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authorGravatar diego <diego@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2006-09-12 15:22:37 +0000
committerGravatar diego <diego@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2006-09-12 15:22:37 +0000
commit6d8a19c4311695d2f2b24b060b87cfdd236662d9 (patch)
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parent6165ceaeac804b5419a12e386871d247855bbdae (diff)
Remove bogus and outdated codecs installation section.
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@@ -131,110 +131,6 @@ You need a fairly recent system. On Linux, 2.4.x kernels are recommended.
</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>