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age author description
Mon, 04 Nov 2002 20:36:51 +0000 alex workaround for ms11 ima4
Mon, 04 Nov 2002 20:33:42 +0000 alex ms\x00\x02, ms\x00\0x11 and sowt support
Mon, 04 Nov 2002 20:31:46 +0000 alex ms\0x00\x11 support
Mon, 04 Nov 2002 20:28:21 +0000 alex qt swot support
Mon, 04 Nov 2002 18:46:53 +0000 arpi MACE fix
Mon, 04 Nov 2002 16:42:17 +0000 michael shape adaptive blur (slightly slow though)
Mon, 04 Nov 2002 15:56:38 +0000 michael 10l
Mon, 04 Nov 2002 10:01:15 +0000 michael fixing dependancies
Mon, 04 Nov 2002 08:21:46 +0000 henry yet another screensaver fix
Mon, 04 Nov 2002 02:16:00 +0000 rguyom Shouldn't be there.
Mon, 04 Nov 2002 02:11:20 +0000 diego cosmetics
Mon, 04 Nov 2002 00:23:53 +0000 arpi - realaudio ATRC (sony atrac3) codec support
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 23:28:48 +0000 arpi XVIX added
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 20:59:04 +0000 mswitch Made new overlay functions static so they won't interfere with the rest
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 20:48:16 +0000 mswitch At least I can honestly say that I didn't add the equalizer support, so
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 20:26:47 +0000 mswitch Suddenly I needed vidix.h for vidix_video_eq_t
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 20:08:50 +0000 mswitch Add info on DXR3 overlay support
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 20:05:39 +0000 mswitch Updated docs with DXR3 overlay info
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 17:20:58 +0000 nexus locale fix
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 16:58:07 +0000 nexus fix by Pontscho
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 15:56:58 +0000 rguyom Simpler.
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 15:14:36 +0000 pontscho arpi add direct render support
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 15:14:31 +0000 rguyom Fixed a bug which would prevent proper parsing of floating point
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 14:49:45 +0000 rguyom 1) "-ovc divx4" doesn't encode using XViD anymore
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 14:30:00 +0000 arpi do NOT include vidix header - nonsense
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 14:27:32 +0000 arpi disabled vidix dependency
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 13:05:58 +0000 diego Link to Chinese documentation, ports etc mentioned in *BSD section.
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 12:43:30 +0000 rguyom bugfixes :
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 10:07:14 +0000 anders Header file for eq
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 10:05:19 +0000 michael pp docs
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 09:54:49 +0000 colin fix sound encoding on BE arch
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 09:51:06 +0000 colin remove BE hack (yes, works now ! :-))
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 09:51:02 +0000 anders Adding equalizer filter + some cosmetics
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 09:02:56 +0000 rguyom - When a frame is in the ending credits zone, say so.
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 06:06:05 +0000 anders 10l
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 03:25:27 +0000 gabucino fixes
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 03:13:18 +0000 gabucino sync
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 02:02:08 +0000 arpi scale sleep time too (-speed)
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 00:39:28 +0000 pontscho - cleanup
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 00:21:20 +0000 arpi some updates
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 00:15:55 +0000 michael fixing vstats so B frames are shown as B and not P
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 23:33:51 +0000 alex added IJPG fcc and 444P output to ffmjpeg
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 22:46:09 +0000 albeu Overlay cropping options. Patch by Mark <CompGuy284 at attbi dot com> extanded
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 22:44:15 +0000 albeu 10L found by jeroen dobbelaere <jeroen dot dobbelaere at acunia dot com>
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 22:39:02 +0000 arpi fix possible sig8 - found by Alex
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 21:54:08 +0000 colin fix endianness issue on bigendian (let libaf do the conversion ;))
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 21:52:48 +0000 arpi workaround old mencoder's cbr-mp3 header bug
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 20:10:18 +0000 pontscho cosmetic
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 19:59:40 +0000 arpi fixed comment - noticed by Alex
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 19:52:59 +0000 arpi A-V sync cleanup: sh_audio->timer replaced by sh_audio->delay, it contains
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 18:57:14 +0000 pontscho not needed
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 18:56:16 +0000 henry fix for fs modes on widescreen displays
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 18:32:11 +0000 alex disabled DEBUG_LOG, noticed by Bernd Ernesti <mplayer@lists.veego.de>
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 18:18:24 +0000 pontscho not needed
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 17:43:42 +0000 arpi removed dummy config(), query_format()
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 17:38:15 +0000 arpi - DR support
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 17:27:23 +0000 jaf mencvcd 0.2 by Juergen Hammelmann <juergen.hammelmann@gmx.de>
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 17:25:06 +0000 pontscho rename
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 17:22:09 +0000 pontscho not needed
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 17:07:19 +0000 pontscho cleanup - round 2.
