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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Documentation - MPlayer - The Movie Player for Linux</TITLE> <LINK REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css" HREF="default.css"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </HEAD> <BODY> <H1 ALIGN="center">MPlayer - The Movie Player for LINUX</H1> <H2 ALIGN="center">© 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (A'rpi/ESP-team)<BR> <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu">http://www.mplayerhq.hu</A></H2> <P ALIGN="center">[ English ] <A HREF="Hungarian/documentation.html">[ Hungarian ]</A> <A HREF="German/documentation.html">[ German ]</A> <A HREF="French/documentation.html">[ French ]</A> <A HREF="Polish/documentation.html">[ Polish ]</A> <A HREF="Italian/documentation.html">[ Italian ]</A></P> <HR> <H2>Table of Contents</H2> <HR> <UL> <LI><A HREF="#reading">0. How to read this documentation</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#introduction">1. Introduction</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="#history">1.1 History</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#installation">1.2 Installation</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#gui">1.3 What about the GUI?</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#subtitles_osd">1.4 Subtitles and OSD</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="#mpsub">1.4.1 MPlayer's own subtitle format (MPsub)</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#install_osd">1.4.2 Installing OSD and subtitles</A></LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><A HREF="#rtc">1.5 RTC</A></LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><A HREF="#features">2. Features</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="formats.html">2.1 Supported formats</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#video_formats">2.1.1 Video formats</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#mpeg">2.1.1.1 MPEG files</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#avi">2.1.1.2 AVI files</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#asf">2.1.1.3 ASF/WMV files</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#mov">2.1.1.4 QuickTime/MOV files</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#vivo">2.1.1.5 VIVO files</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#fli">2.1.1.6 FLI files</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#real">2.1.1.7 RealMedia (RM) files</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#nuppelvideo">2.1.1.8 NuppelVideo files</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#yuv4mpeg">2.1.1.9 yuv4mpeg files</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#film">2.1.1.10 FILM files</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#roq">2.1.1.11 RoQ files</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#ogg">2.1.1.12 OGG files</A></LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#audio_formats">2.1.2 Audio formats</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#mp3">2.1.2.1 MP3 files</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#wav">2.1.2.2 WAV files</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#ogg_vorbis">2.1.2.3 OGG files (Vorbis)</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#wma">2.1.2.4 WMA/ASF files</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#mp4">2.1.2.5 MP4 files</A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html">2.2 Supported codecs</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#video_codecs">2.2.1 Video codecs</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#divx">2.2.1.1 DivX4/DivX5</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#libavcodec">2.2.1.2 FFmpeg DivX/libavcodec</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#xanim">2.2.1.3 XAnim codecs</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#vivo_video">2.2.1.4 VIVO video</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#mpeg">2.2.1.5 MPEG 1/2 video</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#ms_video1">2.2.1.6 MS Video1</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#cinepak">2.2.1.7 Cinepak CVID</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#realvideo">2.2.1.8 RealVideo</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#xvid">2.2.1.9 XViD</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#sorenson">2.2.1.10 Sorenson</A></LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#audio_codecs">2.2.2 Audio codecs</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#software_ac3">2.2.2.1 Software AC3 decoding</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#hardware_ac3">2.2.2.2 Hardware AC3 decoding</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#libmad">2.2.2.3 libmad support</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#vivo_audio">2.2.2.4 VIVO audio</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#realaudio">2.2.2.5 RealAudio</A></LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#importing">2.2.3 Win32 codec importing HOWTO</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#importing_vfw">2.2.3.1 VFW codecs</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#importing_directshow">2.2.3.2 DirectShow codecs</A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><A HREF="#output">2.3 Output devices</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="video.html">2.3.1 Video output devices</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="video.html#mtrr">2.3.1.1 Setting up MTRR</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#xv">2.3.1.2 Xv</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="video.html#xv_3dfx">2.3.1.2.1 3dfx cards</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#xv_s3">2.3.1.2.2 S3 cards</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#xv_nvidia">2.3.1.2.3 nVidia cards</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#xv_ati">2.3.1.2.4 ATI cards</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#xv_neomagic">2.3.1.2.5 NeoMagic cards</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#xv_trident">2.3.1.2.6 Trident cards</A></LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#dga">2.3.1.3 DGA</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="video.html#dga_summary">2.3.1.3.1 Summary</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#dga_whatis">2.3.1.3.2 What is DGA</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#dga_installation">2.3.1.3.3 Installing DGA support for MPlayer</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#dga_resolution">2.3.1.3.4 Resolution switching</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#dga_mplayer">2.3.1.3.5 DGA & MPlayer</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#dga_features">2.3.1.3.6 Features of the DGA driver</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#dga_speed">2.3.1.3.7 Speed issues</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#dga_bugs">2.3.1.3.8 Known bugs</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#dga_future">2.3.1.3.9 Future work</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#dga_modelines">2.3.1.3.A Some modelines</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#dga_bug_reports">2.3.1.3.B Bug Reports</A></LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#sdl">2.3.1.4 SDL</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#svgalib">2.3.1.5 SVGAlib</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#fbdev">2.3.1.6 Framebuffer output (FBdev)</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#mga_vid">2.3.1.7 Matrox framebuffer (mga_vid)</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#tdfxfb">2.3.1.8 3dfx YUV support (tdfxfb)</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#opengl">2.3.1.9 OpenGL output</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#aalib">2.3.1.10 AAlib - text mode displaying</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#vesa">2.3.1.11 VESA - output to VESA BIOS</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#x11">2.3.1.12 X11</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#vidix">2.3.1.13 VIDIX</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#zr">2.3.1.14 Zr</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#dvb">2.3.1.15 DVB</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#dxr3">2.3.1.16 DXR3/Hollywood+</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#tv-out">2.3.1.A TV-out support</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="video.html#tv-out_matrox">2.3.1.A.1 Matrox G400 cards</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#tv-out_matrox_g450">2.3.1.A.2 Matrox G450/G550 cards</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#tv-out_ati">2.3.1.A.3 ATI cards</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#tv-out_voodoo">2.3.1.A.4 Voodoo 3</A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <LI><A HREF="sound.html">2.3.2 Audio output devices</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="sound.html#experiences">2.3.2.1 Sound card experiences, recommendations</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="sound.html#plugins">2.3.2.2 Audio plugins</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="sound.html#resample">2.3.2.2.1 