# HG changeset patch # User diego # Date 1034220923 0 # Node ID cec4eca0a8798a70da484a58b7f262dc6d07b533 # Parent 4a39a8bac5de3aa82da3ad8a4f197191adfc790a Man page review part one, spelling, rewording and layout fixes. diff -r 4a39a8bac5de -r cec4eca0a879 DOCS/mplayer.1 --- a/DOCS/mplayer.1 Thu Oct 10 03:32:23 2002 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/mplayer.1 Thu Oct 10 03:35:23 2002 +0000 @@ -18,16 +18,16 @@ .de IPs .IP "\\$1" \n(SS .. -.\" begin of first grade suboptions, end with .RE +.\" begin of first level suboptions, end with .RE .de RSs .RS \n(IN+3 .. -.\" begin of 2nd grade suboptions +.\" begin of 2nd level suboptions .de RSss .PD 0 .RS \n(SS+3 .. -.\" end of 2nd grade suboptions +.\" end of 2nd level suboptions .de REss .RE .PD 1 @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ .RI [ dvd | vcd | cdda | cddb | tv ] ://title\ [options] .br .B mplayer -.RI [ mms[t] | http | http_proxy | rt[s]p ] :// [user:passwd@] URL [:port]\ \ +.RI [ mms[t] | http | http_proxy | rt[s]p | smb ] :// [user:passwd@] URL [:port]\ \ [options] .br .B mencoder @@ -79,37 +79,37 @@ . .SH DESCRIPTION .B mplayer -is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices, and non\-x86 -CPUs, see the documentation). It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, -ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ files, +is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices and non\-x86 +CPUs, see the documentation). It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, ASF/WMA/WMV, RM, +QT/MOV/MP4, OGG/OGM, VIVO, FLI, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM and 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 (without the avifile library). .PP -Another great feature of mplayer is the wide range of supported output +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 X11!) and some low level card-specific drivers -(for Matrox, 3Dfx and ATI), too! +but you can also use GGI, SDL (and this way all their drivers), VESA (on every +VESA compatible card, even without X11!), some low level card-specific drivers +(for Matrox, 3Dfx and ATI) and some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the +Siemens DVB, DXR2 and DXR3/Hollywood+. .br 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+! +fullscreen. .PP MPlayer has an onscreen display (OSD) for status information, nice big antialiased shaded subtitles and visual feedback for keyboard controls. European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic and Korean fonts are supported along with 9 subtitle formats (MicroDVD, SubRip, -SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle and our own: MPsub). DVD subtitles -(SPU streams, VobSub and Closed Captions) are supported. +SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle and our own: MPsub) and DVD +subtitles (SPU streams, VobSub and Closed Captions). .PP .B mencoder (MPlayer's Movie Encoder) is a simple movie encoder, designed to encode MPlayer-playable movies (see above) to other MPlayer-playable formats -(see below). It encodes to DivX4 (1, 2 or 3 passes), XviD, codecs of -libavcodec, PCM/MP3/VBRMP3 audio. It also has stream copying abilities, a -powerful plugin system (crop, expand, flip, postprocess, rotate, scale, -add/remove noise, rgb/yuv conversion) and more. +(see below). It encodes to DivX4, XviD, one of the libavcodec codecs and +PCM/MP3/VBRMP3 audio in 1, 2 or 3 passes. Furthermore it has stream copying +abilities, a powerful plugin system (crop, expand, flip, postprocess, rotate, +scale, noise, rgb/yuv conversion) and more. .PP .B gmplayer is MPlayer with a graphical user interface. @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ .\" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- . .SH GENERAL NOTES -.B Check the HTML documentation, too! +.B Also see the HTML documentation! Every "flag" option has a "noflag" counterpart, e.g. the opposite of the \-fs option is \-nofs. @@ -154,10 +154,10 @@ .SH "PLAYER OPTIONS (MPLAYER ONLY)" .TP .B \-autoq (use with \-vop pp!) -Dynamically changes the level of postprocess, depending on spare CPU time -available. The number you specify will be the maximum level used. Usually you +Dynamically changes the level of postprocessing depending on available spare +CPU time. The number you specify will be the maximum level used. Usually you can use some big number. You may not use it together with \-pp but it is OK -with \-npp! +with \-npp. .TP .B \-autosync Gradually adjusts the A/V sync based on audio delay measurements. @@ -176,14 +176,14 @@ .TP .B \-benchmark Prints some statistics on CPU usage and dropped frames at the end. -Used in combination with \-nosound and \-vo null for benchmarking only video +Use in combination with \-nosound and \-vo null for benchmarking only the video codec. .TP -.B \-framedrop (see \-hardframedrop option too!) -Frame dropping: decode all (except B) frames, video may skip. -Useful for playback on slow VGA card/bus. +.B \-framedrop (also see \-hardframedrop) +Skips displaying some frames to maintain A/V sync on slow systems. Decoding of +B frames is also skipped and video filters are not used. .TP -.B \-h, \-\-help +.B \-h, \-help, \-\-help Show short summary of options. .TP .B \-hardframedrop @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ .TP .B \-input This option can be used to configure certain parts of the input system. -Relative path are relative to $HOME/.mplayer. +Paths are relative to $HOME/.mplayer/. .I NOTE: .br @@ -207,9 +207,9 @@ .IPs ar\-delay Delay in msec before we start to autorepeat a key (0 to disable). .IPs ar\-rate -How many key presses/second when we autorepeat. +How many key presses per second when we autorepeat. .IPs keylist -Prints all keys that can be bound to. +Prints all keys that can be bound. .IPs cmdlist Prints all commands that can be bound. .IPs js\-dev @@ -219,8 +219,8 @@ . .TP .B \-lircconf -Specifies a configfile for LIRC (see http://www.lirc.org) if you don't like -the default ~/.lircrc. +Specifies a config file for LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control, see +http://www.lirc.org) if you don't like the default ~/.lircrc. .TP .B \-loop Loops movie playback times. 0 means forever. @@ -229,19 +229,20 @@ Turns off joystick support. Default is on, if compiled in. .TP .B \-nolirc -Turns off lirc support. +Turns off LIRC support. .TP .B \-nortc \ \ -Turns off usage of /dev/rtc (real-time clock). +Turns off usage of the Linux RTC (real-time clock \- /dev/rtc) as timing +mechanism. .TP .B \-playlist -Play files according to this file list (1 file/row or Winamp or asx format). +Play files according to a playlist (1 file per row or Winamp or ASX format). .TP .B \-quiet \ \ -Display less output, status messages. +Display less output and status messages. .TP .B \-skin (BETA CODE) -Load skin from this directory (WITHOUT path name!). +Load skin from the given directory (WITHOUT path name). .I EXAMPLE: .PD 0 @@ -261,13 +262,13 @@ This option switches on slave mode. This is intended for use of MPlayer as a backend to other programs. Instead of intercepting keyboard events, MPlayer will read simplistic command lines from its stdin. -See section +The section .B SLAVE MODE PROTOCOL -For the syntax. +explains the syntax. .TP .B \-softsleep -Uses high quality software timers. Efficient as the RTC, doesn't need root, -but requires more CPU. +Uses high quality software timers. As precise as the RTC without requiring +special privileges. Comes at the price of higher CPU consumption. .TP .B \-sstep Specifies seconds between displayed frames. Useful for slideshows. @@ -1068,6 +1069,7 @@ .RSs \-vo xmga,xv, Try Matrox kernel driver, then Xv driver, then others +.br \-vo sdl:aalib specify the SDL subdriver .RE @@ -1229,7 +1231,7 @@ 1: more aggressive error detection .REss .IPs bug= -manual workaround encoder bugs: +manually work around encoder bugs: .RSss 0: default .br