+ + 4.1. CD-ROM drives + + From Linux documentation: + + Some CDROM drives are capable of changing their head-speed. There are several + reasons for changing the speed of a CDROM drive. Badly pressed CDROMs may + benefit from less-than-maximum head rate. Modern CDROM drives can obtain very + high head rates (up to 24-times is common). It has been reported that these + drives can make reading errors at these high speeds, reducing the speed can + prevent data loss in these circumstances. Finally, some of these drives can + make an annoyingly loud noise, which a lower speed may reduce. + + The recommended way to do it is with a program called 'setcd' . It's kinda + old, but won't be too hard to find on the Net. (UPDATE : new hdparm + has an option for this !) + Use it with : + + + setcd -x [speed] [cdrom device] + + + Also you can try : + + + echo current_speed:4 >/proc/ide/[cdrom device]/settings + + + but you'll need root privileges. I use following command too : + + + echo file_readahead:2000000 >/proc/ide/[cdrom device]/settings + + + for 2MB prefetched reading from the file (it's useful for scratched CDROMs). + It's recommended that you tuneup your CDROM drive also with hdparm : + + + hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 (cdrom device) + + + to enable using DMA access, readahead, and IRQ unmasking. + (if you don't understand these, *read the hdparm manpage*) + + Please refer to "/proc/ide/[cdrom device]/settings" for fine-tuning your + CDROM. + + + + 4.2. DVD playback + + IMPORTANT NOTE: please _DO_NOT_ require further features for DVD playback. This + is extremly experimental hack. Maybe it won't work for you. If you're + capable of helping us do it now! First we would like to fix existing problems. + Then we can start implementing advanced DVD playback functions of course. + + This means current DVD functions are mainly for developers and not for users! + + First, you must compile and install libcss on your system. + Second, you have to recompile MPlayer with libcss support. There is + autodetection of libcss, but if it fails, see below : + + Call ./configure script of MPlayer with these options: + + ./configure --enable-css --with-csslibdir=/usr/local/lib --with-cssincdir=/usr/local/include + + (of course you can append your favourite options as well) + + --with-csslibdir=/usr/local/lib + Directory contains libcss.so shared library. This directory should + be in your /etc/ld.so.conf as well. + + --with-cssincdir=/usr/local/include + Directory contains header file 'css.h' of libcss. + + mplayer -dvdauth /dev/dvd /mnt/cdrom/video_ts/vts_01_1.vob + + where, + + '-dvdauth /dev/dvd' tells MPlayer the device name of your DVD drive. + it's used in disc authentication process + + the filename is simply a VOB file path on the disc + + Note that according to my experiences, disc authentication requires root + privileges so you must run MPlayer as root! (see section 'Problems'). + + NOTE about the sound: + It seems that MPlayer sometimes fails to find the first audio stream. + You can specify it with the '-aid 128' option, for example. + Please experience with 128,129 and similar values. See section + 'Problems'. + + On my AMD K6-2 with using hw scaling and colorspace conversion + capability of my G400 it's possible to watch DVD with about 70% + CPU usage with '-nosound'. Unfortunately with sound my machine is + not enough :( Maybe it can be improved somewhat ... + Guess, it's not so bad ... According to reports from my friends + xine uses 80-90% CPU to play DVD on much more powerful machines + like 1GHz Athlon systems (as far as I know, it's said that about + 300MHz celeron is the minimum to watch DVDs ... using windows + DVD viewers). + + Hint: I commented out downmix functions from libac3 (of course in this way I + can't get sound) and audio decoding CPU usage became 11% instead of 24 on + my machine. This clearly indicates that we should optimize downmix functions + (KNI code is no use for my k6-2). + + HOT NEWZ: + We have got 3Dnow optimized libac3. Wow ;-) + + + Problems (TODO) + + * disc authentication (the FIBMAP ioctl) requires root privilegies. + this is strange since OMS can do it as user too. + * sound. I'm using my only DVD disc (The Matrix) to test MPlayer. + some VOB file have English sound, some have Spanish and some have + no sound at all. + IT SEEMS that if I