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<P><CENTER><B>MPlayer - Movie Player for LINUX (C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy (A'rpi/ESP-team)</B><BR>
<BR><A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu">http://www.mplayerhq.hu</A><BR><BR>
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<P>Table of Contents</P>
<P><HR></P>
<P>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="#1">1. Introduction</A></LI>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="#1.1">1.1 Overview</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#1.2">1.2 History</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#1.3">1.3 Installation</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#1.4">1.4 What about the GUI?</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#1.5">1.5 Subtitles and OSD</A></LI>
</UL>
<LI><A HREF="#2">2. Features</A></LI>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="codecs.html">2.1 Video Formats, Audio & Video Codecs</A></LI>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.1">2.1.1 Supported input formats</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.2">2.1.2 Supported audio & video codecs</A></LI>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.2.1">2.1.2.1 DivX4</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.2.2">2.1.2.2 ffmpeg's DivX/libavcodec</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.2.3">2.1.2.3 Hardware AC3 decoding</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.2.4">2.1.2.4 XAnim codecs</A></LI>
</UL>
<LI><A HREF="mailto:Strange. Where did this chapter go?">2.1.3 The Veiled Mysteries of MPlayer</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.4">2.1.4 Codec importing howto</A></LI>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.4.1">2.1.4.1 VFW codecs</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.4.2">2.1.4.2 DirectShow codecs</A></LI>
</UL>
</UL>
<LI><A HREF="video.html">2.2 Video & Audio output devices</A></LI>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1">2.2.1 Video output devices</A></LI>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.1">2.2.1.1 MTRR</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.2">2.2.1.2 Xv</A></LI>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.2.1">2.2.1.2.1 3dfx cards</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.2.2">2.2.1.2.2 S3 cards</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.2.3">2.2.1.2.3 nVidia cards</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.2.4">2.2.1.2.4 ATI cards</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.2.5">2.2.1.2.5 NeoMagic cards</A></LI>
</UL>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.3">2.2.1.3 DGA</A></LI>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.3.1">2.2.1.3.1 Summary</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.3.2">2.2.1.3.2 What is DGA</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.3.3">2.2.1.3.3 Installing DGA support for MPlayer</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.3.4">2.2.1.3.4 Resolution switching</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.3.5">2.2.1.3.5 DGA & MPlayer</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.3.6">2.2.1.3.6 Features of the DGA driver</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.3.7">2.2.1.3.7 Speed issues</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.3.8">2.2.1.3.8 Known bugs</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.3.9">2.2.1.3.9 Future work</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.3.A">2.2.1.3.A Some modelines</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.3.B">2.2.1.3.B Bug Reports</A></LI>
</UL>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.4">2.2.1.4 SDL</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.5">2.2.1.5 SVGAlib</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.6">2.2.1.6 Framebuffer output (FBdev)</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.7">2.2.1.7 Matrox framebuffer (mga_vid)</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.8">2.2.1.8 SiS 6326 framebuffer (sis_vid)</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.9">2.2.1.9 3dfx YUV support (tdfxfb)</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.10">2.2.1.10 OpenGL output</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.11">2.2.1.11 AAlib - text mode displaying</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.A">2.2.1.A TVout</A></LI>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.A.1">2.2.1.A.1 Matrox cards</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.A.1a">2.2.1.A.1a Matrox cards - method 2</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.A.2">2.2.1.A.2 ATI cards</A></LI>
</UL>
</UL>
<LI><A HREF="sound.html#2.2.2">2.2.2 Soundcards, audio output devices</A></LI>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="sound.html#2.2.2.1">2.2.2.1 Soundcard experiences, recommendations</A></LI>
</UL>
</UL>
</UL>
