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Features</A> +</P> +<P> + <A HREF="#2.1">2.1 Video Formats, Audio & Video Codecs</A> + <A HREF="#2.1.1">2.1.1 Supported input formats</A> + <A HREF="#2.1.2">2.1.2 Supported audio & video codecs</A> + <A HREF="#2.1.2.1">2.1.2.1 OpenDivX</A> + <A HREF="#2.1.2.2">2.1.2.2 ffmpeg's DivX/libavcodec</A> + <A HREF="#2.1.4">2.1.4 Codec importing howto</A> + <A HREF="#2.1.4.1">2.1.4.1 VFW codecs</A> + <A HREF="#2.1.4.2">2.1.4.2 DirectShow codecs</A> +</P> +<P> + <A HREF="#2.2">2.2 Video & Audio output devices</A> + <A HREF="#2.2.1">2.2.1 Video output devices</A> + <A HREF="#2.2.1.1">2.2.1.1 Xv</A> + <A HREF="#2.2.1.2">2.2.1.2 DGA</A> + <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.1">2.2.1.2.1 Summary</A> + <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.2">2.2.1.2.2 What is DGA</A> + <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.3">2.2.1.2.3 Resolution switching</A> + <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.4">2.2.1.2.4 DGA & MPlayer</A> + <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.5">2.2.1.2.5 Features of the DGA driver</A> + <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.6">2.2.1.2.6 Speed issues</A> + <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.7">2.2.1.2.7 Known bugs</A> + <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.8">2.2.1.2.8 Future work</A> + <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.A">2.2.1.2.A Some modelines</A> + <A HREF="#2.2.1.2.B">2.2.1.2.B Bug Reports</A> + <A HREF="#2.2.1.3">2.2.1.3 SDL</A> + <A HREF="#2.2.1.4">2.2.1.4 SVGAlib</A> + <A HREF="#2.2.1.5">2.2.1.5 Framebuffer output (FBdev)</A> + <A HREF="#2.2.1.6">2.2.1.6 Matrox framebuffer (mga_vid)</A> + <A HREF="#2.2.1.7">2.2.1.7 SiS 6326 framebuffer (sis_vid)</A> + <A HREF="#2.2.1.8">2.2.1.8 3dfx YUV support</A> + <A HREF="#2.2.1.9">2.2.1.9 OpenGL output</A> + <A HREF="#2.2.2">2.2.2 Audio output devices</A> + +SOUNDCARDS +</P> +<P> + <A HREF="#2.3">2.3 Subtitles and OSD</A> +</P> +<P> + <A HREF="#3">3. Usage</A> +</P> +<P> + <A HREF="#3.1">3.1 Control from keyboard</A> + <A HREF="#3.2">3.2 Control from LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control)</A> + <A HREF="#3.3">3.3 Streaming from network or pipes</A> +</P> +<P> + <A HREF="#4">4. TV-out support</A> +</P> +<P> + <A HREF="#4.1">4.1 Matrox cards</A> +</P> +<P> + <A HREF="#5">5. Tuning</A> +</P> +<P> + <A HREF="#5.1">5.1 CD drives</A> + <A HREF="#5.2">5.2 DVD drives</A> + <A HREF="#5.3">5.3 MTRR</A> +</P> +<P> + <A HREF="#6">6. FAQ section</A> +</P> +<P> + <A HREF="#6.10">6.10 DVD FAQ</A> +</P> +<P> + <A HREF="#7">7. Misc OS'es</A> +</P> +<P> + <A HREF="#7.1">7.1 Debian packaging</A> + <A HREF="#7.2">7.2 FreeBSD</A> + <A HREF="#7.3">7.3 Solaris 8</A> +</P> +<P> + <A HREF="#A">A. Authors</A> +</P> +<P> + <A HREF="#B">B. Mailing lists</A> +</P> +<P> + <A HREF="#C">C. How to report bugs</A> +</P> +<P> + License+standard disc, maintainers +</P></PRE> +<P><HR></P> + +<P><PRE> + <A NAME=1>1. Introduction + + +<A NAME=1.1>1.1. Overview + + MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX. It plays most MPEG, AVI and ASF files, + supported by many native and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VCD, DVD and + even DivX movies too. The another big feature of mplayer is the wide range of + supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, + but you can use SDL (and this way all drivers of SDL, for example AAlib) and + some lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox) too! Most of them supports + software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. And what + about the nice big antialiased shaded subtitles (7 supported types!!!) with + hungarian, english, cyrillic, czech, korean fonts, and OSD? + + I didn't write any codecs, just some players. I spent + a lot of time finding the best way to parse bad damaged input files + (both MPEG and AVI) and to do perfect A-V sync with seeking ability. + My player is rock solid playing damaged MPEG files (useful for some VCDs), + and it plays bad AVI files which are unplayable with the famous + windows media player. Even AVI files without index chunk are playable, and + you can rebuild their indexes with the -idx option, thus enabling seeking! + As you see, stability and quality are the most important things for me, + but the speed is also amazing. + + + <A NAME=1.2>1.2. History + + This began a year ago... + I've tried lots of players under linux (mtv,xmps,dvdview,livid/oms,VideoLAN, + xine,xanim,avifile,xmmp) but they all have some problem. Mostly with special + files or with audio/video sync. Most of them is unable to play both MPEG1, + MPEG2 and AVI (DivX) files. Many players have image quality or speed problems + too. So I've decided to write/modify one... + + - mpg12play v0.1-v0.3: + The first try, hacked together in a half hour! + I've used libmpeg3 from www.heroinewarrior.com up to the version 0.3, + but there were image quality and speed problems with it. + - mpg12play v0.5-v0.87: + Mpeg codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was a great stuff, + but it was slow and was written in C++ (I hate C++!!!) + - mpg12play v0.9-v0.95pre5: + Mpeg codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman & Michel Lespinasse. + It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect image quality and + 100% MPEG standard conformance. + - MPlayer v0.3-v0.9: + It was a pack of two programs: mpg12playv0.95pre6 and my new simple AVI + player 'avip' based on avifile's Win32 DLL loader. + - MPlayer v0.10: + The MPEG and AVI player in a single binary! + - MPlayer v0.11: + Some new developers joined and from 0.11 the mplayer project is a team-work! + Added .ASF file support, and OpenDivX (see www.projectmayo.com) en/decoding. + - MPlayer v0.17 "The IdegCounter" + The release version of the 0.11pre after 4 months of heavy development! + Try it, and be amazed! Thousands of new features added... and of course + old code was improved too, bugs removed etc. + - MPlayer 0.18 "The BugCounter" + 2 months since 0.17 and here's a new release.. Completed ASF support, + more subtitle formats, introduced libao (similar to libvo but to audio), + even more stable than ever, and so on. It's a MUST ! + + + <A NAME=1.3>1.3. Installation + + + <A NAME=1.3.1>1.3.1. The Codecs (w32codecs.zip) + + Download and unzip w32codecs.zip to /usr/lib/win32 + Note: the avifile project has similar codecs package, but it differs + from our, so if you want to use all supported codecs, then use + our package! + + + <A NAME=1.3.2>1.3.2. Drivers (mga_vid.o) + + + cd drivers + make + mknod /dev/mga_vid c 178 0 + chmod go+rw /dev/mga_vid + + + <A NAME=1.3.3>1.3.3. The Player (mplayer) + + ./configure + [* read messages printed by ./configure, it may be very usefull! *] + [* check config.h and config.mak files! *] + make + [* check for errors! of none, you should have the ./mplayer binary *] + make install + + + <A NAME=1.3.4>1.3.4. Matrox G400 DH TV-out tools + + cd TVout + ./compile.sh + + + <A NAME=1.3.5>1.3.5. Fonts + + Download mp_font3.zip (and optional language updates) and + unpack to ~/.mplayer/font/ : + + cd ~/.mplayer + mkdir font + cd font + unzip mp_font3.zip + unzip mp_font3_hu.zip + + + <A NAME=1.4>1.4. What about the GUI ? + + I'm not a GUI programmer. I hate GUIs, I like the pure black 80x25 console. + So the player has only keyboard control from the controlling console/xterm now. + There is a GUI development for the player, coordinated by Pontscho/Fresh! + It's still under development, but it will be merged and released real soon. + BTW he needs some nice skins, if you are a good graphician, contact him!!! + + + <A NAME=2>2. Features + + + <A NAME=2.1>2.1. Video Formats, Audio & Video Codecs + + + <A NAME=2.1.1>2.1.1. Supported input formats + + - VCD (Video CD) directly from CD-ROM or from CDRwin's .bin image file + - DVD, directly from your DVD disk, using optional libcss for decryption + - MPEG 1/2 System Stream (PS/PES/VOB) and Elementary Stream (ES) file formats + - RIFF AVI file format + - ASF 1.0 file format + - supports reading from file, stdin, DVD drive or network via HTTP + + Note: about quicktime (.mov/.qt) and realmedia (.ra/.rm) support read the FAQ! + + + <A NAME=2.1.2>2.1.2. Supported audio & video codecs + + See http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/DOCS/codecs.html for the complete, + daily updated list!!! + + The most important video codecs: + - MPEG1 (VCD) and MPEG2 (DVD) video + - DivX, OpenDivX and other MPEG4 variants + - Windows Media Video 7 (WMV1) used in .wmv files + - Intel Indeo codecs (3.1,3.2,4.1,5.0) + - MJPEG, ASV2 and other hardware formats + + The most important audio codecs: + - MPEG layer 2, and layer 3 (MP3) audio (native code, with 3dnow optimization) + - AC3 dolby audio (native code, with 3dnow optimization) + - Voxware audio + - alaw, msgsm, pcm and other simple old audio formats + + If you have a codec not listed here, and not supported