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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ also used for displaying subtitles. MPlayer also has a GUI with skin support and several unofficial alternative graphical frontends are available. MEncoder is a command line video encoder for advanced users that can be built -from the MPlayer source tree. An unofficial graphical frontend exists but is +from the MPlayer source tree. Unofficial graphical frontends exist but are not included. This document is for getting you started in a few minutes. It cannot answer all @@ -25,12 +25,11 @@ Requirements: Before you start... -Unless you know what are you doing, consult DOCS/HTML/en/video.html to see -which driver to use with your video card to get the best quality and -performance. Most cards require special drivers not included with XFree86 to -drive their 2-D video acceleration features like YUV and scaling. - -Without accelerated video even an 800MHz P3 may be too slow to play DVDs. +Make sure that your version of X has Xvideo support, without it even very +fast machines may not be able to properly play high resolution videos in +fullscreen mode. Consult DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for details. There you may +also find out about special card-specific video output drivers that can yield +optimal performance. ______________________ @@ -65,12 +64,12 @@ _______________________________ STEP1: Installing Binary Codecs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -MPlayer has builtin support for the most common audio and video formats, but -for some external binary codecs are required. Examples include newer RealVideo -variants and a couple of uncommon formats. This step is not mandatory, but -recommended for getting MPlayer to play a broader range of formats. Please -note that binary codecs only work on the platform they were compiled for. -We provide packages for x86 and PowerPC. +MPlayer has builtin support for the most common audio and video formats. For a +few formats no native decoder exists and external binary codecs are required +to handle them, for example newer RealVideo variants and a variety of uncommon +formats. This step is not mandatory, but recommended for getting MPlayer to +play a broader range of formats. Please note that binary codecs only work on +the processor architecture they were compiled for. Unpack the codecs archives and put the contents in a directory where MPlayer will find them. The default directory is /usr/local/lib/codecs/ (it used to be @@ -86,8 +85,8 @@ MPlayer can be adapted to all kinds of needs and hardware environments. Run ./configure -to configure MPlayer with the default options. The codecs you installed above -should be autodetected. GUI support has to be enabled separately, run +to configure MPlayer with the default options. GUI support has to be enabled +separately, run ./configure --enable-gui @@ -181,8 +180,7 @@ or for the GUI gmplayer <moviefile> gmplayer is a symbolic link to mplayer created by 'make install'. -Without <moviefile>, MPlayer will come up and you will be able to use the GUI -filepicker. +Without <moviefile>, gmplayer will start with the GUI filepicker. To play a VCD track or a DVD title, try: @@ -196,7 +194,7 @@ with the '-vo' switch to see which one gives you the best performance. If you get jerky playback or no sound, experiment with the '-ao' switch (see '-ao help') to choose between different audio drivers. Note that jerky playback is caused by buggy audio drivers or a slow processor and video card. With a -good audio and video driver combination, one can play DVDs and 720x576 DivX +good audio and video driver combination, one can play DVDs and 720x576 MPEG-4 files smoothly on a Celeron 366. Slower systems may need the '-framedrop' option. |