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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <sect1 id="install"> <title>Installation</title> <para> In this section I'll try to guide you through the compiling and configuring process of <application>MPlayer</application>. 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 IS worth it. </para> <para> You need a fairly recent system. On Linux, 2.4.x kernels are recommended. </para> <sect2 id="softreq"> <title>Software requirements</title> <itemizedlist> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">binutils</emphasis> - suggested version is <emphasis role="bold">2.11.x</emphasis>. This program is responsible for generating MMX/ 3DNow!/etc instructions, thus very important. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">gcc</emphasis> - suggested versions are: <emphasis role="bold">2.95.3</emphasis> (maybe <emphasis role="bold">2.95.4</emphasis>) and <emphasis role="bold">3.2+</emphasis>. <emphasis role="bold">Never</emphasis> use 2.96 or 3.0.x! They generate faulty code for <application>MPlayer</application>. 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 <systemitem class="library">libstdc++</systemitem> 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 <application>MPlayer</application>!),see the <link linkend="gcc-296">gcc 2.96</link> section and the <xref linkend="faq"/>. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">XFree86</emphasis> - suggested version is <emphasis role="bold">always the newest</emphasis> (4.3.0). Normally, everyone wants this, as starting with XFree86 4.0.2, it contains the <link linkend="xv">XVideo</link> extension (somewhere referred to as <emphasis role="bold">Xv</emphasis>) which is needed to enable the hardware YUV acceleration (fast image display) on cards that support it. Make sure its <emphasis role="bold">development package</emphasis> is installed, too, otherwise it won't work. For some video cards you don't need XFree86. See list below. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">make</emphasis> - suggested version is <emphasis role="bold">always the newest</emphasis> (at least 3.79.x). This usually isn't important. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">SDL</emphasis> - 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). </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">libjpeg</emphasis> - optional JPEG decoder, used by the <option>-mf</option> option and some QT MOV files. Useful for both MPlayer and MEncoder if you plan to work with jpeg files. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">libpng</emphasis> - recommended and default (M)PNG decoder. Required for GUI. Useful for both <application>MPlayer</application> and <application>MEncoder</application>. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">lame</emphasis> - recommended, needed for encoding MP3 audio with <application>MEncoder</application>, suggested version is <emphasis>always the newest</emphasis> (at least 3.90). </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">libogg</emphasis> - optional, needed for playing OGG file format. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">libvorbis</emphasis> - optional, needed for playing OGG Vorbis audio. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold"><ulink url="http://www.live.com/mplayer/">LIVE.COM Streaming Media</ulink></emphasis> - optional, needed for playing RTSP/RTP streams. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">directfb</emphasis> - optional, from <ulink url="http://www.directfb.org"/> </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">cdparanoia</emphasis> - optional, for CDDA support </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">libfreetype</emphasis> - optional, for TTF fonts support. At least 2.0.9 is required. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">libxmms</emphasis> - optional, for XMMS input plugin support. At least 1.2.7 is required. </para></listitem> </itemizedlist> </sect2> <sect2> <title>Codecs</title> <itemizedlist> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">libavcodec</emphasis>: This codec package is capable of decoding H263/MJPEG/RV10/DivX3/DivX4/DivX5/MP41/MP42/WMV1 encoded video streams and WMA (Windows Media Audio) v1/v2 audio streams, on multiple platforms. It is also known to be the fastest for this task. See <link linkend="ffmpeg">this section</link> for details. Features: <itemizedlist> <listitem><simpara> gain decoding of videos mentioned above, on non-x86 machines </simpara></listitem> <listitem><simpara> encoding with most of the mentioned codecs </simpara></listitem> <listitem><simpara> this