diff DOCS/README @ 1201:0bddc179f042

some fixes, updates

--- a/DOCS/README	Sat Jun 23 15:40:47 2001 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/README	Sat Jun 23 15:45:47 2001 +0000
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-MPlayer                         (C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy (A'rpi/ESP-team)
-=============================== * See the file AUTHORS for the complete list *
-http://mplayer.sourceforge.net
+MPlayer - Movie Player for LINUX (C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy (A'rpi/ESP-team)
+================================ * See the file AUTHORS for the complete list *
+http://mplayer.sourceforge.net (or http://mplayer.dev.hu)
 
 About:
 ~~~~~~
@@ -8,16 +8,15 @@
 supported by many native and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VCD, DVD and even
 DivX movies too. 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/SiS) 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 (7 supported types!!!) with hungarian,
-english, cyrillic, czech, korean fonts, and OSD?
+but you can use SDL (and this way all drivers of SDL, for example AAlib) and
+some lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox) 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 (7 supported types!!!) with
+hungarian, english, cyrillic, czech, korean fonts, and OSD?
 
 History:
 ~~~~~~~~
-Yes. Yet another movie player for linux.
-What is the special with this? It works, at least for me :)
+This began a year ago...
 I've tried lots of players under linux (mtv,xmps,dvdview,livid/oms,VideoLAN,
 xine,xanim,avifile,xmmp) but they all have some problem. Mostly with
 special files or with audio/video sync. Most of them is unable to play
@@ -41,6 +40,7 @@
 - MPlayer v0.10:
   The MPEG and AVI player in a single binary!
 - MPlayer v0.11:
+  Some new developers joined and from 0.11 the mplayer project is a team-work!
   Added .ASF file support, and OpenDivX (see www.projectmayo.com) en/decoding.
 - MPlayer v0.17 "The IdegCounter"
   The release version of the 0.11pre after 4 months of heavy development!
@@ -76,12 +76,14 @@
 - MPEG 1/2 System Stream (PS/PES/VOB) and Elementary Stream (ES) file formats
 - RIFF AVI file format
 - ASF 1.0 file format
-- supports reading from file or stdin
+- supports reading from file, stdin, DVD drive or network via HTTP
+
+Note: about quicktime (.mov/.qt) and realmedia (.ra/.rm) support read the FAQ!
 
 Supported audio & video codecs:
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 *** See http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/DOCS/codecs.html ***
-***               for the complete list                 ***
+***       for the complete, daily updated list!!!       ***
 
 The most important video codecs:
 - MPEG1 (VCD) and MPEG2 (DVD) video
@@ -91,8 +93,8 @@
 - MJPEG, ASV2 and other hardware formats
 
 The most important audio codecs:
-- MPEG layer 2, and layer 3 (MP3) audio
-- AC3 dolby audio
+- MPEG layer 2, and layer 3 (MP3) audio (native code, with 3dnow optimization)
+- AC3 dolby audio (native code, with 3dnow optimization)
 - Voxware audio
 - alaw, msgsm, pcm and other simple old audio formats
 
@@ -103,20 +105,19 @@
 Supported video output devices:
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 General:
-- x11:	X11 with SHM extension
+- x11:	X11 with optional SHM extension
 - xv:	X11 using overlays with the Xvideo extension (hardware YUV & scaling)
 - gl:	OpenGL renderer, so far works only with :
 	- all cards with Utah-GLX
 	- Matrox cards with X/DRI >=4.0.3
 	- Radeon with X/DRI CVS
 - dga:	X11 DGA extension
-- fsdga:X11 DGA extension with fullscreen scaling (only 24/32bpp and MPEG!)
 - fbdev:Output to general framebuffers
 - svga: Output to SVGAlib
 - sdl:	1.1.7 : supports software scaling
-	1.1.8 : supports Xvideo
-	1.2.0 : supports aalib
-- aalib:Textmode rendering (through SDL, native driver is coming soon!)
+	1.1.8 : supports Xvideo (hardware scaling/fullscreen)
+	1.2.0 : supports aalib (textmode rendering, very funny!)
+- ggi: similar to SDL
 
 Card specific:
 - mga:	Matrox G200/G400 hardware YUV overlay via the mga_vid device
@@ -132,13 +133,16 @@
 - odivx:OpenDivX AVI File writer (use -br to set encoding bitrate)
 - null:	Null output (for speed tests/benchmarking)
 
-NOTE: check DOCS/VIDEOCARDS !
+NOTE: check DOCS/VIDEOCARDS for details and requirements!
 
 Supported audio output devices:                                              
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-- OSS driver
-- ALSA driver with OSS emulation (ALSA >= 0.9 only!)
-- ESD with the esddsp utility (not tested)
+- OSS (ioctl) driver
+- SDL driver (supports up/downsampling, esd, arts etc)
+- native ALSA 0.5 driver
+- native ALSA 0.9 driver (buggy, use OSS emulation!)
+- native ESD driver (under development?)
+- SUN audio driver (/dev/audio) for BSD and Solaris8 users
 
 NOTE: check DOCS/SOUNDCARDS for details!
 
@@ -150,11 +154,15 @@
 
 Usage:
 ~~~~~~
-  mplayer [options] [-vo driver] [path/]filename
+  file:  mplayer [options] [path/]filename
+  VCD:   mplayer [options] -vcd trackno /dev/cdrom
+  DVD:   mplayer [options] -dvdauth /dev/dvd filename.VOB
+  net:   mplayer [options] http://site.com/file.[mpg|avi]
 
   Options:
     see  `mplayer -h'  for options
-    see  `mplayer -vo help'  for list of available output drivers
+    see  `mplayer -vo help'  for list of available video output drivers
+    see  `mplayer -ao help'  for list of available audio output drivers
 
   Keys:
     <-  or  ->      seek backward/forward 10 seconds
@@ -260,7 +268,7 @@
 
 	Send matrox-related questions here,
 	- things about mga_vid,
-	- matrox's official beta drivers (for X 4.xx)
+	- matrox's official beta drivers (for X 4.x.x)
 	- and about matroxfb-TVout stuff.
 
 - mpg12play-portable developers: