FFmpeg contains an open source codec package, which is capable of decoding streams encoded with - H263/MJPEG/RV10/DivX3/DivX4/DivX5/MP41/MP42/WMV1/WMV2/HuffYUV + H263/MJPEG/RV10/DivX3/DivX4/DivX5/MP41/MP42/WMV1/WMV2/HuffYUV/SVQ1/SVQ3 video, or WMA (Windows Media Audio) audio codecs. Not only some of them can be encoded with, but it also offers higher speed than the Win32 codecs or the DivX.com DivX4/5 library!
It contains a lot of nice codecs, especially important are the MPEG4 variants: - DivX3, DivX4, DivX5, Windows Media Video 7 (WMV1). Also a very + DivX3, DivX4, DivX5, Windows Media Video 7/8 (WMV1/WMV2). Also a very interesting one is the WMA decoder.
+The most recent codec deserving credit is the Sorenson 3 (SVQ3) + codec. This is the first, completely opensource implementation of this + codec. It's even faster than the original. Be sure to prefer this instead + of the binary codec!
+If you use an MPlayer release you have libavcodec right in the
package, just build as usual. If you use MPlayer from CVS you have to
extract libavcodec from the FFmpeg CVS tree as FFmpeg releases don't
@@ -322,10 +327,9 @@
MPlayer, the other is in libavcodec. You can invoke each of them with the
-vc svq1 and -vc ffsvq1 options respectively.
Some files may work with one of them, and not with the other, so test
- both decoders. The decoder was written (reverse engineered) by the
- xine authors.
-
The main rule of this documentation: if it's not documented, it - 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. + does not exist. If I don't say you can encode audio from TV tuner, you + can't (you can!:). 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 @@ -380,10 +380,10 @@
MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices, and non-x86 CPUs, see the ports section). It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, - FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and + FILM, RoQ, PVA, Matroska files, supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, - 3ivx, RealMedia, and DivX movies too (and you don't need - the avifile + 3ivx, RealMedia, Sorenson, Theora and DivX + movies too (and you don't need the avifile library at all!). 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 also use GGI and SDL (and this way all their @@ -501,7 +501,12 @@ Again not a release, but after adding Sorenson 3 (QuickTime) and Windows Media 9 support, MPlayer is the world's first movie player with support for all known video formats! -
At this point, MPlayer is ready to use. The directory
$PREFIX/etc/mplayer contains the codecs.conf
file, which is used to tell the program all the codecs and their
- capabilities. This file should always be kept up to date together with the
- main binary.
+ capabilities. This file is needed only when you want to change its
+ properties, as the main binary contains an internal copy of it.
Check if you have codecs.conf in your home directory
(~/.mplayer/codecs.conf) left from old MPlayer versions, and remove it.
-dumpsamiMEncoder can dump DVD subtitles into + VobSub format.
+The command line options differ slightly for the different formats:
If you chose non-TTF fonts, UNZIP the file you downloaded to These cards can be found in many laptops. Unfortunately, the driver in
- XFree prior to 4.3.0 cannot do Xv, but Stefan Seyfried provided
+ These cards can be found in many laptops. You must use XFree86 4.3.0 or
+ above, or else use Stefan Seyfried's
Xv-capable drivers.
- Just choose the one that applies to your version of Xfree.# first number : wait this much after previous subtitle disappeared
+
+ FORMAT=TIME
+ # first number : wait this much after previous subtitle disappeared
# second number : display the current subtitle for this many seconds
15 3
@@ -978,6 +989,15 @@
There are many ways to get it:
+
+
+ -font /path/to/arial.ttf option to specify
+ a TrueType font file on every occasionln -s /path/to/arial.ttf ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf
-
- -font /path/to/arial.ttf option to specify
- a TrueType font file on every occasionln -s /path/to/arial.ttf ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf~/.mplayer or
diff -r 074c39b458d3 -r e1deeb0c30e3 DOCS/en/video.html
--- a/DOCS/en/video.html Mon May 19 06:54:50 2003 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/en/video.html Mon May 19 06:54:52 2003 +0000
@@ -179,25 +179,25 @@
default. It means that decoding speed (!) is synced to the monitor's
refresh rate. If playing seems to be slow, try disabling VSYNC somehow, or
set refresh rate to n*(fps of the movie) Hz.
- 2.3.1.2.1.5 NeoMagic cards
-
XFree86 4.3.0 includes Xv support, yet Bohdan Horst sent a small patch - against the XFree86 sources that speeds up framebuffer operations up to four - times. The patch has been included in XFree86 CVS and should be in the next - release after 4.3.0.
+ against the XFree86 sources that speeds up framebuffer operations (so XVideo) + up to four times. The patch has been included in XFree86 CVS and should be in + the next release after 4.3.0.To allow playback of DVD sized content change your XF86Config like this:
@@ -559,8 +559,8 @@ supported only if the movie's pixel format matches the video mode's pixel format. Pay attention to the bpp value, fbdev driver tries to use the current, or if you specify the -bpp option, then that. --vf scale).
+ You can't use 8bpp (or less) modes.echo -e
'\033[?25l' or setterm -cursor offsetterm -blank 0Note: we haven't been able to make this work, but others did. Anyway, - porting of the CRTC2 code to mga_vid is underway.
+Note: the first DirectFB version with which we could kick this working was
+ 0.9.17 (it's buggy, needs that surfacemanager patch from
+ the URL above). Anyway, porting of the CRTC2 code to mga_vid is
+ underway.