changeset 12418:80266d26d80c

winvidix documented, alternative ways of specifying -dvd-device.
author diego
date Tue, 04 May 2004 14:34:18 +0000
parents d94ae022d383
children 3a6e4fff88e3
files DOCS/xml/en/ports.xml
diffstat 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/DOCS/xml/en/ports.xml	Tue May 04 14:19:34 2004 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/xml/en/ports.xml	Tue May 04 14:34:18 2004 +0000
@@ -295,6 +295,27 @@
   <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/dx7headers.tgz">DirectX 7 header files</ulink>
   to compile the DirectX video output driver.</para>
 
+<para><link linkend="vidix">VIDIX</link> now works under Windows as
+  <option>-vo winvidix</option>, although it is still experimental
+	and needs a bit of manual setup. Download
+  <ulink url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/dhahelper.sys">dhahelper.sys</ulink>
+  and copy it to the
+  <filename class="directory">libdha/dhahelperwin</filename> directory in your
+	<application>MPlayer</application> source tree.
+	Open a console and change to that directory. Then type
+
+  <screen>gcc -o dhasetup.exe dhasetup.c</screen>
+
+  and execute
+
+  <screen>dhasetup.exe install</screen>
+
+  as Administrator.  After that you will have to reboot.  When you are
+  done, copy the <systemitem class="library">.so</systemitem> files from
+	<filename class="directory">vidix/drivers</filename> to the
+	<filename class="directory">mplayer/vidix</filename> directory
+  relative to your <filename>mplayer.exe</filename>.</para>
+
 <para>For best results <application>MPlayer</application> should use a
   colorspace that your video card supports in hardware.  Unfortunately many
   Windows graphics drivers wrongly report some colorspaces as supported in
@@ -363,6 +384,8 @@
 <para>DVDs also work, adjust <option>-dvd-device</option> for the drive letter
   of your DVD-ROM:</para>
 
+<screen>mplayer dvd://<replaceable>&lt;title&gt;</replaceable> -dvd-device <replaceable>d</replaceable>:</screen>
+
 <screen>mplayer dvd://<replaceable>&lt;title&gt;</replaceable> -dvd-device '\\.\<replaceable>d</replaceable>:'</screen>
 
 </sect2>
@@ -392,6 +415,8 @@
 
 <screen>mplayer dvd://<replaceable>&lt;title&gt;</replaceable> -dvd-device /<replaceable>d</replaceable>/</screen>
 
+<screen>mplayer dvd://<replaceable>&lt;title&gt;</replaceable> -dvd-device <replaceable>d</replaceable>:\\</screen>
+
 </sect2>