give '-aid 128' everything works with English sound ... + * strange effects but only with SOME vob files (it looks like some interlacing + effect, eg: every 2nd line on the screen is from the last frame). + + + Feature TODO + + * chapter scanner + * audio stream scanner and allow to select one on runtime as well + (in stage#1 it would be enough to select one on the startup, see + 'Problems' above) + * DVD menu + I found (at least on disc 'The Matrix') the menu VOB but I don't + know how can it be used. + (after some eyeballing on the source of OMS, it seems we would have to + parse *.ifo files) + * subtitle support + * OSD/GUI (?) support for select chapter, subtitle and audio stream + * getting some documentation on DVD format, eg: which is the 'root' VOB + file on the disc in video_ts directory, which is the menu and so on. + * improve performance (see 'Performance' above) + + + No sound problem (from Matrix DVD, the menu VOB) + + End of packet while searching for PCM header + + DEMUXER: Too many (2048 in 4131540 bytes) video packets in the buffer! + (maybe you play a non-interleaved stream/file or video codec failed) + MPEG: No Audio stream found... ->nosound + + However this does not occur if you specify '-aid 128'. + + + 4.3. DVD playback FAQ + + Q: I have some problem not mentioned here ... + A: Read file 'DVD' as well. + + Q: How can I actually watch DVD with MPlayer? + A: Ehh. Go on reading this file as well as 'DVD' (hint: you must have libcss) + + Q: So MPlayer can play DVDs? Then it must use DeCSS! You are under arrest + under the XYZ#$ paragraph of the-- + A: Get back asshole, there is no DeCSS code in MPlayer. It links to libcss. + + Q: Seems to work but no sound. + A: Use '-aid 128' (or try: 128,129,...) command line switch + + Q: I have got Spanish audio instead of English (or similar problems) + A: See the last question/answer. + + Q: MPlayer complains about FIBMAP or something. + A: Try to run MPlayer as root. + + Q: some strange effect (interlace like thing) especially when fast moving + objects are shown in the movie + A: known problem, we try to fix it later + + Q: DVD support in MPlayer is a piece of shit! + A: You're probably right :) However please contact us if you can improve it! + + Q: Where can I get libcss package from? + A: Maybe from the source of OMS (www.linuxvideo.org). + + Q: How can I ... (insert some expectable DVD player feature here) + A: The current implementation is only for viewing VOB files from DVD. + Nothing more, like subtitles, menus and so on. + + Q: How can I set the region code of my DVD-Drive ? I don't have windows! + A: Use the 'regionset' tool : + http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvd/dvd_disc_20000215.tar.gz + + Q: MPlayer complains about some renamed option? + A: For future development, old '-dvd' option was replaced by '-dvdauth'. + Option '-dvd' *WILL* do the 'full disk movie' mplaying mode. + But until that, '-dvd' does nothing only prints error message. + ++ + + + diff -r 6591cd06b356 -r a79cb130ea44 DOCS/documentation.html --- a/DOCS/documentation.html Thu Aug 23 00:14:27 2001 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/documentation.html Thu Aug 23 00:38:19 2001 +0000 @@ -82,12 +82,12 @@ 3.3 Streaming from network or pipes
- 4. CD/DVD section + 4. CD/DVD section
- 4.1 CD drives - 4.2 DVD drives - 4.3 DVD FAQ + 4.1 CD drives + 4.2 DVD playback + 4.3 DVD playback FAQ
5. FAQ section
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@
4. FAQ section
- 5. CD/DVD section
+ 5. CD/DVD section
6. Misc OS'es
diff -r 6591cd06b356 -r a79cb130ea44 DOCS/dvd.html
--- a/DOCS/dvd.html Thu Aug 23 00:14:27 2001 +0000
+++ /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,207 +0,0 @@
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 4.1. CD-ROM drives
-
- From Linux documentation:
-
- Some CDROM drives are capable of changing their head-speed. There are several
- reasons for changing the speed of a CDROM drive. Badly pressed CDROMs may
- benefit from less-than-maximum head rate. Modern CDROM drives can obtain very
- high head rates (up to 24-times is common). It has been reported that these
- drives can make reading errors at these high speeds, reducing the speed can
- prevent data loss in these circumstances. Finally, some of these drives can
- make an annoyingly loud noise, which a lower speed may reduce.
