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| 4 <FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2> | |
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| 6 <P><B><A NAME=5>5. FAQ section</A></B></P> | |
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| 8 <TABLE BORDER=0 WIDTH=100% ALIGN=left> | |
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| 10 <TD COLSPAN=3><P><B><A NAME=5.1><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.1 Compilation</A></B></P> | |
| 11 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 12 | |
| 13 <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"> | |
| 14 configure ends with this text, and MPlayer won't compile !<BR> | |
| 15 <CODE>Your gcc does not support even i386 for '-march' and '-mcpu'.</CODE> | |
| 16 </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"> | |
| 17 Your gcc isn't installed correctly, check <CODE>config.log</CODE> file | |
| 18 for details. | |
| 19 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 20 | |
| 21 <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"> | |
| 22 What does "No such file or directory" means ? | |
| 23 </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"> | |
| 24 Probably there is no such file or directory. | |
| 25 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 26 | |
| 27 <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"> | |
| 28 What's the problem with gcc 2.96 ? | |
| 29 </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"> | |
| 30 To be short: <B><I>DO NOT USE gcc 2.96 !!!</I></B><BR> | |
| 31 Check <A HREF="gcc-2.96-3.0.html">this</A> and <A HREF="users_against_developers.html">this</A> texts! | |
| 32 If you still really really want to do so, be sure to use the latest release. | |
| 33 <BR> | |
| 34 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 35 | |
| 36 <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"> | |
| 37 Great, I have gcc 3.0.1 from RedHat/Mandrake, then I'm fine--! | |
| 38 </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"> | |
| 39 No, since there have been/are issues with those compilers.<BR> | |
| 40 Use 2.95.x series for reliability (not <A HREF="gcc-2.96-3.0.html">2.96</A>). | |
| 41 Use the latest gcc 3.0.x (starting at 3.0.2) if you want to use a 3.0.x version. | |
| 42 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 43 | |
| 44 <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"> | |
| 45 I tried to compile MPlayer, but I got this output:<BR> | |
| 46 <PRE> | |
| 47 In file included from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/std_cwchar.h:42, | |
| 48 from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/fpos.h:40, | |
| 49 from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/char_traits.h:40, | |
| 50 from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/std_string.h:41, | |
| 51 from /usr/include/g++-v3/string:31, | |
| 52 from libwin32.h:36, | |
| 53 from DS_AudioDecoder.h:4, | |
| 54 from DS_AudioDec.cpp:5: | |
| 55 /usr/include/wchar.h: In function Long long int wcstoq(const wchar_t*, | |
| 56 wchar_t**, int)': | |
| 57 /usr/include/wchar.h:514: cannot convert `const wchar_t* __restrict' to | |
| 58 `const | |
| 59 </PRE> | |
| 60 </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"> | |
| 61 Upgrade your glibc to the newest. On Mandrake, use 2.2.4-8mdk . | |
| 62 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 63 | |
| 64 <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"> | |
| 65 ...gcc 2.96... (yes, some people are STILL flaming about their gcc 2.96!!) | |
| 66 </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"> | |
| 67 <P>But we has idegs (the word 'ideg' is described further in the FAQ). And our | |
| 68 idegcounters overflow again and again.</P> | |
| 69 | |
| 70 <P>Unfortunately MPlayer is out of our control. It's used by lamers, Linux users | |
| 71 who can't even use windows, and never tried to compile a kernel. They installed | |
| 72 (with default options) Mandrake or RedHat or Suse, and without RTFM'ing they | |
| 73 send messages saying 'it doesn't work! help me! please! i'm new to the linux! | |
| 74 help! oh! help me!'. We can't stop them, but at least we try to force them RTFM | |
| 75 and to read fuckin' messages of ./configure and mplayer.</P> | |
| 76 | |
| 77 <P>And you clever guys come and flame us with gcc 2.96 and binary packages. | |
| 78 Instead of helping users or making patches to help solve problems.</P> | |
| 79 | |
| 80 <P>Half of our spare/free time is spent by answering silly mails here and | |
| 81 making newer tricks and checks to configure to avoid such mails.</P> | |
| 82 | |
| 83 <P>And there is a balance. On one hand are you, clever guys, saying we are very | |
| 84 bad because we don't like buggy gcc 2.96, and at the other hand there are the | |
| 85 'new to linux' guys who are showing us gcc 2.96 is buggy.</P> | |
| 86 | |
| 87 <P>Conclusion: we can't be good. Half of people always will say we are bad.</P> | |
| 88 | |
| 89 <P>Maybe we should close the project, make it closed source, commercial, and | |
| 90 provide install support for it. then we could leave current work, so | |
| 91 development could go faster, and we earn lots of money with it and buy a big | |
| 92 house, etc etc. Do you really want it? It seems.</P> | |
| 93 | |
| 94 <P ALIGN=RIGHT>Arpi (a mail on the mplayer-users list)</P> | |
| 95 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 96 | |
| 97 <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"> | |
| 98 Where can I find information about gcc 2.96 bugs ? | |
| 99 </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"> | |
| 100 In <A HREF="gcc-2.96-3.0.html">this</A> documentation. And <A HREF="users_against_developers.html">this</A> | |
| 101 documentation describes why RedHat released 2.96 and other interesting things. | |
| 102 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 103 | |
| 104 <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"> | |
| 105 SDL output doesn't work or compile. Problem is .... | |
| 106 </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"> | |
| 107 It is tested with newest SDL (probably runs on 1.1.7+). | |
| 108 It does NOT work with any previous version, so don't ask. | |
| 109 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 110 | |
