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FAQ section</A></B></P> + +<TABLE BORDER=0 WIDTH=100% ALIGN=left> + +<TD COLSPAN=3><P><B><A NAME=5.1><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.1 Compilation</A></B></P> +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +configure ends with this text, and MPlayer won't compile !<BR> +<CODE>Your gcc does not support even i386 for '-march' and '-mcpu'.</CODE> +</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"> +Your gcc isn't installed correctly, check <CODE>config.log</CODE> file +for details. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +What does "No such file or directory" means ? +</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"> +Probably there is no such file or directory. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +What's the problem with gcc 2.96 ? +</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"> +To be short: <B><I>DO NOT USE gcc 2.96 !!!</I></B><BR> +Check <A HREF="gcc-2.96-3.0.html">this</A> and <A HREF="users_against_developers.html">this</A> texts! +If you still really really want to do so, be sure to use the latest release. +<BR> +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +Great, I have gcc 3.0.1 from RedHat/Mandrake, then I'm fine--! +</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"> +No, since there have been/are issues with those compilers.<BR> +Use 2.95.x series for reliability (not <A HREF="gcc-2.96-3.0.html">2.96</A>). +Use the latest gcc 3.0.x (starting at 3.0.2) if you want to use a 3.0.x version. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +I tried to compile MPlayer, but I got this output:<BR> +<PRE> +In file included from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/std_cwchar.h:42, + from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/fpos.h:40, + from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/char_traits.h:40, + from /usr/include/g++-v3/bits/std_string.h:41, + from /usr/include/g++-v3/string:31, + from libwin32.h:36, + from DS_AudioDecoder.h:4, + from DS_AudioDec.cpp:5: +/usr/include/wchar.h: In function Long long int wcstoq(const wchar_t*, + wchar_t**, int)': +/usr/include/wchar.h:514: cannot convert `const wchar_t* __restrict' to +`const +</PRE> +</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"> +Upgrade your glibc to the newest. On Mandrake, use 2.2.4-8mdk . +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +...gcc 2.96... (yes, some people are STILL flaming about their gcc 2.96!!) +</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"> +<P>But we has idegs (the word 'ideg' is described further in the FAQ). And our +idegcounters overflow again and again.</P> + +<P>Unfortunately MPlayer is out of our control. It's used by lamers, Linux users +who can't even use windows, and never tried to compile a kernel. They installed +(with default options) Mandrake or RedHat or Suse, and without RTFM'ing they +send messages saying 'it doesn't work! help me! please! i'm new to the linux! +help! oh! help me!'. We can't stop them, but at least we try to force them RTFM +and to read fuckin' messages of ./configure and mplayer.</P> + +<P>And you clever guys come and flame us with gcc 2.96 and binary packages. +Instead of helping users or making patches to help solve problems.</P> + +<P>Half of our spare/free time is spent by answering silly mails here and +making newer tricks and checks to configure to avoid such mails.</P> + +<P>And there is a balance. On one hand are you, clever guys, saying we are very +bad because we don't like buggy gcc 2.96, and at the other hand there are the +'new to linux' guys who are showing us gcc 2.96 is buggy.</P> + +<P>Conclusion: we can't be good. Half of people always will say we are bad.</P> + +<P>Maybe we should close the project, make it closed source, commercial, and +provide install support for it. then we could leave current work, so +development could go faster, and we earn lots of money with it and buy a big +house, etc etc. Do you really want it? It seems.</P> + +<P ALIGN=RIGHT>Arpi (a mail on the mplayer-users list)</P> +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +Where can I find information about gcc 2.96 bugs ? +</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"> +In <A HREF="gcc-2.96-3.0.html">this</A> documentation. And <A HREF="users_against_developers.html">this</A> +documentation describes why RedHat released 2.96 and other interesting things. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +SDL output doesn't work or compile. Problem is .... +</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"> +It is tested with newest SDL (probably runs on 1.1.7+). +It does NOT work with any previous version, so don't ask. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +I am still having trouble compiling with SDL support. gcc says something +about "undefined reference to `SDL_EnableKeyRepeat'" What's now? +</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"> +Where did you install the SDL library? If you installed in /usr/local +(the default) then edit the top level config.mak and add +"-L/usr/local/lib " after "X_LIBS=" Now type make. You're done! +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +It doesn't compile, and it misses uint64_t inttypes.h and similar things... +</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"> +copy etc/inttypes.h to <B>MPlayer</B> directory (cp etc/inttypes.h .) +try again... +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +I have Pentium III but ./configure doesn't detect SSE +</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"> +Only kernel versions 2.4.x supports SSE (or try latest 2.2.19 or newer, but +be prepared for problems) +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +I have G200/G400, how to compile/use mga_vid driver? +</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"> +Read all this documentation. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +Are there rpm/deb/... packages of <B>MPlayer</B>? +</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"> +You can make a .deb package for yourself, check section <A HREF="documentation.html#6.1">6.1</A>. +It's _STRONGLY_ discouraged to use precompiled packages +of <B>MPlayer</B>, since it (currently) _highly_ depends on compile-time +options and optimizations! +Precompiled packages are COMPLETELY unsupported by the <B>MPlayer</B> team! +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +During 'make', MPlayer complains about X11 libraries. I don't understand, +I DO have X installed!? +</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"> +...but you don't have the X development package installed. Or not +correctly. It's called XFree86-devel* under RedHat, and xlib6g-dev* under +Debian. Also check if the /usr/X11 symlink exists (this can be a problem on +Mandrake systems). It can be created with the<BR> + <CODE>$ ln -sf /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11</CODE><BR> + command. Also check the /usr/include/X11 link :<BR> + <CODE>$ ln -sf /usr/X11R6/include/X11 /usr/include/X11</CODE><BR> +Your distribution may differ from the Linux Filesystem Standard. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +What about DGA driver? I can't find it!!! +</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"> +./configure autodetects your DGA driver. If -vo help doesn't show +DGA, then there's a problem with your X installation. +Try ./configure --enable-dga (and RTFM) +Alternatively, try SDL's DGA driver with '-vo sdl:dga' options. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +I can't compile SVGAlib.. I'm using 2.3/2.4 kernel. +</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"> +You have to edit SVGAlib's Makefile.cfg and comment "BACKGROUND = y" out. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +I compiled MPlayer with libdvdcss/libdivxdecore support, but when +I try to start it, it says:<BR> +<CODE>> error while loading shared libraries: lib*.so.0: cannot load +shared object file: No such file or directory</CODE><BR> +I checked up on the file and it IS there in /usr/local/lib. +</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"> +What are you doing on Linux? Can't you install a library? Why do +we get these questions? It's not <B>MPlayer</B> specific at all! Add +/usr/local/lib to <B>/etc/ld.so.conf</B> and run <B>ldconfig</B> . +Or install it to /usr/lib , because if you can't solve the /usr/local +problem, you are careless enough to do such things. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +MPlayer doesn't seem to find my libcss. What am I doing wrong ? +</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"> +It's normal. <B>MPlayer</B> no longer depends on libcss to play a DVD. You +have to install <B>libdvdread</B> and <B>libdvdcss</B>. Check for DVD Playback +part <A HREF="cd-dvd.html">here</A>. libcss is to be used for example when you +want to play encrypted VOB files from hard disk (not for general users). +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +Hmm, strange. When loading the mga_vid.o kernel module, I found this in the logs:<BR> +<CODE>Warning: loading mga_vid.o will taint the kernel: no license</CODE> +</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"> +The latest kernels modules needs require a flag indicating its license (mainly +to avoid kernel hackers' debugging closed sources drivers). +Upgrade your kernel and your modutils and <B>MPlayer</B>. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +When compiling <B>MEncoder</B>, it segfaults at linking !!! +</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"> +Dunno, upgrading binutils should help (2.11.92.* or newer should be good). Not our fault, do NOT report! +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +I'd like to compile <B>MPlayer</B> on Minix ! +</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"> +Me too. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + + +<TD COLSPAN=3><B><A NAME=5.2><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.2. General questions</A></B> +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +What about DVD playing ? +</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"> +Read the CD/DVD section in <A HREF="cd-dvd.html">this page</A>. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +-xy or -fs option doesn't work with x11 driver (-vo x11) +</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"> +It does, but you have to explicitly specify software scaling (it's SLOW!) with +the <CODE>-zoom</CODE> option. You better use XF86VidMode support: +you must specify the -vm and the -fs switch, and you're done. +Make sure you have the right Modelines in your XF86Config file, and +try if the DGA driver (and SDL's DGA driver, see RTFM) works for you. +It's much faster. If SDL's DGA works too, use that, it'll be EVEN faster! +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +What is the meaning of numbers in the status line? +</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"> +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> +<UL> +<LI><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A: audio position in seconds +<LI>V: video position in seconds +<LI>A-V: audio-video difference in seconds (delay) +<LI>ct: total A-V sync correction done +<LI>frames played (counting from last seek) +<LI>video codec cpu usage in percent (for mpeg it includes video_out too!) +<LI>video_out cpu usage for avi, 0 for mpg (see above) +<LI>audio codec cpu usage in percent +<LI>frames needed to drop to maintain A-V sync +<LI>current level of image postprocessing (when using -autoq) +</UL> +<I>Most of them are for debug purposes, and will be removed soon.</I> +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +What if I don't want them to appear? +</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"> +Then you use the -quiet option, and read the manpage. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +Why is video_out cpu usage zero (0%) for mpeg files? +</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"> +It's not zero, but it's built in into codec, so can't be measured separated. +You should try to play the file using -vo null and then -vo ... and check +the difference to see video_out speed... +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +What's XMMP? (is it XMMS or XMPS but mispelled?) +</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"> +It's a new project, see http://frozenproductions.com for details +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +There are error messages about file not found /usr/lib/win32/.... +</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"> +Download <A HREF="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/w32codec.zip">w32codec.zip</A> +from *our* FTP (avifile's codec package has different DLL set). +Install it. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +Are there any mailing lists on MPlayer? +</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"> +Yes! See RTFM on how to subscribe them! +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +I've found a nasty bug when I tried to play my favourite video!! +Who should I inform? +</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"> +See Appendix <A HREF="bugreports.html">C</A>. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +I have problems playing files with ... codec. Can I use'em? +</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"> +Check <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html">http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html</A>, +if it doesn't contain your codec, read +<A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.3">section 2.1.3</A>, and contact us. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +Umm, what is "IdegCounter"? +</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"> +A mixture of a hungarian and an english word. In english, "Ideg" means +"nerve", and is pronounced as something like "ydaegh" . It was first used +to measure the nervousness of A'rpi, after some (umm) "mystic" disappearance +of CVS code ;) +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +And what is "Faszom(C)ounter" ? +</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"> +"Fasz" is a hungarian word you don't want to know, the others are in +connection with the pervert minds of the MPlayer developers. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +LIRC doesn't work, because ... +</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"> +Are you sure you use "mplayer_lirc" instead of "mplayer"? +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +Subtitles are very nice, the most beautiful I've ever seen, but they slow +down the playing! I know it's unlikely... +</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"> +After running ./configure , edit config.h and replace <CODE>#undef FAST_OSD</CODE> with +<CODE>#define FAST_OSD</CODE>. Then recompile. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +The OSD is flickering! +</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"> +You use a vo driver with single buffering (x11,xv). With xv, +use -double option. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +What exactly is this libavcodec? +</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"> +See the <A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.2.2">2.1.2.2 section</A>. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +But configure tells me "Checking for libavcodec ... no"! +</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"> +You need to get libavcodec from FFmpeg's CVS. Read the instructions in +the <A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.2.2">ffmpeg section</A>. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +The GUI isn't usable with icewm, because some panel are over the movie!! +</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"> +Known, icewm is shit and dictatoric. Unsolvable. In detail: icewm sucks +because its taskbar overrides GUI's window resize queries. If it asks for +resize to 800x600, then it resizes window to 800x(600-taskbar_size). It's bad. +Very bad. In short: shit. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +I can't access the GUI menu. I press right click, but I can't access any +menu items ! +</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"> +Are you using FVWM ? Try the following :<BR> +Start -> Settings -> Configuration -> Base Configuration<BR> +<BR> +Set "Use Applications position hints" to Yes. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<TD COLSPAN=3> +<B><A NAME=5.3><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.3. File playing problems</A></B> +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +...... works with avifile/aviplay while doesn't with MPlayer. +</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"> +<B>MPlayer</B> != avifile +The only common thing between these players is the Win32 DLL loader. +The codecs (dll) sets, syncronization, demultiplexing etc is totaly +different and shouldn't be compared. +If something works with aviplay it doesn't mean that <B>MPlayer</B> should do +it and vice versa. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +Audio goes out of sync playing .avi file. +</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"> +Try with -bps or -nobps option +if still bad, send me (upload to ftp) that file, I'll check. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +Indeo 3.x/4.x movies are viewed upside-down!!!? +</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"> +It's a known bug (really it's a bug/limitation of the DLL codec) +Try if your vo driver supports the -flip switch. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +Indeo 3.x,4.x video doesn't work at 32bpp resolutions (16,24 bpp are ok). +</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"> +It's a known bug (really it's a bug/limitation of the DLL codec). +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +MPlayer exits with something error when using l3codeca.acm. +</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"> +Check 'ldd /usr/local/bin/mplayer' output. If it contains<BR> + <CODE>libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4???????)</CODE><BR> +where "?" is any number then it's ok, the error is not here. If it is:<BR> + <CODE>libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00??????)</CODE><BR> +then there is problem with your kernel/libc. Maybe you are using some +security patches (for example Solar Designer's OpenWall patch) which +forces loading libraries to very low addresses. +Because l3codeca.acm is a non-relocatable DLL, it must be loaded to +0x00400000, we can't change this. You should use non-patched kernel, +or use <B>MPlayer</B>'s -afm 1 option to disable using l3codeca.acm. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +My computer plays M$ DivX AVIs with resolutions ~ 640x300 and stereo mp3 +sound too slow. When I use -nosound switch, everything is ok (but quiet). +</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"> +Ok son, your machine is too slow. RTFM or anything. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +MPlayer dies with "MPlayer interrupted by signal 4 in module: decode_video". +</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"> +Try running <B>MPlayer</B> on the machine you compiled on. Or recompile. Don't +use <B>MPlayer</B> on different CPU than it was compiled on. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +I have problems with [your window manager] and fullscreen xv/xmga/sdl/x11 modes.. +</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"> +Use the -fsmode switch. See example.conf or manpage. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +But it works with avifile! +</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"> +So what? +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +Then avifile is better! +</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"> +Then use avifile, it has nice GUI and nice C++ code :) +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +I got this playing mpeg files: Can't find codec for video format 0x10000001! +</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"> +You have old version of codecs.conf at ~/.mplayer/. Upgrade it from etc/<BR> +<B>OR</B> you have the <CODE>vc=</CODE> option or similar, in your +config file(s). +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +After starting mplayer under KDE(1/2) I just get a black screen and nothing +happens, after about one minute the video starts playing. +</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"> +The KDE arts sound daemon is blocking the sound device, either wait the time +until video starts or you disable the arts-daemon in kontrollcenter. +If you want to use arts sound, specify audio output via SDL (ao=sdl), and +make sure your SDL can handle arts sound. Yet another option is to start +mplayer with artsdsp. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +I have an AVI that plays with grey screen with -vc odivx, and green with -vc divx4 . +</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"> +It's not a DivX file, but an M$ MPEG4v3 . Update your codecs.conf. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +There this movie is, and when I play it I get video-audio desync and/or MPlayer crashes with the following:<BR> +<CODE>DEMUXER: Too many (945 in 8390980 bytes) video packets in the buffer!</CODE> +</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"> +This can have multiple reasons.<BR> + <LI>your CPU <B>and/or</B> video card <B>and/or</B> bus is too SLOW. <B>MPlayer</B> + displays a message if this is the case. (and the dropped frames counter is going up fast)</LI> + <LI>if it is an AVI, maybe it has shit interleaving. Try the <I>-ni</I> option.</LI> + <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> + <LI>the AVI has shit header, try with the <I>-nobps</I> option, and/or <I>-mc 0</I> .</LI> +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +I have an MJPEG file which works with other players but displays only black +image in MPlayer. +</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"> +Disable the Windows DLL in <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE>, or use <CODE>-vc ffmjpeg</CODE> option (you have to +compile MPlayer with libavcodec). +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +When I try to grab from my tuner, it works, but colors are strange. It's ok +with other applications. +</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"> +Your card probably misreports its colorspace capacity. Try with YUY2 instead +of default YV12 (see TV input documentation). +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +When I try to start playing, I get this message, but playing is good :<BR> +<CODE>Linux RTC init: ioctl (rtc_pie_on): Permission denied</CODE> +</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"> +See the <A HREF="documentation.html#1.3">Installation section</A>. The part +about new sync code. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +I have A/V sync problems. Some of my AVIs play fine, but some play with +double speed ! +</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"> +You have buggy soundcard/driver. Most likely it's fixed at 44100Hz, and +you try to play a file which has 22050Hz audio. Try the <CODE>-ao sdl</CODE> +driver. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +All the WMV (or other..) files I play gives green/gray window and there is +only sound! It prints:<BR> +<CODE>Detected video codec: [null] drv:0 (NULL codec (no decoding))</CODE> +</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"> +Update your <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE> +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +I'm using the GUI. During startup, MPlayer prints :<BR> +<PRE><CODE>Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid. +This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper +program instead. For further details, see...</CODE></PRE> +</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"> +You can't use GTK in a suid-root binary, as pointed out in the GUI section. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + + +<TD COLSPAN=3> +<B><A NAME=5.4><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.4. Video/audio driver problems (vo/ao)</A></B> +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + + +<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"> +Ok, -vo help shows DGA driver, but it is babbling about permissions! +Help me! +</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"> +It works only if running as root! It's a DGA limitation. +You should become to root (su -), and try again. +Another solution is making mplayer SUID root, but its NOT RECOMMENDED!<BR> + <CODE>chown root /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE><BR> + <CODE>chmod 750 /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE><BR> + <CODE>chmod +s /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE><BR> +<B>!!!! BUT STAY TUNED !!!!</B><BR> +This is a *BIG* security risk! *NEVER* do this on a server or on a computer +can be accessed by more people than only you because they can gain root +privilegies through suid root mplayer!!!<BR> +<B>!!!! SO YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ... !!!!</B> +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +When using Xvideo, my Voodoo 3/Banshee says:<BR> +<CODE>X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)<BR> + Major opcode of failed request: 147 (MIT-SHM)<BR> + Minor opcode of failed request: 1 (X_ShmAttach)<BR> + Serial number of failed request: 26<BR> + Current serial number in output stream:27</CODE><BR> +</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"> +Your driver is old, update it. Either download (at least) DRI version 0.6 +from <A HREF="http://dri.sourceforge.net">http://dri.sourceforge.net</A>, +or use the DRI cvs. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +When using Xvideo, I can't play DivX avis with my Voodoo 3/Banshee! +It says:<BR> +...<BR> +<CODE>Xvideo image format: 0x32315659 (YV12) planar<BR> +Xvideo image format: 0x30323449 (I420) planar<BR></CODE> +... +</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"> +See the previous answer. +</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"> +Since 0.18pre4 we support libavcodec from the ffmpeg package. It contains +a C language DivX and OpenDivX decoder. The DivX decoder uses YV12 format +for output, thus it should work for you. Compile in libavcodec support. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +OpenGL (-vo gl) output doesn't work (hangup/black window/X11 errors/...). +</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"> +Your opengl driver doesn't support dynamic texture changes (glTexSubImage) +It's known not to work with nVidia's binary shit. +It's known to work with Utah-GLX/DRI and Matrox G400 card. Also with +DRI and Radeon card. It won't work with DRI others than these. +it will not work with 3DFX cards because the 256x256 texture size limit. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +I have an nVidia TNT/TNT2 card, and I have a band with strange colours, +right under the movie! Whose fault is this? +</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"> +It's the nVidia X driver's. These bugs are ONLY with the TNT/TNT2 cards, +and we can't do anything about it, it's not our bug. UPDATE : it's fixed +in newest drivers, at last.. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +I have an nVidia XYZ card, and when I click on the GUI's diplay window to toggle +displaying the GUI panel, a black square appears where I clicked. I have +the newest driver. +</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"> +Yes, nvidia corrected a previous bug (above), and implemented a new one. Let's +congratule them. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +When I use the GUI with SDL video output, a second video window is created. +</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"> +Known, don't use SDL for GUI yet. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<TD COLSPAN=3> +<B><A NAME=5.5><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.5. Feature requests</A></B> +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +Is there a hint on how to watch RealMedia movies in MPlayer? +</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"> +There's no way to do it. Therefore this format deserves to die in flames. +Theoretically you can reverse engineer Real codecs built for Linux (they +are available as .so files), but in practice that's really difficult, even +if you know how the compiler used by Real is making assembler code. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +When will be <your favourite video feature> (like subtitle placement) implemented? +</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"> +Wait for libvo2. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +I want to play MP3 files with MPlayer ! +</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"> +This feature is not planned. There are much better players (mpg123, 3pm, xmms) +for this task, use them. BTW, MPlayer stands for Movie Player. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +I'd like to seek +/- 1 frames, instead of 10 seconds. +</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"> +This won't be done. It was, but then it fucked up A/V sync. Feel free to +implement it, and send a patch. Don't ask for it. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> + Where is the Windows version ? +</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"> + It's not released, and won't be. Look around the windows scene (opensource + ASF parsers, opensource ASF encoders, etc) and you'll know why. We don't + want to go to jail. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + + +<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"> +What card you may suggest me to buy?</font></font></b></td> +</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"> +It's for your opinion only but our issues are:</font></font> +</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"> +Speed:</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>This +parameter can be computed very easy:</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>a)</b> +which movies do you plan to watch:</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>- +MPEG1:</b> 320x200@32=256000</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>so +you need only 256*25fps=6.4Mb/sec bandwidth (This format can be played +in real-time on any PC since P-100 + S3Virge)</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>- +MPEG4:</b> 640x480@32=1228800</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>you +need videobandwidth 1.2*25fps=30Mb/sec To watch such movie in real-time +you need enough power PC: (Celeron-450+DIMM based video card)</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>- +MPEG2 (aka DVD or SDTV):</b> 1024x768@32=3145728</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>you +need videobandwidth 3*30fps=90Mb/sec In extremal cases (if your video card +supports IDCT decoding) this can be played on the same PC as for MPEG4</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>- +HDTV (HighData TeleVision):</b> 2000x2000@32=16000000</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>i.e. +videobandwidth = 16*30fps=480Mb/sec (This means also that you need at least +32Mb of video memory to watch this stream: 16Mb for RGB area and 16Mb for +YUV area)</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>b)</b> +Bandwidth of PCI slot is: 33Mhz*32bit=132Mb/sec And PCI2.1 has 66MHz*32bit=265Mb/sec +that is far enough for any movie playback (except HDTV streams which really +require AGP bus).