# HG changeset patch # User diego # Date 1024571387 0 # Node ID caac66533fa0aecc72fd5bb649d4d3f273c416b7 # Parent 6cf0e246e15d5c299cbd614aae9a4e5c9af92aae Tons of typos plus wording updated here and there. diff -r 6cf0e246e15d -r caac66533fa0 DOCS/mplayer.1 --- a/DOCS/mplayer.1 Thu Jun 20 10:26:11 2002 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/mplayer.1 Thu Jun 20 11:09:47 2002 +0000 @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ .\" MPlayer (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy -.\" This manpage was/is done by Gabucino +.\" This man page was/is done by Gabucino .\" (Patches done by Jonas Jermann ) .\" .TH "MPlayer" "1" "2002-05-13" .SH "NAME" -mplayer \- Movie Player for Linux +mplayer \- Movie Player for Linux .br mencoder \- Movie Encoder for Linux @@ -37,19 +37,19 @@ CPUs, see the documentation). It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG, VIVO, ASF/WMV, QT/MOV, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV -movies too (and you don't need the avifile library at all!). +movies, too (without the avifile library). -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 +Another great 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, SDL (and this way all their drivers), VESA (on every VESA compatible card, even -without X!) and some lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon) too! +without X11!) and some low level card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon), too! .br -Most of them supports software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. +Most of them support software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the Siemens DVB, DXR2 and DXR3/Hollywood+! -Nice big antialiased shaded subtitles with european/ISO 8859-1,2 (hungarian, english, czech, -etc), cyrillic, korean fonts are supported (10 supported subtitle formats: VobSub, MicroDVD, +Nice big antialiased shaded subtitles with European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, +etc), Cyrillic, Korean fonts are supported (10 supported subtitle formats: VobSub, MicroDVD, SubRip, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle and our own: MPsub). .B mencoder @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ encode MPlayer-playable movies (AVI/ASF/OGG/DVD/VCD/VOB/MPG/MOV/VIV/FLI/RM/NUV/NET) to other MPlayer-playable formats (see below). It encodes to DivX4 (1, 2 or 3 passes), XviD, codecs of libavcodec, PCM/MP3/VBRMP3 audio. -Also has stream copying abilities, a powerful plugin system +It also has stream copying abilities, a powerful plugin system (crop, expand, flip, postprocess, rotate, scale, rgb/yuv conversion) and more. .B gmplayer @@ -65,9 +65,10 @@ It has the same options as MPlayer. .SH GENERAL NOTES -Every "flag" option has "noflag" pair, e.g. \-fs opposite is \-nofs. +Every "flag" option has a "noflag" counterpart, e.g. the opposite of the \-fs +option is \-nofs. .br -.B Check the html documentation too! +.B Check the HTML documentation, too! .SH "DEMUXER/STREAM OPTIONS" .TP @@ -75,24 +76,24 @@ Select audio channel [MPG: 0\-31 AVI: 1\-99 ASF: 0\-127 VOB: 128\-...] .br .I NOTE: -Use \-alang to define the language by name. +Use \-alang to choose the language. .TP .B \-alang Usable when playing DVD disks. Expects a two\-letter country code(s) as -parameter, and always tries to play back audio streams those language -matches the given code. For example: \-alang hu,en will always try to play -hungarian or if it's non\-existant then english audio streams if there are any. +parameter, and always tries to play audio streams whose language matches the +given code. For example: \-alang hu,en will play Hungarian and fall back to +English if Hungarian is not available, provided that English audio exists. .TP .B \-audio\-demuxer Force audio demuxer type for \-audiofile. Give the demuxer ID as defined in demuxers.h. -You can use \-audio\-demuxer 17 to force .mp3 