codec is the <emphasis role="bold">fastest codec available</emphasis> for DivX/3/4/5 and other MPEG4 types. Recommended! </simpara></listitem> </itemizedlist> </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">Win32 codecs</emphasis>: If you plan to use <application>MPlayer</application> on x86 architecture, you will possibly need them. Download the Win32 codecs from our <ulink url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/">codecs page</ulink> and install them to <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/win32</filename> <emphasis role="bold">BEFORE</emphasis> compiling <application>MPlayer</application>, otherwise no Win32 support will be compiled! <note><para>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 (do not worry, avifile works with it without problems).</para> </note> Features: <itemizedlist> <listitem><simpara> 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) </simpara></listitem> <listitem><simpara> needed if you want to play <emphasis role="bold">WMV8, WMV9/WMA9 movies</emphasis>. </simpara></listitem> <listitem><simpara> 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. Also not needed for WMA (Windows Media Audio), libavcodec has opensource decoder for that. </simpara></listitem> </itemizedlist> </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">QuickTime codecs</emphasis>: on x86 platforms these codecs can be used to decode Sorenson v1/v3, RPZA, and other QuickTime video, and QDesign audio streams. Installation instructions can be found in the <link linkend="sorenson">Sorenson video codec</link> section. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">DivX4/DivX5</emphasis>: information about this codec is available in the <link linkend="divx4-5">DivX4/DivX5 section</link>. You possibly don't want this codec as <emphasis role="bold">libavcodec</emphasis> (see above) is much faster and has better quality than this, for both decoding and encoding. Features: <itemizedlist> <listitem><simpara> 1 pass or 2 pass encoding with <link linkend="mencoder">MEncoder</link> </simpara></listitem> <listitem><simpara> can play old <emphasis role="bold">DivX3</emphasis> movies much faster than the Win32 DLL but slower than <emphasis role="bold">libavcodec</emphasis>! </simpara></listitem> <listitem><simpara> it's closed-source, and only a x86 version is available. </simpara></listitem> </itemizedlist> </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">XviD</emphasis>: Open source encoding alternative to Divx4Linux. Features: <itemizedlist> <listitem><simpara> 1 pass or 2 pass encoding with <link linkend="mencoder">MEncoder</link> </simpara></listitem> <listitem><simpara> it's open-source, so it's multiplatform. </simpara></listitem> <listitem><simpara> it's about 2 times faster than divx4 when encoding - about the same quality </simpara></listitem> </itemizedlist> </para></listitem> <listitem><para> The <emphasis role="bold"><link linkend="xanim">XAnim codecs</link></emphasis> are the best (full screen, hardware YUV zoom) for decoding <emphasis role="bold">3ivx</emphasis> 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 <application>MPlayer</application>'s own Cinepak decoder! </para></listitem> <listitem><para> For <emphasis role="bold">Ogg Vorbis</emphasis> audio decoding you need to install <systemitem class="library">libvorbis</systemitem> properly. Use deb/rpm packages if available, or compile from <ulink url="http://ogg.org/ogg/vorbis/download/vorbis_nightly_cvs.tgz">source</ulink> (this is a nightly updated tarball of Vorbis CVS). </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <application>MPlayer</application> can use the libraries of RealPlayer 8 or RealONE to play files with <emphasis role="bold">RealVideo 2.0-4.0</emphasis> video, and Sipro/Cook audio. See <link linkend="realmedia">RealMedia file format</link> section for installation instructions and more information. </para></listitem> </itemizedlist> </sect2> <sect2 id="video-cards"> <title>Video cards</title> <para> There are generally two kind of video cards. One kind (the newer cards) has <emphasis role="bold">hardware scaling and YUV acceleration</emphasis> support, the other cards don't. </para> <sect3 id="yuv-cards"> <title>YUV cards</title> <para> They can display and scale (zoom) the picture to any size that fits in their memory, with <emphasis role="bold">small CPU usage</emphasis> (even when zooming), thus fullscreen is nice and very fast. <itemizedlist> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 cards</emphasis>: although a <link linkend="vidix">Vidix driver</link> is provided, it is recommended to use the mga_vid module instead, for it works much better. Please see the <link linkend="mga_vid">mga_vid</link> section about its installation and usage. It is important to do these steps <emphasis>before</emphasis> compiling <application>MPlayer</application>, otherwise no mga_vid support will be built. Also check out the <link linkend="tvout-mga-g400">Matrox TV-out</link> section. If you <emphasis role="bold"> If you don't use Linux</emphasis>, your only possibility is the VIDIX driver: read the <link linkend="vidix">VIDIX</link> section. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">3Dfx Voodoo3/Banshee cards</emphasis>: please see <link linkend="tdfxfb">tdfxfb</link> section in order to gain big speedup. It is important to do these steps <emphasis role="bold">before</emphasis> compiling <application>MPlayer</application>, otherwise no 3Dfx support will be built. Also see the <link linkend="tvout-voodoo">3dfx TV-out section</link>. If you use X, use at least <emphasis role="bold">4.2.0</emphasis>, as 3dfx Xv driver was broken in 4.1.0, and earlier releases. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">ATI cards</emphasis>: <link linkend="vidix">VIDIX</link> driver is provided for the following cards: <emphasis role="bold">Radeon, Rage128, Mach64</emphasis> (Rage XL/Mobility, Xpert98). Also see the <link linkend="tvout-ati">ATI cards section</link> of the TV-out documentation, to know if you card's TV-out is supported under Linux/<application>MPlayer</application>. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">S3 cards</emphasis>: 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 <link linkend="s3">S3 Xv section</link> for details. Older, Trio cards have no, or slow hardware support. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">nVidia cards</emphasis>: may or may not be good choice for video playing. If you do not have a GeForce2 (or newer) card, it's not likely to work without bugs. <emphasis role="bold">the built-in nVidia driver in XFree86 does not support hardware YUV acceleration on all nVidia cards.</emphasis> You have to download nVidia's closed-source drivers from nVidia.com. See the <link linkend="nvidia">nVidia Xv driver</link> section for details. Please also check the <link linkend="tvout-nvidia">nVidia TV-out section</link> if you wish to use a TV. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">3DLabs GLINT R3 and Permedia3</emphasis>: a VIDIX driver is provided (pm3_vid). Please see the <link linkend="vidix">VIDIX</link> section for details. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">Other cards</emphasis>: none of the above? <itemizedlist> <listitem><simpara> Try if the XFree86 driver (and your card) supports hardware acceleration. See the <link linkend="xv">Xv section</link> for details. </simpara></listitem> <listitem><simpara> If it doesn't, then your card's video features aren't supported under your operating system :( If hardware scaling works under Windows, it doesn't mean it will work under Linux or other operating system, it depends on the drivers. Most manufacturers neither make Linux drivers nor release specifications of their chips - so you are unlucky if using their cards. See <xref linkend="non-yuv-cards"/>. </simpara></listitem> </itemizedlist> </para></listitem> </itemizedlist> </para> </sect3> <sect3 id="non-yuv-cards" xreflabel="Non-YUV cards"> <title>Non-YUV cards</title> <para> Fullscreen playing can be achieved by either enabling <emphasis role="bold"> software scaling</emphasis> (use the <option>-zoom</option> or <option>-vf</option> option, but i warn you: this is slow), or switching to a smaller video mode, for example 352x288. If you don't have YUV acceleration, this latter method is recommended. Video mode switching can be enabled by using the <option>-vm</option> option and it works with the following drivers: <itemizedlist> <listitem><simpara> <emphasis role="bold">using</emphasis> XFree86: see details in <link linkend="dga">DGA driver</link> and <link linkend="x11">X11 driver</link> sections. DGA is recommended! Also try DGA via SDL, sometimes it's better. </simpara></listitem> <listitem><simpara> <emphasis role="bold">not using</emphasis> XFree86: try the drivers in the following order: <link linkend="vesa">vesa</link>, <link linkend="fbdev">fbdev</link>, <link linkend="svgalib">svgalib</link>, <link linkend="aalib">aalib</link>. </simpara></listitem> </itemizedlist> </para> </sect3> <!