# HG changeset patch # User nicolas # Date 1048541780 0 # Node ID c70001c8bde95aeccf2b6404177d3585a9f2f397 # Parent dd5cb154b98b3b9ee3f5fcf9cfe3303e6f86c90e sync diff -r dd5cb154b98b -r c70001c8bde9 DOCS/xml/en/codecs.xml --- a/DOCS/xml/en/codecs.xml Mon Mar 24 19:15:30 2003 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/codecs.xml Mon Mar 24 21:36:20 2003 +0000 @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ DivX4/DivX5 -This section contains information about the DivX4 codec of +This section contains information about the DivX4 and DivX5 codecs of Project Mayo. Their first available alpha version was OpenDivX 4.0 alpha 47 and 48. Support for this was included in MPlayer in the @@ -277,10 +277,14 @@ Download the codecs you wish to use from the XAnim site. - The 3ivx codec is not there, but at the + The 3ivx codec is not there, but at the 3ivx site. + OR download the codecs pack from our + codecs page + + Use the option to tell configure where to find the XAnim codecs. By default, it looks for them at diff -r dd5cb154b98b -r c70001c8bde9 DOCS/xml/en/documentation.xml --- a/DOCS/xml/en/documentation.xml Mon Mar 24 19:15:30 2003 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/documentation.xml Mon Mar 24 21:36:20 2003 +0000 @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ MPlayer - The Movie Player for LINUX -July 4, 2002 +March 24, 2003 2000 2001 @@ -74,16 +74,18 @@ does not exist. If I don't say you encode audio from TV tuner, you can't. A healthy quantity of combining ability is welcomed, though. Good luck. You'll need it :) And for another good advice, let me -quote Chris Phillips from the mplayer-users mailing list: +quote Chris Phillips from the +mplayer-users +mailing list:
I said a while ago that there is such a difference between a newbie and a dumbass. No matter what you actually know about a system (linux, cars, girls :D) you should ALWAYS be able to take a step back and be objective, -otherwise, you're just dumb IMHO. A girl i live with assumed the vacuum +otherwise, you're just dumb IMHO. A girl I live with assumed the vacuum cleaner was broken because it didn't suck things up. never thought to -change the bag, becasue she'd never done it before... now that's just +change the bag, because she'd never done it before... now that's just stupid, not a case of simply not knowing what to do... Simply not being that familiar with your surroundings is no excuse for a) laziness and b) ignorance. So many people seem to see the word "error" and then stop... @@ -110,11 +112,11 @@ Radeon, Mach64, Permedia3) too! Most of them supports software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. MPlayer supports displaying through some -hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the DVB and DXR3/Hollywood+ ! And -what about the nice big antialiased shaded subtitles -(10 supported types) with European/ISO 8859-1,2 -(Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic, Korean fonts, and the onscreen display -(OSD)? +hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the DVB and +DXR3/Hollywood+. And what about the nice big +antialiased shaded subtitles (10 supported types) +with European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic, Korean +fonts, and the onscreen display (OSD)? @@ -132,8 +134,9 @@ encoder, designed to encode 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 (1 or 2 passes), libavcodec, PCM/MP3/VBR MP3 -audio. Also has powerful plugin system for video manipulation. +like DivX4 (1 or 2 passes), libavcodec, +PCM/MP3/VBR MP3 audio. Also has powerful plugin +system for video manipulation. diff -r dd5cb154b98b -r c70001c8bde9 DOCS/xml/en/formats.xml --- a/DOCS/xml/en/formats.xml Mon Mar 24 19:15:30 2003 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/formats.xml Mon Mar 24 21:36:20 2003 +0000 @@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ VOB: This is the MPEG file format on DVDs. It is the same as MPG, plus the capability to contain subtitles or non-MPEG (AC3) audio. It contains encoded MPEG2 video and usually AC3 audio, but DTS, - MP2 and uncompressed LPCM are allowed, too. Read the - DVD section! + MP2 and uncompressed LPCM are allowed, too. Read the + DVD section! @@ -86,9 +86,9 @@ is a widespread multipurpose format currently used mostly for DivX and DivX4 video. It has many known drawbacks and shortcomings (for example in streaming). It supports one video stream and 0 to 99 audio streams and can be as big as -2GB. There exists an extension allowing bigger files called OpenDML. Microsoft -currently strongly discourages its use and encourages ASF/WMV. Not that -anybody cares. +2GB, but there exists an extension allowing bigger files called +OpenDML. Microsoft currently strongly +discourages its use and encourages ASF/WMV. Not that anybody