yet, just + read http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/DOCS/codecs.html and DOCS/CODECS + to get info about its status and about how to help us adding support for it! + + + <A NAME=2.1.2.1>2.1.2.1. OpenDivX + + + <A NAME=2.1.2.2>2.1.2.2. ffmpeg's DivX/libavcodec + + + <A NAME=2.1.4>2.1.4. Codec importing howto + + + <A NAME=2.1.4.1>2.1.4.1. VFW codecs + + VfW (Video for Windows) is the old Video API for Windows. Its codecs have + the .DLL or (rarely) .DRV extension. + If MPlayer fails with your AVI: + + UNKNOWN video codec: HFYU (0x55594648) + + It means your AVI is encoded with a codec which has the HFYU fourcc (HFYU = + HuffYUV codec, DIV3 = DivX Low Motion, etc...). Now that we know this, we'll + have to find out which DLL Windows loads in order to play this file. In our + case, the system.ini contains this (with many others): + VIDC.HFYU=huffyuv.dll + So we'll need the huffyuv.dll file. Note that the audio codecs are specified + with the MSACM prefix : + msacm.l3acm=L3codeca.acm + This is the MP3 codec. + + So, now we have all the info needed (fourcc, codec file, sample AVI), submit + your codec support request in mail, and upload these files to the FTP: + ftp://thot.banki.hu/MPlayer/incoming/<codecname>/ + + + <A NAME=2.1.4.2>2.1.4.2. DirectShow codecs + + DirectShow is the newer Video API, which is even worse than its predecessor. + Things are harder with DirectShow, since + - system.ini doesn't contain the needed information, instead it's stored in + the registry :( + - we'll need the GUID of the codec. + + So let's search that goddamn registry.. + - Start 'regedit' + - press ctrl-f, disable the first two checkbox, and enable the third. Type + the fourcc of the codec. (for ex.: TM20) + - you should see a field which contains the path and filename + (for ex. : C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\TM20DEC.AX) + - now that we have the file, we'll need the GUID. Try searching again, but + now we'll search for the codec's name, not the fourcc. Its name can be acquired + when Media Player is playing that file, by checking File/Properties/Advanced. + If not, bad luck ;) Try guessing. + (for ex. search for : TrueMotion) + - if found (in registry), there should be a FriendlyName field, and a CLSID + field. Write down that 16 byte of CLSID, this is the GUID required by us. + + NOTE : if searching fails, try to enable all the checkboxes.. you may have + false hits, but maybe you'll have the right, too... + NOTE : dump that M$ shit. + + So, now we have all the info needed (fourcc, GUID, codec file, sample AVI), + submit your codec support request in mail, and upload these files to the FTP: + ftp://thot.banki.hu/MPlayer/incoming/<codecname>/ + + + <A NAME=2.2>2.2. Video & Audio output devices + + + <A NAME=2.2.1>2.2.1. Video output devices + + General: + - x11: X11 with optional SHM extension + - xv: X11 using overlays with the Xvideo extension (hardware YUV & scaling) + - gl: OpenGL renderer, so far works only with : + - all cards with Utah-GLX + - Matrox cards with X/DRI >=4.0.3 + - Radeon with X/DRI CVS + - dga: X11 DGA extension + - fbdev:Output to general framebuffers + - svga: Output to SVGAlib + - sdl: 1.1.7 : supports software scaling + 1.1.8 : supports Xvideo (hardware scaling/fullscreen) + 1.2.0 : supports aalib (textmode rendering, very funny!) + - ggi: similar to SDL + + Card specific: + - mga: Matrox G200/G400 hardware YUV overlay via the mga_vid device + - xmga: Matrox G200/G400 overlay (mga_vid) in X11 window + (Xv emulation on X 3.3.x !) + - syncfb: Matrox G400 YUV support on framebuffer (obsoleted, use mga/xmga) + - 3dfx: Voodoo2/3 hardware YUV (/dev/3dfx) support (not yet tested, maybe + broken) + + Special: + - png: PNG files output (use -z switch to set compression) + - pgm: PGM files output (for testing purposes or ffmpeg encoding) + - md5: MD5sum output (for MPEG conformance tests) + - odivx:OpenDivX AVI File writer (use -br to set encoding bitrate) + - null: Null output (for speed tests/benchmarking) + + NOTE: check DOCS/VIDEOCARDS for details and requirements! + + + <A NAME=2.2.1.1>2.2.1.1. Xv + + I. Under XFree86 4.0.2 or newer, using the XVideo extension: + this is what the option '-vo xv' uses. + + In order to make this work, be sure to check the following: + + 1. You use XFree86 4.0.2 or newer (former versions don't have XVideo) + + 2. Your card actually supports harware acceleration (modern cards do) + + 3. X loads the XVideo extension, it's something like this: + (II) Loading extension XVideo + in /var/log/XFree86.0.log + NOTE : this loads only the XFree86's extension. In a good install, this is + always loaded, and doesn't mean that the _card's_ XVideo support is + loaded! + + 4. Your card has Xv support under Linux. To check, try 'xvinfo', it is the + part of the XFree86 distribution. It should display a long text, similar + to this: + + X-Video Extension version 2.2 + screen #0 + Adaptor #0: "Savage Streams Engine" + number of ports: 1 + port base: 43 + operations supported: PutImage + supported visuals: + depth 16, visualID 0x22 + depth 16, visualID 0x23 + number of attributes: 5 + (...) + Number of image formats: 7 + id: 0x32595559 (YUY2) + guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 + bits per pixel: 16 + number of planes: 1 + type: YUV (packed) + id: 0x32315659 (YV12) + guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 + bits per pixel: 12 + number of planes: 3 + type: YUV (planar) + (...etc...) + + It must support YUY2 packed, and YV12 planar pixel formats to be + usable with MPlayer. + + I.1. + a, If xvinfo doesn't show these, but XVideo extension is loaded and you're + sure your card can do YUV conversion, + - 3dfx voodoo3/banshee users download a new DRI from + http://dri.sourceforge.net (or possibly use X 4.1.0) + - S3 Savage4 users download XFree86 >= 4.0.3 (4.1.0 preferred) + - nVidia users sell their card.. or download the nVidia driver from + nVidia's website + b, The GATOS driver (for ATI cards) has VSYNC enabled by 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. + + 5. Be sure MPlayer is compiled with the "xv" target. "./configure" should say: + Checking for Xv ... yes + + 6. If all is fine, try the option '-vo xv' . It should work. + (if it doesn't, send us a bugreport. See the BUGREPORTS on how to do this.) + + + + <A NAME=2.2.1.2>2.2.1.2. DGA + + 1. Make sure X loads the DGA extension: + (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA + (you see, XFree86 4.0.x or greater is VERY RECOMMENDED!) + 2. MPlayer's DGA driver is autodetected on ./configure, or you can force it + with --enable-dga. + 3. If the driver couldn't switch to a smaller resolution, experiment with + switches -vm (only with X 3.3.x), -fs, -bpp, -zoom to find a video mode that + the movie fits in. There is no converter right now.. :( + 4. Become ROOT. DGA needs root access to be able to write directly video memory. + If you want to run it as user, then install MPlayer SUID root: + 'chown root /usr/local/bin/mplayer' + 'chmod 750 /usr/local/bin/mplayer' + 'chmod +s /usr/local/bin/mplayer' + Now it works as a simple user, too. + !!!! BUT STAY TUNED !!!! + This is a BIG security risk! Never do this on a server or on a computer + can be accessed by more people than only you because they can gain root + privilegies through suid root mplayer. + !!!! SO YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ... !!!! + 5. Use '-vo dga' option, and there you go! (hope so:) + 6. Try if the '-vo sdl:dga' options work for you! It's much faster!!! + + + <A NAME=2.2.1.2.1>2.2.1.2.1. Summary + + This document tries to explain in some words what DGA is in general and + what the DGA video output driver for mplayer can do (and what it can't). + + + <A NAME=2.2.1.2.2>2.2.1.2.2. What is DGA + + DGA is short for Direct Graphics Access and is a means for a program to + bypass the X-Server and directly modifying the framebuffer memory. + Technically spoken this happens by mapping the framebuffer memory into + the memory range of your process. This is allowed by the kernel only + if you have superuser privileges. You can get these either by logging in + as root or by setting the suid bit on the mplayer excecutable (NOT + recommended!). + + There are two versions of DGA: DGA1 is used by XFree 3.x.x and DGA2 was + introduced with XFree 4.0.1. + + DGA1 provides only direct framebuffer access as described above. For + switching the resolution of the video signal you have to rely on the + XVidMode extension. + + DGA2 incorporates the features of XVidMode extension and also allows + switching the depth of the display. So you may, although basically + running a 32 bit depth XServer, switch to a depth of 15 bits and vice + versa. + + However DGA has some drawbacks. It seems it is somewhat dependent on the + graphics chip you use and on the implementation of the XServer's video + driver that controls this chip. So it does not work on every system ... + + + <A NAME=2.2.1.2.3>2.2.1.2.3. Resolution