detection! +Use \-audio\-demuxer 17 to force .mp3 detection. .TP .B \-audiofile -Play audio from an external file (WAV, MP3 or OggVorbis) +Play audio from an external file (WAV, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis). .TP .B \-cdrom\-device -Override default CDROM drive name /dev/cdrom +Override default CDROM drive name /dev/cdrom. .TP .B \-cache This option specifies how much memory (in kbytes) to use when precaching a file/URL. @@ -127,35 +128,35 @@ end playing at. Examples can be found below. .TP .B \-csslib -(old-style DVD option) This option is used to override the default location of libcss.so +(old-style DVD option) This option is used to override the default location of libcss.so. .TP .B \-demuxer Force demuxer type. Give the demuxer ID as defined in demuxers.h. .TP .B \-dumpaudio (MPLAYER only) -Dumps raw compressed audio stream to ./stream.dump (useful with mpeg/ac3) +Dumps raw compressed audio stream to ./stream.dump (useful with mpeg/ac3). .TP .B \-dumpfile (MPLAYER only) Specify which file MPlayer should dump to. Should be used together with \-dumpaudio/\-dumpvideo/\-dumpstream. .TP .B \-dumpstream (MPLAYER only) -Dumps the raw stream to ./stream.dump . Useful for example +Dumps the raw stream to ./stream.dump. Useful for example when ripping from DVD or network. .TP .B \-dumpsub (MPLAYER only) Dumps the subtitle substream from VOB streams. .TP .B \-dumpvideo (MPLAYER only) -Dump raw compressed video stream to ./stream.dump (not very usable) +Dump raw compressed video stream to ./stream.dump (not very usable). .TP .B \-dvd -Tell MPlayer which movies (marked with titleid) to play. For example -sometimes '1' are trailers, and '2' is the real movie. Sometimes deinterlacing -is required for DVD playback: see '\-pp 0x20000' or '\-npp lb' options too. +Tell MPlayer which movies (specified by title id) to play. For example +sometimes '1' is a trailer, and '2' is the real movie. Sometimes deinterlacing +is required for DVD playback: see '\-pp 0x20000' or '\-npp lb' options, too. .TP .B \-dvd\-device -Override default DVD device name /dev/dvd +Override default DVD device name /dev/dvd. .TP .B \-dvdangle Some DVD discs contain scenes that can be viewed from multiple angles. @@ -177,7 +178,7 @@ MEncoder (see the documentation). .TP .B \-fps -Override video frame rate (if value is wrong/missing in the header) (float number) +Override video framerate (if value is wrong/missing in the header) (float number). .TP .B \-frames Play/convert only first frames, then quit. @@ -187,8 +188,7 @@ as we need to seek to the very exact position to keep A/V sync. It can be slow especially when seeking backwards \- it has to rewind to the beginning to find the exact frame. -.TP -.B \-idx (see \-forceidx option too!) +.TP .B \-idx (also see \-forceidx) Rebuilds INDEX of the AVI if no INDEX was found, thus allowing seeking. Useful with broken/incomplete downloads, or badly created AVIs. @@ -197,8 +197,8 @@ Maximum A-V sync correction per frame (in seconds) .TP .B \-mf -Used when decoding from multiple PNG or JPEG files. -(see documentation). They are: +Used when decoding from multiple PNG or JPEG files +(see documentation). The options are: on turns on multifile support w= width of the output (autodetect) @@ -211,18 +211,18 @@ of some bad AVI files). .TP .B \-nobps (.AVI only) -Don't use avg. byte/sec value for A\-V sync (AVI). +Do not use average byte/sec value for A\-V sync (AVI). Helps with some AVI files with broken header. .TP .B \-skipopening -Skip dvd opening (dvdnav only). +Skip DVD opening (dvdnav only). .TP .B \-sb (see \-ss option too!) -Seek to byte position. Useful for playback from cdrom +Seek to byte position. Useful for playback from CDROM images / vob files with junk at the beginning. .TP .B \-srate -Specifies Hz to playback audio on. Has effect on playback speed! +Specifies Hz to playback audio on. Affects playback speed! .TP .B \-ss