<LI><A HREF="#3">3. Usage</A></LI>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="#3.1">3.1 Control from keyboard</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#3.2">3.2 Control from LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control)</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#3.3">3.3 Streaming from network or pipes</A></LI>
</UL>
<LI><A HREF="cd-dvd.html#4">4. CD/DVD section</A></LI>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="cd-dvd.html#4.1">4.1 CD drives</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="cd-dvd.html#4.2">4.2 DVD playback</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="cd-dvd.html#4.3">4.3 DVD playback FAQ</A></LI>
</UL>
<LI><A HREF="faq.html">5. FAQ section</A></LI>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="faq.html#5.1">5.1 Compilation</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="faq.html#5.2">5.2 General questions</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="faq.html#5.3">5.3 File playing problems</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="faq.html#5.4">5.4 Video/audio driver problems</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="faq.html#5.5">5.5 Feature requests</A></LI>
</UL>
<LI><A HREF="#6">6. Misc OS'es</A></LI>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="#6.1">6.1 Debian packaging</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#6.2">6.2 FreeBSD</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#6.3">6.3 Solaris</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="#6.4">6.4 StrongARM</A></LI>
</UL>
<LI><A HREF="#A">A. Authors</A></LI>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="#A2">A/2. Maintainers</A></LI>
</UL>
<LI><A HREF="#B">B. Mailing lists</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="bugreports.html">C. How to report bugs</A></LI>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="tech/patches.txt">C/2. How to send patches</A></LI>
</UL>
<LI><A HREF="#D">D. Known bugs</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="skin-en.html">X. How To Be A Famous SkinMaker in 5 mins!</A></LI>
</UL>
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<P><HR></P>
<P><B><A NAME=1>1. Introduction</A></B></P>
<P><B><A NAME=1.1>1.1. Overview</A></B></P>
<P><B>MPlayer</B> is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices, and
<B>non-x86</B> CPUs, see <A HREF="#6">section 6</A>). It plays most MPEG, AVI
and ASF/WMV files (also some QT/MOV files, with CVID, VP31 video, and raw
audio), supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch
<B>VideoCD</B>, <B>SVCD</B>, <B>DVD</B>, <B>3ivx</B>, and even <B>DivX</B> movies too (and
you don't need the avifile library at all!). The another big feature of mplayer
is the wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA,
OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, but you can 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. 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
library which has special license.</P>
<P>I didn't write any codecs, just some players. I spent
a lot of time finding the best way to parse bad damaged input files
(both MPEG and AVI) and to do perfect A-V sync with seeking ability.
My player is rock solid playing damaged MPEG files (useful for some VCDs),
and it plays bad AVI files which are unplayable with the famous
windows media player. Even AVI files without index chunk are playable, and
you can rebuild their indexes with the -idx option, thus enabling seeking!
As you see, stability and quality are the most important things for me,
but the speed is also amazing.</P>
<P><B><A NAME=1.2>1.2. History</A></B></P>
<P>This began a year ago...
I've tried lots of players under linux (mtv,xmps,dvdview,livid/oms,VideoLAN,
xine,xanim,avifile,xmmp) but they all have some problem. Mostly with special
files or with audio/video sync. Most of them is unable to play both MPEG1,
MPEG2 and AVI (DivX) files. Many players have image quality or speed problems
too. So I've decided to write/modify one...</P>
<P><UL>
<LI><B>mpg12play v0.1-v0.3:</B><BR>
The first try, hacked together in a half hour!
I've used libmpeg3 from www.heroinewarrior.com up to the version 0.3,
but there were image quality and speed problems with it.
<LI><B>mpg12play v0.5-v0.87:</B><BR>
Mpeg codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was a great stuff,
but it was slow and was written in C++ (I hate C++!!!)
<LI><B>mpg12play v0.9-v0.95pre5:</B><BR>
Mpeg codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman & Michel Lespinasse.
It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect image quality and
100% MPEG standard conformance.
<LI><B>MPlayer v0.3-v0.9:</B><BR>
It was a pack of two programs: mpg12playv0.95pre6 and my new simple AVI
player 'avip' based on avifile's Win32 DLL loader.
<LI><B>MPlayer v0.10:</B><BR>
The MPEG and AVI player in a single binary!
<LI><B>MPlayer v0.11:</B><BR>
Some new developers joined and from 0.11 the mplayer project is a team-work!
