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<H4>Codecs:</H4>

<UL>
  <LI><B>libavcodec</B>: This codec package is capable of decoding
    H263/MJPEG/RV10/DivX3/DivX4/DivX5/MP41/MP42/WMV1 encoded video streams, on
    multiple platforms. It is also known to be the fastest for this task.
    See the <A HREF="codecs.html#libavcodec">libavcodec</A> section for details.
    Features:<BR>
    <UL>
      <LI>gain decoding of videos mentioned above, on non-x86 machines</LI>

      <LI>you need this if you want to play or encode for example movies recorded
        with various hardware compressors, like tuner cards, digital cameras
        (example: DV, ATI VCR, MJPEG)</LI>
      <LI>needed if you want to play <B>WMV8 movies</B>. Not needed for old
        ASF's with MP41 or MP42 video (though VoxWare audio is frequent for these
        files - it's done by the Win32 codec), or WMV7.</LI>
    </UL>
  </LI>
  <LI><B>DivX4/DivX5</B>: information about this codec is available in the
    <A HREF="codecs.html#divx">DivX4/DivX5</A> section. You possibly don't want
    this codec as <B>libavcodec</B> (see above) is much faster and has better

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<H2><A NAME="bsd">6.2 *BSD</A></H2>

<P>Mplayer runs on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, BSD/OS and Darwin. To build MPlayer
  you will need GNU make (gmake - native BSD make will not work) and a recent
  version of binutils.</P>

<P>If MPlayer complains about not finding <CODE>/dev/cdrom</CODE> or
  <CODE>/dev/dvd</CODE>, create an appropiate symbolic link:<BR>

<H2><A NAME="solaris">6.3 Solaris</A></H2>

<P>MPlayer should work on Solaris 2.6 or newer.</P>

<P>AVI file playback works best on Solaris x86, because you have the
  option to use the win32 codecs on the x86 platform, or can use
  MMX/MMX2/3DNow/etc instructions for MP3/DivX/DVD/whatever. On Colaris SPARC,
  you'll find quite a few AVI files with non working video and/or audio
  playback, because the video/audio codecs using the Win32 DLLs are not
  available. However, <B>DivX/OpenDivX</B> movies should work, when using
  libavcodec.</P>

<P>On <B>UltraSPARC</B>s, MPlayer takes advantage of their <B>VIS</B>
  extensions (equivalent to MMX), currently only in <I>libmpeg2</I>,
  <I>libvo</I> and <I>libavcodec</I>, but not in mp3lib. You can watch a VOB
  file on a 400MHz CPU. You'll need

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<H4>Codecs:</H4>

<UL>
  <LI><B>libavcodec</B>: This codec package is capable of decoding
    H263/MJPEG/RV10/DivX3/DivX4/DivX5/MP41/MP42/WMV1 encoded video streams and
    WMA (Windows Media Audio) v1/v2 audio streams, on
    multiple platforms. It is also known to be the fastest for this task.
    See the <A HREF="codecs.html#libavcodec">libavcodec</A> section for details.
    Features:<BR>
    <UL>
      <LI>gain decoding of videos mentioned above, on non-x86 machines</LI>

      <LI>you need this if you want to play or encode for example movies recorded
        with various hardware compressors, like tuner cards, digital cameras
        (example: DV, ATI VCR, MJPEG)</LI>
      <LI>needed if you want to play <B>WMV8 movies</B>. Not needed for old
        ASF's with MP41 or MP42 video (though VoxWare audio is frequent for these
        files - it's done by the Win32 codec), or WMV7. Also not needed
        for WMA (Windows Media Audio), libavcodec has opensource decoder
        for that.</LI>
    </UL>
  </LI>
  <LI><B>DivX4/DivX5</B>: information about this codec is available in the
    <A HREF="codecs.html#divx">DivX4/DivX5</A> section. You possibly don't want
    this codec as <B>libavcodec</B> (see above) is much faster and has better

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<H2><A NAME="bsd">6.2 *BSD</A></H2>

<P>MPlayer runs on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, BSD/OS and Darwin. To build MPlayer
  you will need GNU make (gmake - native BSD make will not work) and a recent
  version of binutils.</P>

<P>If MPlayer complains about not finding <CODE>/dev/cdrom</CODE> or
  <CODE>/dev/dvd</CODE>, create an appropiate symbolic link:<BR>

<H2><A NAME="solaris">6.3 Solaris</A></H2>

<P>MPlayer should work on Solaris 2.6 or newer.</P>

<P>On <B>UltraSPARC</B>s, MPlayer takes advantage of their <B>VIS</B>
  extensions (equivalent to MMX), currently only in <I>libmpeg2</I>,
  <I>libvo</I> and <I>libavcodec</I>, but not in mp3lib. You can watch a VOB
  file on a 400MHz CPU. You'll need