-
- The recommended way to do it is with a program called 'setcd' . It's kinda
- old, but won't be too hard to find on the Net. (UPDATE : new hdparm
- has an option for this !)
- Use it with :
-
-
- setcd -x [speed] [cdrom device]
-
-
- Also you can try :
-
-
- echo current_speed:4 >/proc/ide/[cdrom device]/settings
-
-
- but you'll need root privileges. I use following command too :
-
-
- echo file_readahead:2000000 >/proc/ide/[cdrom device]/settings
-
-
- for 2MB prefetched reading from the file (it's useful for scratched CDROMs).
- It's recommended that you tuneup your CDROM drive also with hdparm :
-
-
- hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 (cdrom device)
-
-
- to enable using DMA access, readahead, and IRQ unmasking.
- (if you don't understand these, *read the hdparm manpage*)
-
- Please refer to "/proc/ide/[cdrom device]/settings" for fine-tuning your
- CDROM.
-
-
-
- 4.2. DVD drives
-
- IMPORTANT NOTE: please _DO_NOT_ require further features for DVD playback. This
- is extremly experimental hack. Maybe it won't work for you. If you're
- capable of helping us do it now! First we would like to fix existing problems.
- Then we can start implementing advanced DVD playback functions of course.
-
- This means current DVD functions are mainly for developers and not for users!
-
- First, you must compile and install libcss on your system.
- Second, you have to recompile MPlayer with libcss support. There is
- autodetection of libcss, but if it fails, see below :
-
- Call ./configure script of MPlayer with these options:
-
- ./configure --enable-css --with-csslibdir=/usr/local/lib --with-cssincdir=/usr/local/include
-
- (of course you can append your favourite options as well)
-
- --with-csslibdir=/usr/local/lib
- Directory contains libcss.so shared library. This directory should
- be in your /etc/ld.so.conf as well.
-
- --with-cssincdir=/usr/local/include
- Directory contains header file 'css.h' of libcss.
-
- mplayer -dvdauth /dev/dvd /mnt/cdrom/video_ts/vts_01_1.vob
-
- where,
-
- '-dvdauth /dev/dvd' tells MPlayer the device name of your DVD drive.
- it's used in disc authentication process
-
- the filename is simply a VOB file path on the disc
-
- Note that according to my experiences, disc authentication requires root
- privileges so you must run MPlayer as root! (see section 'Problems').
-
- NOTE about the sound:
- It seems that MPlayer sometimes fails to find the first audio stream.
- You can specify it with the '-aid 128' option, for example.
- Please experience with 128,129 and similar values. See section
- 'Problems'.
-
- On my AMD K6-2 with using hw scaling and colorspace conversion
- capability of my G400 it's possible to watch DVD with about 70%
- CPU usage with '-nosound'. Unfortunately with sound my machine is
- not enough :( Maybe it can be improved somewhat ...
- Guess, it's not so bad ... According to reports from my friends
- xine uses 80-90% CPU to play DVD on much more powerful machines
- like 1GHz Athlon systems (as far as I know, it's said that about
- 300MHz celeron is the minimum to watch DVDs ... using windows
- DVD viewers).
-
- Hint: I commented out downmix functions from libac3 (of course in this way I
- can't get sound) and audio decoding CPU usage became 11% instead of 24 on
- my machine. This clearly indicates that we should optimize downmix functions
- (KNI code is no use for my k6-2).
-
- HOT NEWZ:
- We have got 3Dnow optimized libac3. Wow ;-)
-
-
- Problems (TODO)
-
- * disc authentication (the FIBMAP ioctl) requires root privilegies.