switching + + The DGA driver allows for switching the resolution of the output signal. + This avoids the need for doing (slow) software scaling and at the same + time provides a fullscreen image. Ideally it would switch to the exact + resolution (except for honouring aspect ratio) of the video data, but the + XServer only allows switching to resolutions predefined in + /etc/X11/XF86Config (/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 for XFree 4.0.X respectively). + Those are defined by so-called modelines and depend on the capabilites + of your video hardware. The XServer scans this config file on startup and + disables the modelines not suitable for your hardware. You can find + out which modes survive with the X11 log file. It can be found at: + /var/log/XFree86.0.log + See appendix A for some sample modeline definitions. + + + <A NAME=2.2.1.2.4>2.2.1.2.4. DGA & MPlayer + + DGA is used in two places with MPlayer: The SDL driver can be made to make + use of it (-vo sdl:dga) and within the DGA driver (-vo dga). + The above said is true for both; in the following sections I'll explain + how the DGA driver for MPlayer works. + + + <A NAME=2.2.1.2.5>2.2.1.2.5. Features of the DGA driver + + The DGA driver is invoked by specifying -vo dga at the command line. + The default behaviour is to switch to a resolution matching the original + resolution of the video as close as possible. It deliberately ignores the + -vm and -fs switches (enabling of video mode switching and fullscreen) - + it always tries to cover as much area of your screen as possible by switching + the video mode, thus refraining to use a single additional cycle of your CPU + to scale the image. + If you don't like the mode it chooses you may force it to choose the mode + matching closest the resolution you specify by -x and -y. + By providing the -v option, the DGA driver will print, among a lot of other + things, a list of all resolutions supported by your current XF86-Config + file. + Having DGA2 you may also force it to use a certain depth by using the -bpp + option. Valid depths are 15, 16, 24 and 32. It depends on your hardware + whether these depths are natively supported or if a (possibly slow) + conversion has to be done. + + If you should be lucky enough to have enough offscreen memory left to + put a whole image there, the DGA driver will use doublebuffering, which + results in much smoother movie replaying. It will tell you whether double- + buffering is enabled or not. + + Doublebuffering means that the next frame of your video is being drawn in + some offscreen memory while the current frame is being displayed. When the + next frame is ready, the graphics chip is just told the location in memory + of the new frame and simply fetches the data to be displayed from there. + In the meantime the other buffer in memory will be filled again with new + video data. + + Doublebuffering may be switched on by using the option -double and may be + disabled with -nodouble. Current default option is to disable + doublebuffering. When using the DGA driver, onscreen display (OSD) only + works with doublebuffering enabled. However, enabling doublebuffering may + result in a big speed penalty (on my K6-II+ 525 it used an additional 20% of + CPU time!) depending on the implementation of DGA for your hardware. + + + <A NAME=2.2.1.2.6>2.2.1.2.6. Speed issues + + Generally spoken, DGA framebuffer access should be at least as fast as using + the X11 driver with the additional benefit of getting a fullscreen image. + The percentage speed values printed by mplayer have to be interpreted with + some care, as for example, with the X11 driver they do not include the time + used by the X-Server needed for the actual drawing. Hook a terminal to a + serial line of your box and start top to see what is really going on in your + box ... + + Generally spoken, the speedup done by using DGA against 'normal' use of X11 + highly depends on your graphics card and how well the X-Server module for it + is optimized. + + If you have a slow system, better use 15 or 16bit depth since they require + only half the memory bandwidth of a 32 bit display. + + Using a depth of 24bit is even a good idea if your card natively just supports + 32 bit depth since it transfers 25% less data compared to the 32/32 mode. + + I've seen some avi files already be replayed on a Pentium MMX 266. AMD K6-2 + CPUs might work at 400 MHZ and above. + + + <A NAME=2.2.1.2.7>2.2.1.2.7. Known bugs + + Well, according to some developpers of XFree, DGA is quite a beast. They + tell you better not to use it. Its implementation is not always flawless + with every chipset driver for XFree out there. + + o with XFree 4.0.3 and nv.o there is a bug resulting in strange colors + o ATI driver requires to switch mode back more than once after finishing + using of DGA + o some drivers simply fail to switch back to normal resolution (use + Ctrl-Alt-Keypad +, - to switch back manually) + o some drivers simply display strange colors + o some drivers lie about the amount of memory they map into the process's + address space, thus vo_dga won't use doublebuffering (SIS?) + o some drivers seem to fail to report even a single valid mode. In this + case the DGA driver will crash telling you about a nonsense mode of + 100000x100000 or the like ... + o OSD only works with doublebuffering enabled + + + <A NAME=2.2.1.2.8>2.2.1.2.8. Future work + + o use of the new X11 render interface for OSD + o where is my TODO list ???? :-((( + + + <A NAME=2.2.1.2.A>2.2.1.2.A. Some modelines + + Section "Modes" + Identifier "Modes[0]" + Modeline "800x600" 40 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 + Modeline "712x600" 35.0 712 740 850 900 400 410 412 425 + Modeline "640x480" 25.175 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525 + Modeline "400x300" 20 400 416 480 528 300 301 303 314 Doublescan + Modeline "352x288" 25.10 352 368 416 432 288 296 290 310 + Modeline "352x240" 15.750 352 368 416 432 240 244 246 262 Doublescan + Modeline "320x240" 12.588 320 336 384 400 240 245 246 262 Doublescan + EndSection + + + These entries work fine with my Riva128 chip, using nv.o XServer driver + module. + + + <A NAME=2.2.1.2.B>2.2.1.2.B. Bug Reports + + If you experience troubles with the DGA driver please feel free to file + a bug report to me (e-mail address below). Please start mplayer with the + -v option and include all lines in the bug report that start with vo_dga: + + Please do also include the version of X11 you are using, the graphics card + and your CPU type. The X11 driver module (defined in XF86-Config) might + also help. Thanks! + + + Acki (acki@acki-netz.de, www.acki-netz.de) + + + <A NAME=2.2.1.3>2.2.1.3. SDL + + Here are some notes about SDL out in MPlayer. + + There are several commandline switches for sdl: + -vo sdl:<name> specifies sdl video driver to use (ie. aalib, + dga, x11) + -ao sdl:<name> specifies sdl audio driver to use (ie. dsp, esd) + -noxv disables Xvideo hardware acceleration + -forcexv tries to force Xvideo acceleration + + SDL Keys: + F toggles fullscreen/windowed mode + C cycles available fullscreen modes + W/S mappings for * and / (mixer control) + + KNOWN BUGS: + - Keys pressed under aalib console driver repeat forever. + It's bug in SDL, I can't change it (tested with SDL 1.2.1). + + + <A NAME=2.2.1.4>2.2.1.4. SVGAlib + + a, If you don't have X... + ...use the SVGAlib target! Be sure not to use the -fs switch, since it + toggles the usage of the software scaler, and it's SLOOOW now, unless you + have a real fast CPU (and/or MTRR?). :( + + Of course you'll have to install svgalib and its development package in + order for MPlayer build its SVGAlib driver (autodetected, but can be + forced), and don't forget to edit /etc/vga/libvga.config to suit your + card & monitor. + + + <A NAME=2.2.1.5>2.2.1.5. Framebuffer output (FBdev) + + b, You want to use framebuffer... + ... Whether to build the FBdev target is autodetected during ./configure . + Read the framebuffer documentation in the kernel sources + (Documentation/fb/*) for info on how to enable it, etc.. ! + + ... but your card doesn't support VBE 2.0 standard (older ISA/PCI + cards, such as S3 Trio64), only VBE 1.2 (or older?) : + Well, VESAfb is still available, but you'll have to load SciTech Display + Doctor (formerly UniVBE) before booting Linux. Use a DOS boot disk or + whatever. And don't forget to register your UniVBE ;)) + + NOTE : FBdev video mode changing _does not work_ with the VESA framebuffer, + and don't ask for it, since it's not an MPlayer limitation. + + + <A NAME=2.2.1.6>2.2.1.6. Matrox framebuffer (mga_vid) + + 1. Matrox G200/G400/G450 BES (Back-End Scaler) support -> mga_vid kernel drv. + It's active developed by me (A'rpi), and it has hardware VSYNC support + with triple buffering. It works on both framebuffer console and under X. + + To use, simply compile the mga_vid.o in the drivers/ subdir (type: make) + create /dev/mga_vid device : + mknod /dev/mga_vid c 178 0 + and load the driver with insmod mga_vid.o. You should verify the memory size + detection using the 'dmesg' command. If it's bad, use the mga_ram_size + option (rmmod mga_vid first), specify card's memory size in MB: + insmod mga_vid.o mga_ram_size=16 + To make it load/unload automatically when needed, insert the following line + at the end of /etc/modules.conf : + alias char-major-178 mga_vid + Then run + depmod -a + + Using it from MPlayer: (you should re-compile it with mga_vid support...) + + Use the 'mga' vo driver on framebuffer console (matroxfb): -vo mga + and use the xmga driver for X 3.3.x: -vo xmga + + Note: it works under X 4.0.2 too, but it conflicts with the Xv driver, + so avoid using both. Usually X restart or reboot needs to get Xv usable + again :( + + If you have a dual-head G400, and a TV or second monitor connected to head2, + then you can watch movies on it: read DOCS/TVout-G400 for details (big hack) + + + <A NAME=2.2.1.7>2.2.1.7. SiS 6326 framebuffer (sis_vid) + + 2. SiS 6326 YUV Framebuffer driver -> sis_vid kernel driver + Its interface should be compatible with the mga_vid, but the driver + was not updated after the mga_vid changes, so it's outdated now. + Volunteers needed to test it and bring the code up-to-date. + + + <A NAME=2.2.1.8>2.2.1.8. 