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Riva128 cards don't have XVideo support with XFree86's nVidia driver :(
Complain to nVidia.
</para>

<para>
However, MPlayer contains a <link linkend="vidix">VIDIX</link> driver for most
nVidia cards. Currently it is in beta stage, and has some drawbacks.  For more
information, see <link linkend="vidix-nvidia">nVidia VIDIX</link> section.
</para>
</sect5>


<sect5 id="ati">

with 4.1.0, install XFree 4.2.0. 4.2.0 adds support for fullscreen Xv
support with the Cyberblade XP card.
</para>

<para>
Alternatively, MPlayer contains a <link linkend="vidix">VIDIX</link> driver
for the Cyberblade/i1 card.
</para>

</sect5>

<formalpara>
<title>Using your DVB card for watching Digital TV (DVB input module)</title>
<para>
  First you need to pass the <literal>dvb_shutdown_timeout=0</literal>
  parameter to the kernel module <filename>dvb-core</filename>, or MPlayer
  will die after 10 seconds.
</para>
</formalpara>

<para>
  You should also have the programs <command>scan</command> and

  have <command>scan</command> compile it for you.
</para>

<para>
  Make sure that you have have <emphasis>only</emphasis> Free to Air
  channels in your <filename>channels.conf</filename> file, or MPlayer
  will hang on the others.
</para>

<para>
  To show the first of the channels present in your list, run
</para>

</para>
</sect4>

<sect4 id="dxr2">
<title>DXR2</title>
<para>MPlayer supports hardware accelerated playback with the Creative DXR2 card.</para>
<para>
First of all you will need properly installed DXR2 drivers. You can find
the drivers and installation instructions at the
<ulink url="http://dxr2.sourceforge.net/">DXR2 Resource Center</ulink> site.
</para>

<option>overlay</option> activates the overlay instead of TVOut. It requires
that you have a properly configured overlay setup to work right. The easiest
way to configure the overlay is to first run autocal. Then run mplayer with
dxr3 output and without overlay turned on, run dxr3view. In dxr3view you can
tweak the overlay settings and see the effects in realtime, perhaps this feature
will be supported by the MPlayer GUI in the future. When overlay is properly set
up you will no longer need to use dxr3view.
<option>prebuf</option> turns on prebuffering. Prebuffering is a feature of the
em8300 chip that enables it to hold more than one frame of video at a time. This
means that when you are running with prebuffering MPlayer will try to keep the
video buffer filled with data at all times. If you are on a slow machine MPlayer
will probably use close to, or precisely 100% of CPU. This is especially common
if you play pure MPEG streams (like DVDs, SVCDs a.s.o.) since MPlayer will not
have to reencode it to MPEG it will fill the buffer very fast.
With prebuffering video playback is <emphasis role="bold">much</emphasis>
less sensitive to other programs hogging the CPU, it will not drop frames unless
applications hog the CPU for a long time.
When running without prebuffering the em8300 is much more sensitive to CPU load,
so it is highly suggested that you turn on MPlayer's <option>-framedrop</option>
option to avoid further loss of sync.
<option>sync</option> will turn on the new sync-engine. This is currently an
experimental feature. With the sync feature turned on the em8300's internal clock
will be monitored at all times, if it starts to deviate from MPlayer's clock it
will be reset causing the em8300 to drop any frames that are lagging behind.
<option>norm=x</option> will set the TV norm of the DXR3 card without the need
for external tools like em8300setup. Valid norms are 5 = NTSC, 4 = PAL-60,
3 = PAL. Special norms are 2 (auto-adjust using PAL/PAL-60) and 1 (auto-adjust
using PAL/NTSC) because they decide which norm to use by looking at the frame
rate of the movie. norm = 0 (default) does not change the current norm.

<varlistentry>
<term><option>-vf expand=-1:-1:-1:-1:1</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Although the DXR3 driver can put some OSD onto the MPEG1/2/4 video, it has
much lower quality than MPlayer's traditional OSD, and has several refresh
problems as well. The command line above will firstly convert the input
video to MPEG4 (this is mandatory, sorry), then apply an expand filter which
won't expand anything (-1: default), but apply the normal OSD onto the picture
(that's what the "1" at the end does).
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><option>-ac hwac3</option></term>

<para>
Finally an important remark: Do not start or stop XawTV on the playback device
during playback, it will crash your computer. It is, however, fine to
<emphasis role="bold">FIRST</emphasis> start XawTV, <emphasis role="bold">THEN</emphasis>
start MPlayer, wait for MPlayer to finish and <emphasis role="bold">THEN</emphasis>
stop XawTV.
</para>
</sect4>

<sect4 id="blinkenlights">
<title>Blinkenlights</title>

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Riva128 cards don't have XVideo support with XFree86's nVidia driver :(
Complain to nVidia.
</para>