| 111 <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"> | |
| 112 I am still having trouble compiling with SDL support. gcc says something | |
| 113 about "undefined reference to `SDL_EnableKeyRepeat'" What's now? | |
| 114 </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"> | |
| 115 Where did you install the SDL library? If you installed in /usr/local | |
| 116 (the default) then edit the top level config.mak and add | |
| 117 "-L/usr/local/lib " after "X_LIBS=" Now type make. You're done! | |
| 118 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 119 | |
| 120 <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"> | |
| 121 It doesn't compile, and it misses uint64_t inttypes.h and similar things... | |
| 122 </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"> | |
| 123 copy etc/inttypes.h to <B>MPlayer</B> directory (cp etc/inttypes.h .) | |
| 124 try again... | |
| 125 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 126 | |
| 127 <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"> | |
| 128 I have Pentium III but ./configure doesn't detect SSE | |
| 129 </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"> | |
| 130 Only kernel versions 2.4.x supports SSE (or try latest 2.2.19 or newer, but | |
| 131 be prepared for problems) | |
| 132 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 133 | |
| 134 <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"> | |
| 135 I have G200/G400, how to compile/use mga_vid driver? | |
| 136 </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"> | |
| 137 Read all this documentation. | |
| 138 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 139 | |
| 140 <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"> | |
| 141 Are there rpm/deb/... packages of <B>MPlayer</B>? | |
| 142 </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"> | |
| 143 You can make a .deb package for yourself, check section <A HREF="documentation.html#6.1">6.1</A>. | |
| 144 It's _STRONGLY_ discouraged to use precompiled packages | |
| 145 of <B>MPlayer</B>, since it (currently) _highly_ depends on compile-time | |
| 146 options and optimizations! | |
| 147 Precompiled packages are COMPLETELY unsupported by the <B>MPlayer</B> team! | |
| 148 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 149 | |
| 150 <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"> | |
| 151 During 'make', MPlayer complains about X11 libraries. I don't understand, | |
| 152 I DO have X installed!? | |
| 153 </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"> | |
| 154 ...but you don't have the X development package installed. Or not | |
| 155 correctly. It's called XFree86-devel* under RedHat, and xlib6g-dev* under | |
| 156 Debian. Also check if the /usr/X11 symlink exists (this can be a problem on | |
| 157 Mandrake systems). It can be created with the<BR> | |
| 158 <CODE>$ ln -sf /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11</CODE><BR> | |
| 159 command. Also check the /usr/include/X11 link :<BR> | |
| 160 <CODE>$ ln -sf /usr/X11R6/include/X11 /usr/include/X11</CODE><BR> | |
| 161 Your distribution may differ from the Linux Filesystem Standard. | |
| 162 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 163 | |
| 164 <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"> | |
| 165 What about DGA driver? I can't find it!!! | |
| 166 </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"> | |
| 167 ./configure autodetects your DGA driver. If -vo help doesn't show | |
| 168 DGA, then there's a problem with your X installation. | |
| 169 Try ./configure --enable-dga (and RTFM) | |
| 170 Alternatively, try SDL's DGA driver with '-vo sdl:dga' options. | |
| 171 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 172 | |
| 173 <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"> | |
| 174 I can't compile SVGAlib.. I'm using 2.3/2.4 kernel. | |
| 175 </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"> | |
| 176 You have to edit SVGAlib's Makefile.cfg and comment "BACKGROUND = y" out. | |
| 177 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 178 | |
| 179 <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"> | |
| 180 I compiled MPlayer with libdvdcss/libdivxdecore support, but when | |
| 181 I try to start it, it says:<BR> | |
| 182 <CODE>> error while loading shared libraries: lib*.so.0: cannot load | |
| 183 shared object file: No such file or directory</CODE><BR> | |
| 184 I checked up on the file and it IS there in /usr/local/lib. | |
| 185 </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"> | |
| 186 What are you doing on Linux? Can't you install a library? Why do | |
| 187 we get these questions? It's not <B>MPlayer</B> specific at all! Add | |
| 188 /usr/local/lib to <B>/etc/ld.so.conf</B> and run <B>ldconfig</B> . | |
| 189 Or install it to /usr/lib , because if you can't solve the /usr/local | |
| 190 problem, you are careless enough to do such things. | |
| 191 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 192 | |
| 193 <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"> | |
| 194 MPlayer doesn't seem to find my libcss. What am I doing wrong ? | |
| 195 </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"> | |
| 196 It's normal. <B>MPlayer</B> no longer depends on libcss to play a DVD. You | |
| 197 have to install <B>libdvdread</B> and <B>libdvdcss</B>. Check for DVD Playback | |
| 198 part <A HREF="cd-dvd.html">here</A>. libcss is to be used for example when you | |
| 199 want to play encrypted VOB files from hard disk (not for general users). | |
| 200 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 201 | |
| 202 <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"> | |
| 203 Hmm, strange. When loading the mga_vid.o kernel module, I found this in the logs:<BR> | |
| 204 <CODE>Warning: loading mga_vid.o will taint the kernel: no license</CODE> | |
| 205 </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"> | |
| 206 The latest kernels modules needs require a flag indicating its license (mainly | |
| 207 to avoid kernel hackers' debugging closed sources drivers). | |
| 208 Upgrade your kernel and your modutils and <B>MPlayer</B>. | |
| 209 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 210 | |
