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<HTML> <HEAD> <STYLE> .text {font-family : Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size : 14px;} </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR=WHITE> <FONT CLASS="text"> <P><CENTER><B>MPlayer - Movie Player for LINUX (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (A'rpi/ESP-team)</B><BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu">http://www.mplayerhq.hu</A><BR><BR> [ English ]</A> <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> </CENTER></P> <P><HR></P> <P>Table of Contents</P> <P><HR></P> <P> <UL> <LI><A HREF="#0">0. How to read this documentation</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#1">1. Introduction</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="#1.1">1.1 Overview</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#1.2">1.2 History</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#1.3">1.3 Installation / Hints</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#1.4">1.4 What about the GUI?</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#1.5">1.5 Subtitles and OSD</A></LI> </UL> <LI><A HREF="#2">2. Features</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="formats.html">2.1 Supported formats</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#2.1.1">2.1.1 Video</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#2.1.1.1">2.1.1.1 MPG, VOB, DAT files</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#2.1.1.2">2.1.1.2 AVI files</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#2.1.1.3">2.1.1.3 ASF/WMV files</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#2.1.1.4">2.1.1.4 QT/MOV files</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#2.1.1.5">2.1.1.5 VIV files</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#2.1.1.6">2.1.1.6 FLI files</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#2.1.1.7">2.1.1.7 RealMedia files</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#2.1.1.8">2.1.1.8 NuppelVideo files</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#2.1.1.9">2.1.1.9 yuv4mpeg files</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#2.1.1.10">2.1.1.10 FILM files</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#2.1.1.11">2.1.1.11 RoQ files</A></LI> </UL> <LI><A HREF="formats.html#2.1.2">2.1.2 Audio</A></LI> </UL> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.2">2.2 Supported codecs</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.1">2.2.1 Video</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.1.1">2.2.1.1 DivX4/DivX5</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.1.2">2.2.1.2 ffmpeg's DivX/libavcodec</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.1.3">2.2.1.3 XAnim codecs</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.1.4">2.2.1.4 VIVO video</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.1.5">2.2.1.5 MPEG1/2 video</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.1.6">2.2.1.6 MS Video1</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.1.7">2.2.1.7 Cinepak CVID</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.1.8">2.2.1.8 RealVideo</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.1.9">2.2.1.9 XViD</A></LI> </UL> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.2">2.2.2 Audio</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.2.1">2.2.2.1 Software AC3 decoding</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.2.2">2.2.2.2 Hardware AC3 decoding</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.2.3">2.2.2.3 libmad support</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.2.4">2.2.2.4 VIVO audio</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.2.5">2.2.2.5 RealAudio</A></LI> </UL> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.3">2.2.3 Win32 codec importing howto</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.3.1">2.2.3.1 VFW codecs</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.3.2">2.2.3.2 DirectShow codecs</A></LI> </UL> </UL> <LI><A HREF="video.html">2.3 Output devices</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1">2.3.1 Video</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.1">2.3.1.1 Setting up MTRR</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.2">2.3.1.2 Xv</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.2.1">2.3.1.2.1 3dfx</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.2.2">2.3.1.2.2 S3</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.2.3">2.3.1.2.3 nVidia</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.2.4">2.3.1.2.4 ATI</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.2.5">2.3.1.2.5 NeoMagic</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.2.6">2.3.1.2.6 Trident cards</A></LI> </UL> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.3">2.3.1.3 DGA</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.3.1">2.3.1.3.1 Summary</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.3.2">2.3.1.3.2 What is DGA</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.3.3">2.3.1.3.3 Installing DGA support for MPlayer</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.3.4">2.3.1.3.4 Resolution switching</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.3.5">2.3.1.3.5 DGA & MPlayer</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.3.6">2.3.1.3.6 Features of the DGA driver</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.3.7">2.3.1.3.7 Speed issues</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.3.8">2.3.1.3.8 Known bugs</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.3.9">2.3.1.3.9 Future work</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.3.A">2.3.1.3.A Some modelines</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.3.B">2.3.1.3.B Bug Reports</A></LI> </UL> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.4">2.3.1.4 SDL</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.5">2.3.1.5 SVGAlib</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.6">2.3.1.6 Framebuffer output (FBdev)</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.7">2.3.1.7 Matrox framebuffer (mga_vid)</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.8">2.3.1.8 SiS 6326 framebuffer (sis_vid)</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.9">2.3.1.9 3dfx YUV support (tdfxfb)</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.10">2.3.1.10 OpenGL output</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.11">2.3.1.11 AAlib - text mode displaying</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.12">2.3.1.12 VESA - output to VESA BIOS</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.13">2.3.1.13 X11</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.15">2.3.1.14 Rage128 / Radeon video overlay (OBSOLETED - link to Vidix!)</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.15">2.3.1.15 Vidix</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.16">2.3.1.16 Zr (for some MJPEG capture/playback boards)</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.A">2.3.1.A TVout</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.A.1">2.3.1.A.1 Matrox G400</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.A.2">2.3.1.A.2 ATI</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.A.3">2.3.1.A.3 Voodoo 3/Banshee</A></LI> </UL> </UL> <LI><A HREF="sound.html#2.3.2">2.3.2 Audio</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="sound.html#2.3.2.1">2.3.2.1 Soundcard experiences, recommendations</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="sound.html#2.3.2.2">2.3.2.2 Audio plugins</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="sound.html#2.3.2.2">2.3.2.2 Summary</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="sound.html#2.3.2.2.1">2.3.2.2.1 Up/Downsampling</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="sound.html#2.3.2.2.2">2.3.2.2.2 Surround Sound decoding</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="sound.html#2.3.2.2.3">2.3.2.2.3 Sample format converter</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="sound.html#2.3.2.2.4">2.3.2.2.4 Delay</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="sound.html#2.3.2.2.5">2.3.2.2.5 Software volume