3dfx YUV support + + 3. 3dfx (which ones?) YUV+scaler support, using /dev/3dfx (tdfx.o driver?) + The /dev/3dfx kernel driver exists only for 2.2.x kernels, for use with + Glide 2.x Linux ports. It's not tested with MPlayer, and so no more + supported. Volunteers needed to test it and bring the code up-to-date. + + + <A NAME=2.2.1.9>2.2.1.9. OpenGL output + + The old Utah-GLX drivers (for X 3.3.6) have it, with all cards. + See http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net for details about how to install it. + + DRI >= 4.0.3 supports it only with Matrox cards, and Radeon. + See dri.sourceforge.net for download, and installation instructions. + + + <A NAME=2.2.2>2.2.2. Audio output devices + + - OSS (ioctl) driver + - SDL driver (supports up/downsampling, esd, arts etc) + - native ALSA 0.5 driver + - native ALSA 0.9 driver (buggy, use OSS emulation!) + - native ESD driver (under development?) + - SUN audio driver (/dev/audio) for BSD and Solaris8 users + + + <A NAME=2.3>2.3. Subtitles and OSD (On-Screen Display) + + Yes, mplayer also supports many kinds of subtitles. Currently (2001/06/01) + 7 kinds of subtitle can be used by the subreader code. To see what are + these subtitle formats, see subreader.c, line ~20. + + Subtitles are displayed with a technique called 'OSD', On Screen Display. + OSD is used to display current time, volume bar, seek bar etc. + + + INSTALLING OSD and SUB + ------- + + NOTE: OSD and SUBTITLES are NOT enabled by default! You have to download + fonts from mplayer's download page mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html + + Standard (Central-European, Latin1) font package: + http://thot.banki.hu/mp-ftp/releases/mp_font3.zip + (it obsoletes mp_font1.zip and mp_font2.zip) + + Cyrillic fonts: + http://thot.banki.hu/mp-ftp/releases/bgfont.zip + + And visit this site for korean subtitle support: + http://realtime.ssu.ac.kr/~lethean/mplayer + + After that, UNZIP the files to ~/.mplayer/font/ + Now you have to see a clock at the upper left corner of the movie + (switch it off with 'o') + + OSD has 3 states: (switch with 'o') + - clock + volume bar + seek bar + sub (default) + - volume bar + seek bar + sub + - only sub + + + <A NAME=3>3. Usage + + file: mplayer [options] [path/]filename + VCD: mplayer [options] -vcd trackno /dev/cdrom + DVD: mplayer [options] -dvdauth /dev/dvd filename.VOB + net: mplayer [options] http://site.com/file.[mpg|avi] + + mplayer -vo x11 /mnt/Films/Contact/contact2.mpg + mplayer -vcd 2 /dev/cdrom + mplayer -afm 3 /mnt/DVDtrailers/alien4.vob + mplayer -dvd /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd/matrix.vob + mplayer -abs 65536 -delay -0.4 -nobps ~/movies/test.avi + + + <A NAME=3.1>3.1. Control from keyboard + + <- or -> seek backward/forward 10 seconds + up or down seek backward/forward 1 minute + p or SPACE pause movie (press any key to continue) + q or ^C stop playing and quit program + o toggle OSD : none / seek / seek+timer + / and * decrease/increase volume + m toggle using master/pcm channel for volume setting + f toggle fullscreen (only with -vo sdl) + + + <A NAME=3.2>3.2. Control from LIRC + + Linux Infrared Remote Control - use an easy to build home-brewn IR-receiver, + an (almost) arbitrary remote control and control your linux box with it! + More about it at www.lirc.org. + + If you have installed the lirc-package, you can compile MPlayer with LIRC + support using ./configure --enable-lirc + + If everything went fine, MPlayer will print a message like + LIRC init was successful. + on startup. If an error occurs it will tell you. If it doens't tell you + anything about LIRC there's no support compiled in. That's it :-) + + The application name for MPlayer is - oh wonder - mplayer_lirc. + It understands the following commands: + + PAUSE - pause playing. Any other keystroke will continue replay. + QUIT - exit mplayer + RWND - 10 secs back + FRWND - 60 secs back + FWD - skip 10 secs + FFWD - skip 60 secs + INCVOL - increase volume one percent + DECVOL - decrease volmue one percent + MASTER - use master mixer channel + PCM - use pcm mixer channel + + Don't forget to enable the repeat flag for RWND/FWD in .lircrc. Here's an + excerpt from my .lircrc: + + begin + remote = CU-SX070 + prog = mplayer_lirc + button = Tape_Play + repeat = 1 + config = FFWD + end + + begin + remote = CU-SX070 + prog = mplayer_lirc + button = Tape_Stop + config = QUIT + end + + If you don't like the standard location for the lirc-config file (~/.lircrc) + use the -lircconf <filename> switch to specify another file. + + + <A NAME=3.3>3.3. Streaming from network or pipes + + wget ftp://micorsops.com/something.avi -O - | mplayer - + + + <A NAME=4>4. TV-out support + + + <A NAME=4.1>4.1. Matrox cards + + > What I'd love to see in mplayer is the the same feature that I see in my + > windows box. When I start a movie in windows (in a window or in full screen) + > the movie is also redirected to the tv-out and I can also see it full screen + > on my tv. I love this feature and was wondering how hard it would be to add + > such a feature to mplayer. + + It's a driver limitation. BES (Back-End Scaler, it's the overlay generator + and YUV scaling engine of G200/G400/G450 cards) works only with CRTC1. + Normally, CRTC1 (textmode, every bpp gfx and BES) is routed to HEAD1, + and CRTC2 (only 16/32bpp gfx) is routed to HEAD2 (TV-out). + + Under linux, you have two choices to get TV-out working: + + 1. Using X 4.0.x + the HAL driver from matrox, so you'll get dual-head + support, and you'll be able to redirect second output to the TV. + Unfortunately it has Macrovision encryption enabled, so it will + only work on directly-connected TV, no through VCR. + Other problem is that Xv doesn't work on the second head. + (I don't know how Windows solve it, maybe it swaps the CRTCs between + the heads, or just uses YUV framebuffer of second DAC with some trick) + + 2. Using matroxfb with dual-head support enabled (2.4.x kernels). + You'll be able to get a framebuffer console (using CRTC2, so it's + slow), and TV-out (using CRTC1, with BES support). + You have to forget X while using this kind of TV-out! :( + + - Compile all the matrox-related things to modules in the kernel. + (you MUST compile them to modules, at least I couldn't get them + working built-in yet) + [reboot to new kernel & install modules, but don't load them yet!] + + - Run the 'modules' script from the TV-out directory of mplayer. + It will switch your console to framebuffer. + Change to tty1 (ALT+F1)! + Now run the script 'independent', it will set up your tty's: + tty 1,2: fb console, CRTC2, head 1 (monitor) + tty 3,4,5...: framebuffer+BES, CRTC1, head 2 (TV-out) + You should run the scripts TV-* and Mon-* to set up resolutions: + change to tty1 (ALT+F1), and run Mon-* (one of them) + change to tty3 (ALT+F3) and then back to tty1 (ALT+F1) + (this change will select tty3 on /dev/fb1 - tricky) + run TV-* (one of them) + (now you'll get a console on your PAL TV - don't know about NTSC) + + Now if you start mplayer (on tty1), the picture will show up on + the tty3, so you'll see it on your TV or second monitor. + + Yes, it is a bit 'hack' now. But I'm waiting for the marvel + project to be finished, it will provide real TV-out drivers, I hope. + + My current problem is that BES is working only with CRTC1. So picture + will always shown up on head routed to CRTC1 (normaly the monitor), + so i have to swap CRTC's, but this way your console will framebuffer + (CRTC2 can't do text-mode) and a bit slow (no acceleration). :( + + + > anyway i also just get monochrome output on the tv ... + Maybe you have NTSC TV? Or just didn't run one of