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 16:55:23 +0000 michael 10l
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 16:14:42 +0000 michael fixing shared pp
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 16:09:05 +0000 pontscho cleanup
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 16:00:21 +0000 mswitch Missed some gui ifdefs
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 14:29:50 +0000 rtognimp MACE audio support with ffmpeg decoder
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 14:20:05 +0000 michael cleanup
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 14:01:41 +0000 pontscho 10l
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 13:58:14 +0000 michael cleanup
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 11:24:53 +0000 mswitch Minor cleanups
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 10:59:27 +0000 henry warning fixes
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 05:42:11 +0000 rfelker document new 2pass syntax, remove/fix lots of obsolete junk in docs
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 04:56:48 +0000 rfelker cleanup
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 03:51:05 +0000 rfelker added obsolete message for -pass
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 02:44:19 +0000 rfelker removed -pass nonsense from mencoder! it's now a suboption to -divx4opts
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 01:18:54 +0000 mswitch Huge update, added native overlay support (no more need for dxr3view).
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 00:45:12 +0000 arpi cleanup of .AVI timestamp calculation (ugly hack from mplayer.c removed,
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 00:27:57 +0000 ranma Document xvidix pixmap corruption issue and known workarounds.
Fri, 01 Nov 2002 18:22:46 +0000 arpi -really-quiet
Fri, 01 Nov 2002 17:46:45 +0000 arpi verbose can be negative
Fri, 01 Nov 2002 16:40:15 +0000 arpi usage of libmpeg2, liba52, mp3lib & svq1 can be disabled
Fri, 01 Nov 2002 16:39:39 +0000 arpi put USE_ #defines for libmpeg2, liba52, mp3lib and svq1 codecs
Fri, 01 Nov 2002 16:38:50 +0000 arpi cosmetics :)
Fri, 01 Nov 2002 16:10:15 +0000 arpi get stream back from the demuxer
Fri, 01 Nov 2002 11:14:23 +0000 henry increase buffer size in immediate mode
Fri, 01 Nov 2002 10:07:28 +0000 mswitch Cleaned up the DXR3 section (lots of old stuff which was no longer
Fri, 01 Nov 2002 01:32:30 +0000 arpi - some explanations suggested by Michael & Rich
Fri, 01 Nov 2002 01:19:04 +0000 michael cosmetics requested by kabi
Fri, 01 Nov 2002 01:09:06 +0000 arpi updated
Fri, 01 Nov 2002 00:21:45 +0000 arpi panscan support in -vo mga (actually moved common code to mga_common.c)
Fri, 01 Nov 2002 00:05:56 +0000 arpi I ported mplayer to the GNU system (also known as GNU/Hurd),
Fri, 01 Nov 2002 00:02:52 +0000 arpi vf_unsharp: proper rounding & print if sharpening or bluring
Fri, 01 Nov 2002 00:01:53 +0000 arpi The first language ripped is set as the default language
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 23:54:26 +0000 arpi Here's a new vo plugin that uses DirectFB. It's meant for Matrox G400
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 23:37:38 +0000 arpi including source and precompiled .spec for libwine support
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 23:26:35 +0000 arpi optional libwine support (compiling mplayer_wine.so, to be loaded using wine)
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 23:26:11 +0000 michael boxblur, another useless filter
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 23:16:27 +0000 arpi set up nBlockAlign, nBytesPerSec correctly if extended audio header avail.