cares. @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ extension. Note that since the MPEG4 group chose QuickTime as the recommended file format for MPEG4, their MOV files come with a .MPG or .MP4 extension (Interestingly the video and audio -streams in these files are real MPG and AAC files. Yo can even extract them with the +streams in these files are real MPG and AAC files. You can even extract them with the and options.). diff -r dd5cb154b98b -r c70001c8bde9 DOCS/xml/en/install.xml --- a/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml Mon Mar 24 19:15:30 2003 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml Mon Mar 24 21:36:20 2003 +0000 @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ otherwise no mga_vid support will be built. Also check out the Matrox TV-out section. If you If you don't use Linux, your only - possibility is the VIDIX driver: read VIDIX section. + possibility is the VIDIX driver: read the VIDIX section. 3Dfx Voodoo3/Banshee cards: please see @@ -279,10 +279,10 @@ support. - nVidia cards: very bad choice for video playing. + nVidia cards: 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. - the built-in nVidia driver in XFree86 doesn't contain - support for hardware YUV acceleration for all nVidia cards. You have + the built-in nVidia driver in XFree86 does not support + hardware YUV acceleration on all nVidia cards. You have to download nVidia's closed-source drivers from nVidia.com. See the nVidia Xv driver section for details. Please also check the nVidia TV-out section if you wish to @@ -302,10 +302,10 @@ If it doesn't, then your card's video features aren't supported under - your operating system :( 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. + 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 . @@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ Fullscreen playing can be achieved by either enabling -software scaling (use the or , +software scaling (use the or 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 and @@ -384,9 +384,9 @@ Soundblaster Live!: with this card you can use - 4 or 6 (5.1) channels AC3 decoding instead of 2. Read the + 4 or 6 (5.1) channels AC3 decoding instead of 2. Read the Software AC3 decoding section. For hardware AC3 - passthrough you must use ALSA 0.9 oss emulation! + passthrough you must use ALSA 0.9 with OSS emulation! C-Media with SP/DIF out: hardware AC3 @@ -709,7 +709,7 @@ - + ISO fonts @@ -719,7 +719,7 @@ various fonts by users - + Korean fonts and RAW plugin diff -r dd5cb154b98b -r c70001c8bde9 DOCS/xml/en/tvinput.xml --- a/DOCS/xml/en/tvinput.xml Mon Mar 24 19:15:30 2003 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/tvinput.xml Mon Mar 24 21:36:20 2003 +0000 @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ mencoder -tv on:driver=v4l:width=768:height=576 \ -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=900 \ -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=64 \ - -vf pp=lb,crop=720:544:24:16 -o output.avi + -vf crop=720:544:24:16,pp=lb -o output.avi @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ mencoder -tv on:driver=v4l:width=768:height=576 \ -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=350:vhq:vqmax=31:keyint=300 \ -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=48 \ - -vf scale=384:288,pp=tn/lb,crop=720:540:24:18 -sws 1 -o output.avi + -vf crop=720:540:24:18,pp=tn/lb,scale=384:288 -sws 1 -o output.avi It's also possible to specify smaller image dimensions in the option and omit the software scaling but this approach uses the maximum available diff -r dd5cb154b98b -r c70001c8bde9 DOCS/xml/en/video.xml --- a/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml Mon Mar 24 19:15:30 2003 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml Mon Mar 24 21:36:20 2003 +0000 @@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ -according to my experience the best image quality on +According to my experience the best image quality on EGA screens can be achieved by decreasing the brightness a bit: . I also needed to lower the audio samplerate on my box, because the sound was broken on 44kHz: @@ -739,7 +739,7 @@ -ou can turn on OSD and subtitles only with the expand +You can turn on OSD and subtitles only with the expand filter, see the man page for exact parameters. @@ -1482,7 +1482,7 @@ This video output driver will enable CRTC2 (on the second head) on the -Matrox G400/G450/G500 card, displaying video independently +Matrox G400/G450/G550 card, displaying video independently of the first head. @@ -1594,8 +1594,8 @@ -for 3:4 TV: -vf expand=-1:576:-1:-1:1,scale=-1:0,dvbscale -for 16:9 TV: -vf expand=-1:576:-1:-1:1,scale=-1:0,dvbscale=1024 +for 3:4 TV: -vf dvbscale,scale=-1:0,expand=-1:576:-1:-1:1 +for 16:9 TV: -vf dvbscale=1024,scale=-1:0,expand=-1:576:-1:-1:1