control</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="sound.html#2.3.2.2.6">2.3.2.2.6 Extrastereo</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="sound.html#2.3.2.2.7">2.3.2.2.7 Volume Normalizer</A></LI> </UL> </UL> </UL> <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#2.4">2.4 MEncoder - An Encoder based on MPlayer</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#2.4.1">2.4.1 Overview</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#2.4.2">2.4.2 Compiling</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#2.4.3">2.4.3 Features</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#2.4.3">2.4.3 Summary</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#2.4.3.1">2.4.3.1 Encoding 2 or 3-pass DivX4</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#2.4.3.2">2.4.3.2 Rescaling movies</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#2.4.3.3">2.4.3.3 Streamcopy</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#2.4.3.4">2.4.3.4 Fixing AVIs with broken index</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#2.4.3.5">2.4.3.5 Encoding with the libavcodec codec family</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#2.4.3.6">2.4.3.6 Encoding from multiple input image files (MJPEG/MPNG)</A></LI> </UL> <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#2.4.4">2.4.4 Syntax</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#2.4.5">2.4.5 Available options</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#2.4.6">2.4.6 Examples</A></LI> </UL> <LI><A HREF=#2.5>2.5 TV input</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF=#2.5.1>2.5.1 Overview</A></LI> <LI><A HREF=#2.5.2>2.5.2 Compilation</A></LI> <LI><A HREF=#2.5.3>2.5.3 Available options</A></LI> <LI><A HREF=#2.5.4>2.5.4 Keyboard control</A></LI> <LI><A HREF=#2.5.5>2.5.5 Examples</A></LI> </UL> </UL> <LI><A HREF="#3">3. Usage</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="#3.1">3.1 Command line</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#3.2">3.2 Control from keyboard</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#3.3">3.3 Control from LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control)</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#3.4">3.4 Streaming from network or pipes</A></LI> </UL> <LI><A HREF="cd-dvd.html#4">4. CD/DVD section</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="cd-dvd.html#4.1">4.1 CD drives</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="cd-dvd.html#4.2">4.2 DVD playback</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="cd-dvd.html#4.3">4.3 DVD playback FAQ</A></LI> </UL> <LI><A HREF="faq.html">5. FAQ section</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="faq.html#5.1">5.1 Compilation</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="faq.html#5.2">5.2 General questions</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="faq.html#5.3">5.3 File playing problems</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="faq.html#5.4">5.4 Video/audio driver problems</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="faq.html#5.5">5.5 Feature requests</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="faq.html#5.6">5.6 Encoding</A></LI> </UL> <LI><A HREF="#6">6. Misc OS'es</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="#6.1">6.1 Debian packaging</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#6.2">6.2 FreeBSD</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#6.3">6.3 Solaris</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#6.4">6.4 StrongARM</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#6.5">6.5 SGI/Irix</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#6.6">6.6 QNX</A></LI> </UL> <LI><A HREF="#A">A. Authors</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="#A2">A/2. Maintainers</A></LI> </UL> <LI><A HREF="#B">B. Mailing lists</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="bugreports.html">C. How to report bugs</A></LI> <UL> <LI><A HREF="tech/patches.txt">C/2. How to send patches</A></LI> </UL> <LI><A HREF="#D">D. Known bugs</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="skin-en.html">X. How To Be A Famous SkinMaker in 5 mins!</A></LI> </UL> </P> <P> <HR> Developer Cries <HR> </P> <P> <UL> <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#gcc">1. GCC 2.96</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#binary">2. Binary packaging</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#nvidia">3. NVidia opinions</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="users_against_developers.html#kotsog">4. About Joe Barr</A></LI> </UL> </P> <P><HR></P> <P><B><A NAME=0>0. How to read this documentation</A></B></P> <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 TOC (Table of Contents) and search for the topic, read the FAQ, or try grepping though 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 :)</P> <P><B><A NAME=1>1. Introduction</A></B></P> <P><B><A NAME=1.1>1.1. Overview</A></B></P> <P><B>MPlayer</B> is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices, and <B>non-x86</B> CPUs, see <A HREF="#6">section 6</A>). It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, VIVO, ASF/WMV, QT/MOV, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch <B>VideoCD</B>, <B>SVCD</B>, <B>DVD</B>, <B>3ivx</B>, and even <B>DivX</B> movies too (and you don't need the avifile library at all!). The another big feature of mplayer 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) 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="DVB">DVB</A></B> and <B> <A HREF="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 OSD?</P> <P><B>MPlayer</B> is basically GPL, but contains some non-GPL code which is not allowed to be distributed in binary form, and also contains the OpenDivX library which has special license. We are still developing towards GPL.</P> <P>Distributing <B>MPlayer</B> in the form of binaries and/or binary packages is currently impossible, speaking about both <B>technical</B> and <B>law</B> areas. Detailed information can be found in the second part of <A HREF="users_against_developers.html#binary">this file</A>, and it is recommended to read it.</P> <P>My 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 -idx 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> <P><B><A NAME=1.2>1.2. History</A></B></P> <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> <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> </UL></P> <P><B><A NAME=1.3>1.3. Installation</A></B></P> <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 neccessarily be hard. If you experience a different behaviour 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> <P><B><I>SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS</I></B><BR> <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 version is from <B>2.95.3</B> to <B>2.95.4</B>. <B>NEVER</B> use 2.96 or 3.x.x !!! They generate faulty code. If you decide to change gcc from 2.96, then don't decide in favor of 3.0 juts because it's newer! In some ways it's even worse than 2.96. So downgrade to 2.95.x (downgrade libstdc++ too!) or don't up/downgrade at all (but in this case, be prepared for runtime problems). If you vote for 3.x, try to use the latest version, early releases had various bugs, so be sure you use at least 3.0.3 or 3.1. Detailed information about gcc 2.96's bugs (that are still NOT fixed, they are WORKAROUNDED in <B>MPlayer</B>!) can be found <A HREF="users_against_developers.html"><B><I>here</I></B></A> and in 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 from XFree86 4.0.2, it contains the <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.2">XVideo</A> extension (somewhere referred as <B>Xv</B>) which is needed to enable the hardware YUV acceleration (fast image display) on cards that support it. <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.2">More information available.</A><BR> Make sure its <B>development package</B> is installed too otherwise it won't work.<BR> For some videocards 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, videocards that lag strangely with the xv driver). Always use the newest (beginning from 1.2.x). Also can <B>display subtitles under the movie, on the black bar</B>.