Up/Downsampling</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="sound.html#surround_decoding">2.3.2.2.2 Surround Sound decoding</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="sound.html#format">2.3.2.2.3 Sample format converter</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="sound.html#delay">2.3.2.2.4 Delay</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="sound.html#volume">2.3.2.2.5 Software volume control</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="sound.html#extrastereo">2.3.2.2.6 Extrastereo</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="sound.html#normalizer">2.3.2.2.7 Volume Normalizer</A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><A HREF="encoding.html">2.4 Encoding with MEncoder</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#compilation">2.4.1 Compilation</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#features">2.4.2 MEncoder Features</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#2pass">2.4.2.1 Encoding 2 or 3-pass DivX4</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#rescaling">2.4.2.2 Rescaling movies</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#copying">2.4.2.3 Stream copying</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#fixing">2.4.2.4 Fixing AVIs with broken index</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#libavcodec">2.4.2.5 Encoding with the libavcodec codec family</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#image_files">2.4.2.6 Encoding from multiple input image files (JPEGs or PNGs)</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#vobsub">2.4.2.7 Extracting DVD subtitles to Vobsub file</A></LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#options">2.4.3 Available options</A></LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><A HREF="#tv">2.5 TV input</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="#tv_compilation">2.5.1 Compilation</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#tv_options">2.5.2 Available options</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#tv_keyboard">2.5.3 Keyboard control</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#tv_examples">2.5.4 Examples</A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><A HREF="#usage">3. Usage</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="#command_line">3.1 Command line</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#control">3.2 Control</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="#default_controls">3.2.1 Default controls</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#controls_configuration">3.2.2 Controls configuration</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="#key_names">3.2.2.1 Key names</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#commands">3.2.2.2 Commands</A></LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><A HREF="#lirc">3.2.3 Control from LIRC</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#slave">3.2.4 Slave mode</A></LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><A HREF="#streaming">3.3 Streaming from network or pipes</A></LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><A HREF="cd-dvd.html">4. CD/DVD section</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="cd-dvd.html#drives">4.1 CD/DVD drives</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="cd-dvd.html#dvd">4.2 DVD playback</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="cd-dvd.html#vcd">4.3 VCD playback</A></LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><A HREF="faq.html">5. FAQ section</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="faq.html#compilation">5.1 Compilation</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="faq.html#general">5.2 General questions</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="faq.html#playback">5.3 playback problems</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="faq.html#driver">5.4 Video/audio driver problems (vo/ao)</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="faq.html#dvd">5.5 DVD playback</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="faq.html#features">5.6 Feature requests</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="faq.html#encoding">5.7 Encoding</A></LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><A HREF="#ports">6. Ports</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="#debian">6.1 Debian packaging</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#freebsd">6.2 FreeBSD</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#solaris">6.3 Solaris</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#strongarm">6.4 StrongARM</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#sgi">6.5 Silicon Graphics / Irix</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#qnx">6.6 QNX</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#openbsd">6.7 OpenBSD</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#cygwin">6.8 Cygwin</A></LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><A HREF="#mailing_lists">Appendix A - Mailing lists</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="bugreports.html">Appendix B - How to report bugs</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="tech/patches.txt">Appendix B2 - How to send patches</A></LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><A HREF="#known_bugs">Appendix C - Known bugs</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="skin-en.html">Appendix D - MPlayer skin format</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html">Appendix E - Developer Cries</A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#gcc">GCC 2.96</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#binary">Binary distribution</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#nvidia">nVidia</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#barr">Joe Barr</A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <HR> <H1><A NAME="reading">0. How to read this documentation</A></H1> <P>If you are a first-time installer: be sure to read everything from here to the end of the Installation section, and follow the links you will find. If you have any other questions, return to the Table of Contents and search for the topic, read the <A HREF="faq.html">FAQ</A>, or try grepping through the files.</P> <P>The main rule of this documentation: if it's not documented, it <U>does not exist</U>. If I don't say you encode audio from TV tuner, you can't. A healthy quantity of combining ability is welcomed, though. Good luck. You'll need it :) And for another good advice, let me quote Chris Phillips from the <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/">mplayer-users</A> mailing list:</P> <BLOCKQUOTE> I said a while ago that there is such a difference between a newbie and a dumbass. No matter what you actually know about a system (linux, cars, girls :D) you should ALWAYS be able to take a step back and be objective, otherwise, you're just dumb IMHO. A girl i live with assumed the vacuum cleaner was broken because it didn't suck things up. never thought to change the bag, becasue she'd never done it before... now that's just stupid, not a case of simply not knowing what to do... Simply not being that familiar with your surroundings is no excuse for a) laziness and b) ignorance. So many people seem to see the word "error" and then stop... few seem to actually read the words on the OTHER side of the colon. </BLOCKQUOTE> <H1><A NAME="introduction">1. Introduction</A></H1> <P><B>MPlayer</B> is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices, and <B>non-x86</B> CPUs, see the <A HREF="#ports">ports section</A>). It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG, VIVO, ASF/WMV, QT/MOV, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch <B>VideoCD</B>, <B>SVCD</B>, <B>DVD</B>, <B>3ivx</B>, <B>RealMedia</B>, and <B>DivX</B> movies too (and you don't need the avifile library at all!). Another big feature of <B>MPlayer</B> is the wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, DirectFB, but you can use GGI and SDL (and this way all their drivers) and some lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon, Mach64, Permedia3) too! Most of them supports software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. <B>MPlayer</B> supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the <B><A HREF="video.html#dvb">DVB</A></B> and <B><A HREF="video.html#dxr3">DXR3/Hollywood+</A></B>. And what about the nice big antialiased shaded subtitles (<B>10 supported types</B>) with European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic, Korean fonts, and the onscreen display (OSD)?</P> <P><B>MPlayer</B> is under GPL v2 license.</P> <P>The player is rock solid playing damaged MPEG files (useful for some VCDs), and it plays bad AVI files which are unplayable with the famous windows media player. Even AVI files without index chunk are playable, and you can temporarily rebuild their indexes with the <CODE>-idx</CODE> option, or permanently with <B>MEncoder</B>, thus enabling seeking! As you see, stability and quality are the most important things, but the speed is also amazing.</P> <H2><A NAME="history">1.1 History</A></H2> <P>This began a year ago... I (A'rpi) have 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 both MPEG1, MPEG2 and AVI (DivX) files. Many players have image quality or speed problems too. So I've decided to write/modify one...