TV-* scripts. + + + <A NAME=5>5. Tuning + + + <A NAME=5.1>5.1. CD-ROM drives + + From Linux documentation: + + Some CDROM drives are capable of changing their head-speed. There are several + reasons for changing the speed of a CDROM drive. Badly pressed CDROMs may + benefit from less-than-maximum head rate. Modern CDROM drives can obtain very + high head rates (up to 24-times is common). It has been reported that these + drives can make reading errors at these high speeds, reducing the speed can + prevent data loss in these circumstances. Finally, some of these drives can + make an annoyingly loud noise, which a lower speed may reduce. + + The recommended way to do it is with a program called 'setcd' . It's kinda + old, but won't be too hard to find on the Net. + Use it with : + setcd -x <speed> <cdrom device> + + Also you can try : + echo current_speed:4 >/proc/ide/<cdrom device>/settings + but you'll need root privileges. (It didn't work for me - Gabucino) + + I use following command too : + echo file_readahead:2000000 >/proc/ide/<cdrom device>/settings + for 2MB prefetched reading from the file (it's useful for scratched CDROMs). + + It's recommended that you tuneup your CDROM drive also with hdparm : + hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 <cdrom device> + to enable using DMA access, readahead, and IRQ unmasking. + (if you don't understand these, *read the hdparm manpage*) + + Please refer to "/proc/ide/<cdrom device>/settings" for fine-tuning your + CDROM. + + + <A NAME=5.2>5.2. DVD drives + + IMPORTANT NOTE: please _DO_NOT_ require further features for DVD playback. This + is extremly experimental hack. Maybe it won't work for you. If you're + capable of helping us do it now! First we would like to fix existing problems. + Then we can start implementing advanced DVD playback functions of course. + + This means current DVD functions are mainly for developers and not for users! + + First, you must compile and install libcss on your system. + Second, you have to recompile MPlayer with libcss support. There is + autodetection of libcss, but if it fails, see below : + + Call ./configure script of MPlayer with these options: + + ./configure --enable-css --with-csslibdir=/usr/local/lib --with-cssincdir=/usr/local/include + + (of course you can append your favourite options as well) + + --with-csslibdir=/usr/local/lib + Directory contains libcss.so shared library. This directory should + be in your /etc/ld.so.conf as well. + + --with-cssincdir=/usr/local/include + Directory contains header file 'css.h' of libcss. + + mplayer -dvdauth /dev/dvd /mnt/cdrom/video_ts/vts_01_1.vob + + where, + + '-dvdauth /dev/dvd' tells MPlayer the device name of your DVD drive. + it's used in disc authentication process + + the filename is simply a VOB file path on the disc + + Note that according to my experiences, disc authentication requires root + privileges so you must run MPlayer as root! (see section 'Problems'). + + NOTE about the sound: + It seems that MPlayer sometimes fails to find the first audio stream. + You can specify it with the '-aid 128' option, for example. + Please experience with 128,129 and similar values. See section + 'Problems'. + + On my AMD K6-2 with using hw scaling and colorspace conversion + capability of my G400 it's possible to watch DVD with about 70% + CPU usage with '-nosound'. Unfortunately with sound my machine is + not enough :( Maybe it can be improved somewhat ... + Guess, it's not so bad ... According to reports from my friends + xine uses 80-90% CPU to play DVD on much more powerful machines + like 1GHz Athlon systems (as far as I know, it's said that about + 300MHz celeron is the minimum to watch DVDs ... using windows + DVD viewers). + + Hint: I commented out downmix functions from libac3 (of course in this way I + can't get sound) and audio decoding CPU usage became 11% instead of 24 on + my machine. This clearly indicates that we should optimize downmix functions + (KNI code is no use for my k6-2). + + HOT NEWZ: + We have got 3Dnow optimized libac3. Wow ;-) + + + Problems (TODO) + + * disc authentication (the FIBMAP ioctl) requires root privilegies. + this is strange since OMS can do it as user too. + * sound. I'm using my only DVD disc (The Matrix) to test MPlayer. + some VOB file have English sound, some have Spanish and some have + no sound at all. + IT SEEMS that if I give '-aid 128' everything works with English sound ... + * strange effects but only with SOME vob files (it looks like some interlacing + effect, eg: every 2nd line on the screen is from the last frame). + + + Feature TODO + + * chapter scanner + * audio stream scanner and allow to select one on runtime as well + (in stage#1 it would be enough to select one on the startup, see + 'Problems' above) + * DVD menu + I found (at least on disc 'The Matrix') the menu VOB but I don't + know how can it be used. + (after some eyeballing on the source of OMS, it seems we would have to + parse *.ifo files) + * subtitle support + * OSD/GUI (?) support for select chapter, subtitle and audio stream + * getting some documentation on DVD format, eg: which is the 'root' VOB + file on the disc in video_ts directory, which is the menu and so on. + * improve performance (see 'Performance' above) + + + No sound problem (from Matrix DVD, the menu VOB) + + End of packet while searching for PCM header + + DEMUXER: Too many (2048 in 4131540 bytes) video packets in the buffer! + (maybe you play a non-interleaved stream/file or video codec failed) + MPEG: No Audio stream found... ->nosound + + However this does not occur if you specify '-aid 128'. + + + <A NAME=5.3>5.3. MTRR + + Setting up MTRR for X11 3.3.x, SVGAlib or mga_vid: + ================================================== + + 1. find the base address + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + You have 3 ways to find it: + + - from X11 startup messages, for example: + (--) SVGA: PCI: Matrox MGA G400 AGP rev 4, Memory @ 0xd8000000, 0xd4000000 + (--) SVGA: Linear framebuffer at 0xD8000000 + + - from /proc/pci (use lspci -v command): + 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc.: Unknown device 0525 + Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) + + - from mga_vid kernel driver messages (use dmesg): + mga_mem_base = d8000000 + + 2. find memory size + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + This is very easy, just convert video ram size to hexadecimal, or + use this table: + 1 MB 0x100000 + 2 MB 0x200000 + 4 MB 0x400000 + 8 MB 0x800000 + 16 MB 0x1000000 + 32 MB 0x2000000 + + 3. setting up mtrr + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + You know base address and memory size, let's setup mtrr registers! + + For example, for the matrox card above (base=0xd8000000) with 32MB + ram (size=0x2000000) just execute: + echo "base=0xd8000000 size=0x2000000 type=write-combining" >| /proc/mtrr + + - Older K6-2's [around 266Mhz, stepping 0] doesn't support MTRR, but + stepping 12's do ('cat /proc/cpuinfo' to check it). + + + <A NAME=6>6. FAQ section + +Yes, this is the MPlayer FAQ. +============================= + +About: +~~~~~~ +Many people asked same questions so I decided to write this stuff. +I know that people will never read this but at least i try to +pull down number of these mails. +And from now i can say that "read the fuckin' FAQ!" :-) + +Let's ask! +~~~~~~~~~~ +Q: What about DVD playback? +A: Read files 'DVD' and 'DVD-FAQ'. + +Q: SDL output doesn't work or compile. Problem is .... +A: It is tested with newest SDL (probably runs on 1.1.7+). + It does NOT work with 1.1.6, 1.1.5 1.1.4 1.1.3 1.0.4 etc, don't ask. + +Q: I am still having trouble compiling with SDL support. gcc says something + about "undefined reference to `SDL_EnableKeyRepeat'" What's now? +A: Where did you install the SDL library? If you installed in /usr/local + (the default) then edit the top level config.mak and add + "-L/usr/local/lib " after "X_LIBS=" Now type make. You're done! + +Q: It doesn't compile, and it misses uint64_t inttypes.h and similar things... +A: copy DOCS/inttypes.h to MPlayer directory (cp DOCS/inttypes.h .) + try again... if fail, contact us + +Q: I have Pentium III but ./configure doesn't detect SSE +A: Only kernel versions 2.4.x supports SSE (or try latest 2.2.19 or newer, but + be prepared for problems) + +Q: -xy option doesn't work with x11 driver (-vo x11) +A: x11 driver doesn't support scaling, but XF86VidMode support is now + used: you must specify the -vm and the -fs switch, and you're done. + Make sure you have the right Modelines in your XF86Config file, and + try if the DGA driver (and SDL's DGA driver, see VIDEOCARDS) works for you. + It's much faster. If SDL's DGA works too, use that, it'll be EVEN + faster! + +Q: audio goes out of sync playing .avi file +A: try with -bps or -nobps option + if still bad, send me (upload to ftp) that file, I'll check. + +Q: what is the meaning of numbers in the status line? +A: see: + A: 2.1 V: 2.2 A-V: -0.167 