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authorGravatar diego <diego@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2002-10-19 22:06:46 +0000
committerGravatar diego <diego@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2002-10-19 22:06:46 +0000
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Added entry about abandoned dvdnav and the all time No. 1 question "How can I join two video files". Please check this for correctness. git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@7809 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2
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<DD>&nbsp;</DD>
<DT>Q: Can I run multiple instances of <B>MPlayer</B>?</DT>
- <DD>A: Yes. Some video out drivers like xv, dga or (x)mga are exclusive,
- though, so you will not be able to run more than one instance of
- <B>MPlayer</B> running such a video out driver. To a lesser degree this
- also applies to audio drivers. Not all allow playback of multiple streams
- on the same device.</DD>
+ <DD>A: Yes. Some video out drivers like xv, dga or (x)mga are exclusive, some
+ are exclusive in combination with certain graphics boards and drivers. You
+ will not be able to run more than one instance of MPlayer with one of those
+ video out drivers. To a lesser degree this also applies to audio drivers.
+ Not all allow playback of multiple streams on the same device.</DD>
<DD>&nbsp;</DD>
<DT>Q: There is a timer in the upper left corner. How can I get rid of it?</DT>
@@ -650,10 +650,18 @@
<DL>
+ <DT>Q: What about DVD navigation?</DT>
+ <DD>A: Support for dvdnav in MPlayer is currently broken, normal playback
+ does work, though. If you want to have fancy menus, you will have to use
+ another player like <A HREF="http://xine.sourceforge.net/">xine</A> or
+ <A HREF="http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd">Ogle</A>. If you care
+ about DVD navigation, send a <A HREF="tech/patches.txt">patch</A>.</DD>
+ <DD>&nbsp;</DD>
+
<DT>Q: While playing a DVD, I encountered this error:<BR>
<CODE>mplayer: ifo_read.c:1143: ifoRead_C_ADT_internal: Assertion
nfo_length / sizeof(cell_adr_t) &gt;= c_adt-&gt;nr_of_vobs' failed.</CODE></DT>
- <DD>A: This is a known libdvdread 0.9.1/0.9.2 bug. Use <B>libmpdvdkit</B>,
+ <DD>A: This is a known libdvdread 0.9.1/0.9.2 bug. Use <B>libmpdvdkit2</B>,
which is present in MPlayer source, and used by default.</DD>
<DD>&nbsp;</DD>
@@ -661,7 +669,7 @@
Solaris?</DT>
<DD>A: Who knows ... It's said to work, so please test it and send feedback.
Refer to the documentation of libdvdread and its homepage as well. We're not
- the authors of libdvdread. Use <B>libmpdvdkit</B>, which is present in
+ the authors of libdvdread. Use <B>libmpdvdkit2</B>, which is present in
<B>MPlayer</B> source, and used by default.</DD>
<DD>&nbsp;</DD>
@@ -683,9 +691,9 @@
<DD>&nbsp;</DD>
<DT>Q: Where can I get libdvdread and libdvdcss packages?</DT>
- <DD>A: You don't need to. Use <B>libmpdvdkit</B>, which is present in
- <B>MPlayer</B> source, and used by default. Anyway, the packages mentioned
- can be get from the
+ <DD>A: You don't need to. Use <B>libmpdvdkit2</B>, which is present in the
+ MPlayer source, and used by default. You can get the mentioned packages
+ from the
<A HREF="http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd">Ogle site</A>.</DD>
<DD>&nbsp;</DD>
@@ -741,6 +749,21 @@
format and even burn them directly to CD.</DD>
<DD>&nbsp;</DD>
+ <DT>Q: How can I join two video files?</DT>
+ <DD>A: This has been discussed to no end on mplayer-users. Go search the
+ <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch?restrict=/mplayer-users/">archives</A>
+ for a complete answer. This is a complicated topic and your mileage may
+ vary a lot depending on the kind of files you want to merge. MPEGs can be
+ concatenated into a single file with luck. For AVIs there are two tools,
+ <A HREF="http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/">avidemux</A>
+ and avimerge (part of the
+ <A HREF="http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/">transcode</A>
+ tool set), available that might do the job. You can also try MEncoder if
+ you have two files sharing the same dimensions and codec. Try<BR>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>cat file1 file2 &gt; file3</CODE><BR>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -o out.avi -forceidx file3.avi</CODE></DD>
+ <DD>&nbsp;</DD>
+
<DT>Q: My tuner works, I can hear the sound and watch the video with MPlayer,
but MEncoder doesn't encode audio!</DT>
<DD>A: TV audio encoding for Linux is currently unimplemented, we're working