</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>c)</b> +What memory type should be installed on video card:</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>SIMM</b> +- avoid that</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>DIMM</b> +- good if your video card has 128-bit memory access.</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>DDR</b> +- is far enough for all types.</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>Note: +By DGA comparision - there is no any visible difference between video cards +which have installed the same type of video memory.</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>Resume:</b> +If you have enough power CPU (Celeron-450 or K6-2-500) it would be enough +to buy any video card which has at least 8Mb of DIMM or DDR memory.</font></font> +</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"> +Quality:</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>This +question was investigated in depth at:</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.anandtech.com">http://www.anadtech.com</a> +AnandTech - Video Card Roundup - DVD Quality, Features & Performance +(October 2000)</font></font> +</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"> +WORKING features under Linux:</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>If +you are win32 user then probably you have support (from driver and DirectX8 +side) for any feature which was introduced in your chip.</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>But +for <b>linux </b>users:</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>Currently +I know only several vendors which have more or less advanced support under +Linux:</font></font> +<br> +<table BORDER COLS=5 WIDTH="100%" NOSAVE > +<tr> +<td> </td> + +<td> +<center>Matrox</center> +</td> + +<td> +<center>ATI</center> +</td> + +<td> +<center>NVidia</center> +</td> + +<td> +<center>S4 Savage</center> +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Driver's provider</td> + +<td>enthusiasts</td> + +<td>enthusiasts</td> + +<td>OEM + enthusiasts</td> + +<td>enthusiasts</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Driver's quality</td> + +<td>Best(X11,kernel)</td> + +<td>Best(X11,GATOS,kernel)</td> + +<td>Buggy(X11 only)</td> + +<td>Best(X11 only)</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>VIDEO OVERLAY</td> + +<td></td> + +<td></td> + +<td></td> + +<td></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>BES and YV2RGB</td> + +<td>YES</td> + +<td>YES</td> + +<td>YES</td> + +<td>YES</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>scaling filters</td> + +<td>N/A</td> + +<td>YES</td> + +<td>N/A</td> + +<td>N/A</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>adaptive deinterlace</td> + +<td>NO</td> + +<td>YES</td> + +<td>N/A</td> + +<td>N/A</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Video equalizer (hue, contrast, saturation, color correction)</td> + +<td>N/A</td> + +<td>PARTLY (under devel)</td> + +<td>N/A</td> + +<td>N/A</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Alpha blending, color and video keys</td> + +<td>PARTLY</td> + +<td>PARTLY (under devel)</td> + +<td>N/A</td> + +<td>N/A</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>Video capture</td> + +<td>N/A</td> + +<td>YES(GATOS)</td> + +<td>N/A</td> + +<td>N/A</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td>TV-out</td> + +<td>YES</td> + +<td>YES</td> + +<td>N/A</td> + +<td>N/A</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>Well +- it's very rude observing of video card. Indeed we should pay our attention +for models of video card:</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>For +example if MatroxG400(G450) drivers support TV-out then G550 has no such +support.</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>Other +sample: Adaptive deinterlacing exists only since Rage128 chip and isn't +present on Mach64+ ones. Same as 3D features are far different from Mach64 +to Radeon2 8500 with trueform possibilities.</font></font> +<p><b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>ANYWAY +- MPLAYER'S TEAM DOESN'T ACCEPT ANY CLAIMS IF YOU AFTER</font></font></b> +<br><b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>READING +OF THIS MATERIAL WILL BUY CARD WHICH IS UNSUCCESSFUL FOR YOU!!!</font></font></b> +<br><b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>THIS +MATERIAL IS ONLY OUR VISION.</font></font></b> +<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>Q:</b> +If PCI slot is far enough for most types of movies then why S3 Virge</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1>is +too slow for them?</font></font> +<br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size=-1><b>A:</b> +Due to its SIMM memory.</font></font> +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<TD COLSPAN=3> +<B><A NAME=5.6><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5.6. Encoding</A></B> +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +<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"> +How can I encode ? +</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"> +Check <A HREF="encoding.html">this documentation</A>. +</TD><TR><TD COLSPAN=3> </TD><TR> + +</TABLE> + +</BODY> +</HTML>