</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> </UL> <P><B><I>CODECS</I></B></P> <UL> <LI><B>libavcodec</B> : If you want to use this DivX3/DivX4/DivX5/etc codec, check the <A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.1.2">2.2.1.2</A> section before compiling. Features :<BR> <UL> <LI>you can <B>gain <I>DivX/DivX4/DivX5</I> playing on non-x86 machines</B></LI> <LI>RealVideo 1.0/VIVO/MJPEG/h263/others playing and encoding</LI> <LI>this codec has the <B>greatest decoding speed</B> for DivX and DivX4/DivX5 movies (even faster than the original DivX4 library itself) ! 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 . Note: the avifile project has similar codecs package, but it differs from ours, so if you want to use all supported codecs, then use our package! However, you can use our codecs package with avifile. 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>WMV movies</B> or older (MP42) ASF's</LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><B>DivX4/DivX5</B> : information about this codec is available in the <A HREF="codecs.html#2.2.1.1">2.2.1.1</A> section. If you don't want to encode with it, you possibly don't want this codec as <B>libavcodec</B> (see above) is much faster than this.<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> : Opensource 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 not only an x86 version is available.</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#2.2.1.3>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> </UL> <P><B><I>VIDEOCARDS</I></B></P> <P>There are generally two kind of videocards. One kind (the newer cards) has <B>hardware scaling and YUV acceleration</B> support, the other cards don't.</P> <P> <B><I>YUV cards</I></B></P> <P> They can display and scale (zoom) the picture to any size that fits in their memory, with <B>small CPU usage</B> (zooming doesn't increase it!), thus you get a nice and very fast fullscreen playing.</P> <P> <UL> <LI><B>Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 cards</B> : please see the <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.7">mga_vid</A> section in order to gain big speedup. It is important to do these steps <I>before</I> compiling <B>MPlayer</B>, otherwise no Matrox-specific support will be built. Also check out the <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.A.1">Matrox TV-out</A> section. <U><B>If you are non-Linux user</B></U>, read <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.15">Vidix</A> documentation !</LI> <LI><B>3Dfx Voodoo3/Banshee cards</B> : please see the <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.9">2.3.1.9</A> section in order to gain big speedup. It is important to do these steps <I>before</I> compiling <B>MPlayer</B>, otherwise no 3Dfx support will be built. Also see the <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.A.3">3dfx TV out section</A>. If you use X, use at least 4.2.0, as 3dfx Xv driver was broken in 4.1.0, and earlier releases!</LI> <LI><B>ATI cards</B> : see the <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.A.2">ATI cards section</A> of the TV-out documentation, to know what features of your card is supported under Linux/MPlayer. If you have a <B>Radeon</B>, <B>Rage128</B> or <B>Mach64</B> (Rage XL/Mobility, Xpert98) card, we have a <B>XXX_vid</B> driver for you, with optional TV out ! Check <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.14">this</A> section ! <U><B>If you are non-Linux user</B></U>, read <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.15">Vidix</A> documentation !</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#2.3.1.2.2">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 has <A HREF="users_against_developers.html#nvidia">different opinion</A>!). Nvidia's cards have very cheap and bad quality chips. Moreover, <U>the built-in Nvidia driver in XFree86 doesn't contain support for hardware YUV acceleration for all NVidia cards !</U> You have to download Nvidia's closed-source drivers from nvidia.com . See details in <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.2.3">Nvidia Xv driver</A> section.</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#2.3.1.2">Xv section</A> for details.</LI> <LI>If it doesn't, then your card's video features aren't supported under your OS :(<BR> If it does hardware scaling under Windows, it doesn't mean it will do the same under Linux or other OS, it depends on the drivers! Most manufacturers don't make Linux drivers nor release chip specs - so you're unlucky if using their cards. See next section: </LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </P> <P> <B><I>Non-YUV cards</I></B></P> <P> Fullscreen playing can be achieved by either zooming <B>by software</B> (use the option -zoom, but i warn you: this is slooow!), or changing to a smaller videomode, for example to 352x288. If you don't have YUV accel, this latter method is the recommended one. Throughout <B>MPlayer</B>, <U>this behaviour can be switched on by using the <CODE>-vm</CODE> option</U> and with the following drivers : <UL> <LI><B>using</B> XFree86 : see details in <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.3">DGA driver</A> and <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.13">X11 driver</A> sections. 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#2.3.1.12">vesa</A>, <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.6">fbdev</A>, <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.5">svgalib</A>, <A HREF="video.html#2.3.1.11">aalib</A>.</LI> </UL> </P> <P><B><I>SOUNDCARDS</I></B></P> <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#2.2.2.1">Software AC3 decoding</A> section. For hardware AC3 passthrough you MUST use ALSA 0.9 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#2.2.2.2">Hardware AC3 decoding</A> section.</LI> <LI><B>other cards'</B> features aren't supported by <B>MPlayer</B>. <U>It's very recommended to read the <A HREF="sound.html#2.3.2">soundcards section</A> !</U> </UL> <P><B><I>FEATURES</I></B></P> <UL> <LI>For DVD support, you'll have to compile libdvdcss and libdvdread, and in this order! See <A HREF="cd-dvd.html#4.2">section 4.2</A> for more information.</LI> <LI>Decide if you need GUI. If you do, see the <A HREF=#1.4>1.4 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#2.4">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=#2.5>TV input</A> section.</LI> <LI>There are three timing methods in <B>MPlayer</B>. To use the old method, 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. The new timer code uses PC's RTC (Real Time Clock) for this task, because it has precise 1ms timers. This requires root, or a <I>setuid root</I> <B>MPlayer</B> binary (or a little kernel hacking, but that's unadvised). You can see the new timer's efficiency in the status line. The third timer code 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. Note: <B>NEVER install setuid MPlayer binary on a multiuser system!</B> It's a clear way for everyone to gain root.</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>/usr/local/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 uptodate together with the main binary !<BR> Check if you have codecs.conf in your home directory (~/.mplayer/codecs.conf) left from old MPlayer versions, and remove it!</P> <P><B>Debian users</B> can build a .deb package for themselves, it's very simple. Just exec <CODE>fakeroot debian/rules binary</CODE> in <B>MPlayer</B>'s root dir. Detailed instructions can be found <A HREF="documentation.html#6.1">here</A>.</P> <P><B><I>ALWAYS browse the output of ./configure</I></B>, and the <CODE>configure.log</CODE> file, they contain info about what will be built, and what won't. You may also want to view config.h and config.mak files.<BR> If you have some libs installed, but not detected by ./configure, then check if you also have the proper header files (usually the -dev packages) and their version matches. The configure.log 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 mp-arial-iso-8859-*.zip and/or optional (if exists) language updates. It's VERY RECOMMENDED to check <A HREF=#1.5>section 1.5</A> for details.