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 23:11:34 +0000 arpi qtaudio - audio decoder using win32 quicktime 5 dlls
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 23:04:46 +0000 arpi qdmc/qdm2 codec added
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 22:47:51 +0000 michael (de)intrleave luma & chroma idependantly
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:08:50 +0000 michael il & swapuv
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:03:08 +0000 michael (de)interleave filter (can be used to split/merge an interlaced image so other non interlaced filters an be used with idividual fields)
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 19:35:20 +0000 arpi pass audio codecdata
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 18:13:56 +0000 michael (useless) UV plane swapper
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:25:41 +0000 arpi some docs about video filter api
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:37:23 +0000 pl sync with help_mp-en.h 1.65
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:30:09 +0000 henry v4l update
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:06:19 +0000 anders Adding commandline options for filters and fixing stupid bug in cfg
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:01:40 +0000 henry spelling fixes
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:57:07 +0000 colin INREG now static inline instead of a define, to avoid unnecessary GETREG
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:42:20 +0000 michael dummy -npp
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:21:44 +0000 michael disabling compilation of .so if its not needed, gcc 3.1 seems to have problems with it
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 08:03:51 +0000 anders Changing the behavour of the commandline parameter -af to conform with -vop. Adding new commanline parameter -af-adv for advanced af options. Adding changes to volume control to support commandline parameters.
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 05:07:43 +0000 gabucino fixes
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 05:06:29 +0000 gabucino sync
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 01:42:59 +0000 michael using fewer registers ... to workaround something
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 23:31:02 +0000 mswitch Removed debugging output
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:49:39 +0000 mswitch Added info on new dxr3 syncengine
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:23:29 +0000 arpi updated
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 21:13:07 +0000 michael removing "-npp" (found by arpi)
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 21:02:21 +0000 michael per context cpuCaps (idea by kabi)
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 20:50:33 +0000 michael change qscale type to int8 and fix qscale ordering
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:26:05 +0000 arpi This patch is to add support for overlapping subtitles, that is
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:16:58 +0000 arpi JACOSub is another subtitling format, whose specifications are at:
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 17:54:07 +0000 albeu Some little bugfixs
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 17:51:13 +0000 albeu 10L
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 17:48:39 +0000 albeu The default query_format shouldn't accept IMGFMT_MPEGPES
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 17:45:44 +0000 albeu 10L ! Don't remove the scale filter if we don't added ourself
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 14:10:36 +0000 arpi debug printf
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:12:41 +0000 arpi unsharp filter doc
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:05:02 +0000 anders Adding compile problem fix from Gabucino
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 04:11:26 +0000 rfelker enable volume filter and fix nonsense default volume (still not usable
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 01:59:51 +0000 michael using same numbers for cpuCaps as libmpeg2 & liba52
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 01:51:14 +0000 michael cleanly passing the cpuCaps
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:43:23 +0000 albeu Auto insert vf_lavc for the MPEG vo's
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:40:07 +0000 albeu Fixed the overlay, some opts to adjust the overlay
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:37:45 +0000 diego <B>MPlayer</B> --> MPlayer
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:36:37 +0000 michael 10l
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:07:41 +0000 arpi don't use soundcard.h on non-linux if no OSS support
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:37:11 +0000 arpi new video filter: unsharp - does image (l/c/l+c) sharping/bluring
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:01:09 +0000 arpi Alex's 10l - fixed liblzo linking
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 20:27:47 +0000 arpi here is a somewhat generic equalizer implementation for the X11 vo drivers
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 20:12:24 +0000 michael cleanup
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 19:06:26 +0000 rik some card/mobo combos can't handle buffers larger than 128kB, we change the default buffer to 128kB, add warnings if the buffer becomes full, add a commandline option to enlarge the buffer and give suggestions to users to lessen the buffer size requirements (lower quality/resolution). 128kB should, however, be enough for everybody :-). Bug reported by Brain Edmonds, cause explained (to allow me to fix the driver) by Ronald Bultje (mjpegtools developer)
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:51:52 +0000 michael cosmetics ;)
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:35:15 +0000 michael better deblocking filter
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:50:34 +0000 alex cleaned up liblzo detect and naming
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:40:45 +0000 alex 10l - fixed wma version misdetection
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:26:26 +0000 michael passing picture_type (might be usefull for postprocessing)
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:21:43 +0000 michael -fomit-frame-pointer is needed for the PIC code
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:09:10 +0000 henry updated v4l section
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:03:58 +0000 henry 10L fix
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:18:53 +0000 bertrand GCC warning fixes
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:16:06 +0000 michael using fewer registers (fixes compilation bug hopefully)
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 01:41:16 +0000 mswitch Updated the DXR3 section to reflect command changes, prebuf replaced
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 01:38:42 +0000 mswitch Prebuffering is no longer the default option.
