ivan Kalvatchev &lt;[e-mail]&gt;
<UL><LI>interlaced MPEG2 support
</LI></UL>

</LI><LI>pl (?) &lt;[e-mail]&gt;
<UL><LI>./configure fixes
</LI></UL>

</LI><LI>Michael Niedermayer &lt;[e-mail]&gt;
<UL><LI>postprocessing support
</LI></UL>

</LI></UL></P>

<P>Main testers:</P>