</P> <PRE> mkdir ~/.mplayer/font cd ~/.mplayer/font unzip mp-arial-iso-8859-1.zip</PRE> <P><B><A NAME=1.4>1.4. What about the GUI?</A></B></P> <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 ./configure . Then, to turn on GUI mode, you either <UL> <LI>use the <CODE>-gui</CODE> option</LI> <LI>specify <CODE>gui=yes</CODE> in your config file</LI> <LI><CODE>ln -s /usr/local/bin/mplayer /usr/local/bin/gmplayer</CODE> , and call <CODE>gmplayer</CODE> instead. </UL> </P> <P>HINT: use the middle button (on 2 button mice press left and right simultaneously) for a popup GTK menu, with DVD playing option!</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>/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin</CODE>), or to <CODE>$HOME/.mplayer/Skin</CODE> . <B>MPlayer</B> by default looks in these directories for a <I>default</I> named directory, but you can use the <I>-skin newskin</I> option, or the <I>skin=newskin</I> config file directive to use the skin in <CODE>*/Skin/newskin</CODE> directory.</P> <P><B><A NAME=1.5>1.5. Subtitles and OSD</A></B></P> <P>Yes, <B>MPlayer</B> also supports many kinds of subtitles. Currently 10 kinds of subtitle can be used by the subreader code. To see what are these subtitle formats, see subreader.c, line ~30.</P> <P><B>MPlayer</B> supports VobSub subtitles. VobSub subtitles consist of a big (some megabytes) .SUB file, and optional .IDX and/or .IFO files. 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 0</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> <P>About DVD subtitles, read the <A HREF="cd-dvd.html#4.2">DVD section</A>.</P> <P><B>MPlayer</B> introduces a new subtitle format called <B><I>MPsub</I></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="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/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 <I>mplayer dummy.avi -sub source.ssa -dumpmpsub</I> . 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/substract 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> <P><B>INSTALLING OSD and SUB</B></P> <P>You need an <B>MPlayer</B> font package to be able to use OSD/SUB feature. There are many ways to get it: <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. 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 -utf8 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 (RedHat) programs.<BR> Some URLs: <UL> <LI><A HREF="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/">ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/</A> - ISO fonts <LI><A HREF="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/fonts/">ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/fonts/</A> - various fonts by users <LI><A HREF="http://realtime.ssu.ac.kr/~lethean/mplayer">http://realtime.ssu.ac.kr/~lethean/mplayer</A> - korean fonts & RAW plugin </UL> <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>use the font generator GIMP plugin at TOOLS/subfont-GIMP (note: you must have HSI RAW plugin too, see URL below) </UL> </P> <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 'o').</P> <P>OSD has 3 states: (switch with 'o')<BR> <UL> <LI>timer + volume bar + seek bar + subtitles (default) <LI>volume bar + seek bar + subtitles <LI>subtitles only </UL> <P>You can change default behaviour by setting <CODE>osdlevel=</CODE> variable in config file.</P> <P><B><A NAME=2>2. Features</A></B></P> <P><A NAME=2.1>2.1. <A HREF="formats.html">Supported formats</A></P> <P><A NAME=2.2>2.2. <A HREF="codecs.html">Supported codecs</A></P> <P><A NAME=2.3>2.3. <A HREF="video.html">Video</A> & <A HREF="sound.html">Audio</A> output devices</P> <P><A NAME=2.4>2.4. <A HREF="encoding.html">MEncoder - An All-Purpose Encoder</A></P> <P><A NAME=2.5><B>2.5. TV input</B></P> <A NAME=2.5.1><P><B><I>2.5.1. Overview</I></B></P> <P>This section is about how to enable <B>watching/grabbing from V4L compatible TV tuner</B>.</P> <A NAME=2.5.2><P><B><I>2.5.2. Compilation</I></B></P> <P> <UL> <LI>first, you have to recompile. <CODE>./configure</CODE> will autodetect kernel headers of v4l stuff, and the existence of /dev/video* entries. If they exist, TV support will be built (see configure's output!).</LI> <LI>make sure your tuner works with another TV softwares in Linux, for example xawtv.</LI> </UL> </P> <P><B>Hint</B> : are the colors messed up? Then your tuner can't display in YV12 colorspace. Try I420 (you must use the <CODE>-vc rawi420</CODE> option too!), or YUY2, UYVY, RGB32 (this one with <CODE>-vo sdl</CODE>) colorspaces. You can specify these with the <CODE>outfmt=YV12</CODE> option see below.</P> <A NAME=2.5.3><P><B><I>2.5.3. Available options</I></B><BR> <TABLE BORDER=0> <TR> <TD> </TD> <TD><FONT CLASS="text"><I>on</I></TD> <TD> </TD> <TD><FONT CLASS="text">use TV input</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> </TD> <TD><FONT CLASS="text"><I>noaudio</I></TD> <TD> </TD> <TD><FONT CLASS="text">thanx, no sound</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> </TD> <TD><FONT CLASS="text"><I>driver</I></TD> <TD></TD> <TD><FONT CLASS="text"> <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>)</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> </TD> <TD><FONT CLASS="text"><I>device</I></TD> <TD> </TD> <TD><FONT CLASS="text">specify other device than the default <CODE>/dev/video0</CODE></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> </TD> <TD><FONT CLASS="text"><I>input</I></TD> <TD> </TD> <TD><FONT CLASS="text">give from which input of the TV tuner you wish to grab from (e.g. <B>television</B>, <B>s-video</B>, <B>composite</B>, ...)<BR> Prints the available ones during init.</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> </TD> <TD><FONT CLASS="text"><I>freq</I></TD> <TD> </TD> <TD><FONT CLASS="text">specify the frequency to set the tuner (e.g. <B>511.250</B>)</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> </TD> <TD><FONT CLASS="text"><I>outfmt</I></TD> <TD> </TD> <TD><FONT CLASS="text">in which output format should the tuner 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))</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> </TD> <TD><FONT CLASS="text"><I>width</I></TD> <TD> </TD> <TD><FONT CLASS="text"> the width of the output window, in pixels</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> </TD> <TD><FONT CLASS="text"><I>height</I></TD> <TD> </TD> <TD><FONT CLASS="text"> the height of the output window, in pixels</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> </TD> <TD><FONT CLASS="text"><I>norm</I></TD> <TD> </TD> <TD><FONT CLASS="text"> available: PAL, SECAM, NTSC</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> </TD> <TD><FONT CLASS="text"><I>channel</I></TD> <TD> </TD> <TD><FONT CLASS="text"> set the tuner to the given channel</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> </TD> <TD><FONT CLASS="text"><I>chanlist</I></TD> <TD> </TD> <TD><FONT CLASS="text"> available: <CODE>us-bcast, us-cable, europe-west, europe-east, etc</CODE></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </P> <A NAME=2.5.4><P><B><I>2.5.4. Keyboard control</I></B></P> <TABLE BORDER=0> <TD> </TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">h or l</TD><TD> </TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">select previous/next channel</TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">n</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">change norm</TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">b</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">change channel list</TD><TR> </TABLE> <A NAME=2.5.5><P><B><I>2.5.5. Examples</I></B></P> <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><A NAME=3>3. Usage</A></B></P> <P><B><A NAME=3.1>3.1. Command line</A></B></P> <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 usefull 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> <P><TABLE BORDER=0> <TD> </TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">file</TD><TD> </TD><TD><CODE><FONT CLASS="text">mplayer [options] [path/]filename</CODE></TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">files</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE><FONT CLASS="text">mplayer [default options] [path/]filename1 [options for filename1] filename2 [options for filename2] ...