</P> <UL> <LI><B>mpg12play v0.1-v0.3:</B> Sep 22-25, 2000<BR> The first try, hacked together in a half hour! I've used libmpeg3 from www.heroinewarrior.com up to the version 0.3, but there were image quality and speed problems with it.</LI> <LI><B>mpg12play v0.5-v0.87:</B> Sep 28-Oct 20, 2000<BR> Mpeg codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was a great stuff, but it was slow and was written in C++ (I hate C++!!!)</LI> <LI><B>mpg12play v0.9-v0.95pre5:</B> Oct 21-Nov 2, 2000<BR> Mpeg codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman & Michel Lespinasse. It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect image quality and 100% MPEG standard conformance.</LI> <LI><B>MPlayer v0.3-v0.9:</B> Nov 18-Dec 4, 2000<BR> It was a pack of two programs: mpg12play v0.95pre6 and my new simple AVI player 'avip' based on avifile's Win32 DLL loader.</LI> <LI><B>MPlayer v0.10:</B> Jan 1, 2001<BR> The MPEG and AVI player in a single binary!</LI> <LI><B>MPlayer v0.11pre series:</B><BR> 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.</LI> <LI><B>MPlayer v0.17a "The IdegCounter"</B> Apr 27, 2001<BR> The release version of the 0.11pre after 4 months of heavy development! Try it, and be amazed! Thousands of new features added... and of course old code was improved too, bugs removed etc.</LI> <LI><B>MPlayer 0.18 "The BugCounter"</B> Jul 9, 2001<BR> 2 months since 0.17 and here's a new release.. Completed ASF support, more subtitle formats, introduced libao (similar to libvo but to audio), even more stable than ever, and so on. It's a MUST!</LI> <LI><B>MPlayer 0.50 "The Faszom(C)ounter"</B> Oct 8, 2001<BR> Hmm. Release again. Tons of new features, beta GUI version, bugs fixed, new vo and ao drivers, ported to many systems, including opensource DivX codecs and much more. Try it!</LI> <LI><B>MPlayer 0.60 "The RTFMCounter"</B> Jan 3, 2002<BR> MOV/VIVO/RM/FLI/NUV fileformats support, native CRAM, Cinepak, ADPCM codecs, and support for XAnim's binary codecs; DVD subtitles support, first release of MEncoder, TV grabbing, cache, liba52, countless fixes.</LI> <LI><B>MPlayer 0.90 "?"</B> Aug? ??, 2002</LI> </UL> <H2><A NAME="installation">1.2 Installation</A></H2> <P>In this chapter I'll try to guide you through the compiling and configuring process of <B>MPlayer</B>. It's not easy, but it won't necessarily be hard. If you experience a different behavior than what I explain, please search through this documentation and you'll find your answers. If you see links, please follow them and read carefully what they contain. It will take some time, but it DOES worth it.</P> <P>You need a fairly recent system. On Linux, 2.4.x kernels are recommended.</P> <H4>Software requirements:</H4> <UL> <LI><B>binutils</B> - suggested version is <B>2.11.x</B> . This program is responsible for generating MMX/3DNow!/etc instructions, thus very important.</LI> <LI><B>gcc</B> - suggested versions are: <B>2.95.3</B>, <B>2.95.4</B> and <B>3.1</B>. <B>NEVER</B> use 2.96 or 3.0.x! They generate faulty code for MPlayer. If you decide to change gcc from 2.96, then don't decide in favor of 3.0.x just because it's newer! Early releases of 3.0.x were even more buggy than 2.96. So downgrade to 2.95.x (downgrade libstdc++ too, other programs may need it) or don't up/downgrade at all (but in this case, be prepared for runtime problems). If you vote for 3.x.x, try to use the latest version, early releases had various bugs, so be sure you use at least 3.1, it's tested and working. For detailed information about gcc 2.96's bugs (that are still NOT fixed, they have been WORKED AROUND in <B>MPlayer</B>!), see the <A HREF="users_against_developers.html#gcc">gcc 2.96</A> section and the <A HREF="faq.html">FAQ</A>.</LI> <LI><B>XFree86</B> - suggested version is <B>always the newest (4.2.0)</B>. Normally, everyone wants this, as starting with XFree86 4.0.2, it contains the <A HREF="video.html#xv">XVideo</A> extension (somewhere referred to as <B>Xv</B>) which is needed to enable the hardware YUV acceleration (fast image display) on cards that support it.<BR> Make sure its <B>development package</B> is installed, too, otherwise it won't work.<BR> For some video cards you don't need XFree86. See list below.</LI> <LI><B>make</B> - suggested version is <B>always the newest</B> (at least 3.79.x). This usually isn't important.</LI> <LI><B>SDL</B> - it's not mandatory, but can help in some cases (bad audio, video cards that lag strangely with the xv driver). Always use the newest (beginning from 1.2.x).</LI> <LI><B>libjpeg</B> - optional JPEG decoder, used by -mf and some QT MOV files. Useful for both <B>MPlayer</B> and <B>MEncoder</B> if you plan to work with jpeg files.</LI> <LI><B>libpng</B> - recommended and default (M)PNG decoder. Required for GUI. Useful for both <B>MPlayer</B> and <B>MEncoder</B>.</LI> <LI><B>lame</B> - recommended, needed for encoding MP3 audio with MEncoder, suggested version is <B>always the newest</B> (at least 3.90).</LI> <LI><B>libogg</B> - optional, needed for playing OGG file format.</LI> <LI><B>libvorbis</B> - optional, needed for playing OGG Vorbis audio.</LI> </UL> <H4>Codecs:</H4> <UL> <LI><B>libavcodec</B>: This codec package is capable of decoding H263/MJPEG/RV10/DivX3/DivX4/DivX5/MP41/MP42/WMV1 encoded video streams, on multiple platforms. It is also known to be the fastest for this task. See the <A HREF="codecs.html#libavcodec">libavcodec</A> section for details. Features:<BR> <UL> <LI>gain decoding of videos mentioned above, on non-x86 machines</LI> <LI>encoding with most of the mentioned codecs</LI> <LI>this codec is the <B>fastest codec available</B> for DivX/3/4/5 and other MPEG4 types. Recommended!</LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><B>Win32 codecs</B>: If you plan to use <B>MPlayer</B> on x86 architecture, you will possibly need them. Download and unzip w32codecs.zip to /usr/lib/win32 <B>BEFORE</B> compiling <B>MPlayer</B>, otherwise no Win32 support will be compiled!<BR> <B>Note:</B> the avifile project has a similar codecs package, but it differs from ours. If you want to use all supported codecs, then install our package (do not worry, avifile works with it without problems). Features:<BR> <UL> <LI>you need this if you want to play or encode for example movies recorded with various hardware compressors, like tuner cards, digital cameras (example: DV, ATI VCR, MJPEG)</LI> <LI>needed if you want to play <B>WMV8 movies</B>. Not needed for old ASF's with MP41 or MP42 video (though VoxWare audio is frequent for these files - it's done by the Win32 codec), or WMV7.</LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><B>DivX4/DivX5</B>: information about this codec is available in the <A HREF="codecs.html#divx">DivX4/DivX5</A> section. You possibly don't want this codec as <B>libavcodec</B> (see above) is much faster and has better quality than this, for both decoding and encoding.<BR> Features: <UL> <LI>1 pass or 2 pass encoding with <A HREF="encoding.html">MEncoder</A></LI> <LI>can play old <B>DivX3</B> movies much faster than the Win32 DLL but slower than <B>libavcodec</B>!</LI> <LI>it's closed-source, and only an x86 version is available.</LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><B>XviD</B>: Open source encoding alternative to Divx4Linux<BR> Features: <UL> <LI>1 pass or 2 pass encoding with <A HREF="encoding.html">MEncoder</A></LI> <LI>it's open-source, so it's multiplatform.</LI> <LI>it's about 2 times faster than DivX4 when encoding - about the same quality</LI> </UL> </LI> <LI>The <A HREF="codecs.html#xanim">XAnim codecs</A> are the best (full screen, hardware YUV zoom) for decoding <B>3ivx</B> and Indeo 3/4/5 movies, and some old formats. And they are multiplatform, so this is the only way to play Indeo on non-x86 platforms (well, apart from using XAnim:). But for example Cinepak movies are best played with <B>MPlayer</B>'s own Cinepak decoder!</LI> <LI>For <B>Ogg Vorbis</B> audio decoding you need to install <CODE>libvorbis</CODE> properly. Use deb/rpm packages if available, or compile from <A HREF="http://ogg.org/ogg/vorbis/download/vorbis_nightly_cvs.tgz">source</A> (this is a nightly updated tarball of Vorbis CVS).</LI> <LI><B>MPlayer</B> can use the libraries of RealPlayer 8 or RealONE to play files with <B>RealVideo 2.0 - 4.0</B> video, and Sipro/Cook audio. See <A HREF="formats.html#real">RealMedia file format</A> section for installation instructions and more information.</LI> </UL> <H4>Video Cards</H4> <P>There are generally two kind of video cards. One kind (the newer cards) has <B>hardware scaling and YUV acceleration</B> support, the other cards don't.</P> <H4>YUV cards</H4> <P>They can display and scale (zoom) the picture to any size that fits in their memory, with <B>small CPU usage</B> (even when zooming), thus fullscreen playing is nice and very fast.</P> <UL> <LI><B>Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 cards</B>: although a <A HREF="video.html#vidix">Vidix driver</A> is provided, it is recommended to use the old mga_vid kernel module instead, for it works much better. Please see the <A HREF="video.html#mga_vid">mga_vid</A> section about its installation and usage. It is important to do these steps <I>before</I> compiling <B>MPlayer</B>, otherwise no mga_vid support will be built. Also check out the <A HREF="video.html#tv-out_matrox">Matrox TV-out</A> section. <U><B>If you don't use Linux</B></U>, your only possibility is the VIDIX driver: read the <A HREF="video.html#vidix">VIDIX</A> section.