changeset 27811:0944bbefad9e

Group codec library installation instructions together in a codec installation subsection.
author diego
date Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:46:57 +0000
parents 316559d2f9b5
children 94e680e80e38
files DOCS/xml/en/codecs.xml
diffstat 1 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/DOCS/xml/en/codecs.xml	Tue Oct 28 23:33:51 2008 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/xml/en/codecs.xml	Tue Oct 28 23:46:57 2008 +0000
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
 and help us add support for it.
 </para>
 
-<sect1 id="video-codecs">
-<title>Video codecs</title>
+<sect1 id="codec_installation">
+<title>Codec installation</title>
 
 <!-- ********** -->
 
@@ -93,6 +93,80 @@
 <systemitem class="library">x264</systemitem> support.
 </para>
 </sect2>
+<!-- ********** -->
+
+<sect2 id="libmad">
+<title><systemitem class="library">libmad</systemitem> support</title>
+
+<para>
+<ulink url="http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/"><systemitem class="library">libmad</systemitem></ulink>
+is a multiplatform, integer (internally 24bit PCM) only
+MPEG audio decoding library. It does not handle broken files well, and it
+sometimes has problems with seeking, but it may perform better on FPU-less
+(such as <link linkend="arm">ARM</link>)
+platform than <systemitem class="library">mp3lib</systemitem>.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+If you have a proper installation of
+<systemitem class="library">libmad</systemitem>,
+<filename>./configure</filename> will notice and support for MPEG audio
+decoding via <systemitem class="library">libmad</systemitem> will be built
+automatically.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+<!-- ********** -->
+
+<sect2 id="aac">
+<title>AAC codec</title>
+
+<para>
+An open source AAC decoder called FAAD2 is available from
+<ulink url="http://www.audiocoding.com/downloads.html"/>.
+<application>MPlayer</application> includes a copy of it in its source tree.
+If you want to use the external library instead, install it and pass
+<option>--enable-faad-external</option> to <filename>./configure</filename>.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+FAAD2 binaries are not available from audiocoding.com, but you can (apt-)get
+Debian packages from
+<ulink url="http://www.debian-multimedia.org/">Christian Marillat</ulink>,
+Mandrake/Mandriva RPMs from the <ulink url="http://plf.zarb.org">P.L.F</ulink>
+and Fedora RPMs from <ulink url="http://rpm.livna.org/">Livna</ulink>.
+</para>
+<para>
+If you choose to build from source, you do not need all of FAAD2 to decode
+AAC files, libfaad is enough. Build it like this:
+<screen>
+cd faad2/
+sh bootstrap
+./configure
+cd libfaad
+make
+make install
+</screen>
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+<!-- ********** -->
+
+<sect2 id="amr">
+<title>AMR codecs</title>
+
+<para>
+Adaptive Multi-Rate speech codec is used in third generation (3G) mobile
+phones.
+Reference implementation is available from
+<ulink url="http://www.3gpp.org">The 3rd Generation Partnership Project</ulink>
+(free for private use).
+To enable support, download and install support libraries for
+<ulink url="http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/amr">AMR-NB and AMR-WB</ulink>
+following the instructions on that page. Recompile MPlayer afterwards.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
 </sect1>
 
 
@@ -159,29 +233,6 @@
 
 <!-- ********** -->
 
-<sect2 id="libmad">
-<title><systemitem class="library">libmad</systemitem> support</title>
-
-<para>
-<ulink url="http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/"><systemitem class="library">libmad</systemitem></ulink>
-is a multiplatform, integer (internally 24bit PCM) only
-MPEG audio decoding library. It does not handle broken files well, and it
-sometimes has problems with seeking, but it may perform better on FPU-less
-(such as <link linkend="arm">ARM</link>)
-platform than <systemitem class="library">mp3lib</systemitem>.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-If you have a proper installation of
-<systemitem class="library">libmad</systemitem>,
-<filename>./configure</filename> will notice and support for MPEG audio
-decoding via <systemitem class="library">libmad</systemitem> will be built
-automatically.
-</para>
-</sect2>
-
-<!-- ********** -->
-
 <sect2 id="hwmpa">
 <title>Hardware MPEG audio codec</title>
 
@@ -195,57 +246,6 @@
 </para>
 </sect2>
 
-<!-- ********** -->
-
-<sect2 id="aac">
-<title>AAC codec</title>
-
-<para>
-An open source AAC decoder called FAAD2 is available from
-<ulink url="http://www.audiocoding.com/downloads.html"/>.
-<application>MPlayer</application> includes a copy of it in its source tree.
-If you want to use the external library instead, install it and pass
-<option>--enable-faad-external</option> to <filename>./configure</filename>.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-FAAD2 binaries are not available from audiocoding.com, but you can (apt-)get
-Debian packages from
-<ulink url="http://www.debian-multimedia.org/">Christian Marillat</ulink>,
-Mandrake/Mandriva RPMs from the <ulink url="http://plf.zarb.org">P.L.F</ulink>
-and Fedora RPMs from <ulink url="http://rpm.livna.org/">Livna</ulink>.
-</para>
-<para>
-If you choose to build from source, you do not need all of FAAD2 to decode
-AAC files, libfaad is enough. Build it like this:
-<screen>
-cd faad2/
-sh bootstrap
-./configure
-cd libfaad
-make
-make install
-</screen>
-</para>
-</sect2>
-
-<!-- ********** -->
-
-<sect2 id="amr">
-<title>AMR codecs</title>
-
-<para>
-Adaptive Multi-Rate speech codec is used in third generation (3G) mobile
-phones.
-Reference implementation is available from
-<ulink url="http://www.3gpp.org">The 3rd Generation Partnership Project</ulink>
-(free for private use).
-To enable support, download and install support libraries for
-<ulink url="http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/amr">AMR-NB and AMR-WB</ulink>
-following the instructions on that page. Recompile MPlayer afterwards.
-</para>
-</sect2>
-
 </sect1>