Added .ASF file support, and OpenDivX (see www.projectmayo.com) en/decoding.
<LI><B>MPlayer v0.17 "The IdegCounter"</B><BR>
The release version of the 0.11pre after 4 months of heavy development!
Try it, and be amazed! Thousands of new features added... and of course
old code was improved too, bugs removed etc.
<LI><B>MPlayer 0.18 "The BugCounter"</B><BR>
2 months since 0.17 and here's a new release.. Completed ASF support,
more subtitle formats, introduced libao (similar to libvo but to audio),
even more stable than ever, and so on. It's a MUST !
<LI><B>MPlayer 0.50 "The Faszom(C)ounter"</B><BR>
Hmm. Release again. Tons of new features, beta GUI version, bugs fixed,
new vo and ao drivers, ported to many systems, including opensource DivX
codecs and much more. Try it!
</UL></P>
<P><B><A NAME=1.3>1.3. Installation</A></B></P>
<P>You'll need the following packages and versions if you don't want to
experience any problems:<BR>
<UL>
<LI><B>binutils</B> - suggested version is <B>2.11.x</B> . This program is
responsible for generating MMX/3DNow!/etc instructions, thus very important.</LI>
<LI><B>gcc</B> - suggested version is from <B>2.95.2</B> to <B>2.95.4</B>.
<B>NEVER</B> use 2.96 or 3.x.x !!! They generate faulty code.</LI>
<LI><B>XFree86</B> - suggested version is <B>always the newest (4.1.0)</B>. Normally
everyone wants this. If you don't know why, you <B>do</B> need it.</LI>
<LI><B>make</B> - suggested version is <B>always the newest</B> (at least 3.79.x). This
usually isn't important.</LI>
<LI><B>SDL</B> - it's not mandatory, but can help in some cases. Always
use the newest (beginning from 1.2.x).</LI>
</UL>
</P>
<P>Read the following before trying to compile <B>MPlayer</B>:</P>
<UL>
<LI>If you plan to use <B>MPlayer</B> on x86 architecture, you possibly want to use
Win32 codecs. Download and unzip w32codecs.zip to /usr/lib/win32 .
Note: 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! However, you can use our codecs package with avifile.</LI>
<LI>If you own a Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 card, then please see the <A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.7">2.2.1.7</A>
section in order to gain big speedup. It is important to do these steps
<I>before</I> compiling <B>MPlayer</B>, otherwise no Matrox-specific support will be
built.</LI>
<LI>If you own a 3Dfx Voodoo3/Banshee card, then please see the <A
HREF="video.html#2.2.1.9">2.2.1.9</A> section in order to gain big speedup. It
is important to do these steps <I>before</I> compiling <B>MPlayer</B>,
otherwise no 3Dfx support will be built.</LI>
<LI>If you plan to use the ProjectMayo's <B>DivX4</B> codec, check the
<A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.2.1">2.1.2.1</A> section before compiling.
This codec can play old <B>DivX</B> movies much faster than the Win32 DLL.
If you want to play movies with the new <B>DivX4</B> codec, it's
<B>recommended</B> to use this library, instead the DivX.dll in the
w32codecs.zip package. The codec itself is closed-source, and only an x86
version is available.</LI>
<LI>If you plan to use ffmpeg's <B>libavcodec</B>, check the
<A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.2.2">2.1.2.2</A> section before compiling.
You'll need this to <B>gain <I>DivX/DivX4</I> playing on non-x86 machines</B>,
and this codec has the <B>greatest decoding speed</B> for DivX and DivX4
movies (even faster than the original DivX4 library itself) !</LI>
<LI>For DVD support, you'll have to compile libdvdread and libdvdcss.