</LI> <LI><B>3Dfx Voodoo3/Banshee cards</B>: please see the <A HREF="video.html#tdfxfb">tdfxfb</A> section in order to gain big speedup. It is important to do these steps <B>before</B> compiling <B>MPlayer</B>, otherwise no 3Dfx support will be built. Also see the <A HREF="video.html#tv-out_voodoo">3dfx TV-out section</A>. If you use X, use <B>at least 4.2.0</B>, as the 3dfx Xv driver was broken in 4.1.0 and earlier releases.</LI> <LI><B>ATI cards</B>: <A HREF="video.html#vidix">Vidix driver</A> is provided for the following cards: <B>Radeon</B>, <B>Rage128</B>, <B>Mach64</B> (Rage XL/Mobility, Xpert98). Also see the <A HREF="video.html#tv-out_ati">ATI cards section</A> of the TV-out documentation, to know if you card's TV-out is supported under Linux/MPlayer.</LI> <LI><B>S3 cards</B>: the Savage and Virge/DX chips have hardware acceleration. Use as new XFree86 version as possible, older drivers are buggy. Savage chips have problems with YV12 display, see <A HREF="video.html#xv_s3">S3 Xv section</A> for details. Older, Trio cards have no, or slow hardware support.</LI> <LI><B>nVidia cards</B>: very bad choice for video playing (nVidia <A HREF="users_against_developers.html#nvidia">does not think so</A>). nVidia's cards have very cheap and bad quality chips. Moreover, <B>the built-in nVidia driver in XFree86 does not support hardware YUV acceleration on all nVidia cards.</B> You have to download nVidia's closed-source drivers from nVidia.com. See the <A HREF="video.html#xv_nvidia">nVidia Xv driver</A> section for details.</LI> <LI><B>3DLabs GLINT R3 and Permedia3</B>: a VIDIX driver is provided (pm3_vid). Please see the <A HREF="video.html#vidix">VIDIX</A> section for details.</LI> <LI><B>Other cards</B>: None of the above? <UL> <LI>Try if the XFree86 driver (and your card) supports hardware acceleration. See the <A HREF="video.html#xv">Xv section</A> for details.</LI> <LI>If it doesn't, then your card's video features aren't supported under your operating system :(<BR> If hardware scaling works under Windows, it doesn't mean it will work under Linux or other operating systems: it depends on the drivers. Most manufacturers neither make Linux drivers nor release specifications for their chips, so you are unlucky using their cards. See 'Non-YUV cards'.</LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <H4>Non-YUV cards</H4> <P>Fullscreen playing can be achieved by either enabling <B>software scaling</B> (use the <CODE>-zoom</CODE> or <CODE>-vop scale</CODE> option, but I warn you: this is slow), or switching to a small resolution video mode, for example 352x288. If you don't have YUV acceleration, the latter method is recommended. Video mode switching can be enabled by using the <CODE>-vm</CODE> option and it works with the following drivers:</P> <UL> <LI><B>using</B> XFree86: see the <A HREF="video.html#dga">DGA driver</A> and <A HREF="video.html#x11">X11 driver</A> sections for details. DGA is recommended! Also try DGA via SDL, sometimes it's better.</LI> <LI><B>not using</B> XFree86: try the drivers in the following order: <A HREF="video.html#vesa">vesa</A>, <A HREF="video.html#fbdev">fbdev</A>, <A HREF="video.html#svgalib">svgalib</A>, <A HREF="video.html#aalib">aalib</A>.</LI> </UL> <H4>Some cards:</H4> <UL> <LI><B>Cirrus Logic cards</B>: <UL> <LI>GD 7548: present on-board and tested in Compaq Armada 41xx notebook series. <UL> <LI>XFree86 3: works in 8/16bpp modes. However, the driver is dramatically slow and buggy in 800x600@16bpp. <B>Recommended: 640x480@16bpp</B></LI> <LI>XFree86 4: the Xserver freezes soon after start unless acceleration is disabled, but then the whole thing gets slower than XFree86 3. No XVideo.</LI> <LI>FBdev: framebuffer can be turned on with the <CODE>clgenfb</CODE> driver in the kernel, though for me it worked only in 8bpp, thus unusable. The clgenfb source had to be extended with the 7548 ID before compilation.</LI> <LI>VESA: the card is only VBE 1.2 capable, so VESA output can't be used. Can't be workarounded with UniVBE.</LI> <LI>SVGAlib: detects an older Cirrus chip. Usable but slow with <CODE>-bpp 8</CODE>.</LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <H4>Sound cards:</H4> <UL> <LI><B>Soundblaster Live!</B>: with this card you can use 4 or 6 (<B>5.1</B>) channels AC3 decoding instead of 2. Read the <A HREF="codecs.html#software_ac3">Software AC3 decoding</A> section. For hardware AC3 passthrough you <B>must</B> use ALSA 0.9 with OSS emulation!</LI> <LI><B>C-Media with SP/DIF out</B>: hardware AC3 passthrough is possible with these cards, see <A HREF="codecs.html#hardware_ac3">Hardware AC3 decoding</A> section.</LI> <LI>Features of <B>other cards</B> aren't supported by <B>MPlayer</B>. <U>It's very recommended to read the <A HREF="sound.html">sound card section</A>!</U></LI> </UL> <H4>Features:</H4> <UL> <LI>Decide if you need GUI. If you do, see the <A HREF="#gui">GUI section</A> before compiling.</LI> <LI>If you want to install <B>MEncoder</B> (our great all-purpose encoder), see the <A HREF="encoding.html">MEncoder section</A>.</LI> <LI>If you have a V4L compatible <B>TV tuner</B> card, and wish to watch/grab and encode movies with <B>MPlayer</B>, read the <A HREF="#tv">TV input</A> section.</LI> </UL> <P>Then build <B>MPlayer</B>:</P> <PRE> ./configure make make install </PRE> <P>At this point, <B>MPlayer</B> is ready to use. The directory <CODE>$PREFIX/share/mplayer</CODE> contains the <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE> file, which is used to tell the program all the codecs and their capabilities. This file should always be kept up to date together with the main binary.<BR> Check if you have <CODE>codecs.conf</CODE> in your home directory (<CODE>~/.mplayer/codecs.conf</CODE>) left from old <B>MPlayer</B> versions, and remove it.</P> <P><B>Debian users</B> can build a <CODE>.deb</CODE> package for themselves, it's very simple. Just exec <CODE>fakeroot debian/rules binary</CODE> in <B>MPlayer</B>'s root directory. See <A HREF="documentation.html#debian">Debian packaging</A> for detailed instructions.</P> <P><B>Always browse the output of <CODE>./configure</CODE></B>, and the <CODE>configure.log</CODE> file, they contain information about what will be built, and what will not. You may also want to view <CODE>config.h</CODE> and <CODE>config.mak</CODE> files.<BR> If you have some libraries installed, but not detected by <CODE>./configure</CODE>, then check if you also have the proper header files (usually the -dev packages) and their version matches. The <CODE>configure.log</CODE> file usually tells you what is missing.</P> <P>Though not mandatory, the fonts should be installed in order to gain OSD, and subtitle functionality. Download <CODE>mp-arial-iso-8859-*.zip</CODE> and/or optional (if exists) language updates. See the <A HREF="#subtitles_osd">Subtitles and OSD</A> section for details.</P> <PRE> mkdir ~/.mplayer cd ~/.mplayer unzip mp-arial-iso-8859-1.zip ln -s ~/.mplayer/arial-24 font </PRE> <H2><A NAME="gui">1.3 What about the GUI?</A></H2> <P>The GUI needs GTK (it isn't GTK, but the panels are). The skins are stored in PNG format, so gtk, libpng (and their devel stuff) has to be installed. You can build it by specifying <CODE>--enable-gui</CODE> during <CODE>./configure</CODE>. Then, to turn on GUI mode, you either</P> <UL> <LI>specify <CODE>gui=yes</CODE> in your config file</LI> <LI><CODE>ln -s $PREFIX/bin/mplayer $PREFIX/bin/gmplayer</CODE> , and call <CODE>gmplayer</CODE> instead.</LI> </UL> <P>Currently you can't use the <CODE>-gui</CODE> option on the command line, due to technical reasons.</P> <P>As <B>MPlayer</B> doesn't have a skin included, you have to download them if you want to use the GUI. See the <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html">download page</A>. They should be extracted to the usual system-wide directory (<CODE>$PREFIX/share/mplayer/Skin</CODE>), or to <CODE>$HOME/.mplayer/Skin</CODE>. <B>MPlayer</B> by default looks in these directories for a directory named <I>default</I>, but you can use the <CODE>-skin newskin</CODE> option, or the <CODE>skin=newskin</CODE> config file directive to use the skin in <CODE>*/Skin/newskin</CODE> directory.</P> <H2><A NAME="subtitles_osd">1.4 Subtitles and OSD</A></H2> <P> <B>MPlayer</B> can display subtitles along with movie files. Currently the following formats are supported:</P> <UL> <LI>VobSub</LI> <LI>Microdvd</LI> <LI>SubRip</LI> <LI>SubViewer</LI> <LI>Sami</LI> <LI>VPlayer</LI> <LI>RT</LI> <LI>SSA</LI> <LI>MPsub</LI> <LI>AQTitle</LI> </UL> The command line options differ slightly for the different formats: <H4>VobSub subtitles</H4> <P>VobSub subtitles consist of a big (some megabytes) .SUB file, and optional .IDX and/or .IFO files.<BR> Usage: if you have files like <CODE>sample.sub</CODE>, <CODE>sample.ifo</CODE>, <CODE>sample.idx</CODE> - you have to pass the <CODE>-vobsub sample -vobsubid <id></CODE> options (optionally with pathname, of course). The <CODE>-vobsubid</CODE> option is like <CODE>-sid</CODE> for DVDs, you can choose between subtitle tracks (languages) with it.