-- FIXME: find a more logical organization for this section --> <sect3 id="cirrus-logic-cards" xreflabel="Cirrus-Logic cards"> <title>Cirrus-Logic cards</title> <itemizedlist> <listitem><para> GD 7548: present on-board and tested in Compaq Armada 41xx notebook series. <itemizedlist> <listitem><simpara> XFree86 3: works in 8/16bpp modes. However, the driver is dramatically slow and buggy in 800x600@16bpp. <emphasis role="bold">Recommended: 640x480@16bpp</emphasis> </simpara></listitem> <listitem><simpara> XFree86 4: the Xserver freezes soon after start unless acceleration is disabled, but then the whole thing gets slower than XFree86 3. No XVideo. </simpara></listitem> <listitem><simpara> FBdev: framebuffer can be turned on with the <systemitem>clgenfb</systemitem> 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. </simpara></listitem> <listitem><simpara> VESA: the card is only VBE 1.2 capable, so VESA output can't be used. Can't be workarounded with UniVBE. </simpara></listitem> <listitem><simpara> SVGAlib: detects an older Cirrus chip. Usable but slow with <option>-bpp 8</option>. </simpara></listitem> </itemizedlist> </para></listitem> </itemizedlist> </sect3> </sect2> <sect2 id="sound-cards"> <title>Sound cards</title> <itemizedlist> <listitem><simpara> <emphasis role="bold">Soundblaster Live!</emphasis>: with this card you can use 4 or 6 (<emphasis role="bold">5.1</emphasis>) channels AC3 decoding instead of 2. Read the <link linkend="swac3">Software AC3 decoding</link> section. For hardware AC3 passthrough you <emphasis role="bold">must</emphasis> use ALSA 0.9 with OSS emulation! </simpara></listitem> <listitem><simpara> <emphasis role="bold">C-Media with SP/DIF out</emphasis>: hardware AC3 passthrough is possible with these cards, see <link linkend="hwac3">Hardware AC3 decoding</link> section. </simpara></listitem> <listitem><simpara> Features of <emphasis role="bold">other cards</emphasis> aren't supported by <application>MPlayer</application>. <emphasis role="bold">It's very recommended to read the <link linkend="audio-dev">sound card</link> section!</emphasis> </simpara></listitem> </itemizedlist> </sect2> <sect2> <title>Features</title> <itemizedlist> <listitem><para> Decide if you need GUI. If you do, see the <link linkend="gui">GUI section</link> before compiling. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> If you want to install <application>MEncoder</application> (our great all-purpose encoder), see the <link linkend="mencoder">MEncoder section</link>. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> If you have a V4L compatible <emphasis role="bold">TV tuner</emphasis> card, and wish to watch/grab and encode movies with <application>MPlayer</application>, read the <link linkend="tv-input">TV input</link> section. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> There is a neat <emphasis role="bold">OSD Menu</emphasis> support ready to be used. Check the <link linkend="subosd">OSD menu</link> section. </para></listitem> </itemizedlist> <para> Then build <application>MPlayer</application>: <screen> ./configure make make install</screen> </para> <para> At this point, <application>MPlayer</application> is ready to use. The directory <filename class="directory">$PREFIX/share/mplayer</filename> contains the <filename>codecs.conf</filename> 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. Check if you have <filename>codecs.conf</filename> in your home directory (<filename>~/.mplayer/codecs.conf</filename>) left from old <application>MPlayer</application> versions, and remove it. </para> <para> Debian users can build a .deb package for themselves, it's very simple. Just exec <screen>fakeroot debian/rules binary</screen> in <application>MPlayer</application>'s root directory. See <link linkend="debian">Debian packaging</link> for detailled instructions. </para> <para> <emphasis role="bold">Always browse the output of</emphasis> <filename>./configure</filename>, and the <filename>configure.log</filename> file, they contain information about what will be built, and what will not. You may also want to view <filename>config.h</filename> and <filename>config.mak</filename> files. If you have some libraries installed, but not detected by <filename>./configure</filename>, then check if you also have the proper header files (usually the -dev packages) and their version matches. The <filename>configure.log</filename> file usually tells you what is missing. </para> <para> Though not mandatory, the fonts should be installed in order to gain OSD, and subtitle functionality. The recommended method is installing a TTF font file and telling MPlayer to use it. See the <link linkend="subosd">Subtitles and OSD</link> section for details. </para> </sect2> </sect1> <!-- ********** --> <sect1 id="gui"> <title>What about the GUI?