| 211 <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"> | |
| 212 When compiling <B>MEncoder</B>, it segfaults at linking !!! | |
| 213 </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"> | |
| 214 Dunno, upgrading binutils should help (2.11.92.* or newer should be good). Not our fault, do NOT report! | |
| 215 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 216 | |
| 217 <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"> | |
| 218 I'd like to compile <B>MPlayer</B> on Minix ! | |
| 219 </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"> | |
| 220 Me too. | |
| 221 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 222 | |
| 223 | |
| 224 <TD COLSPAN=3><B><A NAME=5.2><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.2. General questions</A></B> | |
| 225 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 226 | |
| 227 <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"> | |
| 228 What about DVD playing ? | |
| 229 </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"> | |
| 230 Read the CD/DVD section in <A HREF="cd-dvd.html">this page</A>. | |
| 231 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 232 | |
| 233 <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"> | |
| 234 -xy or -fs option doesn't work with x11 driver (-vo x11) | |
| 235 </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"> | |
| 236 It does, but you have to explicitly specify software scaling (it's SLOW!) with | |
| 237 the <CODE>-zoom</CODE> option. You better use XF86VidMode support: | |
| 238 you must specify the -vm and the -fs switch, and you're done. | |
| 239 Make sure you have the right Modelines in your XF86Config file, and | |
| 240 try if the DGA driver (and SDL's DGA driver, see RTFM) works for you. | |
| 241 It's much faster. If SDL's DGA works too, use that, it'll be EVEN faster! | |
| 242 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 243 | |
| 244 <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"> | |
| 245 What is the meaning of numbers in the status line? | |
| 246 </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"> | |
| 247 See: <CODE><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A: 2.1 V: 2.2 A-V: -0.167 ct: 0.042 57 41% 0% 2.6% 0 4</CODE><BR> | |
| 248 <UL> | |
| 249 <LI><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A: audio position in seconds | |
| 250 <LI>V: video position in seconds | |
| 251 <LI>A-V: audio-video difference in seconds (delay) | |
| 252 <LI>ct: total A-V sync correction done | |
| 253 <LI>frames played (counting from last seek) | |
| 254 <LI>video codec cpu usage in percent (for mpeg it includes video_out too!) | |
| 255 <LI>video_out cpu usage for avi, 0 for mpg (see above) | |
| 256 <LI>audio codec cpu usage in percent | |
| 257 <LI>frames needed to drop to maintain A-V sync | |
| 258 <LI>current level of image postprocessing (when using -autoq) | |
| 259 </UL> | |
| 260 <I>Most of them are for debug purposes, and will be removed soon.</I> | |
| 261 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 262 | |
| 263 <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"> | |
| 264 What if I don't want them to appear? | |
| 265 </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"> | |
| 266 Then you use the -quiet option, and read the manpage. | |
| 267 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 268 | |
| 269 <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"> | |
| 270 Why is video_out cpu usage zero (0%) for mpeg files? | |
| 271 </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"> | |
| 272 It's not zero, but it's built in into codec, so can't be measured separated. | |
| 273 You should try to play the file using -vo null and then -vo ... and check | |
| 274 the difference to see video_out speed... | |
| 275 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 276 | |
| 277 <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"> | |
| 278 What's XMMP? (is it XMMS or XMPS but mispelled?) | |
| 279 </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"> | |
| 280 It's a new project, see http://frozenproductions.com for details | |
| 281 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 282 | |
| 283 <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"> | |
| 284 There are error messages about file not found /usr/lib/win32/.... | |
| 285 </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"> | |
| 286 Download <A HREF="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/w32codec.zip">w32codec.zip</A> | |
| 287 from *our* FTP (avifile's codec package has different DLL set). | |
| 288 Install it. | |
| 289 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 290 | |
| 291 <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"> | |
| 292 Are there any mailing lists on MPlayer? | |
| 293 </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"> | |
| 294 Yes! See RTFM on how to subscribe them! | |
| 295 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 296 | |
| 297 <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"> | |
| 298 I've found a nasty bug when I tried to play my favourite video!! | |
| 299 Who should I inform? | |
| 300 </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"> | |
| 301 See Appendix <A HREF="bugreports.html">C</A>. | |
| 302 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 303 | |
| 304 <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"> | |
| 305 I have problems playing files with ... codec. Can I use'em? | |
| 306 </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"> | |
| 307 Check <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html">http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html</A>, | |
| 308 if it doesn't contain your codec, read | |
| 309 <A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.3">section 2.1.3</A>, and contact us. | |
| 310 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 311 | |
| 312 <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"> | |
| 313 Umm, what is "IdegCounter"? | |
| 314 </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"> | |
| 315 A mixture of a hungarian and an english word. In english, "Ideg" means | |
| 316 "nerve", and is pronounced as something like "ydaegh" . It was first used | |
| 317 to measure the nervousness of A'rpi, after some (umm) "mystic" disappearance | |
| 318 of CVS code ;) | |
| 319 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 320 | |
| 321 <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"> | |
| 322 And what is "Faszom(C)ounter" ? | |
| 323 </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"> | |
| 324 "Fasz" is a hungarian word you don't want to know, the others are in | |
| 325 connection with the pervert minds of the MPlayer developers. | |
| 326 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 327 | |
| 328 <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"> | |
| 329 LIRC doesn't work, because ... | |
| 330 </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"> | |
| 331 Are you sure you use "mplayer_lirc" instead of "mplayer"? | |
| 332 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 333 | |
| 334 <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"> | |
| 335 Subtitles are very nice, the most beautiful I've ever seen, but they slow | |
| 336 down the playing! I know it's unlikely... | |
| 337 </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"> | |
| 338 After running ./configure , edit config.h and replace <CODE>#undef FAST_OSD</CODE> with | |
| 339 <CODE>#define FAST_OSD</CODE>. Then recompile. | |
| 340 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 341 | |
| 342 <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"> | |
| 343 The OSD is flickering! | |
| 344 </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"> | |
| 345 You use a vo driver with single buffering (x11,xv). With xv, | |
| 346 use -double option. | |
| 347 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 348 | |
| 349 <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"> | |
| 350 What exactly is this libavcodec? | |
| 351 </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"> | |
| 352 See the <A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.2.2">2.1.2.2 section</A>. | |
| 353 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 354 | |
| 355 <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"> | |
| 356 But configure tells me "Checking for libavcodec ... no"! | |
| 357 </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"> | |
| 358 You need to get libavcodec from FFmpeg's CVS. Read the instructions in | |
| 359 the <A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.2.2">ffmpeg section</A>. | |
| 360 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 361 | |
| 362 <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"> | |
| 363 The GUI isn't usable with icewm, because some panel are over the movie!! | |
| 364 </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"> | |
| 365 Known, icewm is shit and dictatoric. Unsolvable. In detail: icewm sucks | |
| 366 because its taskbar overrides GUI's window resize queries. If it asks for | |
| 367 resize to 800x600, then it resizes window to 800x(600-taskbar_size). It's bad. | |
| 368 Very bad. In short: shit. | |
| 369 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 370 | |
| 371 <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"> | |
| 372 I can't access the GUI menu. I press right click, but I can't access any | |
| 373 menu items ! | |
| 374 </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"> | |
| 375 Are you using FVWM ? Try the following :<BR> | |
| 376 Start -> Settings -> Configuration -> Base Configuration<BR> | |
| 377 <BR> | |
| 378 Set "Use Applications position hints" to Yes. | |
| 379 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 380 | |
| 381 <TD COLSPAN=3> | |
| 382 <B><A NAME=5.3><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.3. File playing problems</A></B> | |
| 383 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 384 | |
| 385 <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"> | |
| 386 ...... works with avifile/aviplay while doesn't with MPlayer. | |
| 387 </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"> | |
| 388 <B>MPlayer</B> != avifile | |
| 389 The only common thing between these players is the Win32 DLL loader. | |
| 390 The codecs (dll) sets, syncronization, demultiplexing etc is totaly | |
| 391 different and shouldn't be compared. | |
| 392 If something works with aviplay it doesn't mean that <B>MPlayer</B> should do | |
| 393 it and vice versa. | |
| 394 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 395 | |
| 396 <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"> | |
| 397 Audio goes out of sync playing .avi file. | |
| 398 </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"> | |
| 399 Try with -bps or -nobps option | |
| 400 if still bad, send me (upload to ftp) that file, I'll check. | |
| 401 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 402 | |
| 403 <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"> | |
| 404 Indeo 3.x/4.x movies are viewed upside-down!!!? | |
| 405 </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"> | |
| 406 It's a known bug (really it's a bug/limitation of the DLL codec) | |
| 407 Try if your vo driver supports the -flip switch. | |
| 408 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 409 | |
| 410 <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"> | |
| 411 Indeo 3.x,4.x video doesn't work at 32bpp resolutions (16,24 bpp are ok). | |
| 412 </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"> | |
| 413 It's a known bug (really it's a bug/limitation of the DLL codec). | |
| 414 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 415 | |
| 416 <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"> | |
| 417 MPlayer exits with something error when using l3codeca.acm. | |
| 418 </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"> | |
| 419 Check 'ldd /usr/local/bin/mplayer' output. If it contains<BR> | |
| 420 <CODE>libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4???????)</CODE><BR> | |
| 421 where "?" is any number then it's ok, the error is not here. If it is:<BR> | |
| 422 <CODE>libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00??????)</CODE><BR> | |
| 423 then there is problem with your kernel/libc. Maybe you are using some | |
| 424 security patches (for example Solar Designer's OpenWall patch) which | |
| 425 forces loading libraries to very low addresses. | |
| 426 Because l3codeca.acm is a non-relocatable DLL, it must be loaded to | |