</CODE></TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">VCD</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE><FONT CLASS="text">mplayer [options] -vcd trackno [-cdrom-device /dev/cdrom]</CODE></TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">DVD</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE><FONT CLASS="text">mplayer [options] -dvd titleno [-dvd-device /dev/dvd]</CODE></TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">net</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE><FONT CLASS="text">mplayer [options] http://site.com/file.asf (playlists can be used too)</CODE></TD><TR> </TABLE></P> <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> <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></P> <P><B><A NAME=3.2>3.2. Control from keyboard</A></B></P> <P><TABLE BORDER=0> <TR><TD> </TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text"><- or -></TD><TD> </TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">seek backward/forward 10 seconds</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">up or down</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">seek backward/forward 1 minute</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">pgup/pgdown</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">seek backward/forward 10 minutes</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">< or ></TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">seek backward/forward in playlist</TD><TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">p or SPACE</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">pause movie (press any key)</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">q or ESC</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">stop playing and quit program</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">+ or -</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">adjust audio delay by +/- 0.1 second</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">/ or *</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">decrease/increase volume</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">f</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">toggle fullscreen</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">o</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">toggle OSD: none / seek / seek+timer</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">m</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">toggle using master/pcm volume</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">z or x</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 second</TD></TR> <TR><TD COLSPAN=4><P><I><FONT CLASS="text">(the following keys are valid only when using <CODE>-vo xv</CODE>)</I></P></TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">1 or 2</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">adjust contrast</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">3 or 4</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">adjust brightness</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">5 or 6</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">adjust hue</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">7 or 8</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">adjust saturation</TD></TR> </TABLE></P> <P><B>GUI keyboard control</B></P> <P><TABLE BORDER=0> <TR><TD> </TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">, and .</TD><TD> </TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">previous / next file</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">gray - or +</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">decrease / increase volume</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">enter</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">start playing</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">space</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">pause</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">s</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">stop</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">a</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">about</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">l</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">load file</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">b</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">skin browser</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">e</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">toggle equalizer</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">p</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">toggle playlist</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">f</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">toggle fullscreen</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">m</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">toggle mute</TD> </TABLE></P> <P><B>TV input control</B></P> <P><TABLE BORDER=0> <TR><TD> </TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">h or l</TD><TD> </TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">select previous/next channel</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">n</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">change norm</TD></TR> <TR><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">b</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">change channel list</TD></TR> </TABLE></P> <P><B><A NAME=3.3>3.3. Control from LIRC</A></B></P> <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, you can compile <B>MPlayer</B> with LIRC support using ./configure --enable-lirc</P> <P>If everything went fine, <B>MPlayer</B> will print a message like LIRC init was successful. 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_lirc. It understands the following commands:</P> <P><TABLE BORDER=0> <TD> </TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">PAUSE</TD><TD> </TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">pause playing. Any other keystroke will continue replay.</TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">QUIT</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">exit MPlayer</TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">RWND</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">10 secs back</TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">FRWND</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">60 secs back</TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">FWD</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">skip 10 secs</TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">FFWD</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">skip 60 secs</TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">INCVOL</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">increase volume one percent</TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">DECVOL</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">decrease volume one percent</TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">MASTER</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">use master mixer channel</TD><TR> <TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">PCM</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT CLASS="text">use pcm mixer channel</TD><TR> </TABLE></P> <P> Don't forget to enable the repeat flag for RWND/FWD in .lircrc. Here's an excerpt from my .lircrc:</P> <P><PRE> begin remote = CU-SX070 prog = mplayer_lirc button = Tape_Play repeat = 1 config = FFWD end begin remote = CU-SX070 prog = mplayer_lirc button = Tape_Stop config = QUIT end</PRE></P> <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> <P><B><A NAME=3.4>3.4. Streaming from network or pipes</A></B></P> <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 honours 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> <P><B><A NAME=4>4. <A HREF="faq.html">FAQ section</A></A></B></P> <P><B><A NAME=5>5. <A HREF="cd-dvd.html">CD/DVD section</A></A></B></P> <P><B><A NAME=6>6. Misc OS'es</A></B></P> <P><B><A NAME=6.1>6.1. Debian packaging</A></B></P> <P>To build the package, get the cvs version, or .tgz and uncompress it, and cd into programs directory:</P> <P><PRE> cd main fakeroot debian/rules binary</PRE></P> <P>(... mplayer detects hardware/software, builds itself and.. ) dpkg-deb: building package `mplayer' in `../mplayer_0.18-1_i386.deb'.