<para>
However, <application>MPlayer</application> contains a
<link linkend="vidix">VIDIX</link> driver for most nVidia cards. Currently it
is in beta stage, and has some drawbacks. For more information, see
<link linkend="vidix-nvidia">nVidia VIDIX</link> section.
</para>
</sect5>


<sect5 id="ati">

with 4.1.0, install XFree 4.2.0. 4.2.0 adds support for fullscreen Xv
support with the Cyberblade XP card.
</para>

<para>
Alternatively, <application>MPlayer</application> contains a
<link linkend="vidix">VIDIX</link> driver for the Cyberblade/i1 card.
</para>

</sect5>

<formalpara>
<title>Using your DVB card for watching Digital TV (DVB input module)</title>
<para>
  First you need to pass the <literal>dvb_shutdown_timeout=0</literal>
  parameter to the kernel module <filename>dvb-core</filename>, or
  <application>MPlayer</application> will die after 10 seconds.
</para>
</formalpara>

<para>
  You should also have the programs <command>scan</command> and

  have <command>scan</command> compile it for you.
</para>

<para>
  Make sure that you have have <emphasis>only</emphasis> Free to Air
  channels in your <filename>channels.conf</filename> file, or
  <application>MPlayer</application> will hang on the others.
</para>

<para>
  To show the first of the channels present in your list, run
</para>

</para>
</sect4>

<sect4 id="dxr2">
<title>DXR2</title>
<para><application>MPlayer</application> supports hardware accelerated playback
  with the Creative DXR2 card.</para>
<para>
First of all you will need properly installed DXR2 drivers. You can find
the drivers and installation instructions at the
<ulink url="http://dxr2.sourceforge.net/">DXR2 Resource Center</ulink> site.
</para>

<option>overlay</option> activates the overlay instead of TVOut. It requires
that you have a properly configured overlay setup to work right. The easiest
way to configure the overlay is to first run autocal. Then run mplayer with
dxr3 output and without overlay turned on, run dxr3view. In dxr3view you can
tweak the overlay settings and see the effects in realtime, perhaps this feature
will be supported by the <application>MPlayer</application> GUI in the future.
When overlay is properly set up you will no longer need to use dxr3view.
<option>prebuf</option> turns on prebuffering. Prebuffering is a feature of the
em8300 chip that enables it to hold more than one frame of video at a time. This
means that when you are running with prebuffering <application>MPlayer</application>
will try to keep the video buffer filled with data at all times. If you are on
a slow machine <application>MPlayer</application> will probably use close to,
or precisely 100% of CPU. This is especially common if you play pure MPEG streams
(like DVDs, SVCDs a.s.o.) since <application>MPlayer</application> will not have
to reencode it to MPEG it will fill the buffer very fast.
With prebuffering video playback is <emphasis role="bold">much</emphasis>
less sensitive to other programs hogging the CPU, it will not drop frames unless
applications hog the CPU for a long time.
When running without prebuffering the em8300 is much more sensitive to CPU load,
so it is highly suggested that you turn on <application>MPlayer's</application>
<option>-framedrop</option> option to avoid further loss of sync.
<option>sync</option> will turn on the new sync-engine. This is currently an
experimental feature. With the sync feature turned on the em8300's internal clock
will be monitored at all times, if it starts to deviate from
<application>MPlayer's</application> clock it will be reset causing the em8300 to
drop any frames that are lagging behind.
<option>norm=x</option> will set the TV norm of the DXR3 card without the need
for external tools like em8300setup. Valid norms are 5 = NTSC, 4 = PAL-60,
3 = PAL. Special norms are 2 (auto-adjust using PAL/PAL-60) and 1 (auto-adjust
using PAL/NTSC) because they decide which norm to use by looking at the frame
rate of the movie. norm = 0 (default) does not change the current norm.

<varlistentry>
<term><option>-vf expand=-1:-1:-1:-1:1</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Although the DXR3 driver can put some OSD onto the MPEG1/2/4 video, it has
much lower quality than <application>MPlayer's</application> traditional OSD,
and has several refresh problems as well. The command line above will firstly
convert the input video to MPEG4 (this is mandatory, sorry), then apply an
expand filter which won't expand anything (-1: default), but apply the normal
OSD onto the picture (that's what the "1" at the end does).
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><option>-ac hwac3</option></term>

<para>
Finally an important remark: Do not start or stop XawTV on the playback device
during playback, it will crash your computer. It is, however, fine to
<emphasis role="bold">FIRST</emphasis> start XawTV, <emphasis role="bold">THEN</emphasis>
start <application>MPlayer</application>, wait for <application>MPlayer</application>
to finish and <emphasis role="bold">THEN</emphasis> stop XawTV.
</para>
</sect4>

<sect4 id="blinkenlights">
<title>Blinkenlights</title>