See <A HREF="cd-dvd.html#4.2">section 4.2</A> for more information.</LI>
<LI>Decide if you need GUI. If you do, see the <A HREF=#1.4>1.4 section</A>
before compiling.</LI>
<LI>If you want to play <B>3ivx</B> movies, check the <A HREF=codecs.html#2.1.2.4>
2.1.2.4 section</A>.</LI>
</UL>
<P>Then build <B>MPlayer</B>:</P>
<PRE> ./configure
make
make install</PRE>
<P>It is recommended to browse the output of ./configure , it contains info
about what will be built, and what won't. You may also want to view
config.h and config.mak files.</P>
<P>Though not mandatory, the fonts should be installed in order to gain
OSD, and subtitle functionality. Download mp-arial-iso-8859-*.zip and/or optional
(if exists) language updates. It's VERY RECOMMENDED to check
<A HREF=#1.5>section 1.5</A> for details.</P>
<PRE> mkdir ~/.mplayer/font
cd ~/.mplayer/font
unzip mp-arial-iso-8859-1.zip</PRE>
<P>Only one thing remains: copy the <B>codecs.conf</B> file from the <CODE>etc</CODE>
directory (relative to the <B>MPlayer</B> tree) to $HOME/.mplayer/codecs.conf.</P>
<P><B><A NAME=1.4>1.4. What about the GUI?</A></B></P>
<P>The GUI is built upon GTK, so gtk (and it's devel stuff) has to be installed.
You can build it by specifying <CODE>--enable-gui</CODE> during ./configure .
Then, to turn on GUI mode, you either
<UL>
<LI>use the <CODE>-gui</CODE> option</LI>
<LI>specify <CODE>gui=yes</CODE> in your config file</LI>
<LI><CODE>ln -s /usr/local/bin/mplayer /usr/local/bin/gmplayer</CODE> ,
and call <CODE>gmplayer</CODE> instead.
</UL>
</P>
<P>As <B>MPlayer</B> doesn't have a skin included, you have to download them
if you want to use the GUI. See the <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html">download page</A>.
They should be extracted to the usual system-wide directory (<CODE>/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin</CODE>),
or to <CODE>$HOME/.mplayer/Skin</CODE> . <B>MPlayer</B> by default looks in
these directories for a <I>default</I> named directory, but you can use the
<I>-skin newskin</I> option, or the <I>skin=newskin</I> config file
directive to use the skin in <CODE>*/Skin/newskin</CODE> directory.</P>
<P><B><A NAME=1.5>1.5. Subtitles and OSD</A></B></P>
<P>Yes, <B>MPlayer</B> also supports many kinds of subtitles. Currently
8 kinds of subtitle can be used by the subreader code. To see what are
these subtitle formats, see subreader.c, line ~30.</P>
<P><B>MPlayer</B> introduces a new subtitle format called <B><I>MPsub</I></B>.
It was designed by me (Gabucino). Basically its main feature is being
<I>dynamically</I> time-based (although it has frame-based mode too). Example (from
<A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/mpsub.sub">DOCS/tech/mpsub.sub</A>) :
</P>
<P><CODE><I>
# first number : wait this much after previous subtitle disappeared<BR>
# second number : display the current subtitle for this many seconds<BR>
<BR>
15 3<BR>
A long, long time ago...<BR>
<BR>
0 3<BR>
in a galaxy far away...<BR>
<BR>
0 3<BR>
Naboo was under an attack.<BR>
</I></CODE></P>
<P>So you see, the main goal was to <B>make subtitle editing/timing/joining/cutting easy</B>. And,
if you - say - get an SSA subtitle but it's badly timed/delayed to your
version of the movie, you simply do a <I>mplayer dummy.avi -sub source.ssa
-dumpmpsub</I> . A <CODE>dump.mpsub</CODE> file will be created in the
current directory, which will contain the source subtitle's text, but in
<B>MPsub</B> format. Then you can freely add/substract seconds to/from the
subtitle.</P>
<P>Subtitles are displayed with a technique called <B>'OSD', On Screen Display</B>.
OSD is used to display current time, volume bar, seek bar etc.</P>
<P><B>INSTALLING OSD and SUB</B></P>
<P>You need an <B>MPlayer</B> font package to be able to use OSD/SUB feature.