</P> <P>And now just become root, and:</P> <P><PRE> dpkg -i ../mplayer_0.18-1_i386.deb as root.</PRE></P> <P>Here's how it looks like:</P> <P><PRE> eyck@incubus:/src/main$ sudo dpkg -i ../mplayer_0.18-1_i386.deb Password: (Reading database ... 26946 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace mplayer 0.17a-1 (using ../mplayer_0.18-1_i386.deb) Unpacking replacement mplayer ... Setting up mplayer (0.18-1) ...</PRE></P> <P><B><A NAME=6.2>6.2. FreeBSD</A></B></P> <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> <P><B><A NAME=6.3>6.3. Solaris</A></B></P> <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 Solaris 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> <P><PRE> % /usr/ccs/bin/make make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 25: Unexpected end of line seen</P></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 "--as=/whereever/you/have/installed/gnu-as" 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> <P><PRE> % configure ... Checking assembler (/usr/ccs/bin/as) ... , failed Please upgrade(downgrade) binutils to 2.10.1...</PRE></P> <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> <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> <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 DVDs using a capacity >4GB:</P> <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. CDROM 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>The similar bug is present in the hsfs(7FS) filesystem code (aka ISO9660), hsfs currently does not support partitions/disks >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>) </UL></P> <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> <P><B><A NAME=6.4>6.4. StrongARM</A></B></P> <P><B>MPlayer</B> is reported to compile on StrongARM. Use the following command line:</P> <P><PRE> ./configure --target=arm-linux --disable-css --with-x11libdir=/usr/arm/lib --with-x11incdir=/usr/arm/lib --disable-gcc-checking</PRE></P> <P><B><A NAME=6.5>6.5. Silicon Graphics Indigo / IRIX</A></B></P> <P>Reported working. You'll probably have to use the <I>sgi</I> ao driver. Anyone has closer info?</P> <P><B><A NAME=6.6>6.6. QNX</A></B></P> <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> <P><B><A NAME=A>Appendix A - Authors</A></B></P> <P>NOTE: Do *NOT* send bugreports, help & feature requests directly to the authors!</P> <P>Read Appendix <A HREF="#C">C</A> and subscribe to mplayer-users mailing lists.</P> <P ALIGN=center><B><U>The <B>MPlayer</B> project:</U></B></P> <P><UL> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:send mail to mplayer-users!">Árpád Gereöffy (A'rpi/ESP-team)</A></B> <UL> <LI>player code (mpeg stream demultiplexer and avi/asf parser, A-V sync, seek...)</LI> <LI>mp3lib, based on mpglib sources [MP3 audio decoder]</LI> <LI>getch2 [keyboard handler]</LI> <LI>some changes in libmpeg2 code (progressive frames, bitrate & fps support)</LI> <LI>libvo improvements: adding OpenGL support, bugfix in mga driver...</LI> <LI>triple buffering & YUY2 support (for DivX/MPEG4) into mga_vid driver</LI> <LI>scripts in the TVout directory (TVout on Matrox G400DH, read documentation)</LI> <LI>hacking DivX/Mpeg4 VfW codecs to get YUV output</LI> <LI>opendivx decoder speed optimizations (see opendivx/ChangeLog)</LI> <LI>OSD & SUB display code</LI> <LI>ffmpeg/libavcodec integration</LI> <LI>DivX4Linux (ProjectMayo) support (see documentation)</LI> <LI>New DVD-Support using libdvdread</LI> <LI>DVB support</LI> <LI>MPEG PES output & DVB card support</LI> <LI>anything that isn't mentioned elsewhere</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:pontscho@makacs.poliod.hu">Zoltán Ponekker (Pontscho/Fresh!)</A></B> <UL> <LI>configure script and Makefiles for easy compile</LI> <LI>GUI system</LI> <LI>3DNow! support into mp3lib</LI> <LI>3DNow! support into fastmemcpy.h</LI> <LI>various X11 driver changes (keyboard handling, fullscreen, bpp detect, etc)</LI> <LI>libvo: adding xmga driver, and fullscreen support to xv</LI> <LI>audio mixer (volume) support</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:lgb@lgb.hu">Gábor Lénárt (LGB)</A></B> <UL> <LI>./configure script improvements</LI> <LI>Makefile improvements</LI> <LI>prelimenary DVD support</LI> <LI>various X11 cleanups and fixes</LI> <LI>HTMLization of documentation</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:gabucino@mplayerhq.hu">Gábor Bérczi (Gabucino)</A></B> <UL> <LI>documentation writer & maintainer</LI> <LI>hungarian translation of documentation, homepage, and help output</LI> <LI>second homepage design&gfx</LI> <LI>homepage maintainer</LI> <LI>testing, codecs quality & speed comparsions</LI> <LI>IRC channels operator (#MPlayer is user channel)</LI> <LI>experimental MINIX port :) (what's funny about it?)</LI> <LI>MPsub subtitle format design</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:szabi@inf.elte.hu">Szabolcs Berecz (Szabi)</A></B> <UL> <LI>codecs.conf file parser</LI> <LI>config file and command line parser</LI> <LI>mga_vid fixes, module option etc.</LI> <LI>fbdev support in libvo</LI> <LI>type #7 subtitle support</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:lez@sch.bme.hu">László Megyer (Lez, Laaz)</A></B> <UL> <LI>SUB reader</LI> <LI>screensaver+DPMS disable for libvo</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:chass-@freemail.hu">Gyula László (Chass, Tégla)</A></B> <UL> <LI>first fonts (mp_font1.zip)</LI> <LI>third homepage design&gfx</LI> <LI>fourth (current) homepage design&gfx</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:se7en@sch.bme.hu">Zoltán Márk Vicián (Se7en)</A></B> <UL> <LI>SVGAlib support in libvo</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:alex@naxine.org">Alex Beregszaszi (al3x)</A></B> <UL> <LI>ALSA output driver in libao2</LI> <LI>vo_ggi output driver in libvo (www.ggi-project.org)</LI> <LI>xanim codecs support</LI> <LI>VIVO files support</LI> <LI>TV grabbing support</LI> <LI>Quicktime hackings</LI> <LI>libavcodec support in MEncoder</LI> <LI>RM fileformat demuxer</LI> <LI>mencoder framecopy</LI> <LI>yuv4mpeg1 support</LI> <LI>Nuppelvideo demuxer changes</LI> <LI>subconfig</LI> <LI>VIDIX and libdha hackings</LI> <LI>Matrox driver port to Vidix</LI> <LI>XVidix video output driver</LI> <LI>and other various stuff (in libvo, libmad syncing, dec_audio/video and loader)</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:asackerm@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de">Andreas Ackermann (Acki)</A></B> <UL> <LI>LIRC support (see documentation)</LI> <LI>DGA support in libvo</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:atmosfear@users.sourceforge.net">Felix Bünemann (Atmos)</A></B> <UL> <LI>SDL driver maintainer</LI> <LI>Additional YUV formats fixes</LI> <LI>New font (mp_font2.zip)</LI> <LI>PNG file output support in libvo</LI> <LI>flipping support (for Indeo 3/4, etc)</LI> <LI>SDL audio driver in libao2</LI> <LI>RAW PCM/WAVE file writer for libao2</LI> <LI>OggVorbis audio support</LI> <LI>Various aspect code</LI> <LI>Win32 port</LI> <LI>priority support in codecs.conf</LI> <LI>AAC decoding support via libfaad2</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:telenieko@telenieko.com">TeLeNiEkO</A></B> <UL> <LI>spanish translation of documentation</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:mgraffam@idsi.net">Michael Graffam</A></B> <UL> <LI>XF86VidMode support to vo_x11 and vo_dga</LI> <LI>Video mode switching code to vo_dga</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:hoffmajs@gmx.de">Jens Hoffmann</A></B> <UL> <LI>Additional YUV formats support</LI> <LI>found the big BITMAPINFOHEADER problem -> solved ASV2 pixelization</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:nickols_k@mail.ru">Nick Kurshev</A></B> <UL> <LI>memcpy optimizations for AMD K7 and Intel Pentium III (fastmemcpy.h)</LI> <LI>CDROM tune info</LI> <LI>further 3DNow! optimizations into mp3lib and libac3 and ffmpeg</LI> <LI>russian translation of documentation</LI> <LI>radeon_vid, rage128_vid, radeonfb</LI> <LI>libvo driver: vo_vesa</LI> <LI>VIDIX and libdha design, programming</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:german@piraos.com">German Gomez Garcia</A></B> <UL> <LI>SPDIF AC3 output for SBLive!