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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.
My player is rock solid playing damaged MPEG files (useful for some VCDs),
and it plays bad AVI files which are unplayable with the famous
windows media player. Even AVI files without index chunk are playable, and
you can rebuild their indexes with the -idx option, thus enabling seeking!
As you see, stability and quality are the most important things for me,
but the speed is also amazing.</P>

<P><B><A NAME=1.2>1.2. History</A></B></P>

<P>This began a year ago...
I've tried lots of players under linux (mtv,xmps,dvdview,livid/oms,VideoLAN,

<UL>
<LI><B>Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 cards</B> : please see the <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.7">mga_vid</A>
section in order to gain big speedup. It is important to do these steps
<I>before</I> compiling <B>MPlayer</B>, otherwise no Matrox-specific support will be
built. Also check out the <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.A.1">Matrox TV-out</A>
section.</LI>

<LI><B>3Dfx Voodoo3/Banshee cards</B> : please see the <A
HREF="video.html#2.3.1.9">2.3.1.9</A> section in order to gain big speedup. It
is important to do these steps <I>before</I> compiling <B>MPlayer</B>,
otherwise no 3Dfx support will be built. Also see the <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.A.3">3dfx

<LI><B>ATI cards</B> : see the <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.A.2">ATI cards
section</A> of the TV-out documentation, to know what features of your card is
supported under Linux/MPlayer. If you have a <B>Radeon</B> or <B>Rage128</B> card, we have a
<B>XXX_vid</B> driver for you, with TV out ! Check <A
HREF="video.html#2.3.1.14">this</A> section !</LI>

<LI><B>S3 cards</B> : the Savage chips have hardware acceleration. Use as
new XFree86 version as possible, older drivers are buggy. Savage chips
have problems with YV12 display, see <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.2.2">S3 Xv
section</A> for details. Older, non-Savage cards have no, or slow hardware

  <TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
  <TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><I>outfmt</I></TD>
  <TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
  <TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>in which output
  format should the tuner transport images to us (<B>rgb32</B>, <B>rgb24</B>, <B>yv12</B>,
  <B>uyvy</B>, <B>i420</B> (for i420 you have to pass the <CODE>-vc i420</CODE>
  option, because of a fourcc conflict))</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
  <TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
  <TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><I>width</I></TD>

<P>Works. You'll need to download SDL for QNX, and install it. Then run
  <B>MPlayer</B> with <CODE>-vo sdl:photon</CODE> and <CODE>-ao sdl:nto</CODE>
  options, and it should be fast.</P>

<P>The <CODE>-vo x11</CODE> output will be even slower than on Linux, since
  QNX has only X <I>emulation</I> which is VERY slow. Use SDL.


<P><B><A NAME=A>Appendix A - Authors</A></B></P>

<P>NOTE: Do *NOT* send bugreports, help &amp; feature requests directly to the authors!</P>

</LI><LI>MPlayer users list:<BR>
<A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users</A>
<P><UL>
<LI>send bugreports here (after reading <A HREF="#D">Known Bugs</A> section, and Appendix <A HREF="#C">C</A>)</LI>
<LI>send feature requests here (after reading the WHOLE documentation)</LI>
<LI>send user questions here (after reading all this documentation)</LI>
</UL></P>

</LI><LI>MPlayer hungarian users list:<BR>
<A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-felhasznalok">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-felhasznalok</A>
<P><UL>

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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.
My player is rock solid playing damaged MPEG files (useful for some VCDs),
and it plays bad AVI files which are unplayable with the famous
windows media player. Even AVI files without index chunk are playable, and
you can temporarily rebuild their indexes with the -idx option, or
permanently with <B>MEncoder</B>, thus enabling seeking!
As you see, stability and quality are the most important things for me,
but the speed is also amazing.</P>


<P><B><A NAME=1.2>1.2. History</A></B></P>

<P>This began a year ago...
I've tried lots of players under linux (mtv,xmps,dvdview,livid/oms,VideoLAN,

<UL>
<LI><B>Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 cards</B> : please see the <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.7">mga_vid</A>
section in order to gain big speedup. It is important to do these steps
<I>before</I> compiling <B>MPlayer</B>, otherwise no Matrox-specific support will be
built. Also check out the <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.A.1">Matrox TV-out</A>
section. <U><B>If you are non-Linux user</B></U>, read <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.15">Vidix</A>
documentation !</LI>

<LI><B>3Dfx Voodoo3/Banshee cards</B> : please see the <A
HREF="video.html#2.3.1.9">2.3.1.9</A> section in order to gain big speedup. It
is important to do these steps <I>before</I> compiling <B>MPlayer</B>,
otherwise no 3Dfx support will be built. Also see the <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.A.3">3dfx

<LI><B>ATI cards</B> : see the <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.A.2">ATI cards
section</A> of the TV-out documentation, to know what features of your card is
supported under Linux/MPlayer. If you have a <B>Radeon</B> or <B>Rage128</B> card, we have a
<B>XXX_vid</B> driver for you, with TV out ! Check <A
HREF="video.html#2.3.1.14">this</A> section ! <U><B>If you are non-Linux
user</B></U>, read <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.15">Vidix</A> documentation !</LI>

<LI><B>S3 cards</B> : the Savage chips have hardware acceleration. Use as
new XFree86 version as possible, older drivers are buggy. Savage chips
have problems with YV12 display, see <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.2.2">S3 Xv
section</A> for details. Older, non-Savage cards have no, or slow hardware

  <TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
  <TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><I>outfmt</I></TD>
  <TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
  <TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>in which output
  format should the tuner transport images to us (<B>rgb32</B>, <B>rgb24</B>, <B>yv12</B>,
  <B>uyvy</B>, <B>i420</B> (for i420 you have to pass the <CODE>-vc rawi420</CODE>
  option, because of a fourcc conflict))</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
  <TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
  <TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><I>width</I></TD>

<P>Works. You'll need to download SDL for QNX, and install it. Then run
  <B>MPlayer</B> with <CODE>-vo sdl:photon</CODE> and <CODE>-ao sdl:nto</CODE>
  options, and it should be fast.</P>

<P>The <CODE>-vo x11</CODE> output will be even slower than on Linux, since
  QNX has only X <I>emulation</I> which is VERY slow. Use SDL.</P>


<P><B><A NAME=A>Appendix A - Authors</A></B></P>

<P>NOTE: Do *NOT* send bugreports, help &amp; feature requests directly to the authors!</P>

</LI><LI>MPlayer users list:<BR>
<A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users</A>
<P><UL>
<LI>send bugreports here (after reading <A HREF="#D">Known Bugs</A> section, and Appendix <A HREF="#C">C</A>)</LI>
<LI>send feature requests here (after reading the WHOLE documentation)</LI>
<LI>send user questions here (after reading the WHOLE documentation)</LI>
</UL></P>

</LI><LI>MPlayer hungarian users list:<BR>
<A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-felhasznalok">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-felhasznalok</A>
<P><UL>