There are many ways to get it:
<UL>
<LI>download ready-to-use font packages from <B>MPlayer</B> site.
Note: currently available fonts are limited for iso 8859-1/2 support,
and there are a few special versions for korean, russian etc codepages.
Font should have appropriate font.desc file which maps unicode font
positions to the actual code page of the subtitles text. Other solution
is to have subtitles encoded in utf8 encoding and use -utf8 option
or just name the subtitles file <video_name>.utf and have it in the same
dir as the video file. Recoding from different codepages to utf8 could be
done by using konwert (debian) or iconv (RedHat) programs.<BR>
Some URLs:
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/">ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/</A> - ISO fonts
<LI><A HREF="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/fonts/">ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/fonts/</A> - various fonts by users
<LI><A HREF="http://realtime.ssu.ac.kr/~lethean/mplayer">http://realtime.ssu.ac.kr/~lethean/mplayer</A> - korean fonts & RAW plugin
</UL>
<LI>use the font generator tool at TOOLS/subfont-c
It's a complete tool to convert from TTF/Type1/etc font to mplayer font pkg.
(read TOOLS/subfont-c/README for details)
<LI>use the font generator GIMP plugin at TOOLS/subfont-GIMP
(note: you must have HSI RAW plugin too, see URL below)
</UL>
</P>
<P>After that, UNZIP the files to ~/.mplayer/font/ .
Now you have to see a timer at the upper left corner of the movie
(switch it off with 'o') .</P>
<P>OSD has 3 states: (switch with 'o')<BR>
<UL>
<LI>timer + volume bar + seek bar + subtitles (default)
<LI>volume bar + seek bar + subtitles
<LI>subtitles only
</UL>
<P>You can change default behaviour by setting <CODE>osdlevel=</CODE> variable in config file.</P>
<P><B><A NAME=2>2. Features</A></B></P>
<P><A NAME=2.1>2.1. <A HREF="codecs.html">Video Formats, Audio & Video Codecs</A></P>
<P><A NAME=2.2>2.2. <A HREF="video.html">Video</A> & <A HREF="sound.html">Audio</A> output devices</P>
<P><B><A NAME=3>3. Usage</A></B></P>
<P><TABLE BORDER=0>
<TD> </TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>file</TD><TD> </TD><TD><CODE><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>mplayer [options] [path/]filename</CODE></TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>VCD</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>mplayer [options] -vcd trackno /dev/cdrom</CODE></TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>DVD</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>mplayer [options] -dvd titleno [/dev/dvd]</CODE></TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>net</TD><TD></TD><TD><CODE><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>mplayer [options] http://site.com/file.[mpg|avi]</CODE></TD><TR>
</TABLE></P>
<P><PRE> mplayer -vo x11 /mnt/Films/Contact/contact2.mpg
mplayer -vcd 2 /dev/cdrom
mplayer -afm 3 /mnt/DVDtrailers/alien4.vob
mplayer -dvd 1 /dev/dvd
mplayer -abs 65536 -delay -0.4 -nobps ~/movies/test.avi</PRE></P>
<P><B><A NAME=3.1>3.1. Control from keyboard</A></B></P>
<P><TABLE BORDER=0>
<TD> </TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><- or -></TD><TD> </TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>seek backward/forward 10 seconds</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>up or down</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>seek backward/forward 1 minute</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>pgup/pgdown</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>seek backward/forward 10 minutes</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>p or SPACE</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>pause movie (press any key)</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>q or ESC</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>stop playing and quit program</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>+ or -</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>adjust audio delay by +/- 0.1 second</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>/ or *</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>decrease/increase volume</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>o</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>toggle OSD: none / seek / seek+timer</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>m</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>toggle using master/pcm volume</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>z or x</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 second</TD><TR>
<TD COLSPAN=4><P><I><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>(the following keys are valid only when using DirectShow DivX codec)</I></P></TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>1 or 2</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>adjust contrast</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>3 or 4</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>adjust brightness</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>5 or 6</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>adjust hue</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>7 or 8</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>adjust saturation</TD><TR>
</TABLE></P>
<P><B>GUI keyboard control</B></P>
<P><TABLE BORDER=0>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>, and .</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>previous / next file</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>gray - or +</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>decrease / increase volume</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>enter</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>start playing</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>space</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>pause</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>s</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>stop</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>a</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>about</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>l</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>load file</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>b</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>skin browser</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>e</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>toggle equalizer</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>p</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>toggle playlist</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>f</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>toggle fullscreen</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>m</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>toggle mute</TD><TR>
</TABLE></P>
<P><B><A NAME=3.2>3.2. Control from LIRC</A></B></P>
<P>Linux Infrared Remote Control - use an easy to build home-brewn IR-receiver,
an (almost) arbitrary remote control and control your linux box with it!