ct: 0.042 57 41% 0% 2.6% 0 + - A: audio position in seconds + - V: video position in seconds + - A-V: audio-video difference in seconds (delay) + - ct: total A-V sync correction done + - frames played (counting from last seek) + - video codec cpu usage in percent (for mpeg it includes video_out too!) + - video_out cpu usage for avi, 0 for mpg (see above) + - audio codec cpu usage in percent + - frames needed to drop to maintain A-V sync + Most of them are for debug purposes, and will be removed soon. + +Q: Why is video_out cpu usage zero (0%) for mpeg files? +A: It's not zero, but it's built in into codec, so can't be measured separated. + You should try to play the file using -vo null and then -vo ... and check + the difference to see video_out speed... + +Q: OpenGL (-vo gl) output doesn't work (hangup/black window/X11 errors/...) +A: your opengl driver doesn't support dynamic texture changes (glTexSubImage) + it's known not to work with nVidia's binary shit. + it's known to work with Utah-GLX/DRI and Matrox G400 card. Also with + DRI and Radeon card. It won't work with DRI others than these. + it will not work with 3DFX cards because the 256x256 texture size limit. + +Q: I have G200/G400, how to compile/use mga_vid driver? +A: read VIDEOCARDS, INSTALL, README + +Q: What's XMMP? (is it XMMS or XMPS but mispelled?) +A: It's a new project, see http://frozenproductions.com for details + +Q: There are error messages about file not found /usr/lib/win32/.... +A: Download & install w32codec.zip from *our* FTP + (avifile's codec package has different DLL set) + +Q: ...... works with avifile/aviplay while doesn't with MPlayer +A: MPlayer != avifile + The only common thing between these players is the Win32 DLL loader. + The codecs (dll) sets, syncronization, demultiplexing etc is totaly + different and shouldn't be compared. + If something works with aviplay it doesn't mean that MPlayer should do + it and vice versa. + +Q: Indeo 3.x/4.x movies are viewed upside-down!!!? +A: It's a known bug (really it's a bug/limitation of the DLL codec) + Try if your vo driver supports the -flip switch. + +Q: Indeo 3.x,4.x video doesn't work at 32bpp resolutions (16,24 bpp are ok) +A: It's a known bug (really it's a bug/limitation of the DLL codec) + +Q: I've got 'MPlayer interrupted by signal 11' in module audio_setup or + decode_audio. +A: This is highly unlikely, since the mp3lib rewrite. Contact us, it may be + a bug. Possibly it's a damaged file, try with -afm 4 . + +Q: Are there rpm/deb/... packages of MPlayer? +A: You can make a .deb package for yourself, check DOCS/DEBIAN . + It's _STRONGLY_ discouraged to use precompiled packages + of MPlayer, since it (currently) _highly_ depends on compile-time + options and optimizations! + Precompiled packages are COMPLETELY unsupported by the MPlayer team! + +Q: Are there any mailing lists on MPlayer? +A: Yes! See README on how to subscribe them! + +Q: I've found a nasty bug when I tried to play my favourite video!! + Who should I inform? +A: See DOCS/BUGREPORTS + +Q: During 'make', MPlayer complains about X11 libraries. I don't understand, + I DO have X installed!? +A: ...but you don't have the X development package installed. Or not + correctly. It's called XFree86-devel* under RedHat, and xlib6g-dev* under + Debian. Also check if the /usr/X11 symlink exists (this can be a problem on + Mandrake systems). It can be created with the + $ ln -sf /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11 + command. Also check the /usr/include/X11 link : + $ ln -sf /usr/X11R6/include/X11 /usr/include/X11 + Your distribution may differ from the Linux Filesystem Standard. + +Q: I have problems playing files with ... codec. Can I use'em? +A: Check http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/DOCS/codecs.html, + if it doesn't contain your codec, read + http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/DOCS/CODECS, and contact us. + +Q: What about DGA driver? I can't find it!!! +A: ./configure autodetects your DGA driver. If -vo help doesn't show + DGA, then there's a problem with your X installation. + Try ./configure --enable-dga (and read VIDEOCARDS) + Alternatively, try SDL's DGA driver with '-vo sdl:dga' options. + +Q: Ok, -vo help shows DGA driver, but it is babbling about permissions! + Help me! +A: It works only if running as root! It's a DGA limitation. + You should become to root (su -), and try again. + + Another solution is making mplayer SUID root, but its NOT RECOMMENDED! + 'chown root /usr/local/bin/mplayer' + 'chmod 750 /usr/local/bin/mplayer' + 'chmod +s /usr/local/bin/mplayer' + !!!! BUT STAY TUNED !!!! + This is a *BIG* security risk! *NEVER* do this on a server or on a computer + can be accessed by more people than only you because they can gain root + privilegies through suid root mplayer!!! + !!!! SO YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ... !!!! + +Q: The fsdga driver doesn't work with my xyz.avi file. Why is that? +A: Because it only works with MPEG. (yet) + +Q: When using Xvideo, my Voodoo 3/Banshee says: + X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource + denied) + Major opcode of failed request: 147 (MIT-SHM) + Minor opcode of failed request: 1 (X_ShmAttach) + Serial number of failed request: 26 + Current serial number in output stream:27 +A: Your driver is old, update it. Either download (at least) DRI version 0.6 + from http://dri.sourceforge.net , or use the DRI cvs. + +Q: When using Xvideo, I can't play DivX avis with my Voodoo 3/Banshee ! + It says: + ... + Xvideo image format: 0x32315659 (YV12) planar + Xvideo image format: 0x30323449 (I420) planar + ... +A1: See the previous answer. +A2: Since 0.18pre4 we include libavcodec from the ffmpeg package. It contains + a C language DivX and OpenDivX decoder. The DivX decoder uses YV12 format + for output, thus it should work for you. Compile in libavcodec support. + +Q: Umm, what is "IdegCounter" ? +A: A mixture of a hungarian and an english word. In english, "Ideg" means + "nerve", and is pronounced as something like "ydaegh" . It was first used + to measure the nervousness of A'rpi, after some (umm) "mystic" disappearance + of CVS code ;) + +Q: I can't compile SVGAlib.. I'm using 2.3/2.4 kernel. +A: You have to edit SVGAlib's Makefile.cfg and comment "BACKGROUND = y" out. + +Q: LIRC doesn't work, because ... +A: Are you sure you use "mplayer_lirc" instead of "mplayer" ? + +Q: MPlayer exits with something error when using l3codeca.acm +A: Check 'ldd /usr/local/bin/mplayer' output. If it contains + libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4???????) + where "?" is any number then it's ok, the error is not here. If it is: + libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00??????) + then there is problem with your kernel/libc. Maybe you are using some + security patches (for example Solar Designer's OpenWall patch) which + forces loading libraries to very low addresses. + Because l3codeca.acm is a non-relocatable DLL, it must be loaded to + 0x00400000, we can't change this. You should use non-patched kernel, + or use MPlayer's -afm 1 option to disable using l3codeca.acm. + +Q: My computer plays M$ DivX AVIs with resolutions ~ 640x300 and stereo mp3 + sound too slow. When I use -nosound switch, everything is ok (but quiet). +A: Those files probably have 48Khz audio, and your soundcard/driver can't play + it correctly. Audio downsampling isn't implemented in MPlayer (yet). + +Q: MPlayer dies with "MPlayer interrupted by signal 4 in module: decode_video". +A: Try running MPlayer on the machine you compiled on. Or recompile. Don't + use MPlayer on different CPU than it was compiled on. + +Q: I have problems with <your window manager> and fullscreen xv/xmga/sdl/x11 + modes.. +A1: Use the -fsmode switch. See example.conf or manpage. + +Q: But it works with avifile ! +A: So what? + +Q: Then avifile is better ! +A: Then use avifile, it has nice GUI and nice C++ code :) + +Q: I got this playing mpeg files: Can't find codec for video format 0x10000001 ! +A: You have old version of codecs.conf at ~/.mplayer/. Upgrade it from DOCS/ + +Q: After starting mplayer under KDE(1/2) I just get a black screen and nothing + happens, after about one minute the video starts playing. +A: The KDE arts sound daemon is blocking the sound device, either wait the time + until video starts or you disable the arts-daemon in kontrollcenter. + +Q: Subtitles are very nice, the most beautiful I've ever seen, but they slow + down the playing! I know it's unlikely... +A: After running ./configure , edit config.h and replace #undef FAST_OSD with + #define FAST_OSD . Then recompile. + +Q: The OSD is flickering! +A: You use a vo driver with single buffering (x11,xv). With xv you can change + the number of buffers in libvo/vo_xv.c : + Increase #define NUM_BUFFERS 1 + +Q: What's the problem with gcc 2.96 ? +A: gcc 2.96 is RedHat's UNOFFICIAL (it can be found only on RedHat sites, or + RedHat distributions) and BUGGY gcc