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 01:20:51 +0000 michael fixing segfault
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 00:54:07 +0000 colin fix compilation on non-x86 with gcc 2.95
Mon, 28 Oct 2002 22:45:05 +0000 michael fixing quant_store scaling
Mon, 28 Oct 2002 19:31:04 +0000 michael postprocessing cleanup:
Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:08:37 +0000 mswitch Fixed stupid bug relating to multiple cards on athlons
Mon, 28 Oct 2002 15:04:48 +0000 zdar sync
Mon, 28 Oct 2002 00:55:07 +0000 arpi VCD fixes
Mon, 28 Oct 2002 00:44:17 +0000 diego Unified BSD sections, expanded Cygwin section, small fixes.
Mon, 28 Oct 2002 00:42:39 +0000 arpi config_vo error handling
Mon, 28 Oct 2002 00:40:42 +0000 arpi pass extradata to the codec
Mon, 28 Oct 2002 00:38:29 +0000 arpi ffwma
Mon, 28 Oct 2002 00:36:27 +0000 arpi Gerard->Fabrice
Mon, 28 Oct 2002 00:23:39 +0000 diego URLs corrected.
Sun, 27 Oct 2002 18:01:40 +0000 jonas 1l
Sun, 27 Oct 2002 17:33:44 +0000 jonas some changes found by lgb...
Sun, 27 Oct 2002 15:36:33 +0000 jonas DVD authentication, VCD/DVD structure, more...
Sun, 27 Oct 2002 10:43:38 +0000 diego sync, patch by Ioannis Panteleakis.
Sun, 27 Oct 2002 03:30:59 +0000 arpi 10l
Sun, 27 Oct 2002 03:16:21 +0000 arpi vo_init() moved to/fixed in preinit()
Sun, 27 Oct 2002 03:15:48 +0000 arpi mode detection && vo_init() moved to preinit()
Sun, 27 Oct 2002 02:54:46 +0000 arpi 1l :)
Sun, 27 Oct 2002 00:37:51 +0000 michael handle direct rendering buffer allocation failure
Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:25:32 +0000 arpi added chanegs since pre9
Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:05:47 +0000 arpi - removed YV12 support (builtin yv12->rgb conversion)
Sat, 26 Oct 2002 15:06:50 +0000 arpi Gregory Kovriga added
Sat, 26 Oct 2002 10:09:42 +0000 diego HTML errors
Sat, 26 Oct 2002 00:28:48 +0000 pl avoids segfaults w.r.t to mp3 files handling:
Fri, 25 Oct 2002 23:58:33 +0000 colin Remove my broken patch (RGB16 big endian fix, v1.28) - didn't work after
Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:42:20 +0000 jaf please never edit this file with a windows editor.
Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:52:07 +0000 faust3 update cygwin status
Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:49:33 +0000 arpi 2xSai filter... just for fun, imho useless
Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:48:53 +0000 arpi debug ize
Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:39:44 +0000 faust3 add ao_win32
Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:34:27 +0000 faust3 add ao_win32
Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:25:41 +0000 faust3 add ao_win32
Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:22:59 +0000 faust3 add win32 libs
Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:18:33 +0000 faust3 new windows waveout audio driver
Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:06:25 +0000 albeu Reverse Arpi's commit and put the right fix in place.
Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:58:30 +0000 arpi better error handling
Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:33:51 +0000 arpi check for framesize validity, return -1 (error) for zero size (bug found by pl)
Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:13:32 +0000 arpi patch for crashes/memory corruptions in ASX playlist parser.
Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:27:20 +0000 colin Check what we obtain in SDL_OpenAudio() - allows to build the
Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:45:31 +0000 henry v4l options update
Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:42:55 +0000 pl fixes a segfault when seeking on some mp3 only files
Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:42:41 +0000 henry added an option for specifying the size of capture buffer
Thu, 24 Oct 2002 22:06:09 +0000 diego Spellchecked, reworded, reformatted, small additions and corrections.
Thu, 24 Oct 2002 21:34:54 +0000 rik spelling: paramerters -> parameters
Thu, 24 Oct 2002 21:27:50 +0000 rik sync with libavcodec for unaccellerated dcts (sorry Felix, LIBAVCODEC_BUILD did not change, so also no backwards compatibility this time), and a long overdue copyright update
Thu, 24 Oct 2002 21:05:16 +0000 arpi 2 small fixes
Thu, 24 Oct 2002 21:01:46 +0000 diego pre9 entry spellchecked in preparation of the imminent release.
Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:56:38 +0000 arpi updated
Thu, 24 Oct 2002 19:40:08 +0000 arpi 10l... #ifdef doesn't work for enums :(
Thu, 24 Oct 2002 18:13:24 +0000 colin Change SDL_(Un)lockAudio to PauseAudio() (works better)
Thu, 24 Oct 2002 18:12:40 +0000 jkeil on solaris x86, set set default for vidix to 'disabled' (does yet not compile)
Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:39:12 +0000 arpi updated comments
Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:34:01 +0000 arpi made gcd() static
Thu, 24 Oct 2002 10:05:09 +0000 arpi 100l - Michael is right, we don't need le2me here
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 23:57:45 +0000 pontscho small warning fix from Dominik Mierzejewski
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 23:52:57 +0000 michael fixing RGB32->RGB16 on big endian patch by (Colin Leroy <colin at colino dot net>)
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 23:48:42 +0000 arpi 10l
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 23:40:34 +0000 arpi max header size increased
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 23:15:25 +0000 arpi fixed unaligned access (bus error on sparc)
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 23:13:26 +0000 arpi A small patch to Gui/interface.c; the first fix is a plain bug, the second is
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 23:12:09 +0000 diego gcc 2.95.3-10 (cygwin) is detected as bad, which it shouldn't.
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 23:02:26 +0000 pontscho cosmetic
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 22:56:19 +0000 arpi updated
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 22:23:12 +0000 arpi rewrote the lirc code to remove the fork
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 22:21:54 +0000 arpi applied Albeu's doc on -input file=...
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 22:07:29 +0000 arpi allow cache to be disabled (-nocache should override cachesize autodetection
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 20:39:49 +0000 arpi - fixed several 10l bugs
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 20:04:22 +0000 nexus FreeBSD fix
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:19:23 +0000 jaf 10l
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:03:44 +0000 alex upd
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:53:06 +0000 arpi 1l
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:51:19 +0000 arpi 10l
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:20:13 +0000 arpi yeah, test.c works now!
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:05:58 +0000 mark Geometry update
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:52:38 +0000 arpi documenting -vop rotate 4..7
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:51:49 +0000 arpi automatic rotation for mode 4..7, based on
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:42:12 +0000 arpi Fixed a bug in MPlayer which would prevent proper parsing of
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:25:34 +0000 mark Added meself to AUTHORS
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:23:05 +0000 arpi 10l
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:21:01 +0000 arpi cleanup config option handling in libmpdemux.
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:52:54 +0000 mark Added the -geometry option (supports fbdev and tdfxfb drivers)