More about it at <A HREF="http://www.lirc.org">www.lirc.org</A>.</P>
<P>If you have installed the lirc-package, you can compile <B>MPlayer</B> with LIRC
support using ./configure --enable-lirc</P>
<P>If everything went fine, <B>MPlayer</B> will print a message like
LIRC init was successful.
on startup. If an error occurs it will tell you. If it doens't tell you
anything about LIRC there's no support compiled in. That's it :-)</P>
<P>The application name for <B>MPlayer</B> is - oh wonder - mplayer_lirc.
It understands the following commands:</P>
<P><TABLE BORDER=0>
<TD> </TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>PAUSE</TD><TD> </TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>pause playing. Any other keystroke will continue replay.</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>QUIT</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>exit MPlayer</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>RWND</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>10 secs back</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>FRWND</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>60 secs back</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>FWD</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>skip 10 secs</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>FFWD</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>skip 60 secs</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>INCVOL</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>increase volume one percent</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>DECVOL</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>decrease volume one percent</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>MASTER</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>use master mixer channel</TD><TR>
<TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>PCM</TD><TD></TD><TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>use pcm mixer channel</TD><TR>
</TABLE></P>
<P> Don't forget to enable the repeat flag for RWND/FWD in .lircrc. Here's an
excerpt from my .lircrc:</P>
<P><PRE> begin
remote = CU-SX070
prog = mplayer_lirc
button = Tape_Play
repeat = 1
config = FFWD
end
begin
remote = CU-SX070
prog = mplayer_lirc
button = Tape_Stop
config = QUIT
end</PRE></P>
<P>If you don't like the standard location for the lirc-config file (~/.lircrc)
use the -lircconf <filename> switch to specify another file.</P>
<P><B><A NAME=3.3>3.3. Streaming from network or pipes</A></B></P>
<P><B>MPlayer</B> can play files from network, using the HTTP protocol.
Configuring it is simple, just recompile <B>MPlayer</B> with</P>
<P><CODE> ./configure --enable-streaming</CODE></P>
<P>MPlayer <B>can NOT read ASF</B> files from network, neither with HTTP nor MMS.</P>
<P><B>MPlayer</B> can read from stdin (NOT named pipes). This can be for example
used to play from FTP:</P>
<P><CODE> wget ftp://micorsops.com/something.avi -O - | mplayer -</CODE></P>
<P><B><A NAME=4>4. <A HREF="faq.html">FAQ section</A></A></B></P>
<P><B><A NAME=5>5. <A HREF="cd-dvd.html">CD/DVD section</A></A></B></P>
<P><B><A NAME=6>6. Misc OS'es</A></B></P>
<P><B><A NAME=6.1>6.1. Debian packaging</A></B></P>
<P>To build the package, get the cvs version, or .tgz and uncompress it,
and cd into programs directory:</P>
<P><PRE> cd main
fakeroot debian/rules binary</PRE></P>
<P>(... mplayer detects hardware/software, builds itself and.. )
dpkg-deb: building package `mplayer' in `../mplayer_0.18-1_i386.deb'.</P>
<P>And now just become root, and:</P>
<P><PRE> dpkg -i ../mplayer_0.18-1_i386.deb as root.</PRE></P>
<P>Here's how it looks like:</P>
<P><PRE> eyck@incubus:/src/main$ sudo dpkg -i ../mplayer_0.18-1_i386.deb
Password:
(Reading database ... 26946 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace mplayer 0.17a-1 (using ../mplayer_0.18-1_i386.deb)
Unpacking replacement mplayer ...
