diff DOCS/BUGS @ 817:5fccfe90850c

updated

--- a/DOCS/BUGS	Wed May 16 23:40:55 2001 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/BUGS	Thu May 17 01:07:56 2001 +0000
@@ -14,17 +14,16 @@
   Workaround: ./configure --disable-mmx
   SOLVED: bug of gcc-2.96  -  you should use 2.95.2 or 2.95.3
 
-3. SIGILL or other fault at loading l3codeca.acm:
+3. SIGILL (signal 4) or other fault at loading l3codeca.acm:
   Problem: shared libs are loaded to 0x00xxxxxx instead of 0x40xxxxxx
   Workaround: mplayer -afm 1 ...
   SOLVED: you are using some security kernel patch, like OpenWall etc.
 
-Please contact me if you experienced any of the above problems. We need
-people to test fixes and send us as many system details information as
-possible (kernel+libc+gcc+binutils version, test results, /proc/cpuinfo etc)
-because these are system-dependent problems and aren't reproducable here.
-Please tell me if you can fix them or you are only a user.
-Unfortunately we can't reproduce these here, so it's very hard to fix.
+4. General SIGILL (signal 4):
+  Problem: you compiled and run mplayer in different machines
+    (for example compiled on P3 and runinng on celeron)
+  Solution: compile MPlayer on machine where you will use it
+  Workaround: ./configure --disable-sse etc. options
 
 Various A-V sync and other audio problems:
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -38,16 +37,16 @@
 - slow machine (cpu or vga)
   try with -vo null, if it plays well, then you have slow VGA card/driver:
   Workaround: buy a faster card or read DOCS/VIDEOCARDS about how to speed up
+  SOLVED: try -framedrop  (maybe -hardframedrop)
 
-Audio delay specific to one or a few files:
-- bad file (pleae upload the file, so we can check & fix)
-  Workaround: -ni or -bps option
+Audio delay/de-sync specific to one or a few files:
+- bad file (please upload the file, so we can check & fix)
+  Workaround: -ni or -bps option   (for non-interlaved or bad files)
+              -mc 0   (required for files with VBR audio)
               -delay option or +/- keys at runtime to adjust delay
 - your soundcard doesn't support 48Khz playback
   Workaround: buy a better soundcard... 
-              or try to decrease fps by 10% (-fps 27 option for a 30fps movie)
-- file has VBR mp3 audio
-  Workaround: mplayer -mc 0
+              or try to decrease fps by 10% (use -fps 27 for a 30fps movie)
 
 After many > or ^ (fast forward) audio vs. video is going out of sync (ASF/AVI)
 - bug in mplayer code (a-v sync probs after seek... not really bug but
@@ -67,7 +66,7 @@
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 First note: options -fs -vm and -zoom are just recommendations, not (yet)
 supported by all drivers. So it isn't a bug if it doesn't work.
-Only a few driver supports scaling/zooming, doesn't except this from x11 or dga.
+Only a few driver supports scaling/zooming, don't expect this from x11 or dga.
 
 [TODO: known libvo bugs]