# HG changeset patch # User diego # Date 1100683685 0 # Node ID 2946cbf097b57106a3cbbe52a4148f71ff3fdb96 # Parent 3027af083f6f7af9993dd063b230f97065d2815f DivX is MPEG4, so let's call it MPEG4 to avoid confusion. diff -r 3027af083f6f -r 2946cbf097b5 DOCS/xml/en/documentation.xml --- a/DOCS/xml/en/documentation.xml Wed Nov 17 08:25:08 2004 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/documentation.xml Wed Nov 17 09:28:05 2004 +0000 @@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, PVA, Matroska files, supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, RealMedia, Sorenson, Theora, and -DivX movies too. Another big feature of -MPlayer is the wide range of +MPEG4 (DivX) movies too. Another big +feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, libcaca, DirectFB, but you can use GGI and SDL (and this way all their drivers) and some lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ MPlayer-playable movies (AVI/ASF/OGG/DVD/VCD/VOB/MPG/MOV/VIV/FLI/RM/NUV/NET/PVA) to other MPlayer-playable formats (see below). It -can encode with various codecs, like DivX4 +can encode with various codecs, like MPEG4 (DivX4) (1 or 2 passes), libavcodec, PCM/MP3/VBR MP3 audio. diff -r 3027af083f6f -r 2946cbf097b5 DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml --- a/DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml Wed Nov 17 08:25:08 2004 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/faq.xml Wed Nov 17 09:28:05 2004 +0000 @@ -1420,7 +1420,7 @@ -I can't encode ASF files to AVI/DivX because it uses 1000 fps? +I can't encode ASF files to AVI/MPEG4 (DivX) because it uses 1000 fps? Because ASF uses variable frame rate but AVI uses a fixed one, you diff -r 3027af083f6f -r 2946cbf097b5 DOCS/xml/en/formats.xml --- a/DOCS/xml/en/formats.xml Wed Nov 17 08:25:08 2004 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/formats.xml Wed Nov 17 09:28:05 2004 +0000 @@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ You see, a codec is not the same as a file format. -Examples of video codecs are: MPEG1, MPEG2, DivX, Indeo5, 3ivx. +Examples of video codecs are: MPEG1, MPEG2, +MPEG4 (DivX), Indeo5, 3ivx. Examples of file formats are: MPG, AVI, ASF. @@ -260,7 +261,8 @@ contain uncompressed YV12, YV12+RTJpeg compressed, YV12 RTJpeg+lzo compressed, and YV12+lzo compressed frames. MPlayer decodes (and also encodes -them with MEncoder to DivX/etc!) them all. Seeking works. +them with MEncoder to MPEG4 (DivX)/etc!) them all. +Seeking works. diff -r 3027af083f6f -r 2946cbf097b5 DOCS/xml/en/video.xml --- a/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml Wed Nov 17 08:25:08 2004 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml Wed Nov 17 09:28:05 2004 +0000 @@ -1758,14 +1758,14 @@ option. DVB cards accept various widths, like 720, 704, 640, 512, 480, 352 etc and do hardware scaling in horizontal direction, so you do not need to scale horizontally in most cases. For a 512x384 (aspect 4:3) -DivX try: +MPEG4 (DivX) try: mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes -vf scale=512:576 If you have a widescreen movie and you do not want to scale it to full height, you can use the filter to add black bands. To view a -640x384 DivX, try: +640x384 MPEG4 (DivX), try: @@ -1773,7 +1773,9 @@ -If your CPU is too slow for a full size 720x576 DivX, try downscaling: + +If your CPU is too slow for a full size 720x576 MPEG4 (DivX), try downscaling: + mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes -vf scale=352:576 file.avi @@ -1803,7 +1805,7 @@ -To keep the aspect ratio of DivX files and get the optimal scaling +To keep the aspect ratio of MPEG4 (DivX) files and get the optimal scaling parameters (hardware horizontal scaling and software vertical scaling while keeping the right aspect ratio), use the new dvbscale filter: @@ -2043,7 +2045,7 @@ = device number to use if you have more than one em8300 card. Any of these options may be left out. - seems to work great when playing DivX movies. People + seems to work great when playing MPEG4 (DivX) movies. People have reported problems using the prebuf option when playing MPEG1/2 files. You might want to try running without any options first, if you have sync problems, or DVD subtitle problems, give a try. @@ -2071,8 +2073,8 @@ -To watch non-MPEG content on the em8300 (i.e. DivX or RealVideo) you have to -specify an MPEG1 video filter such as +To watch non-MPEG content on the em8300 (i.e. MPEG4 (DivX) or RealVideo) +you have to specify an MPEG1 video filter such as libavcodec (lavc) or libfame (fame). At the moment lavc is both faster and gives better image quality, it is suggested