Setting up mplayer (0.18-1) ...</PRE></P>
<P><B><A NAME=6.2>6.2. FreeBSD</A></B></P>
<P>To build the package you will need GNU make (gmake, /usr/ports/devel/gmake),
native BSD make will not work.</P>
<P>To run <B>MPlayer</B> you will need to re-compile the kernel with
"options USER_LDT" (unless you are running -CURRENT, where this is default).
If you have a CPU with SSE also use "options CPU_ENABLE_SSE" to use it
(FreeBSD-STABLE required, or use kernel patches).</P>
<P>If <B>MPlayer</B> complains about "CD-ROM Device '/dev/cdrom' not found!" make a
symbolic link: <CODE>ln -s /dev/(your_cdrom_device) /dev/cdrom</CODE></P>
<P>There's no DVD support for FreeBSD yet.</P>
<P><B><A NAME=6.3>6.3. Solaris</A></B></P>
<P>MPlayer should work on Solaris 2.6 or newer.</P>
<P>AVI file playback works best on Solaris x86, because you have the
option to use the win32 codecs on the x86 platform, or can use MMX/MMX2/3DNow/etc
instructions for MP3/DivX/DVD/whatever. On Solaris SPARC,
you'll find quite a few AVI files with non working video and/or
audio playback, because the video/audio codecs using the Win32 DLLs
are not available. However, <B>DivX/OpenDivX</B> movies should work,
when using libavcodec.</P>
<P>On <B>UltraSPARC</B>s, <B>MPlayer</B> takes advantage of their <B>VIS</B>
extensions (equivalent to MMX), currently only in <I>libmpeg2</I>,
<I>libvo</I> and <I>libavcodec</I>, but not in mp3lib. You can watch a VOB file
on a 400Mhz CPU. You'll need <A
HREF="http://www.sun.com/sparc/vis/mediaLib.html">mLib</A> installed.</P>
<P>To build the package you will need GNU make (gmake, /opt/sfw/gmake), native
Solaris make will not work. Typical error you get when building with solaris'
make instead of GNU make:</P>
<P><PRE> % /usr/ccs/bin/make
make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 25: Unexpected end of line seen</P></PRE>
<P>On Solaris SPARC, you need the GNU C/C++ Compiler; it does not matter
if GNU C/C++ compiler is configured with or without the GNU assembler.</P>
<P>On Solaris x86, you need the GNU assembler and the GNU C/C++
compiler, configured to use the GNU assembler! The mplayer code on
the x86 platform makes heavy use of MMX, SSE and 3DNOW!
instructions that cannot be compiled using Sun's assembler
<CODE>/usr/ccs/bin/as</CODE>.</P>
<P>The configure script tries to find out, which assembler program is
used by your "gcc" command (in case the autodetection fails, use
the "--as=/whereever/you/have/installed/gnu-as" option to tell the
configure script where it can find GNU "as" on your system).</P>
<P>Error message from configure on a Solaris x86 system using GCC
without GNU assembler:</P>
<P><PRE> % configure
...
Checking assembler (/usr/ccs/bin/as) ... , failed
Please upgrade(downgrade) binutils to 2.10.1...</PRE></P>
<P>(Solution: Install and use a gcc configured with "--with-as=gas")</P>
<P>Typical error you get when building with a GNU C compiler that does
not use GNU as:</P>
<P><PRE> % gmake
...