| 427 0x00400000, we can't change this. You should use non-patched kernel, | |
| 428 or use <B>MPlayer</B>'s -afm 1 option to disable using l3codeca.acm. | |
| 429 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 430 | |
| 431 <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"> | |
| 432 My computer plays M$ DivX AVIs with resolutions ~ 640x300 and stereo mp3 | |
| 433 sound too slow. When I use -nosound switch, everything is ok (but quiet). | |
| 434 </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"> | |
| 435 Ok son, your machine is too slow. RTFM or anything. | |
| 436 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 437 | |
| 438 <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"> | |
| 439 MPlayer dies with "MPlayer interrupted by signal 4 in module: decode_video". | |
| 440 </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"> | |
| 441 Try running <B>MPlayer</B> on the machine you compiled on. Or recompile. Don't | |
| 442 use <B>MPlayer</B> on different CPU than it was compiled on. | |
| 443 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 444 | |
| 445 <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"> | |
| 446 I have problems with [your window manager] and fullscreen xv/xmga/sdl/x11 modes.. | |
| 447 </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"> | |
| 448 Use the -fsmode switch. See example.conf or manpage. | |
| 449 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 450 | |
| 451 <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"> | |
| 452 But it works with avifile! | |
| 453 </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"> | |
| 454 So what? | |
| 455 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 456 | |
| 457 <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"> | |
| 458 Then avifile is better! | |
| 459 </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"> | |
| 460 Then use avifile, it has nice GUI and nice C++ code :) | |
| 461 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 462 | |
| 463 <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"> | |
| 464 I got this playing mpeg files: Can't find codec for video format 0x10000001! | |
| 465 </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"> | |
| 466 You have old version of codecs.conf at ~/.mplayer/. Upgrade it from etc/<BR> | |
| 467 <B>OR</B> you have the <CODE>vc=</CODE> option or similar, in your | |
| 468 config file(s). | |
| 469 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 470 | |
| 471 <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"> | |
| 472 After starting mplayer under KDE(1/2) I just get a black screen and nothing | |
| 473 happens, after about one minute the video starts playing. | |
| 474 </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"> | |
| 475 The KDE arts sound daemon is blocking the sound device, either wait the time | |
| 476 until video starts or you disable the arts-daemon in kontrollcenter. | |
| 477 If you want to use arts sound, specify audio output via SDL (ao=sdl), and | |
| 478 make sure your SDL can handle arts sound. Yet another option is to start | |
| 479 mplayer with artsdsp. | |
| 480 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 481 | |
| 482 <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"> | |
| 483 I have an AVI that plays with grey screen with -vc odivx, and green with -vc divx4 . | |
| 484 </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"> | |
| 485 It's not a DivX file, but an M$ MPEG4v3 . Update your codecs.conf. | |
| 486 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 487 | |
| 488 <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"> | |
| 489 There this movie is, and when I play it I get video-audio desync and/or MPlayer crashes with the following:<BR> | |
| 490 <CODE>DEMUXER: Too many (945 in 8390980 bytes) video packets in the buffer!</CODE> | |
| 491 </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"> | |
| 492 This can have multiple reasons.<BR> | |
| 493 <LI>your CPU <B>and/or</B> video card <B>and/or</B> bus is too SLOW. <B>MPlayer</B> | |
| 494 displays a message if this is the case. (and the dropped frames counter is going up fast)</LI> | |
| 495 <LI>if it is an AVI, maybe it has shit interleaving. Try the <I>-ni</I> option.</LI> | |
| 496 <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> | |
| 497 <LI>the AVI has shit header, try with the <I>-nobps</I> option, and/or <I>-mc 0</I> .</LI> | |
| 498 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 499 | |
| 500 <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"> | |
| 501 I have an MJPEG file which works with other players but displays only black | |
| 502 image in MPlayer. | |
| 503 </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"> | |
| 504 Disable the Windows DLL in <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE>, or use <CODE>-vc ffmjpeg</CODE> option (you have to | |
| 505 compile MPlayer with libavcodec). | |
| 506 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 507 | |
| 508 <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"> | |
| 509 When I try to grab from my tuner, it works, but colors are strange. It's ok | |
| 510 with other applications. | |
| 511 </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"> | |
| 512 Your card probably misreports its colorspace capacity. Try with YUY2 instead | |
| 513 of default YV12 (see TV input documentation). | |
| 514 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 515 | |
| 516 <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"> | |
| 517 When I try to start playing, I get this message, but playing is good :<BR> | |
| 518 <CODE>Linux RTC init: ioctl (rtc_pie_on): Permission denied</CODE> | |
| 519 </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"> | |
| 520 See the <A HREF="documentation.html#1.3">Installation section</A>. The part | |
| 521 about new sync code. | |
| 522 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 523 | |
| 524 <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"> | |
| 525 I have A/V sync problems. Some of my AVIs play fine, but some play with | |
| 526 double speed ! | |
| 527 </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"> | |
| 528 You have buggy soundcard/driver. Most likely it's fixed at 44100Hz, and | |