</title> <para> The GUI needs GTK 1.2.x (it isn't fully GTK, but the panels are). The skins are stored in PNG format, so GTK, <systemitem class="library">libpng</systemitem> (and their devel stuff, usualy called <systemitem class="library">gtk-dev</systemitem> and <systemitem class="library">libpng-dev</systemitem>) has to be installed. You can build it by specifying <option>--enable-gui</option> during <filename>./configure</filename>. Then, to turn on GUI mode, you have to execute the <command>gmplayer</command> binary. </para> <para> Currently you can't use the <option>-gui</option> option on the command line, due to technical reasons. </para> <para> As <application>MPlayer</application> doesn't have a skin included, you have to download them if you want to use the GUI. See the <ulink url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html">download page</ulink>. They should be extracted to the usual system-wide directory (<filename class="directory">$PREFIX/share/mplayer/Skin</filename>), or to <filename class="directory">$HOME/.mplayer/Skin</filename>. <application>MPlayer</application> by default looks in these directories for a directory named <filename class="directory">default</filename>, but you can use the <option>-skin <replaceable>newskin</replaceable></option> option, or the <literal>skin=newskin</literal> config file directive to use the skin in <filename class="directory">*/Skin/newskin</filename> directory. </para> </sect1> <!-- ********** --> <sect1 id="subosd"> <title>Subtitles and OSD</title> <para> MPlayer can display subtitles along with movie files. Currently the following formats are supported: <itemizedlist> <listitem><para>VobSub</para></listitem> <listitem><para>OGM</para></listitem> <listitem><para>CC (closed caption)</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Microdvd</para></listitem> <listitem><para>SubRip</para></listitem> <listitem><para>SubViewer</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Sami</para></listitem> <listitem><para>VPlayer</para></listitem> <listitem><para>RT</para></listitem> <listitem><para>SSA</para></listitem> <listitem><para><link linkend="mpsub">MPsub</link></para></listitem> <listitem><para>AQTitle</para></listitem> <listitem><para>JACOsub</para></listitem> </itemizedlist> </para> <para> MPlayer can dump the previously listed subtitle formats (<emphasis role="bold">except the three first</emphasis>) into the following destination formats, with the given options: <itemizedlist> <listitem><para>MPsub: <option>-dumpmpsub</option></para></listitem> <listitem><para>SubRip: <option>-dumpsrtsub</option></para></listitem> <listitem><para>Microdvd: <option>-dumpmicrodvdsub</option></para></listitem> <listitem><para>JACOsub: <option>-dumpjacosub</option></para></listitem> <listitem><para>Sami: <option>-dumpsami</option></para></listitem> </itemizedlist> </para> <para> The command line options differ slightly for the different formats: </para> <formalpara> <title>VobSub subtitles</title> <para> VobSub subtitles consist of a big (some megabytes) <filename>.SUB</filename> file, and optional <filename>.IDX</filename> and/or <filename>.IFO</filename> files. If you have files like <filename>sample.sub</filename>, <filename>sample.ifo</filename> (optional), <filename>sample.idx</filename> - you have to pass <application>MPlayer</application> the <option>-vobsub sample [-vobsubid <replaceable>id</replaceable>]</option> options (full path optional). The <option>-vobsubid</option> option is like <option>-sid</option> for DVDs, you can choose between subtitle tracks (languages) with it. In case that <option>-vobsubid</option> is omitted, <application>MPLayer</application> will try to use the languages given by the <option>-slang</option> option and fall back to the <systemitem>langidx</systemitem> in the <filename>.IDX</filename> file to set the subtitle language. If it fails, there will be no subtitles. </para> </formalpara> <formalpara> <title>Other subtitles</title> <para> The other formats consist of a single text file containing timing, placement and text information. Usage: If you have a file like <filename>sample.txt</filename>, you have to pass the option <option>-sub sample.txt</option> (full path optional). </para> </formalpara> <variablelist> <title>Adjusting subtitle timing and placement:</title> <varlistentry> <term><option>-subdelay <replaceable>sec</replaceable></option></term> <listitem><simpara> Delays subtitles by <option><replaceable>sec</replaceable></option> seconds. Can be negative. </simpara></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><option>-subfps <replaceable>RATE</replaceable></option></term> <listitem><simpara> Specify frame/sec