</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:eyck@incubus.ar.lublin.pl">Dariusz Pietrzak (Eyck)</A></B> <UL> <LI>debian packaging support (see debian/* and this documentation)</LI> <LI>support for vplayer subtitle format</LI> <LI>prelimenary support for .RT subtitle format</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:marcus@idonex.se">Marcus Comstedt</A></B> <UL> <LI>initial solaris8-x86 support</LI> <LI>configure fixes</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:jk@tools.de">Jürgen Keil</A></B> <UL> <LI>patched <B>MPlayer</B> to work on Solaris 8 x86</LI> <LI>various fixes (win32, configure, etc)</LI> <LI>SUN audio driver in libao2</LI> <LI>mediaLib support in libavcodec</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:vkushnir@Alfacom.net">Vladimir Kushnir</A></B> <UL> <LI>patched <B>MPlayer</B> to work on FreeBSD x86</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:bertrand_baudet@yahoo.com">Bertrand BAUDET</A></B> <UL> <LI>network streaming support</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:albeu@free.fr">Alban Bedel</A> <A HREF="mailto:djw@flinthills.com">Derek J Witt</A></B> <UL> <LI>MMS network streaming patches</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:zybi@fanthom.irc.pl">Artur Zaprzala</A></B> <UL> <LI>Complete font generator prog + OSD font (TOOLS/subfont-c)</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:lanzz@lanzz.org">lanzz@lanzz.org</A></B> <UL> <LI>GIMP font generator plugin (TOOLS/subfont-gimp)</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:atlka@pg.gda.pl">Adam Tla/lka</A></B> <UL> <LI>osd/sub review, fixes, optimization, utf8 support</LI> <LI>various fixes</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:folke@ashberg.de">Folke Ashberg</A></B> <UL> <LI>native AAlib driver (-vo aa)</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:ktoman@email.cz">Kamil Toman</A></B> <UL> <LI>czech fonts</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:iive@yahoo.com">Ivan Kalvatchev</A></B> <UL> <LI>interlaced MPEG2 support (libmpeg2)</LI> <LI>libvo2 draft</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:p_l@gmx.fr">pl</A></B> <UL> <LI>new ./configure script</LI> <LI>general code maintaining, fixes, patch commiting</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:michaelni@gmx.at">Michael Niedermayer</A></B> <UL> <LI>new postprocessing code (with deinterlacing etc...)</LI> <LI>software scaling C/MMX/MMX2/3DNow support (swscale.c)</LI> <LI>various rgb/yuv bpp converters</LI> <LI>new, better IDCT code for libavcodec</LI> <LI>runtime cpu detection</LI> <LI>SSE optimization of liba52</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:sgoethel@jausoft.com">Sven Goethel</A></B> <UL> <LI>libvo driver: vo_gl2</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:joy@pingfm.org">joy_ping</A></B> <UL> <LI>ao_alsa9 fixes</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:eanholt@gladstone.uoregon.edu">Eric Anholt</A></B> <UL> <LI>CPU detection code</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:Jiri.Svoboda@seznam.cz">Jiri Svoboda</A></B> <UL> <LI>AQT type subtitles support</LI> <LI>CRTC2 YUV support in mga_vid</LI> <LI>DirectFB video output driver</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:oliver.schoenbrunner@jku.at">Oliver Schoenbrunner</A></B> <UL> <LI>SGI audio driver</LI> <LI>MIPS support</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:jeroen.dobbelaere@acunia.com">Jeroen Dobbelaere</A></B> <UL> <LI><A HREF="http://mad.sourceforge.net">libmad</A> support</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:dholm@telia.com">David Holm</A></B> <UL> <LI>DXR3 support</LI> <LI>libmp1e import</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:takis@lumumba.luc.ac.be">Panagiotis Issaris</A></B> <UL> <LI>-playlist option</LI> <LI>NuppelVideo support</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:melanson@pcisys.net">Mike Melanson</A></B> <UL> <LI>MS Video1 codec open-source implementation</LI> <LI>FLI demuxer, decoder</LI> <LI>Unified ADPCM Decoder (supports IMA/DVI, MS ADPCM, several others)</LI> <LI>FILM (.cpk) file demuxer</LI> <LI>RoQ file demuxer</LI> <LI>RoQ Audio/Video decoder</LI> <LI>QT SMC decoder</LI> <LI>QT RLE decoder</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:ranma@gmx.at">Tobias Diedrich</A></B> <UL> <LI>NAS audio output driver</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:foth@informatik.uni-hamburg.de">Kilian A. Foth</A></B> <UL> <LI>-slave mode</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:timf@mail.csse.monash.edu.au">Tim Ferguson</A></B> <UL> <LI>Opensource Cinepak decoder</LI> <LI>Opensource CYUV decoder</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:itrs@softwell.com.tw">Sam Lin</A></B> <UL> <LI>-wid (plugger) patch</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:johannes.feigl@mcse.at">Johannes Feigl</A></B> <UL> <LI>german docs translation</LI> <LI>some improvements in configure, small patches</LI> <LI>found somebody (Thilo Wunderlich) who sent a DVB card</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:kmkaplan@selfoffice.com">Kim Minh Kaplan</A></B> <UL> <LI>DVD and VobSub subtitles display support</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:bkuschak@yahoo.com">Brian Kuschak</A></B> <UL> <LI>RTP streaming support (reading)</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:steve@daviesfam.org">Stephen Davies</A></B> <UL> <LI>support for large video files (>2^32 bytes in size)</LI> <LI>surround sound</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:rsnel@cube.dyndns.org">Rik Snel</A></B> <UL> <LI><CODE>zr</CODE> video output driver</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:ajh@atri.curtin.edu.au">Anders Johansson</A></B> <UL> <LI>audio plugin system, some effect plugins</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:rtogni@freemail.it">Roberto Togni</A></B> <UL> <LI>Open source QT RPZA decoder</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:wojtekka@bydg.pdi.net">Wojtek Kaniewski</A></B> <UL> <LI>Mouse wheel support</LI> </UL></LI> <LI><B><A HREF="mailto:freku045@student.liu.se">Fredrik Kuivinen</A></B> <UL> <LI>OSD/subtitles outside movie - for SDL</LI> </UL></LI> </UL></P> <P>Main testers:</P> <P><UL> <LI>Tibor Balázs (Tibcu) <LI>Péter Sasi (SaPe) <LI>Christoph H. Lampert <LI>Attila Kinali <LI>Dirk Vornheder <LI>Bohdan Horst (Nexus) </UL></P> <P ALIGN=center><B><U>The codecs, libs:</U></B></P> <P><UL> <LI>Aaron Holtzman: <aholtzma@engr.uvic.ca> <UL><LI>ac3dec (and libac3) author [AC3 audio decoder] </LI><LI>mga_vid driver [Matrox G200/G400 YUV Back-end Scaler] </LI><LI>mpeg2dec [Fast MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, currently used in player] </LI></UL> </LI><LI>Michel Lespinasse: <walken@zoy.org> <UL><LI>did large libmpeg2 changes for better speed and mpeg conformance </LI></UL> </LI><LI>Eugene Kuznetsov: <divx@euro.ru> <UL><LI>avifile author [AVI player library for linux, using Win32 VfW/ACM codecs] </LI><LI>technical help about AVI and ASF formats, and how to get YUV using VfW... </LI><LI>divx4linux techical support </LI></UL> </LI><LI>Zdenek Kabelac: <kabi@informatics.muni.cz> <UL><LI>current avifile maintainer(?) </LI><LI>some technical help about the win32 stuff and timers </LI></UL> </LI><LI>Gerard Lantau: <glantau@yahoo.fr> <UL><LI>ffmpeg/libavcodec author,maintainer (opensource mpeg, mjpeg, divx en/decoder) </LI></UL> </LI><LI>Project Mayo: <<A HREF="http://www.projectmayo.com">http://www.projectmayo.com</A>> <UL><LI>the OpenDivX codec authors </LI></UL> </LI><LI>Michael Hipp: <UL><LI>mpglib author [isn't used directly but some parts in mp3lib] </LI></UL> </LI><LI>Mark Podlipec: <UL><LI>xa_gsm.c author [MS-GSM audio codec] [from a GSM library by Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann] </LI></UL> </LI><LI>Jake Janovetz: <UL><LI>remez.c author [Used to calculate audio filter coefficients] </LI></UL> </LI><LI>Vivien