</P> <H4>Other subtitles</H4> <P>The other formats consist of a single text file containing timing, placement and text information.<BR> Usage: if you have a file like <CODE>sample.txt</CODE>, you have to pass the option <CODE>-sub sample.txt</CODE> (optionally with pathname, of course).</P> <H4>Adjusting subtitle timing and placement:</H4> <DL> <DT><CODE>-subdelay <sec></CODE></DT> <DD>Delays subtitles by <sec> seconds. Can be negative.</DD> <DT><CODE>-subfps <rate></CODE></DT> <DD>Specify frame/sec rate of subtitle file (float number)</DD> <DT><CODE>-subpos <0 - 100></CODE></DT> <DD>Specify the position of subtitles.</DD> </DL> <P>If you experience a growing delay between the movie and the subtitles when using a MicroDVD subtitle file, most likely the frame rate of the movie and the subtitle file are different.<BR> Please note that the MicroDVD subtitle format uses absolute frame numbers for its timing, and therefore the <CODE>-subfps</CODE> option cannot be used with this format. As <B>MPlayer</B> has no way to guess the frame rate of the subtitle file, you have to manually convert the frame rate. There is a little perl script in the <CODE>contrib</CODE> directory of the MPlayer FTP site to do this conversion for you.</P> <P>About DVD subtitles, read the <A HREF="cd-dvd.html#dvd">DVD section</A>.</P> <H3><A NAME="mpsub">1.4.1 MPlayer's own subtitle format (MPsub)</A></H3> <P><B>MPlayer</B> introduces a new subtitle format called <B>MPsub</B>. It was designed by me (Gabucino). Basically its main feature is being <I>dynamically</I> time-based (although it has frame-based mode too). Example (from <A HREF="tech/mpsub.sub">DOCS/tech/mpsub.sub</A>):</P> <P><CODE><I># first number : wait this much after previous subtitle disappeared<BR> # second number : display the current subtitle for this many seconds<BR> <BR> 15 3<BR> A long long, time ago...<BR> <BR> 0 3<BR> in a galaxy far away...<BR> <BR> 0 3<BR> Naboo was under an attack.<BR></I></CODE></P> <P>So you see, the main goal was to <B>make subtitle editing/timing/joining/cutting easy</B>. And, if you - say - get an SSA subtitle but it's badly timed/delayed to your version of the movie, you simply do a <CODE>mplayer dummy.avi -sub source.ssa -dumpmpsub</CODE>. A <CODE>dump.mpsub</CODE> file will be created in the current directory, which will contain the source subtitle's text, but in <B>MPsub</B> format. Then you can freely add/subtract seconds to/from the subtitle.</P> <P>Subtitles are displayed with a technique called <B>'OSD', On Screen Display</B>. OSD is used to display current time, volume bar, seek bar etc.</P> <H3><A NAME="install_osd">1.4.2 Installing OSD and subtitles</A></H3> <P>You need an <B>MPlayer</B> font package to be able to use OSD/SUB feature. There are many ways to get it:</P> <UL> <LI>download ready-to-use font packages from <B>MPlayer</B> site. Note: currently available fonts are limited for iso 8859-1/2 support, but there are some other (including Korean, Russian, 8859-8 etc) fonts at contrib/font section of FTP, made by users.<BR> <BR> Font should have appropriate font.desc file which maps unicode font positions to the actual code page of the subtitles text. Other solution is to have subtitles encoded in utf8 encoding and use <CODE>-utf8</CODE> option or just name the subtitles file <video_name>.utf and have it in the same dir as the video file. Recoding from different codepages to utf8 could be done by using konwert (Debian) or iconv (Red Hat) programs.<BR> Some URLs: <UL> <LI><A HREF="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/">ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/</A> - ISO fonts</LI> <LI><A HREF="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/fonts/">ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/fonts/</A> - various fonts by users</LI> <LI><A HREF="http://realtime.ssu.ac.kr/~lethean/mplayer">http://realtime.ssu.ac.kr/~lethean/mplayer</A> - Korean fonts & RAW plugin</LI> </UL> </LI> <LI>use the font generator tool at TOOLS/subfont-c It's a complete tool to convert from TTF/Type1/etc font to mplayer font pkg. (read TOOLS/subfont-c/README for details)</LI> <LI>use the font generator GIMP plugin at TOOLS/subfont-GIMP (note: you must have HSI RAW plugin too, see URL below)</LI> </UL> <P>After that, UNZIP the file you downloaded to <CODE>~/.mplayer</CODE> or <CODE>$PREFIX/share/mplayer</CODE>. Then rename or symlink one of them to <CODE>font</CODE> (like: <CODE>ln -s ~/.mplayer/arial-24 ~/.mplayer/font</CODE>). Now you have to see a timer at the upper left corner of the movie (switch it off with the "o" key).</P> <P>OSD has 3 states: (switch with 'o')</P> <UL> <LI>timer + volume bar + seek bar + subtitles</LI> <LI>volume bar + seek bar + subtitles (default)</LI> <LI>subtitles only</LI> </UL> <P>You can change default behaviour by setting <CODE>osdlevel=</CODE> variable in config file.</P> <H2><A NAME="rtc">1.5 RTC</A></H2> There are three timing methods in <B>MPlayer</B>. <UL> <LI><B>To use the old method</B>, you don't have to do anything. It uses <CODE>usleep()</CODE> to tune A/V sync, with +/- 10ms accuracy. However sometimes the sync has to be tuned even finer.</LI> <LI><B>The new timer</B> code uses PC's RTC (Real Time Clock) for this task, because it has precise 1ms timers. It is automagically enabled when available, but requires root privileges, a <I>setuid root</I> <B>MPlayer</B> binary or a properly set up kernel. <BR> If you are running kernel 2.4.19pre8 or later you can adjust the maximum RTC frequency for normal users through the <CODE>/proc</CODE> filesystem. Use this command to enable RTC for normal users: <P> <CODE>echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq</CODE> </P> If you do not have such a new kernel, you can also change one line in <CODE>drivers/char/rtc.c</CODE> and recompile your kernel. Find the section that reads <PRE> * We don't really want Joe User enabling more * than 64Hz of interrupts on a multi-user machine. */ if ((rtc_freq > 64) && (!capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE))) </PRE> and change the 64 to 1024. You should really know what you are doing, though. <BR> You can see the new timer's efficiency in the status line. <BR> The power management functions of some notebook BIOSes with speedstep CPUs interact badly with RTC. Audio and video may get out of sync. Plugging the external power connector in before you power up your notebook seems to help. You can always turn off RTC support with the <CODE>-nortc</CODE> switch. In some hardware combinations (confirmed during usage of non-DMA DVD drive on an ALi1541 board) usage of the RTC timer causes skippy playback. It's recommended to use the third method in these cases.</LI> <LI><B>The third timer code</B> is turned on with the <CODE>-softsleep</CODE> option. It has the efficiency of the RTC, but it doesn't use RTC. On the other hand, it requires more CPU.</LI> </UL> <B>Note:</B> <B>NEVER install a setuid root MPlayer binary on a multiuser system!</B> It's a clear way for everyone to become root. <H1><A NAME="features">2. Features</A></H1> <H2><A NAME="formats">2.1</A> <A HREF="formats.html">Supported formats</A></H2> <H2><A NAME="codecs">2.2</A> <A HREF="codecs.html">Supported codecs</A></H2> <H2><A NAME="output">2.3</A> <A HREF="video.html">Video</A> & <A HREF="sound.html">Audio</A> output devices</H2> <H2><A NAME="encoding">2.4</A> <A HREF="encoding.html">MEncoder - An All-Purpose Encoder</A></H2> <H2><A NAME="tv"><B>2.5 TV input</B></A></H2> <P>This section is about how to enable <B>watching/grabbing from V4L compatible TV tuner</B>.</P> <P><B>THIS CODE IS CURRENTLY NOT BEING WORKED ON! Do not expect it to work without tweaking/experimenting!</B></P> <H3><A NAME="tv_compilation">2.5.1 Compilation</A></H3> <OL> <LI>First, you have to recompile. <CODE>./configure</CODE> will autodetect kernel headers of v4l stuff and the existence of <CODE>/dev/video*</CODE> entries. If they exist, TV support will be built (see the output of <CODE>./configure</CODE>).</LI> <LI>Make sure your tuner works with another TV software in Linux, for example xawtv.</LI> </OL> <BLOCKQUOTE> <B>Hint</B><BR> Are the colors messed up? Then your tuner cannot display in YV12 colorspace. Try I420 (<CODE>-vc rawi420</CODE>) or YUY2, UYVY, RGB32 (<CODE>-vo sdl</CODE>) colorspaces. You can specify these with the <CODE>outfmt=YV12</CODE> option, see below. </BLOCKQUOTE> <H3><A NAME="tv_options">2.5.2 Available options</A></H3> <DL> <DT><CODE>on</CODE></DT> <DD>Use TV input.</DD> <DT><CODE>noaudio</CODE></DT> <DD>No sound, thanks.</DD> <DT><CODE>driver</CODE></DT> <DD><B>dummy</B> - NULL TV input :) Used for testing only, generates dummy input.<BR> <B>v4l</B> - Captures images from standard V4L interface (default <CODE>/dev/video0</CODE>).</DD> <DT><CODE>device</CODE></DT> <DD>Specify a device other than the default <CODE>/dev/video0</CODE>.</DD> <DT><CODE>input</CODE></DT> <DD>Specify from which input of the TV tuner you wish to grab (e.g. <B>television</B>, <B>s-video</B>, <B>composite</B>, ...)<BR> Prints the available ones during init.</DD> <DT><CODE>freq</CODE></DT> <DD>Specify the frequency to set the tuner to (e.g. <B>511.250</B>).</DD> <DT><CODE>outfmt</CODE></DT> <DD>Specify the output format the tuner should use to transport images to us (<B>rgb32</B>, <B>rgb24</B>, <B>yv12</B>, <B>uyvy</B>, <B>i420</B> (for i420 you have to pass the <CODE>-vc rawi420</CODE> option, because of a fourcc conflict)).