release. gcc 2.96 is TOTALLY + unsupported by MPlayer, because it simply SKIPS MMX codes, it just does not + compile it. Important: this is NOT an MPlayer-specific problem, numerous + other projects (DRI, avifile, etc..) have problems with this shit too. + ** DO NOT USE gcc 2.96 !!! ** + +Q: Is there a hint on how to watch QuickTime and RealMedia movies in mplayer? +A: There's no way to do it. Therefore these formats deserve to die in flames. + Theoretically you can reverse engineer Real codecs built for Linux (they + are available as .so files), but in practice that's really difficult, even + if you know how the compiler used by Real is making assembler code. + As for QuickTime, it's possible to play some old movies and this + capability will be added to mplayer soon, but newer clips are all Sorenson + encoded, and that codec is built-in deep in the QT executable, there's + no way to use it. + +Q: I have an nVidia TNT/TNT2 card, and I have a band with strange colours, + right under the movie! Whose fault is this? +A: It's the nVidia X driver's. These bugs are ONLY with the TNT/TNT2 cards, + and we can't do anything about it, it's not our bug. + +Q: What exactly is this libavcodec? +A: It's from Gerard Lantau's ffmpeg package (http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net). + It has C language DivX ;-) and OpenDivX codec. Some benchmarks + showed that its DivX seems to be even faster than DirectShow codec without + preprocessing, and only a few percent slower than ProjectMayo's OpenDivX + decoder. It uses YV12 pixel format, so old Voodoo users can use it for YUV. + Also, open the possibility to play DivX on virtually every computer that + has a C compiler. Kinda great stuff, isn't it? + + + <A NAME=7>7. Misc OS'es + + + <A NAME=7.1>7.1. Debian packaging + +To build the package: + Get the cvs version, or .tgz and uncompress it, + cd into programs directory: +eyck@incubus:~/src$ cd main +eyck@incubus:~/src/main$ fakeroot debian/rules binary + (... mplayer detects hardware/software, builds itself and.. ) + .. + dpkg-deb: building package `mplayer' in `../mplayer_0.18-1_i386.deb'. + +And now just dpkg -i ../mplayer_0.18-1_i386.deb as root. +Here's how it looks like: + +eyck@incubus:/src/main$ sudo dpkg -i ../mplayer_0.18-1_i386.deb +Password: +(Reading database ... 26946 files and directories currently installed.) +Preparing to replace mplayer 0.17a-1 (using ../mplayer_0.18-1_i386.deb) ... +Unpacking replacement mplayer ... +Setting up mplayer (0.18-1) ... + + + <A NAME=7.2>7.2. FreeBSD + +Notes for FreeBSD users +======================= + +1. To build the package you will need GNU make (gmake, /usr/ports/devel/gmake), +native BSD make will not work. + +2. To run mplayer you will need to re-compile the kernel with +"options USER_LDT" (unless you are running -CURRENT, where this is default). + +3. If mplayer complains about "CD-ROM Device '/dev/cdrom' not found!" make a +symbolic link : ln -s /dev/<your_cdrom_device> /dev/cdrom + +4. There's no DVD support for FreeBSD yet. +Feel free to add them :-) + +Enjoy (as do I)! + +-- +Vladimir Kushnir + + + <A NAME=7.3>7.3. Solaris 8 + +Notes for Solaris users +======================= + +1. AVI file playback works best on Solaris x86, because you have the + option to use the win32 codecs on the x86 platform. On Solaris SPARC, + you'll find quite a few AVI files with non working video and/or + audio playback, because the video/audio codecs using the win32 DLLs + are not available. + + +2. To build the package you will need GNU make (gmake, /opt/sfw/gmake), + native Solaris make will not work. + + Typical error you get when building with solaris' make instead of GNU + make: + + % /usr/ccs/bin/make + make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 25: Unexpected end of line seen + + +3. On Solaris SPARC, you need the GNU C/C++ Compiler; it does not matter + if GNU C/C++ compiler is configured with or without the GNU assembler. + + On Solaris x86, you need the GNU assembler and the GNU C/C++ + compiler, configured to use the GNU assembler! The mplayer code on + the x86 platform makes heavy use of MMX, SSE and 3DNOW! + instructions that cannot be compiled using Sun's assembler + /usr/ccs/bin/as. + + + The configure script tries to find out, which assembler program is + used by your "gcc" command (in case the autodetection fails, use + the "--as=/whereever/you/have/installed/gnu-as" option to tell the + configure script where it can find GNU "as" on your system). + + Error message from configure on a Solaris x86 system using GCC + without GNU assembler: + + % configure + ... + Checking assembler (/usr/ccs/bin/as) ... , failed + Please upgrade(downgrade) binutils to 2.10.1... + + (Solution: Install and use a gcc configured with "--with-as=gas") + + + Typical error you get when building with a GNU C compiler that does + not use GNU as: + + % gmake + ... + gcc -c -Iloader -Ilibvo -O4 -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -ffast-math + -fomit-frame-pointer -I/usr/local/include -o mplayer.o mplayer.c + Assembler: mplayer.c + "<stdin>", line 3567 : Illegal mnemonic + "<stdin>", line 3567 : Syntax error + ... more "Illegal mnemonic" and "Syntax error" errors ... + + +4. For DVD support you must have the patched libcss installed. Patch: + http://www.tools.de/solaris/mplayer/ + + +5. Due to two bugs in solaris 8 x86, you cannot reliably play DVDs using a + capacity >4GB: + + - The sd(7D) driver on solaris 8 x86 driver has bug when accessing a + disk block >4GB on a device using a logical blocksize != DEV_BSIZE + (i.e. CDROM and DVD media). Due to a 32bit int overflow, a disk + address modulo 4GB is accessed. + (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22516) + + - The similar bug is present in the hsfs(7FS) filesystem code (aka + ISO9660), hsfs currently does not support partitions/disks >4GB, + all data is accessed modulo 4GB + (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22592) + +-- +Jürgen Keil + + + <A NAME=A>Appendix A - Authors + +NOTE: Do *NOT* send bugreports, help & feature requests directly to the authors! +===== Read DOCS/BUGREPORTS and subscribe to mplayer-users mailing lists. + +========================== The MPlayer project: =============================== + +Árpád Gereöffy (A'rpi/ESP-team): <arpi@thot.banki.hu> +- player code (mpeg stream demultiplexer and avi/asf parser, A-V sync, seek...) +- mp3lib, based on mpglib sources [MP3 audio decoder] +- getch2 [keyboard handler] +- some changes in libmpeg2 code (progressive frames, bitrate & fps support) +- libvo improvements: adding OpenGL support, bugfix in mga driver... +- triple buffering & YUY2 support (for DivX/MPEG4) into mga_vid driver +- scripts in the TVout directory (TVout on Matrox G400DH, read DOCS/TVout-G400) +- hacking DivX/Mpeg4 VfW codecs to get YUV output +- opendivx decoder speed optimizations (see opendivx/ChangeLog) +- OSD & SUB display code + +Zoltán Ponekker (Pontscho/Fresh!): <pontscho@makacs.poliod.hu> +- configure script and Makefiles for easy compile +- GUI system (near complete!?) +- 3DNow! support into mp3lib +- 3DNow! support into fastmemcpy.h +- various X11 driver changes (keyboard handling, fullscreen, bpp detect, etc) +- libvo: adding xmga driver, and fullscreen support to xv +- audio mixer (volume) support + +Gábor Lénárt (LGB): <lgb@lgb.hu> +- ./configure script improvements +- Makefile improvements +- prelimenary DVD support +- another GUI code (is that so..?) +- various X11 cleanups and fixes + +Gábor Bérczi (Gabucino): <gabucino@k2.jozsef.kando.hu> +- documentation maintainer +- hungarian translation of documentation +- second webpage design&gfx +- webpage maintainer +- testing, codecs quality & speed comparsions +- IRC channel #MPlayer operator +- experimental MINIX port + +Szabolcs Berecz (Szabi): <szabi@inf.elte.hu> +- codecs.conf file parser +- config file and command line parser +- mga_vid fixes, module option etc. +- fbdev support in libvo +- type #7 subtitle support + +László Megyer (Lez, Laaz): <lez@sch.bme.hu> +- SUB reader +- screensaver+DPMS disable for libvo + +Gyula László (Chass, Tégla): <chass-@freemail.hu> +- first fonts (mp_font1.zip) +- third (current) homepage design&gfx + +Zoltán Márk Vicián (Se7en): <se7en@sch.bme.hu> +- SVGAlib support in libvo +- native AAlib driver (coming soon) + +Alex Beregszaszi (Al3x): <alex@naxine.org> +- ALSA output driver in libao2 +- vo_ggi output driver in libvo (www.ggi-project.org) + +Andreas Ackermann (Acki): <asackerm@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> +- LIRC support (see DOCS/LIRC) +- DGA support in libvo + +Felix Bünemann (Atmos): <atmosfear@users.sourceforge.net> +- SDL driver maintainer +- Additional YUV formats fixes +- New font (mp_font2.zip) +- PNG file output support in libvo +- flipping support (for Indeo 3/4, etc) +- SDL audio driver in libao2 +- RAW PCM/WAVE file writer for libao2 + +TeLeNiEkO: <telenieko@telenieko.com> +- spanish translation of documentation + +Michael Graffam: <mgraffam@idsi.net> +- XF86VidMode support to vo_x11 and vo_dga +- Video mode switching code to vo_dga + +Jens Hoffmann: <hoffmajs@gmx.de> +- Additional YUV formats support +- found the big BITMAPINFOHEADER problem -> solved ASV2 pixelization + +Nick Kurshev: <nickols_k@mail.ru> +- memcpy optimizations for AMD K7 and Intel Pentium III (fastmemcpy.h) +- CDROM tune info +- further 3DNow! optimizations into mp3lib and libac3 +- russian translation of documentation + +German Gomez Garcia: <german@piraos.com> +- DVD .ifo parser and chapter selection [not yet in the main trunk] +- SPDIF AC3 output for SBLive! [not yet in the main trunk] + +Dariush Pietrzak (Eyck): <eyck@incubus.ar.lublin.pl> +- debian packaging support (see debian/* and DOCS/DEBIAN) +- support for vplayer subtitle format +- prelimenary support for .RT subtitle format + +Jürgen Keil and Marcus Comstedt: <jk@tools.de> <marcus@idonex.se> +- patched MPlayer to work on Solaris 8 x86 +- configure fixes +- SUN audio driver in libao2 + +Vladimir Kushnir: <vkushnir@Alfacom.net> +- patched MPlayer to work on FreeBSD x86 + +Bertrand BAUDET: <bertrand_baudet@yahoo.com> +- network streaming support + +Main testers: + Tibor Balázs (Tibcu) + Péter Sasi (SaPe) + Christoph H. Lampert + Attila Kinali + Dirk Vornheder + +========================== The codecs, libs: ================================= + +Aaron Holtzman: <aholtzma@engr.uvic.ca> +- ac3dec (and libac3) author [AC3 audio decoder] +- mga_vid driver [Matrox G200/G400 YUV Back-end Scaler] +- mpeg2dec [Fast MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, currently used in player] + +Michel Lespinasse: <walken@zoy.org> +- did large libmpeg2 changes for better speed and mpeg conformance + +Eugene Kuznetsov: <divx@euro.ru> +- avifile author [AVI player library for linux, using Win32 VfW/ACM codecs] +- technical help about AVI and ASF formats, and how to get YUV using VfW... +- divx4linux techical support + +Zdenek Kabelac: <kabi@informatics.muni.cz> +- current avifile maintainer(?) +- some technical help about the win32 stuff and timers + +Gerard Lantau: <glantau@yahoo.fr> +- ffmpeg/libavcodec author,maintainer (opensource mpeg & divx en/decoder) + +Project Mayo: [http://www.projectmayo.com] +- the OpenDivX codec authors + +Michael Hipp: +- mpglib author [isn't used directly but some parts in mp3lib] + +Mark Podlipec: +- xa_gsm.c author [MS-GSM audio codec] + [from a GSM library by Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann] + +Their code is not used in current player version, but I've got some ideas or +other technical help from: + +John F. McGowan http://www.jmcgowan.com/ +- AVI FAQ author/collector. [site with many useful docs on codecs and avi fmt] + +Dirk Farin: <farin@ti.uni-mannheim.de> +- dvdview author [MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, used in v0.5-v0.8] + +Adam Williams: <broadcast@earthling.net> +- libmpeg3 (and xmovie) author [MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, used in v0.1-v0.4] + + + <A NAME=B>Appendix B - Mailing lists + +There are some public mailing lists on MPlayer. Subscribing can be achieved on +the following addresses: + +- MPlayer core/hungarian developers list: + http://mp.dev.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-devel + + I dunno, it is the FLAME list in hungarian language :) + Also some talking about mplayer core team internals, like mplayer + party, sponsors etc can be here. + +- MPlayer developers list: + http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng + + This list is about mplayer development! Talking about interface/API changes, + new libraryes, code optimization, ./configure changes, and send patches here. + Do NOT send bugreports, user questions, feature requests here! + This list should be kept low-traffic. + +- MPlayer users list: + http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-users + + - send bugreports here (after reading DOCS/BUGS, BUGREPORTS) + - send feature requests here (after reading DOCS/TODO) + - send user questions here (after reading DOCS/README, INSTALL, FAQ etc) + +- MPlayer & Matrox G200/G400/G450 users: + http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-matrox + + Send matrox-related questions here, + - things about mga_vid, + - matrox's official beta drivers (for X 4.x.x) + - and about matroxfb-TVout stuff. + +- mpg12play-portable developers: + http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-mpg12play + + This list is for talking about mplayer ports to non-x86 platforms + (IRIX, Solaris-SPARC, Alpha, Commodore64, Sharp Calculator, + Teapot etc...) + +- MPlayer announce: + http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-announce + + Very low traffic list :) + And it's read-only. I'll post something shit there if a new release + is done. + +- MPlayer CVS-log: + http://mp.dev.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog + + Send only questions about CVS changes here. + (if you don't understand why a change is required or you've better fix) + Be sure in that your target developer reads this list! + +NOTE: language of above lists are ENGLISH, unless explicitly stated otherwise. + Please do not send messages using other language! + + + <A NAME=C>Appendix C - How to report bugs + +How to report bugs? +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +First read DOCS/BUGS, and other docs. If your problem isn't +known or isn't solved by our instructions, then report the bug: + +Where? +====== +Subscribe to the mplayer-users mailing list: + http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-users +and send your bugreport to: + mplayer-users@lists.sourceforge.net +We won't CC: so please subscribe!!! + +Don't send bugreports private, directly to author's address!!! +We are working together on code, so everyone is interested in it. +BTW many times other users know the solution (system config probs, +bad drivers etc), even when we think it's a bug in our code. +The language of this list is ENGLISH ! + +Please describe your problem in details, examples etc, and don't +forget to include these: + +What? +===== + +1. The system info what we always want: +- linux distribution + examples: + RedHat 7.1 + Slackware 7.0 + devel packs from 7.1 ... +- kernel version: + uname -a +- libc version: + ls -l /lib/libc[.-]* +- X version: + X -version +- gcc and ld version: + gcc -v + ld -v +- binutils version: + as --version + +2. Hardware & drivers: +- CPU info: + cat /proc/cpuinfo +- video card manufacturer and model + examples: + ASUS V3800U chip: nVidia TNT2 Ultra pro 32MB SDRAM + Matrox G400 DH 32MB SGRAM +- video driver type&version + examples: + X built-in driver + nvidia 0.9.623 + Utah-GLX CVS 2001-02-17 + DRI from X 4.0.3 +- sound card type & driver + examples: + Creative SBLive! Gold with OSS driver from oss.creative.com + Creative SB16 with OSS drivers of kernel + GUS PnP with ALSA OSS emulation +- if you are unsure, attach output of lspci -v + +For compiling problems/errors: +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +3. output of configure/make: + make distclean + ./configure &>config.log + ./make &>make.log +4. these files: + config.h + config.mak + libvo/config.mak + +For playback problems: +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +3. Output of mplayer at verbose level 1 (-v) + mplayer -v [options] filename &> mplayer.log + +4. If the problem is specific to one or a few files, + then please upload that file to: + ftp://thot.banki.hu/MPlayer/incoming/ + Usually first 1-5 MB of the file is enough to reproduce + the problem, but first you should try it: + dd if=yourfile of=smallfile bs=1k count=1024 + (it will cut first 1MB of 'yourfile' and save to 'smallfile') + Then try again on this small file, and if bug still exists + then it's enough to upload this small file. + NEVER send such files via mail! Upload it, and send only + the path/filename of the file on the FTP. + If the file is accessible on the net, then sending the + _exact_ URL is enough! + +5. For crashes (segfault, SIGILL, signal 4 etc): + +If you have coredump of the crash, see 5.a, else see 5.b: + +5.a: Please print us coredump (if it was created). +Howto: +please create following command file: + +disass $eip-32 $eip+32 +printf "eax=%08lX\n",$eax +printf "ebx=%08lX\n",$ebx +printf "ecx=%08lX\n",$ecx +printf "edx=%08lX\n",$edx +printf "esp=%08lX\n",$esp +printf "ebp=%08lX\n",$ebp +printf "edi=%08lX\n",$edi +printf "esi=%08lX\n",$esi + +Then simply execute following command line: +gdb mplayer --core=core -batch --command=command_file >mplayer.bug + +5.b.: run MPlayer in gdb: +[at root/user shell prompt:] + # gdb mplayer +[at gdb prompt:] + > run -v [options-to-mplayer] filename + ... (wait until it will crash) + > bt + > disass $eip-32 $eip+32 +Send us the full output of the above things! + +In general: +~~~~~~~~~~~ + If something is big (logs etc) then it's better to upload to the ftp + (gzipped), and include only path/filename in the bugreport! + +</BODY> + +</HTML>