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authorGravatar gabucino <gabucino@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2001-11-07 18:18:22 +0000
committerGravatar gabucino <gabucino@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2001-11-07 18:18:22 +0000
commit6abc6b42bd091b706c78194bb372567d641ae52d (patch)
treebfd8b61f70ecc5e2eecad29e8f0241b5a196a074
parent0a9e6e5939e13db065126e55b78272dfdaeeddf0 (diff)
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git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@2762 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2
-rw-r--r--DOCS/documentation.html9
-rw-r--r--DOCS/formats.html10
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/DOCS/documentation.html b/DOCS/documentation.html
index f4155c09f3..282b8c05fc 100644
--- a/DOCS/documentation.html
+++ b/DOCS/documentation.html
@@ -171,11 +171,10 @@ use SDL (and this way all drivers of SDL) and some lowlevel card-specific
drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon) too! Most of them supports software or
hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. <B>MPlayer</B>
supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the
-<B><A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/DVB">DVB</A></B> and <B> <A
-HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/DXR3">DXR3/Hollywood+</A></B> ! And what
-about the nice big antialiased shaded subtitles (<B>9 supported types!!!</B>)
-with european/ISO 8859-1,2 (hungarian, english, czech, etc), cyrillic, korean
-fonts, and OSD?</P>
+<B><A HREF="DVB">DVB</A></B> and <B> <A HREF="DXR3">DXR3/Hollywood+</A></B> !
+And what about the nice big antialiased shaded subtitles (<B>9 supported
+types!!!</B>) with european/ISO 8859-1,2 (hungarian, english, czech, etc),
+cyrillic, korean fonts, and OSD?</P>
<P><B>MPlayer</B> is basically GPL, but contains some non-GPL code which is not
allowed to be distributed in binary form, and also contains the OpenDivX
diff --git a/DOCS/formats.html b/DOCS/formats.html
index ca15ae1f81..e6cc328651 100644
--- a/DOCS/formats.html
+++ b/DOCS/formats.html
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
<LI> <A HREF="#2.1.1.3">ASF/WMV</A> 1.0 file format
<LI> <A HREF="#2.1.1.4">QT/MOV</A> file format with (un)compressed headers
<LI> <A HREF="#2.1.1.5">VIVO</A> format (.viv files)
-<LI> supports <A HREF="documentation.html#3.3">reading from file</A>, stdin, or network via HTTP
+<LI> supports <A HREF="documentation.html#3.3">reading from stdin</A>, or network via HTTP
</UL></P>
<P>Note: about realmedia (.ra/.rm) support read the FAQ!</P>
@@ -59,6 +59,12 @@ the DAT files can't be played nor copied from VCDs. You have to use the
<CODE>-vcd</CODE> option to play the VideoCD.</LI>
</P>
+<P>One important feature for MPGs is that they have a field to describe
+the aspect ratio of the video stream within. For example SVCDs have
+480x480 resolution video, and in the header that field is set to 4:3, so
+it's played at 640x480. AVI files don't have this field, so one has to
+scale it during encoding.</P>
+
<P><B><A NAME=2.1.1.2>2.1.1.2. AVI files</A></B></P>
@@ -67,7 +73,7 @@ widespread multipurpose format, currently used mostly for DivX and DivX4
videos. Has many known drawbacks, and inabilities (for example in streaming).
Has support for one video stream, and 99 audio streams. Can be as big as
2Gb. There exists an extension for it to be bigger, called <B>OpenDMS</B>.
-M$ is currently strongly discourages its use and propagates ASF/WMV. Not if
+M$ currently strongly discourages its use and propagates ASF/WMV. Not if
anybody cares.<BR>
<B>NOTE</B> : DV cameras can create two types of AVI format, one is the usual and
playable, the other is neither.</P>