</DD> <DT><CODE>width</CODE></DT> <DD>width of the output window in pixels</DD> <DT><CODE>height</CODE></DT> <DD>height of the output window in pixels</DD> <DT><CODE>norm</CODE></DT> <DD>available: PAL, SECAM, NTSC</DD> <DT><CODE>channel</CODE></DT> <DD>Set the tuner to the given channel.</DD> <DT><CODE>chanlist</CODE></DT> <DD>available: <CODE>us-bcast, us-cable, europe-west, europe-east, etc</CODE></DD> </DL> <H3><A NAME="tv_keyboard">2.5.3 Keyboard control</A></H3> <TABLE BORDER=0> <TR><TD> </TD><TD>h / k</TD><TD> </TD><TD>select previous/next channel</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>n</TD><TD></TD><TD>change norm</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>b</TD><TD></TD><TD>change channel list</TD></TR> </TABLE> <H3><A NAME="tv_examples">2.5.4 Examples</A></H3> <P>Dummy output, to AAlib :)<BR> <CODE> mplayer -tv on:driver=dummy:width=640:height=480 -vo aa</CODE><BR> <BR> Input from standard V4L<BR> <CODE> mplayer -tv on:driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420 -vc rawi420 -vo xv</CODE><BR></P> <P><B>Note:</B><BR> If you have a TV card with an external audio device and get only a black screen, although input works with xawtv or similar, then try to use the <CODE>-noaudio</CODE> option. For the example above this would be:<BR> <CODE> mplayer -tv on:noaudio:driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420 -vc rawi420 -vo xv</CODE></P> <H1><A NAME="usage">3. Usage</A></H1> <H2><A NAME="command_line">3.1 Command line</A></H2> <P><B>MPlayer</B> utilizes a complex playtree. It consists of global options written as first (for example <CODE>mplayer -vfm 5</CODE>), and options written after filenames, that apply only to the given filename/URL/whatever (for example <CODE>mplayer -vfm 5 movie1.avi movie2.avi -vfm 4</CODE>).<BR> You can group filenames/URLs together using { and }. It's useful with option -loop: <CODE>mplayer { 1.avi -loop 2 2.avi } -loop 3</CODE> will play files in this order: 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 2<BR> </P> <TABLE BORDER=0> <TR><TD> </TD><TD>file</TD><TD> </TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] [path/]filename</CODE></TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>files</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [default options] [path/]filename1 [options for filename1] filename2 [options for filename2] ...</CODE></TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>VCD</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] -vcd trackno [-cdrom-device /dev/cdrom]</CODE></TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>DVD</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] -dvd titleno [-dvd-device /dev/dvd]</CODE></TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>net</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE>mplayer [options] http://site.com/file.asf (playlists can be used too)</CODE></TD></TR> </TABLE> <P> Latest versions of MPlayer also accepts VCD and DVD tracks in URL style, just like Xine does: <CODE>mplayer dvd://1</CODE> or <CODE>mplayer vcd://1</CODE></P> <PRE> mplayer -vo x11 /mnt/Films/Contact/contact2.mpg mplayer -vcd 2 mplayer -afm 3 /mnt/DVDtrailers/alien4.vob mplayer -dvd 1 -dvd-device /dev/hdc mplayer -abs 65536 -delay -0.4 -nobps ~/movies/test.avi </PRE> <H2><A NAME="control">3.2 Control</A></H2> <P><B>MPlayer</B> has a fully configurable, command driven, control layer which lets you control <B>MPlayer</B> with keyboard, mouse, joystick or remote control (using LIRC).</P> <H3><A NAME="default_controls">3.2.1 Default controls</A></H3> <H4>Keyboard controls from terminal:</H4> <TABLE BORDER=0> <TR><TD> </TD><TD><- or -></TD><TD> </TD><TD>seek backward/forward 10 seconds</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>up or down</TD><TD></TD><TD>seek backward/forward 1 minute</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>pgup/pgdown</TD><TD></TD><TD>seek backward/forward 10 minutes</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>< or ></TD><TD></TD><TD>seek backward/forward in playlist</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>p or SPACE</TD><TD></TD><TD>pause movie (press any key)</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>q or ESC</TD><TD></TD><TD>stop playing and quit program</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>+ or -</TD><TD></TD><TD>adjust audio delay by +/- 0.1 second</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>/ or *</TD><TD></TD><TD>decrease/increase volume</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>f</TD><TD></TD><TD>toggle fullscreen</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>o</TD><TD></TD><TD>toggle OSD: none / seek / seek+timer</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>v</TD><TD></TD><TD>toggle subtitle visibility</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>z or x</TD><TD></TD><TD>adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 second</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>r or t</TD><TD></TD><TD>adjust subtitle position</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>HOME or END</TD><TD></TD><TD>go to next/previous playtree entry in the parent list</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>INSERT or DELETE</TD><TD></TD><TD>go to next/previous alternative source (only available in asx playlist)</TD></TR> <TR><TD COLSPAN=4><P><I>(the following keys are valid only when using <CODE>-vo xv</CODE>)</I></P></TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>1 or 2</TD><TD></TD><TD>adjust contrast</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>3 or 4</TD><TD></TD><TD>adjust brightness</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>5 or 6</TD><TD></TD><TD>adjust hue</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>7 or 8</TD><TD></TD><TD>adjust saturation</TD></TR> </TABLE> <H4>GUI keyboard controls:</H4> <TABLE BORDER=0> <TR><TD> </TD><TD>, and .</TD><TD> </TD><TD>previous / next file</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>gray - or +</TD><TD></TD><TD>decrease / increase volume</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>enter</TD><TD></TD><TD>start playing</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>space</TD><TD></TD><TD>pause</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>s</TD><TD></TD><TD>stop</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>a</TD><TD></TD><TD>about</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>l</TD><TD></TD><TD>load file</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>b</TD><TD></TD><TD>skin browser</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>e</TD><TD></TD><TD>toggle equalizer</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>p</TD><TD></TD><TD>toggle playlist</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>f</TD><TD></TD><TD>toggle fullscreen</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>m</TD><TD></TD><TD>toggle mute</TD></TR> </TABLE> <H4>Keyboard controls for TV input:</H4> <TABLE BORDER=0> <TR><TD> </TD><TD>h or l</TD><TD> </TD><TD>select previous/next channel</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>n</TD><TD></TD><TD>change norm</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD>b</TD><TD></TD><TD>change channel list</TD></TR> </TABLE> <H3><A NAME="controls_configuration">3.2.2 Controls configuration</A></H3> <P><B>MPlayer</B> allows you bind any key/button to any <B>MPlayer</B> command using a simple config file. The syntax consist of a key name followed by a command. The default config file location is <CODE>$HOME/.mplayer/input.conf</CODE> but it can be overridden using the <CODE>-input</CODE> conf switch (relative path are relative to <CODE>$HOME/.mplayer</CODE>). <P>Example:</P> <PRE> ## ## MPlayer input control file ## RIGHT seek +10 LEFT seek -10 - audio_delay 0.100 + audio_delay -0.100 q quit > pt_step 1 < pt_step -1 ENTER pt_step 1 1 </PRE> <H4><A NAME="key_names">3.2.2.1 Key names</A></H4> <P>You can have a full list by running <CODE>mplayer -input keylist</CODE></P> <H4>Keyboard:</H4> <UL> <LI>Any printable character</LI> <LI>SPACE</LI> <LI>ENTER</LI> <LI>TAB</LI> <LI>CTRL</LI> <LI>BS</LI> <LI>DEL</LI> <LI>INS</LI> <LI>HOME</LI> <LI>END</LI> <LI>PGUP</LI> <LI>PGDWN</LI> <LI>ESC</LI> <LI>RIGHT</LI> <LI>LEFT</LI> <LI>UP</LI> <LI>DOWN</LI> </UL> <H4>Mouse (only supported under X):</H4> <UL> <LI>MOUSE_BTN0 (Left button)</LI> <LI>MOUSE_BTN1 (Right button)</LI> <LI>MOUSE_BTN2 (Middle button)</LI> <LI>MOUSE_BTN3 (Wheel)</LI> <LI>MOUSE_BTN4 (Wheel)</LI> <LI>...</LI> <LI>MOUSE_BTN9</LI> </UL> <H4>Joystick (support must be enabled at compile time):</H4> <UL> <LI>JOY_RIGHT or JOY_AXIS0_PLUS</LI> <LI>JOY_LEFT or JOY_AXIS0_MINUS</LI> <LI>JOY_UP or JOY_AXIS1_MINUS</LI> <LI>JOY_DOWN or JOY_AXIS1_PLUS</LI> <LI>JOY_AXIS2_PLUS</LI> <LI>JOY_AXIS2_MINUS</LI> <LI>...</LI> <LI>JOY_AXIS9_PLUS</LI> <LI>JOY_AXIS9_MINUS</LI> </UL> <H4><A NAME="commands">3.2.2.2 Commands</A></H4> <P>You can have a full list of known commands by running "mplayer -input cmdlist"</P> <UL> <LI><B>seek</B> (int) val [(int) type=0] <P>Seek to some place in the movie.<BR> Type 0 is a relative seek of +/- val seconds.<BR> Type 1 seek to val % in the movie.