| 529 you try to play a file which has 22050Hz audio. Try the <CODE>-ao sdl</CODE> | |
| 530 driver. | |
| 531 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 532 | |
| 533 <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"> | |
| 534 All the WMV (or other..) files I play gives green/gray window and there is | |
| 535 only sound! It prints:<BR> | |
| 536 <CODE>Detected video codec: [null] drv:0 (NULL codec (no decoding))</CODE> | |
| 537 </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"> | |
| 538 Update your <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE> | |
| 539 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 540 | |
| 541 <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"> | |
| 542 I'm using the GUI. During startup, MPlayer prints :<BR> | |
| 543 <PRE><CODE>Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid. | |
| 544 This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper | |
| 545 program instead. For further details, see...</CODE></PRE> | |
| 546 </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"> | |
| 547 You can't use GTK in a suid-root binary, as pointed out in the GUI section. | |
| 548 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 549 | |
| 550 | |
| 551 <TD COLSPAN=3> | |
| 552 <B><A NAME=5.4><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.4. Video/audio driver problems (vo/ao)</A></B> | |
| 553 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 554 | |
| 555 | |
| 556 <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"> | |
| 557 Ok, -vo help shows DGA driver, but it is babbling about permissions! | |
| 558 Help me! | |
| 559 </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"> | |
| 560 It works only if running as root! It's a DGA limitation. | |
| 561 You should become to root (su -), and try again. | |
| 562 Another solution is making mplayer SUID root, but its NOT RECOMMENDED!<BR> | |
| 563 <CODE>chown root /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE><BR> | |
| 564 <CODE>chmod 750 /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE><BR> | |
| 565 <CODE>chmod +s /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE><BR> | |
| 566 <B>!!!! BUT STAY TUNED !!!!</B><BR> | |
| 567 This is a *BIG* security risk! *NEVER* do this on a server or on a computer | |
| 568 can be accessed by more people than only you because they can gain root | |
| 569 privilegies through suid root mplayer!!!<BR> | |
| 570 <B>!!!! SO YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ... !!!!</B> | |
| 571 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 572 | |
| 573 <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"> | |
| 574 When using Xvideo, my Voodoo 3/Banshee says:<BR> | |
| 575 <CODE>X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)<BR> | |
| 576 Major opcode of failed request: 147 (MIT-SHM)<BR> | |
| 577 Minor opcode of failed request: 1 (X_ShmAttach)<BR> | |
| 578 Serial number of failed request: 26<BR> | |
| 579 Current serial number in output stream:27</CODE><BR> | |
| 580 </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"> | |
| 581 Your driver is old, update it. Either download (at least) DRI version 0.6 | |
| 582 from <A HREF="http://dri.sourceforge.net">http://dri.sourceforge.net</A>, | |
| 583 or use the DRI cvs. | |
| 584 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 585 | |
| 586 <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"> | |
| 587 When using Xvideo, I can't play DivX avis with my Voodoo 3/Banshee! | |
| 588 It says:<BR> | |
| 589 ...<BR> | |
| 590 <CODE>Xvideo image format: 0x32315659 (YV12) planar<BR> | |
| 591 Xvideo image format: 0x30323449 (I420) planar<BR></CODE> | |
| 592 ... | |
| 593 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">A1:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 594 See the previous answer. | |
| 595 </TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">A2:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 596 Since 0.18pre4 we support libavcodec from the ffmpeg package. It contains | |
| 597 a C language DivX and OpenDivX decoder. The DivX decoder uses YV12 format | |
| 598 for output, thus it should work for you. Compile in libavcodec support. | |
| 599 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 600 | |
| 601 <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"> | |
| 602 OpenGL (-vo gl) output doesn't work (hangup/black window/X11 errors/...). | |
| 603 </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"> | |
| 604 Your opengl driver doesn't support dynamic texture changes (glTexSubImage) | |
| 605 It's known not to work with nVidia's binary shit. | |
| 606 It's known to work with Utah-GLX/DRI and Matrox G400 card. Also with | |
| 607 DRI and Radeon card. It won't work with DRI others than these. | |
| 608 it will not work with 3DFX cards because the 256x256 texture size limit. | |
| 609 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 610 | |
| 611 <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"> | |
| 612 I have an nVidia TNT/TNT2 card, and I have a band with strange colours, | |
| 613 right under the movie! Whose fault is this? | |
| 614 </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"> | |
| 615 It's the nVidia X driver's. These bugs are ONLY with the TNT/TNT2 cards, | |
| 616 and we can't do anything about it, it's not our bug. UPDATE : it's fixed | |
| 617 in newest drivers, at last.. | |
| 618 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 619 | |
| 620 <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"> | |
| 621 I have an nVidia XYZ card, and when I click on the GUI's diplay window to toggle | |
| 622 displaying the GUI panel, a black square appears where I clicked. I have | |
| 623 the newest driver. | |
| 624 </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"> | |
| 625 Yes, nvidia corrected a previous bug (above), and implemented a new one. Let's | |
| 626 congratule them. | |
| 627 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 628 | |
| 629 <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"> | |
| 630 When I use the GUI with SDL video output, a second video window is created. | |
| 631 </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"> | |
| 632 Known, don't use SDL for GUI yet. | |