Chappelier, Damien Vincent: <UL><LI>libFAME authors [fast mpeg-1 encoder, used by -vo mpegpes/-vo dxr3] </LI></UL> </LI></UL></P> <P>Their code is not used in current player version, but I've got some ideas or other technical help from:</P> <P><UL> <LI>John F. McGowan http://www.jmcgowan.com/ <UL><LI>AVI FAQ author/collector. [site with many useful docs on codecs and avi fmt] </LI></UL> </LI><LI>Dirk Farin: <farin@ti.uni-mannheim.de> <UL><LI>dvdview author [MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, used in v0.5-v0.8] </LI></UL> </LI><LI>Adam Williams: <broadcast@earthling.net> <UL><LI>libmpeg3 (and xmovie) author [MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, used in v0.1-v0.4] </LI></UL> </UL></P> <P><B><A NAME=A2>Appendix A/2 - MPlayer code and documentation maintainers</A></B></P> <P>Homepage <UL> <LI><B>Design</B>: Chass <LI><B>Contents</B>: Gabucino </UL></P> <P>English documentation <UL> <LI><B>user docs</B>: Gabucino <LI><B>tech/* docs</B>: A'rpi <LI><B>HTMLization</B>: LGB </UL></P> <P>Documentation translations <UL> <LI><B>Hungarian</B>: Gabucino <LI><B>German</B>: <A HREF="mailto:johannes.feigl@mcse.at">Johannes Feigl</A> <LI><B>French</B>: <A HREF="mailto:smarteau@eso.org">Stephane Marteau</A> (outdated) <LI><B>Spanish</B>: TeLeNiEkO (outdated) <LI><B>Russian</B>: Nick Kurshev (outdated) <LI><B>Polish</B>: Dariusz Pietrzak (old translation in non-hierachic ascii version) <A HREF="mailto:nell@skrzynka.pl">Justyna Biala</A>(current html version) </UL></P> <P>Platforms/ports <UL> <LI><B>DEBIAN packaging</B>: Dariusz Pietrzak <LI><B>FreeBSD support</B>: Vladimir Kushnir <LI><B>Solaris 8 support</B>: Jürgen Keil <LI><B>MIPS support</B>: Oliver Schoenbrunner </UL></P> <P>MPlayer code: <UL> <LI><B>A-V sync code</B>: A'rpi <LI><B>libmpdemux, libmpcodecs</B>: A'rpi <LI><B>TV input</B>: Alex <LI><B>DVD support (new - dvdread/dvdcss)</B>: A'rpi <LI><B>DVD support (old - libcss)</B>: LGB <LI><B>network streaming</B>: Bertrand BAUDET <LI><B>ascii subtitles file parser/reader/writer</B>: Lez <LI><B>DVD/VOB subtitles</B>: Kim Minh Kaplan <LI><B>SUB/OSD renderer</B>: Adam Tla/lka <LI><B>config files & commandline parser</B>: Szabi <LI><B>playtree, input</B>: Albeu <LI><B>postproc, colorspace converters</B>: Michael Niedermayer <LI><B>LIRC support</B>: Acki <LI><B>VIDIX core, libdha</B>: Nick Kurshev </UL></P> <P>libvo drivers: <UL> <LI><B>vo_3dfx.c</B> - OBSOLETED, use xv or tdfxfb <LI><B>vo_tdfxfb.c</B> - <A HREF="mailto:zsteva@ptt.yu">Zeljko Stevanovic</A> <LI><B>vo_aa.c</B> - Folke Ashberg <LI><B>vo_directfb.c</B> - <A HREF="mailto:Jiri.Svoboda@seznam.cz">Jiri Svoboda</A> <LI><B>vo_dga.c</B> - Acki <LI><B>vo_dxr3.c</B> - David Holm <LI><B>vo_fbdev.c</B> - Szabi <LI><B>vo_ggi.c</B> - al3x <LI><B>vo_gl.c</B> - A'rpi <LI><B>vo_gl2.c</B> - <A HREF="mailto:sgoethel@jausoft.com">Sven Goethel</A> <LI><B>vo_md5.c</B> - A'rpi <LI><B>vo_mga.c</B> - A'rpi <LI><B>vo_mpegpes.c</B> - A'rpi <LI><B>vo_null.c</B> - A'rpi <LI><B>vo_pgm.c</B> - A'rpi <LI><B>vo_png.c</B> - Atmos <LI><B>vo_sdl.c</B> - Atmos <LI><B>vo_svga.c</B> - se7en <LI><B>vo_syncfb.c</B> - OBSOLETED, use mga <LI><B>vo_vesa.c</B> - Nick Kurshev <LI><B>vo_x11.c</B> - Pontscho <LI><B>vo_xmga.c</B> - Pontscho <LI><B>vo_xv.c</B> - Pontscho <LI><B>vo_xvidix.c</B> - al3x <LI><B>vo_zr.c</B> - <A HREF="mailto:rsnel@cube.dyndns.org">Rik Snel</A> </UL></P> <P>VIDIX drivers: <UL> <LI><B>genfb_vid</B> - al3x <LI><B>mach64_vid</B> - Michael Niedermayer <LI><B>mga_vid</B> - al3x ? <LI><B>nvidia_vid</B> - al3x (development stopped - don't expect it) <LI><B>radeon_vid</B> - Nick Kurshev <LI><B>rage128_vid</B> - Nick Kurshev </UL></P> <P>libao2 drivers: <UL> <LI><B>ao_alsa5.c</B> - al3x <LI><B>ao_alsa9.c</B> - al3x (fixed by <A HREF="mailto:joy@pingfm.org">joy_ping</A>) <LI><B>ao_null.c</B> - A'rpi <LI><B>ao_oss.c</B> - A'rpi <LI><B>ao_pcm.c</B> - Atmos <LI><B>ao_sdl.c</B> - Atmos <LI><B>ao_sgi.c</B> - <A HREF="oliver.schoenbrunner@jku.at">Oliver Schoenbrunner</A> <LI><B>ao_sun.c</B> - Jürgen Keil </UL></P> <P>TOOLS: <UL> <LI><B>subfont-c</B> - Artur Zaprzala: <zybi@fanthom.irc.pl> <LI><B>subfont-GIMP</B> - lanzz@lanzz.org <LI><B>*.pl</B> - Atmos <LI><B>x2mpsub</B> - Gabucino <LI><B>others</B> - A'rpi </UL></P> <P><B><A NAME=B>Appendix B - Mailing lists</A></B></P> <P>There are some public mailing lists on <B>MPlayer</B>. Subscribing can be achieved on the following addresses:</P> <P><UL> <LI>MPlayer developers list:<BR> <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng</A> <P>This list is about mplayer development! Talking about interface/API changes, new libraries, code optimization, ./configure changes, and send patches here. Do NOT send bugreports, user questions, feature requests, flame here! This list should be kept low-traffic.</P> </LI><LI>MPlayer users list:<BR> <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users</A> <P><UL> <LI>send bugreports here (after reading <A HREF="#D">Known Bugs</A> section, and Appendix <A HREF="#C">C</A>)</LI> <LI>send feature requests here (after reading the WHOLE documentation)</LI> <LI>send user questions here (after reading the WHOLE documentation)</LI> </UL></P> </LI><LI>MPlayer hungarian users list:<BR> <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-felhasznalok">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-felhasznalok</A> <P><UL> <LI>hungarian language list</LI> <LI>topic? We'll see about it... mostly flame and RTFM questions up to now :(</LI> </UL></P> </LI><LI>MPlayer & Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 users:<BR> <A HREF="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-matrox">http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-matrox</A> <P>Send matrox-related questions here<UL> <LI>things about mga_vid</LI> <LI>matrox's official beta drivers (for X 4.x.x)</LI> <LI>and about matroxfb-TVout stuff.</LI></UL></P> </LI><LI>MPlayer & DVB card users:<BR> <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dvb">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dvb</A> <P>Things related to the hardware decoder card called DVB. (NOT dxr3!)</P> </LI><LI>MPlayer CVS-log: <BR> <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog</A> <P>Send only questions about CVS changes here. (if you don't understand why a change is required or you've better fix or you've noticed possible bug/problem in the commited patch) Be sure in that your target developer reads this list!</P> </LI></UL></P> <P>NOTE: language of above lists are ENGLISH, unless explicitly stated otherwise. Please do not send messages using other language!</P> <P>NOTE: you can reach the searchable mailing list archives <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch">here</A>. <P><B><A NAME=C><A HREF="bugreports.html">Appendix C</A> - How to report bugs</A></B></P> <P><B><A NAME=D>Appendix D - Known bugs</A></B></P> <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: ./configure --disable-sse</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: ./configure --disable-sse etc. options</LI> <LI>"Internal buffer inconsistency" during MEncoder run:<BR> Problem: known gcc 2.96 bug, no fix yet. If you have gcc 2.95, you have a libmp3lame library that was compiled with gcc 2.96 (installed from a deb/rpm package?). Check which lib does MEncoder found : ldd mencoder.</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):<BR> <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 eb sure it's soundcard (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><BR> Audio delay/de-sync specific to one or a few files:<BR> <UL> <LI>bad file<BR> Workaround: <UL> <LI>-ni or -nobps option (for non-interleaved or bad files)</LI> and/or <LI>-mc 0 (required for files with badly interleaved VBR audio)</LI> and/or <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>your soundcard doesn't support 48Khz playback<BR> Workaround: buy a better soundcard... 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><BR> No sound at all:<BR> <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):<BR> <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 missdetected your card's RAM amount, reload it using mga_ram_size option<BR> </P> </BODY> </HTML>