- this is strange since OMS can do it as user too.
- * sound. I'm using my only DVD disc (The Matrix) to test MPlayer.
- some VOB file have English sound, some have Spanish and some have
- no sound at all.
- IT SEEMS that if I give '-aid 128' everything works with English sound ...
- * strange effects but only with SOME vob files (it looks like some interlacing
- effect, eg: every 2nd line on the screen is from the last frame).
-
-
- Feature TODO
-
- * chapter scanner
- * audio stream scanner and allow to select one on runtime as well
- (in stage#1 it would be enough to select one on the startup, see
- 'Problems' above)
- * DVD menu
- I found (at least on disc 'The Matrix') the menu VOB but I don't
- know how can it be used.
- (after some eyeballing on the source of OMS, it seems we would have to
- parse *.ifo files)
- * subtitle support
- * OSD/GUI (?) support for select chapter, subtitle and audio stream
- * getting some documentation on DVD format, eg: which is the 'root' VOB
- file on the disc in video_ts directory, which is the menu and so on.
- * improve performance (see 'Performance' above)
-
-
- No sound problem (from Matrix DVD, the menu VOB)
-
- End of packet while searching for PCM header
-
- DEMUXER: Too many (2048 in 4131540 bytes) video packets in the buffer!
- (maybe you play a non-interleaved stream/file or video codec failed)
- MPEG: No Audio stream found... ->nosound
-
- However this does not occur if you specify '-aid 128'.
-
-
- 4.3. DVD FAQ
-
- Q: I have some problem not mentioned here ...
- A: Read file 'DVD' as well.
-
- Q: How can I actually watch DVD with MPlayer?
- A: Ehh. Go on reading this file as well as 'DVD' (hint: you must have libcss)
-
- Q: So MPlayer can play DVDs? Then it must use DeCSS! You are under arrest
- under the XYZ#$ paragraph of the--
- A: Get back asshole, there is no DeCSS code in MPlayer. It links to libcss.
-
- Q: Seems to work but no sound.
- A: Use '-aid 128' (or try: 128,129,...) command line switch
-
- Q: I have got Spanish audio instead of English (or similar problems)
- A: See the last question/answer.
-
- Q: MPlayer complains about FIBMAP or something.
- A: Try to run MPlayer as root.
-
- Q: some strange effect (interlace like thing) especially when fast moving
- objects are shown in the movie
- A: known problem, we try to fix it later
-
- Q: DVD support in MPlayer is a piece of shit!
- A: You're probably right :) However please contact us if you can improve it!
-
- Q: Where can I get libcss package from?
- A: Maybe from the source of OMS (www.linuxvideo.org).
-
- Q: How can I ... (insert some expectable DVD player feature here)
- A: The current implementation is only for viewing VOB files from DVD.
- Nothing more, like subtitles, menus and so on.
-
- Q: How can I set the region code of my DVD-Drive ? I don't have windows!
- A: Use the 'regionset' tool :
- http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvd/dvd_disc_20000215.tar.gz
-
- Q: MPlayer complains about some renamed option?
- A: For future development, old '-dvd' option was replaced by '-dvdauth'.
- Option '-dvd' *WILL* do the 'full disk movie' mplaying mode.
- But until that, '-dvd' does nothing only prints error message.
-
-
-
-
-
-
diff -r 6591cd06b356 -r a79cb130ea44 DOCS/sound.html
--- a/DOCS/sound.html Thu Aug 23 00:14:27 2001 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/sound.html Thu Aug 23 00:38:19 2001 +0000
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
- if sound clicks when playing from CD-ROM, turn on IRQ unmasking !
for example "hdparm -u1 /dev/cdrom" (see "man hdparm" !!!)
This is recommended anyways... (for XMMS, etc...)
- Read section 4.1 .
+ Read section 4.1 .
- don't use your soundcard by other application ( for ex. XMMS ) !
if you use ESD, start MPlayer with the '-vo sdl:esd' option !
- Please tell us how MPlayer and your soundcard(s) worked together!