| 633 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 634 | |
| 635 <TD COLSPAN=3> | |
| 636 <B><A NAME=5.5><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.5. Feature requests</A></B> | |
| 637 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 638 | |
| 639 <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"> | |
| 640 Is there a hint on how to watch RealMedia movies in MPlayer? | |
| 641 </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"> | |
| 642 There's no way to do it. Therefore this format deserves to die in flames. | |
| 643 Theoretically you can reverse engineer Real codecs built for Linux (they | |
| 644 are available as .so files), but in practice that's really difficult, even | |
| 645 if you know how the compiler used by Real is making assembler code. | |
| 646 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 647 | |
| 648 <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"> | |
| 649 When will be <your favourite video feature> (like subtitle placement) implemented? | |
| 650 </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"> | |
| 651 Wait for libvo2. | |
| 652 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 653 | |
| 654 <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"> | |
| 655 I want to play MP3 files with MPlayer ! | |
| 656 </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"> | |
| 657 This feature is not planned. There are much better players (mpg123, 3pm, xmms) | |
| 658 for this task, use them. BTW, MPlayer stands for Movie Player. | |
| 659 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 660 | |
| 661 <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"> | |
| 662 I'd like to seek +/- 1 frames, instead of 10 seconds. | |
| 663 </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"> | |
| 664 This won't be done. It was, but then it fucked up A/V sync. Feel free to | |
| 665 implement it, and send a patch. Don't ask for it. | |
| 666 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 667 | |
| 668 <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"> | |
| 669 Where is the Windows version ? | |
| 670 </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"> | |
| 671 It's not released, and won't be. Look around the windows scene (opensource | |
| 672 ASF parsers, opensource ASF encoders, etc) and you'll know why. We don't | |
| 673 want to go to jail. | |
| 674 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 675 | |
| 676 | |
| 677 <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"> | |
| 678 What card you may suggest me to buy?</font></font></b></td> | |
| 679 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A0:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 680 It's for your opinion only but our issues are:</font></font> | |
| 681 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A1:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 682 Speed:</font></font> | |
| 683 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>This | |
| 684 parameter can be computed very easy:</font></font> | |
| 685 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>a)</b> | |
| 686 which movies do you plan to watch:</font></font> | |
| 687 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>- | |
| 688 MPEG1:</b> 320x200@32=256000</font></font> | |
| 689 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>so | |
| 690 you need only 256*25fps=6.4Mb/sec bandwidth (This format can be played | |
| 691 in real-time on any PC since P-100 + S3Virge)</font></font> | |
| 692 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>- | |
| 693 MPEG4:</b> 640x480@32=1228800</font></font> | |
| 694 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>you | |
| 695 need videobandwidth 1.2*25fps=30Mb/sec To watch such movie in real-time | |
| 696 you need enough power PC: (Celeron-450+DIMM based video card)</font></font> | |
| 697 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>- | |
| 698 MPEG2 (aka DVD or SDTV):</b> 1024x768@32=3145728</font></font> | |
| 699 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>you | |
| 700 need videobandwidth 3*30fps=90Mb/sec In extremal cases (if your video card | |
| 701 supports IDCT decoding) this can be played on the same PC as for MPEG4</font></font> | |
| 702 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>- | |
| 703 HDTV (HighData TeleVision):</b> 2000x2000@32=16000000</font></font> | |
| 704 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>i.e. | |
| 705 videobandwidth = 16*30fps=480Mb/sec (This means also that you need at least | |
| 706 32Mb of video memory to watch this stream: 16Mb for RGB area and 16Mb for | |
| 707 YUV area)</font></font> | |
| 708 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>b)</b> | |
| 709 Bandwidth of PCI slot is: 33Mhz*32bit=132Mb/sec And PCI2.1 has 66MHz*32bit=265Mb/sec | |
| 710 that is far enough for any movie playback (except HDTV streams which really | |
| 711 require AGP bus).</font></font> | |
| 712 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>c)</b> | |
| 713 What memory type should be installed on video card:</font></font> | |
| 714 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>SIMM</b> | |
| 715 - avoid that</font></font> | |
| 716 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>DIMM</b> | |
| 717 - good if your video card has 128-bit memory access.</font></font> | |
| 718 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>DDR</b> | |
| 719 - is far enough for all types.</font></font> | |
| 720 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>Note: | |
| 721 By DGA comparision - there is no any visible difference between video cards | |
| 722 which have installed the same type of video memory.</font></font> | |
| 723 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>Resume:</b> | |
| 724 If you have enough power CPU (Celeron-450 or K6-2-500) it would be enough | |
| 725 to buy any video card which has at least 8Mb of DIMM or DDR memory.</font></font> | |
| 726 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A2:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 727 Quality:</font></font> | |
| 728 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>This | |
| 729 question was investigated in depth at:</font></font> | |