rate of subtitle file (float number). </simpara></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><option>-subpos <replaceable>0-100</replaceable></option></term> <listitem><simpara> Specify the position of subtitles. </simpara></listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> <para> 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. Please note that the MicroDVD subtitle format uses absolute frame numbers for its timing, and therefore the <option>-subfps</option> option cannot be used with this format. As <application>MPlayer</application> 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 <filename class="directory">contrib</filename> directory of the MPlayer FTP site to do this conversion for you. </para> <para> About DVD subtitles, read the <link linkend="dvd">DVD section</link>. </para> <sect2 id="mpsub"> <title>MPlayer's own subtitle format (MPsub)</title> <para> <application>MPlayer</application> introduces a new subtitle format called <emphasis role="bold">MPsub</emphasis>. It was designed by Gabucino. Basically its main feature is being <emphasis>dynamically</emphasis> time-based (although it has frame-based mode too). Example (from <ulink url="../../tech/mpsub.sub">DOCS/tech/mpsub.sub</ulink>): <programlisting> # first number : wait this much after previous subtitle disappeared # second number : display the current subtitle for this many seconds 15 3 A long long, time ago... 0 3 in a galaxy far away... 0 3 Naboo was under an attack.<!-- --></programlisting> </para> <para> So you see, the main goal was to <emphasis role="bold">make subtitle editing/timing/joining/cutting easy</emphasis>. And, if you - say - get an SSA subtitle but it's badly timed/delayed to your version of the movie, you simply do a <screen>mplayer dummy.avi -sub source.ssa -dumpmpsub</screen> A <filename>dump.mpsub</filename> file will be created in the current directory, which will contain the source subtitle's text, but in <emphasis role="bold">MPsub</emphasis> format. Then you can freely add/subtract seconds to/from the subtitle. </para> <para> Subtitles are displayed with a technique called <emphasis role="bold">'OSD', On Screen Display</emphasis>.OSD is used to display current time, volume bar, seek bar etc. </para> </sect2> <sect2 id="mpsub-install"> <title>Installing OSD and subtitles</title> <para> You need an MPlayer font package to be able to use OSD/SUB feature. There are many ways to get it: </para> <itemizedlist> <listitem><para> Download ready-to-use font packages from MPlayer site. Note: currently available fonts are limited for ISO 8859-1/2 support, but there are some other (including Korean, Russian, ISO 8859-8 etc) fonts at contrib/font section of FTP, made by users. </para><para> <!-- FIXME: this para should be before the list --> Font should have appropriate <filename>font.desc</filename> 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 <option>-utf8</option> option or just name the subtitles file <filename><video_name>.utf</filename> and have it in the same dir as the video file. Recoding from different codepages to UTF8 could be <!-- FIXME: iconv (Debian) konwert (Red Hat) instead? --> done by using <command>konwert</command> (Debian) or <command>iconv</command> (Red Hat) programs. </para><para> <table> <title>Some URLs</title> <tgroup cols="2"> <thead> <row><entry>URL</entry><entry>Comment</entry></row> </thead> <tbody> <row><entry> <ulink url="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/fonts/"></ulink> </entry><entry> ISO fonts </entry></row> <row><entry> <ulink url="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/fonts/"></ulink> </entry><entry> various fonts by users </entry></row> <row><entry> <ulink url="http://realtime.ssu.ac.kr/~lethean/mplayer/"></ulink> </entry><entry> Korean fonts and RAW plugin </entry></row> </tbody> </tgroup> </table> </para></listitem> <listitem><para> Use the font generator tool at <filename class="directory">TOOLS/subfont-c</filename>. It's a complete tool to convert from TTF/Type1/etc font to mplayer font pkg. (read <filename>TOOLS/subfont-c/README</filename> for details) </para></listitem> <listitem><para> Use the font generator GIMP plugin at <filename class="directory">TOOLS/subfont-GIMP</filename> (note: you must have HSI RAW plugin too, see URL below) <!