</P></LI> <LI><B>audio_delay</B> (float) val <P>Adjust the audio delay of val seconds</P></LI> <LI><B>quit</B> <P>Quit <B>MPlayer</B></P></LI> <LI><B>pause</B> <P>Pause/unpause the playback</P></LI> <LI><B>grap_frames</B> <P>Somebody know ?</P></LI> <LI><B>pt_step</B> (int) val [(int) force=0] <P>Go to next/previous entry in playtree. Val sign tell the direction.<BR> If no other entry is available in the given direction it won't do anything unless force is non 0.</P></LI> <LI><B>pt_up_step</B> (int) val [(int) force=0] <P>Like pt_step but it jump to next/previous in the parent list. It's useful to break inner loop in the playtree.</P></LI> <LI><B>alt_src_step</B> (int) val <P>When more than one source is available it select the next/previous one (only supported by asx playlist).</P></LI> <LI><B>sub_delay</B> (float) val [(int) abs=0] <P>Adjust the subtitles delay of +/- val seconds or set it to val seconds when abs is non zero.</P></LI> <LI><B>osd</B> [(int) level=-1] <P>Toggle osd mode or set it to level when level > 0.</P></LI> <LI><B>volume</B> (int) dir <P>Increase/decrease volume</P></LI> <LI><B>contrast</B> (int) val [(int) abs=0]</LI> <LI><B>brightness</B> (int) val [(int) abs=0]</LI> <LI><B>hue</B> (int) val [(int) abs=0]</LI> <LI><B>saturation</B> (int) val [(int) abs=0] <P>Set/Adjust video parameters. Val range from -100 to 100.</P></LI> <LI><B>frame_drop</B> [(int) type=-1] <P>Toggle/Set frame dropping mode.</P></LI> <LI><B>sub_visibility</B> <P>Toggle subtitle visibility.</P></LI> <LI><B>sub_pos</B> (int) val <P>Adjust subtitles position.</P></LI> <LI><B>vo_fullscreen</B> <P>Switch fullscreen mode.</P></LI> <LI><B>tv_step_channel</B> (int) dir <P>Select next/previous tv channel.</P></LI> <LI><B>tv_step_norm</B> <P>Change TV norm.</P></LI> <LI><B>tv_step_chanlist</B> <P>Change channel list.</P></LI> <LI><B>gui_loadfile</B></LI> <LI><B>gui_loadsubtitle</B></LI> <LI><B>gui_about</B></LI> <LI><B>gui_play</B></LI> <LI><B>gui_stop</B></LI> <LI><B>gui_playlist</B></LI> <LI><B>gui_preferences</B></LI> <LI><B>gui_skinbrowser</B> <P>GUI actions</P></LI> </UL> <H3><A NAME="lirc">3.2.3 Control from LIRC</A></H3> <P>Linux Infrared Remote Control - use an easy to build home-brewn IR-receiver, an (almost) arbitrary remote control and control your Linux box with it! More about it at <A HREF="http://www.lirc.org">www.lirc.org</A>.</P> <P>If you have installed the lirc-package, configure will autodetect it. If everything went fine, <B>MPlayer</B> will print a message like "Setting up lirc support..." on startup. If an error occurs it will tell you. If it doesn't tell you anything about LIRC there's no support compiled in. That's it :-)</P> <P>The application name for <B>MPlayer</B> is - oh wonder - 'mplayer'. You can use any mplayer commands and even pass more than one command by separating them with \n. Don't forget to enable the repeat flag in .lircrc when it make sense (seek, volume, etc). Here's an excerpt from my .lircrc:</P> <PRE> begin button = VOLUME_PLUS prog = mplayer config = volume 1 repeat = 1 end begin button = VOLUME_MINUS prog = mplayer config = volume -1 repeat = 1 end begin button = CD_PLAY prog = mplayer config = pause end begin button = CD_STOP prog = mplayer config = seek 0 1\npause end </PRE> <P>If you don't like the standard location for the lirc-config file (~/.lircrc) use the -lircconf <filename> switch to specify another file.</P> <H3><A NAME="slave">3.2.4 Slave mode</A></H3> <P>The slave mode allow you to build simple frontend to <B>MPlayer</B>. When enabled (with the <CODE>-slave</CODE> switch) <B>MPlayer</B> will read commands separated by new line (\n) from stdin.</P> <H2><A NAME="streaming">3.3 Streaming from network or pipes</A></H2> <P><B>MPlayer</B> can play files from network, using the HTTP or MMS protocol.</P> <P>Playing goes by simply using adding the URL to the command line. <B>MPlayer</B> also honors the http_proxy environment variable, and uses proxy if available. Proxy usage can also be forced:</P> <P><CODE>mplayer http_proxy://proxy.micorsops.com:3128/http://micorsops.com:80/stream.asf</CODE></P> <P><B>MPlayer</B> can read from stdin (NOT named pipes). This can be for example used to play from FTP:</P> <P><CODE> wget ftp://micorsops.com/something.avi -O - | mplayer -</CODE></P> <P>Note: it's also recommended to enable CACHE when playback from network:</P> <P><CODE> wget ftp://micorsops.com/something.avi -O - | mplayer -cache 8192 -</CODE></P> <H1><A NAME="faq">4.</A> <A HREF="faq.html">FAQ section</A></H1> <H1><A NAME="cd/dvd">5.</A> <A HREF="cd-dvd.html">CD/DVD section</A></H1> <H1><A NAME="ports">6. Ports</A></H1> <H2><A NAME="debian">6.1 Debian packaging</A></H2> <P>To build the package, get the cvs version, or .tgz and uncompress it, and cd into programs directory:</P> <PRE> cd main fakeroot debian/rules binary </PRE> <P>(... mplayer detects hardware/software, builds itself and.. ) dpkg-deb: building package `mplayer' in `../mplayer_0.90-1_i386.deb'.</P> <P>And now just become root, and:</P> <PRE> dpkg -i ../mplayer_0.90-1_i386.deb as root. </PRE> <P>Here's how it looks like:</P> <PRE> eyck@incubus:/src/main$ sudo dpkg -i ../mplayer_0.90-1_i386.deb Password: (Reading database ... 26946 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace mplayer 0.50-1 (using ../mplayer_0.90-1_i386.deb) Unpacking replacement mplayer ... Setting up mplayer (0.90-1) ... </PRE> <H2><A NAME="freebsd">6.2 FreeBSD</A></H2> <P>To build the package you will need GNU make (gmake, /usr/ports/devel/gmake), native BSD make will not work.</P> <P>To run <B>MPlayer</B> you will need to re-compile the kernel with "options USER_LDT" (unless you are running -CURRENT, where this is default). If you have a CPU with SSE also use "options CPU_ENABLE_SSE" to use it (FreeBSD-STABLE required, or use kernel patches).</P> <P>If <B>MPlayer</B> complains about "CD-ROM Device '/dev/cdrom' not found!" make a symbolic link: <CODE>ln -s /dev/(your_cdrom_device) /dev/cdrom</CODE></P> <P>There's no DVD support for FreeBSD yet.</P> <H2><A NAME="solaris">6.3 Solaris</A></H2> <P>MPlayer should work on Solaris 2.6 or newer.</P> <P>AVI file playback works best on Solaris x86, because you have the option to use the win32 codecs on the x86 platform, or can use MMX/MMX2/3DNow/etc instructions for MP3/DivX/DVD/whatever. On Colaris SPARC, you'll find quite a few AVI files with non working video and/or audio playback, because the video/audio codecs using the Win32 DLLs are not available. However, <B>DivX/OpenDivX</B> movies should work, when using libavcodec.</P> <P>On <B>UltraSPARC</B>s, <B>MPlayer</B> takes advantage of their <B>VIS</B> extensions (equivalent to MMX), currently only in <I>libmpeg2</I>, <I>libvo</I> and <I>libavcodec</I>, but not in mp3lib. You can watch a VOB file on a 400MHz CPU. You'll need <A HREF="http://www.sun.com/sparc/vis/mediaLib.html">mLib</A> installed.</P> <P>To build the package you will need GNU make (gmake, /opt/sfw/gmake), native Solaris make will not work. Typical error you get when building with Solaris' make instead of GNU make:</P> <PRE> % /usr/ccs/bin/make make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 25: Unexpected end of line seen </PRE> <P>On Solaris SPARC, you need the GNU C/C++ Compiler; it does not matter if GNU C/C++ compiler is configured with or without the GNU assembler.</P> <P>On Solaris x86, you need the GNU assembler and the GNU C/C++ compiler, configured to use the GNU assembler! The mplayer code on the x86 platform makes heavy use of MMX, SSE and 3DNOW! instructions that cannot be compiled using Sun's assembler <CODE>/usr/ccs/bin/as</CODE>.</P> <P>The configure script tries to find out, which assembler program is used by your "gcc" command (in case the autodetection fails, use the <CODE>--as=/whereever/you/have/installed/gnu-as</CODE> option to tell the configure script where it can find GNU "as" on your system).</P> <P>Error message from configure on a Solaris x86 system using GCC without GNU assembler:</P> <PRE> % configure ... Checking assembler (/usr/ccs/bin/as) ... , failed Please upgrade(downgrade) binutils to 2.10.1... </PRE> <P>(Solution: Install and use a gcc configured with "--with-as=gas")</P> <P>Typical error you get when building with a GNU C compiler that does not use GNU as:</P> <PRE> % gmake ... gcc -c -Iloader -Ilibvo -O4 -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -I/usr/local/include -o mplayer.o mplayer.c Assembler: mplayer.c "(stdin)", line 3567 : Illegal mnemonic "(stdin)", line 3567 : Syntax error ... more "Illegal mnemonic" and "Syntax error" errors ... </PRE> <P>For DVD support you must have the patched libcss installed. Patch: <A HREF="http://www.tools.de/solaris/mplayer/">http://www.tools.de/solaris/mplayer/</A>.</P> <P>Due to two bugs in Solaris 8 x86, you cannot reliably play DVD discs larger than 4 GB:</P> <UL> <LI>The sd(7D) driver on Solaris 8 x86 driver has bug when accessing a disk block >4GB on a device using a logical blocksize != DEV_BSIZE (i.e. CD-ROM and DVD media). Due to a 32Bit int overflow, a disk address modulo 4GB is accessed. (<A HREF="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22516">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22516</A>) </LI> <LI>A similar bug is present in the hsfs(7FS) filesystem code (aka ISO9660), hsfs currently does not support partitions/disks larger than 4GB, all data is accessed modulo 4GB. (<A HREF="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22592">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22592</A>) </LI> </UL> <P>On Solaris with an UltraSPARC CPU, you can get some extra speed by using the CPU's VIS instructions for certain time consuming operations. VIS acceleration can be used in MPlayer by calling functions in Sun's <A HREF="http://www.sun.com/sparc/vis/mediaLib.html">mediaLib</A>.