| 730 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.anandtech.com">http://www.anadtech.com</a> | |
| 731 AnandTech - Video Card Roundup - DVD Quality, Features & Performance | |
| 732 (October 2000)</font></font> | |
| 733 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A3:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> | |
| 734 WORKING features under Linux:</font></font> | |
| 735 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>If | |
| 736 you are win32 user then probably you have support (from driver and DirectX8 | |
| 737 side) for any feature which was introduced in your chip.</font></font> | |
| 738 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>But | |
| 739 for <b>linux </b>users:</font></font> | |
| 740 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>Currently | |
| 741 I know only several vendors which have more or less advanced support under | |
| 742 Linux:</font></font> | |
| 743 <br> | |
| 744 <table BORDER COLS=5 WIDTH="100%" NOSAVE > | |
| 745 <tr> | |
| 746 <td> </td> | |
| 747 | |
| 748 <td> | |
| 749 <center>Matrox</center> | |
| 750 </td> | |
| 751 | |
| 752 <td> | |
| 753 <center>ATI</center> | |
| 754 </td> | |
| 755 | |
| 756 <td> | |
| 757 <center>NVidia</center> | |
| 758 </td> | |
| 759 | |
| 760 <td> | |
| 761 <center>S4 Savage</center> | |
| 762 </td> | |
| 763 </tr> | |
| 764 | |
| 765 <tr> | |
| 766 <td>Driver's provider</td> | |
| 767 | |
| 768 <td>enthusiasts</td> | |
| 769 | |
| 770 <td>enthusiasts</td> | |
| 771 | |
| 772 <td>OEM + enthusiasts</td> | |
| 773 | |
| 774 <td>enthusiasts</td> | |
| 775 </tr> | |
| 776 | |
| 777 <tr> | |
| 778 <td>Driver's quality</td> | |
| 779 | |
| 780 <td>Best(X11,kernel)</td> | |
| 781 | |
| 782 <td>Best(X11,GATOS,kernel)</td> | |
| 783 | |
| 784 <td>Buggy(X11 only)</td> | |
| 785 | |
| 786 <td>Best(X11 only)</td> | |
| 787 </tr> | |
| 788 | |
| 789 <tr> | |
| 790 <td>VIDEO OVERLAY</td> | |
| 791 | |
| 792 <td></td> | |
| 793 | |
| 794 <td></td> | |
| 795 | |
| 796 <td></td> | |
| 797 | |
| 798 <td></td> | |
| 799 </tr> | |
| 800 | |
| 801 <tr> | |
| 802 <td>BES and YV2RGB</td> | |
| 803 | |
| 804 <td>YES</td> | |
| 805 | |
| 806 <td>YES</td> | |
| 807 | |
| 808 <td>YES</td> | |
| 809 | |
| 810 <td>YES</td> | |
| 811 </tr> | |
| 812 | |
| 813 <tr> | |
| 814 <td>scaling filters</td> | |
| 815 | |
| 816 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 817 | |
| 818 <td>YES</td> | |
| 819 | |
| 820 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 821 | |
| 822 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 823 </tr> | |
| 824 | |
| 825 <tr> | |
| 826 <td>adaptive deinterlace</td> | |
| 827 | |
| 828 <td>NO</td> | |
| 829 | |
| 830 <td>YES</td> | |
| 831 | |
| 832 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 833 | |
| 834 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 835 </tr> | |
| 836 | |
| 837 <tr> | |
| 838 <td>Video equalizer (hue, contrast, saturation, color correction)</td> | |
| 839 | |
| 840 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 841 | |
| 842 <td>PARTLY (under devel)</td> | |
| 843 | |
| 844 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 845 | |
| 846 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 847 </tr> | |
| 848 | |
| 849 <tr> | |
| 850 <td>Alpha blending, color and video keys</td> | |
| 851 | |
| 852 <td>PARTLY</td> | |
| 853 | |
| 854 <td>PARTLY (under devel)</td> | |
| 855 | |
| 856 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 857 | |
| 858 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 859 </tr> | |
| 860 | |
| 861 <tr> | |
| 862 <td>Video capture</td> | |
| 863 | |
| 864 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 865 | |
| 866 <td>YES(GATOS)</td> | |
| 867 | |
| 868 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 869 | |
| 870 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 871 </tr> | |
| 872 | |
| 873 <tr> | |
| 874 <td>TV-out</td> | |
| 875 | |
| 876 <td>YES</td> | |
| 877 | |
| 878 <td>YES</td> | |
| 879 | |
| 880 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 881 | |
| 882 <td>N/A</td> | |
| 883 </tr> | |
| 884 </table> | |
| 885 | |
| 886 <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>Well | |
| 887 - it's very rude observing of video card. Indeed we should pay our attention | |
| 888 for models of video card:</font></font> | |
| 889 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>For | |
| 890 example if MatroxG400(G450) drivers support TV-out then G550 has no such | |
| 891 support.</font></font> | |
| 892 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>Other | |
| 893 sample: Adaptive deinterlacing exists only since Rage128 chip and isn't | |
| 894 present on Mach64+ ones. Same as 3D features are far different from Mach64 | |
| 895 to Radeon2 8500 with trueform possibilities.</font></font> | |
| 896 <p><b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>ANYWAY | |
| 897 - MPLAYER'S TEAM DOESN'T ACCEPT ANY CLAIMS IF YOU AFTER</font></font></b> | |
| 898 <br><b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>READING | |
| 899 OF THIS MATERIAL WILL BUY CARD WHICH IS UNSUCCESSFUL FOR YOU!!!</font></font></b> | |
| 900 <br><b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>THIS | |
| 901 MATERIAL IS ONLY OUR VISION.</font></font></b> | |
| 902 <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>Q:</b> | |
| 903 If PCI slot is far enough for most types of movies then why S3 Virge</font></font> | |
| 904 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>is | |
| 905 too slow for them?</font></font> | |
| 906 <br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>A:</b> | |
| 907 Due to its SIMM memory.</font></font> | |
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| 909 | |
| 910 <TD COLSPAN=3> | |
| 911 <B><A NAME=5.6><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.6. Encoding</A></B> | |
| 912 </TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> | |
| 913 | |
| 914 <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"> | |
| 915 How can I encode ? | |
| 916 </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"> | |
| 917 Check <A HREF="encoding.html">this documentation</A>. | |
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| 919 | |
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