-- FIXME: where's that URL? --> </para></listitem> <listitem><para> using a TrueType (TTF) font, by the means of the <systemitem class="library">freetype</systemitem> library. Version 2.0.9 or greater is mandatory! Then you have two methods: <itemizedlist> <listitem><para> use the <option>-font /path/to/arial.ttf</option> option to specify a TrueType font file on every occasion </para></listitem> <listitem><para> create a symlink:<screen>ln -s /path/to/arial.ttf ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf</screen> </para></listitem> </itemizedlist> </para></listitem> </itemizedlist> <para> If you chose non-TTF fonts, UNZIP the file you downloaded to <filename class="directory">~/.mplayer</filename> or <filename class="directory">$PREFIX/share/mplayer</filename>. Then rename or symlink one of the extracted directories to <filename>font</filename>, for example: <screen>ln -s ~/.mplayer/arial-24 ~/.mplayer/font</screen> Now you have to see a timer at the upper left corner of the movie (switch it off with the <keycap>o</keycap> key). </para> <para> (subtitles are <emphasis>always enabled</emphasis>, for disabling them please read the man page) </para> <para> OSD has 4 states (switch with <keycap>o</keycap>): <orderedlist> <listitem><simpara> volume bar + seek bar (default) </simpara></listitem> <listitem><simpara> volume bar + seek bar + timer + file position percentage on seeking </simpara></listitem> <listitem><simpara> volume bar + seek bar + timer + total duration of the media </simpara></listitem> <listitem><simpara> subtitles only </simpara></listitem> </orderedlist> You can change default behaviour by setting <varname>osdlevel</varname> variable in config file, or the <option>-osdlevel</option> command line option. </para> </sect2> <sect2 id="osdmenu"> <title>OSD menu</title> <para> MPlayer has a completely user definiable OSD Menu interface. </para> <note><simpara> the Preferences menu is currently UNIMPLEMENTED! </simpara></note> <orderedlist> <title>Installation</title> <listitem><simpara> compile <application>MPlayer</application> by passing the <option>--enable-menu</option> to <filename>./configure</filename> </simpara></listitem> <listitem><simpara> make sure you have an OSD font installed </simpara></listitem> <listitem><simpara> copy <filename>etc/menu.conf</filename> to your <filename class="directory">.mplayer</filename> directory </simpara></listitem> <listitem><simpara> copy <filename>etc/input.conf</filename> to your <filename class="directory">.mplayer</filename> directory, or to the system-wide <application>MPlayer</application> config dir (default: <filename class="directory">/usr/local/etc/mplayer</filename>) </simpara></listitem> <listitem><simpara> check and edit <filename>input.conf</filename> to enable menu movement keys (it is described there). </simpara></listitem> <listitem><para> start <application>MPlayer</application> by the following example: <screen>$ mplayer -menu file.avi</screen> </para></listitem> <listitem><simpara> push any menu key you defined </simpara></listitem> </orderedlist> </sect2> </sect1> <!-- ********** --> <sect1 id="rtc"> <title>RTC</title> <para> There are three timing methods in MPlayer. <itemizedlist> <listitem><simpara> <emphasis role="bold">To use the old method</emphasis>, you don't have to do anything. It uses <systemitem>usleep()</systemitem> to tune A/V sync, with +/- 10ms accuracy. However sometimes the sync has to be tuned even finer. </simpara></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">The new timer</emphasis> 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 <emphasis>setuid root</emphasis> <application>MPlayer</application> binary or a properly set up kernel. If you are running kernel 2.4.19pre8 or later you can adjust the maximum RTC frequency for normal users through the /proc filesystem. Use this command to enable RTC for normal users: <screen>echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq</screen> If you do not have such a new kernel, you can also change one line in <filename>drivers/char/rtc.c</filename> and recompile your kernel. Find the section that reads <programlisting> * 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))) </programlisting> and change the 64 to 1024. You should really know what you are doing, though. You can see the new timer's efficiency in the status line. 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 <option>-nortc</option> option. 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. </para></listitem> <listitem><simpara> <emphasis role="bold">The third timer code</emphasis> is turned on with the <option>-softsleep</option> option. It has the efficiency of the RTC, but it doesn't use RTC. On the other hand, it requires more CPU. </simpara></listitem> </itemizedlist> <note><para><emphasis role="bold">NEVER install a setuid root <application>MPlayer</application> binary on a multiuser system!</emphasis> It's a clear way for everyone to become root. </para></note> </para> </sect1>