changeset 19804:9c5722ae5029

Remove bogus and outdated codecs installation section.

--- a/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml	Tue Sep 12 15:01:48 2006 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml	Tue Sep 12 15:22:37 2006 +0000
@@ -131,110 +131,6 @@
 </sect1>
 
 
-<sect1 id="installation_codecs">
-<title>Codecs</title>
-
-<itemizedlist>
-<listitem><para>
-  <emphasis role="bold"><systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem></emphasis>:
-  This codec package is capable
-  of decoding H.263/MJPEG/RV10/DivX3/DivX4/DivX5/MP41/MP42/WMV1/WMV2/SVQ1/SVQ3 encoded video
-  streams and WMA (Windows Media Audio) v1/v2 audio streams, on multiple
-  platforms. It is also known to be the fastest for this task. See
-  <link linkend="ffmpeg">FFmpeg</link> section for details. Features:
-  <itemizedlist>
-  <listitem><simpara>
-    gain decoding of videos mentioned above, on non-x86 machines
-    </simpara></listitem>
-  <listitem><simpara>
-    encoding with most of the mentioned codecs
-    </simpara></listitem>
-  <listitem><simpara>
-    this codec is the <emphasis role="bold">fastest codec available</emphasis> for
-    DivX/3/4/5 and other MPEG-4 types. Recommended!
-    </simpara></listitem>
-  </itemizedlist>
-  </para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>
-  <emphasis role="bold">Win32 codecs</emphasis>: If you plan to use
-  <application>MPlayer</application> on x86 architecture, you will possibly need
-  them. Download a codec package from our
-  <ulink url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html">download page</ulink>
-  and put the codecs in <filename class="directory">/usr/local/lib/codecs</filename>
-  <emphasis role="bold">BEFORE</emphasis> compiling <application>MPlayer</application>,
-  otherwise no Win32 support will be compiled!
-  <note><para>The avifile project has similar codecs package, but it
-  differs from ours, so if you want to use all supported codecs, then use
-  our package (do not worry, avifile works with it without problems).</para>
-  </note>
-  Features:
-  <itemizedlist>
-  <listitem><simpara>
-    you need this if you want to play or encode for example movies recorded
-    with various hardware compressors, like tuner cards, digital cameras
-    (example: DV, ATI VCR, MJPEG)
-    </simpara></listitem>
-  <listitem><simpara>
-    needed if you want to play <emphasis role="bold">WMV9/WMA9 movies</emphasis>.
-   </simpara></listitem>
-  <listitem><simpara>
-    Not needed for old ASF's with MP41 or MP42 video (though VoxWare audio is
-    frequent for these files - it's done by the Win32 codec), or WMV7. Also not
-    needed for WMA (Windows Media Audio),
-    <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> has open source decoder
-    for that.
-    </simpara></listitem>
-  </itemizedlist>
-  </para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>
-  <emphasis role="bold">QuickTime codecs</emphasis>: on x86 platforms these
-  codecs can be used to decode RPZA, and other QuickTime video,
-  and QDesign audio streams. Installation instructions can be found in the
-  <link linkend="sorenson">Sorenson video codec</link> section.
-  </para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>
-  <emphasis role="bold">XviD</emphasis>: Open source encoding alternative to
-  DivX4Linux. Features:
-  <itemizedlist>
-  <listitem><simpara>
-    one pass or two pass encoding with
-    <link linkend="mencoder"><application>MEncoder</application></link>
-    </simpara></listitem>
-  <listitem><simpara>
-    it's open-source, so it's multiplatform.
-    </simpara></listitem>
-  <listitem><simpara>
-    it's about 2 times faster than divX4 when encoding - about the same
-    quality
-    </simpara></listitem>
-  </itemizedlist>
-  </para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>
-  The <emphasis role="bold"><link linkend="xanim">XAnim codecs</link></emphasis>
-  are the best (full screen, hardware YUV zoom) for decoding
-  <emphasis role="bold">3ivx</emphasis> and Indeo 3/4/5 movies, and some old
-  formats. And they are multiplatform, so this is the only way to play Indeo on
-  non-x86 platforms (well, apart from using XAnim:). But for example Cinepak movies
-  are best played with <application>MPlayer</application>'s own Cinepak decoder!
-  </para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>
-  For <emphasis role="bold">Ogg Vorbis</emphasis> audio decoding you need to
-  install <systemitem class="library">libvorbis</systemitem> properly.
-  You can get binary packages and source code from the
-  <ulink url="http://www.vorbis.com/download.psp">Ogg Vorbis site</ulink>.
-  </para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>
-  <application>MPlayer</application> can use the libraries of RealPlayer 8
-  or RealONE to play files with
-  <emphasis role="bold">RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0</emphasis>
-  video, and Sipro/Cook audio. See the
-  <link linkend="realmedia">RealMedia file format</link>
-  section for installation instructions and more information.
-  </para></listitem>
-</itemizedlist>
-</sect1>
-
-
 <sect1 id="video-cards">
 <title>Video cards</title>