</P> <P>VIS accelerated operations from mediaLib are used for mpeg2 video decoding and for color space conversion in the video output drivers.</P> <H2><A NAME="strongarm">6.4 StrongARM</A></H2> <P><B>MPlayer</B> is reported to compile on StrongARM. Use the following command line:</P> <PRE> ./configure --target=arm-linux --disable-css --with-x11libdir=/usr/arm/lib --with-x11incdir=/usr/arm/lib --disable-gcc-checking </PRE> <H2><A NAME="sgi">6.5 Silicon Graphics / IRIX</A></H2> <P>Reported working. You'll probably have to use the <I>SGI</I> ao driver. Anyone has closer info?</P> <H2><A NAME="qnx">6.6 QNX</A></H2> <P>Works. You'll need to download SDL for QNX, and install it. Then run <B>MPlayer</B> with <CODE>-vo sdl:photon</CODE> and <CODE>-ao sdl:nto</CODE> options, and it should be fast.</P> <P>The <CODE>-vo x11</CODE> output will be even slower than on Linux, since QNX has only X <I>emulation</I> which is VERY slow. Use SDL.</P> <H2><A NAME="openbsd">6.7 OpenBSD</A></H2> <P>To build the package you will need GNU make (gmake, /usr/ports/devel/gmake), native BSD make will not work, and a recent binutils (including objcopy).</P> <P>Due to limitations in different versions of gas (relocation vs mmx), you'll need to compile in two steps: First make sure that the non-native as is first in PATH and do a '<CODE>gmake -k</CODE>', then make sure that the native version is used and do '<CODE>gmake</CODE>'.</P> <P>To use Win32 DLLs with <B>MPlayer</B> you will need to re-compile the kernel with "<CODE>option USER_LDT</CODE>".</P> <P>If <B>MPlayer</B> complains about not finding '/dev/cdrom' or '/dev/dvd' make a symbolic link, e.g. <CODE>ln -s /dev/rcd0c /dev/dvd</CODE></P> <P>The not so hardcore hackers amongst us might want to use the ports version (/usr/ports/x11/mplayer).</P> <H2><A NAME="cygwin">6.8. Cygwin</A></H2> <P>You will have to go to the <B>MPlayer</B> directory, and copy or symlink <CODE>etc/cygwin_inttypes.h</CODE> to <CODE>/usr/include/inttypes.h</CODE> to make <B>MPlayer</B> compile. Otherwise it will complain about missing <CODE>intypes.h</CODE>.</P> <H1><A NAME="mailing_lists">Appendix A - Mailing lists</A></H1> <P>There are some public mailing lists on <B>MPlayer</B>. Unless explicitly stated otherwise the language of these lists is <B>English</B>. Please do not send messages in other languages or HTML mail! Message size limit is 80k. If you have something bigger put it up for download somewhere. Click the links to subscribe.</P> <UL> <LI>MPlayer developers list: <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng</A><BR> This list is about <B>MPlayer</B> development! Talking about interface/API changes, new libraries, code optimization, configure changes is ontopic here. Send patches but <B>not</B> bug reports, user questions, feature requests or flames here to keep the list traffic low.</LI> <LI>MPlayer users list: <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users</A> <UL> <LI>Send bug reports here after reading the <A HREF="#known_bugs">Known Bugs</A> and <A HREF="bugreports.html">bug reporting section</A>).</LI> <LI>Send feature requests here (after reading the <B>whole</B> documentation).</LI> <LI>Send user questions here (after reading the <B>whole</B> documentation).</LI> </UL> </LI> <LI>MPlayer Hungarian users list: <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-felhasznalok">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-felhasznalok</A> <UL> <LI>Hungarian language list</LI> <LI>Topic? We'll see about it... mostly flame and RTFM questions up to now :(</LI> </UL> </LI> <LI>MPlayer & Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 users: <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-matrox">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-matrox</A><BR> Matrox related questions like <UL> <LI>things about mga_vid</LI> <LI>Matrox's official beta drivers (for X 4.x.x)</LI> <LI>matroxfb-TVout stuff</LI> </UL> </LI> <LI>MPlayer & DVB card users: <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dvb">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dvb</A><BR> Things related to the hardware decoder card called DVB (<B>not</B> DXR3!). </LI> <LI>MPlayer CVS-log: <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog</A><BR> All changes in <B>MPlayer</B> code are automatically sent to this list. Only questions about these changes belong here (if you do not understand why a change is required or you have a better fix or you have noticed a possible bug/problem in the commit).</LI> <LI>MPlayer Cygwin-porting list: <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cygwin">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cygwin</A><BR> List for discussion about <B>MPlayer</B>'s Cygwin port.</LI> </UL> <P><B>Note:</B> You can reach the searchable mailing list archives at <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch">http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch</A>. <H1><A NAME="bug_reports">Appendix B</A> - <A HREF="bugreports.html">How to report bugs</A></H1> <H1><A NAME="known_bugs">Appendix C - Known bugs</A></H1> <P>Special system/CPU-specific bugs/problems:</P> <UL> <LI>SIGILL (signal 4) on P3 using 2.2.x kernels:<BR> Problem: kernel 2.2.x doesn't have proper (working) SSE support<BR> Solution: upgrade kernel to 2.4.x<BR> Workaround: <CODE>./configure --disable-sse</CODE></LI> <LI>General SIGILL (signal 4):<BR> Problem: you compiled and run mplayer in different machines (for example compiled on P3 and running on Celeron)<BR> Solution: compile MPlayer on the same machine where you will use it!<BR> Workaround: <CODE>./configure --disable-sse</CODE> etc. options</LI> <LI>"Internal buffer inconsistency" during MEncoder run:<BR> Problem: known problem when lame < 3.90 was compiled with gcc 2.96 or 3.x.<BR> Solution: use lame >=3.90.<BR> Workaround: compile lame with gcc 2.95.x and remove any already installed lame packages, they may have been compiled with gcc 2.96.</LI> <LI>Messed up MP2/MP3 sound on PPC:<BR> Problem: known GCC miscompilation bug on PPC platforms, no fix yet.<BR> Workaround: use FFmpeg's (slow) MP1/MP2/MP3 decoder (<CODE>-ac ffmpeg</CODE>)</LI> <LI>sig11 in libmpeg2, when scaling+encoding:<BR> Problem: known GCC 2.95.2 MMX bug, upgrade to 2.95.3.</LI> </UL> <P>Various A-V sync and other audio problems:</P> General audio delay or jerky sound (exists with all or many files): <UL> <LI>most common: buggy audio driver! - try to use different drivers, try ALSA 0.9 OSS emulation with -ao oss, also try -ao sdl, sometimes it helps. If your file plays fine with -nosound, then you can be sure it's sound card (driver) problem.</LI> <LI>audio buffer problems (buffer size badly detected)<BR> Workaround: mplayer -abs option</LI> <LI>samplerate problems - maybe your card doesn't support the samplerate used in your files - try the resampling plugin (-aop)</LI> <LI>slow machine (CPU or VGA)<BR> try with -vo null, if it plays well, then you have slow VGA card/driver<BR> Workaround: buy a faster card or read this documentation about how to speed up<BR> Also try -framedrop</LI> </UL> Audio delay/de-sync specific to one or a few files: <UL> <LI>bad file<BR> Workaround: <UL> <LI>-ni or -nobps option (for non-interleaved or bad files)<BR> and/or</LI> <LI>-mc 0 (required for files with badly interleaved VBR audio)<BR> and/or</LI> <LI>-delay option or +/- keys at runtime to adjust delay</LI> </UL> If none of these help, please upload the file, we'll check (and fix). </LI> <LI>your sound card doesn't support 48kHz playback<BR> Workaround: buy a better sound card... or try to decrease fps by 10% (use -fps 27 for a 30fps movie) or use the resampler plugin</LI> <LI>slow machine<BR> (if A-V is not around 0, and the last number in the status line increasing)<BR> Workaround: -framedrop</LI> </UL> No sound at all: <UL> <LI>your file uses an unsupported audio codec<BR> Workaround: read the documentation and help us adding support for it</LI> </UL> No picture at all (just plain grey/green window): <UL> <LI>your file uses an unsupported video codec<BR> Workaround: read the documentation and help us adding support for it</LI> <LI>auto-selected codec can't decode the file, try to select another using -vc or -vfm options</LI> <LI>you try to play DivX 3.x file with OpenDivX decoder or XviD (-vc odivx) - install Divx4Linux and recompile player</LI> </UL> <P>Video-out problems:</P> <P>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, don't expect this from x11 or dga.</P> <P>OSD/sub flickering:<BR> - x11 driver: sorry, it can't be fixed now<BR> - xv driver: use -double option</P> <P>Green image using mga_vid (-vo mga / -vo xmga):<BR> - mga_vid misdetected your card's RAM amount, reload it using mga_ram_size option</P> <H1><A NAME="skin">Appendix D</A> - <A HREF="skin-en.html">MPlayer skin format</A></H1> <H1><A NAME="flame_wars">Appendix E</A> - <A HREF="users_against_developers.html">Developer Cries</A></H1> </BODY> </HTML>