gcc -c -Iloader -Ilibvo -O4 -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -ffast-math
-fomit-frame-pointer -I/usr/local/include -o mplayer.o mplayer.c
Assembler: mplayer.c
"(stdin)", line 3567 : Illegal mnemonic
"(stdin)", line 3567 : Syntax error
... more "Illegal mnemonic" and "Syntax error" errors ...</PRE></P>
<P>For DVD support you must have the patched libcss installed. Patch:
<A HREF="http://www.tools.de/solaris/mplayer/">http://www.tools.de/solaris/mplayer/</A>.</P>
<P>Due to two bugs in solaris 8 x86, you cannot reliably play DVDs using a
capacity >4GB:</P>
<P><UL><LI>The sd(7D) driver on solaris 8 x86 driver has bug when accessing a
disk block >4GB on a device using a logical blocksize != DEV_BSIZE
(i.e. CDROM and DVD media). Due to a 32bit int overflow, a disk
address modulo 4GB is accessed.
(<A HREF="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22516">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22516</A>)
<LI>The similar bug is present in the hsfs(7FS) filesystem code (aka
ISO9660), hsfs currently does not support partitions/disks >4GB,
all data is accessed modulo 4GB
(<A HREF="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22592">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22592</A>)
</UL></P>
<P>On Solaris with an UltraSPARC CPU, you can get some extra speed by
using the CPU's VIS instructions for certain time consuming operations.
VIS acceleration can be used in MPlayer by calling functions in Sun's
<A HREF="http://www.sun.com/sparc/vis/mediaLib.html">mediaLib</A>.</P>
<P>VIS accelerated operations from mediaLib are used for mpeg2 video
decoding and for color space conversion in the video output drivers.</P>
<P><B><A NAME=6.4>6.4. StrongARM</A></B></P>
<P><B>MPlayer</B> is reported to compile on StrongARM. Use the following command line:</P>
<P><PRE> ./configure --target=arm-linux --disable-css --with-x11libdir=/usr/arm/lib
--with-x11incdir=/usr/arm/lib --disable-gcc-checking</PRE></P>
<P><B><A NAME=A>Appendix A - Authors</A></B></P>
<P>NOTE: Do *NOT* send bugreports, help & feature requests directly to the authors!</P>
<P>Read Appendix <A HREF="#C">C</A> and subscribe to mplayer-users mailing lists.</P>
<P ALIGN=center><B><U>The <B>MPlayer</B> project:</U></B></P>
<P><UL>
<LI><B>Árpád Gereöffy (A'rpi/ESP-team)</B> <arpi@thot.banki.hu>
<UL><LI>player code (mpeg stream demultiplexer and avi/asf parser, A-V sync, seek...)
</LI><LI>mp3lib, based on mpglib sources [MP3 audio decoder]
</LI><LI>getch2 [keyboard handler]
</LI><LI>some changes in libmpeg2 code (progressive frames, bitrate & fps support)
</LI><LI>libvo improvements: adding OpenGL support, bugfix in mga driver...
</LI><LI>triple buffering & YUY2 support (for DivX/MPEG4) into mga_vid driver
</LI><LI>scripts in the TVout directory (TVout on Matrox G400DH, read documentation)
</LI><LI>hacking DivX/Mpeg4 VfW codecs to get YUV output
</LI><LI>opendivx decoder speed optimizations (see opendivx/ChangeLog)
</LI><LI>OSD & SUB display code
</LI><LI>ffmpeg/libavcodec integration
</LI><LI>DivX4Linux (ProjectMayo) support (see documentation)
</LI><LI>New DVD-Support using libdvdread
</LI><LI>DVB support
</LI><LI>MPEG PES output
</LI><LI>anything that isn't mentioned elsewhere
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Zoltán Ponekker (Pontscho/Fresh!)</B> <pontscho@makacs.poliod.hu>
<UL><LI>configure script and Makefiles for easy compile
</LI><LI>GUI system
</LI><LI>3DNow! support into mp3lib
</LI><LI>3DNow! support into fastmemcpy.h
</LI><LI>various X11 driver changes (keyboard handling, fullscreen, bpp detect, etc)
</LI><LI>libvo: adding xmga driver, and fullscreen support to xv
</LI><LI>audio mixer (volume) support
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Gábor Lénárt (LGB)</B> <lgb@lgb.hu>
<UL><LI>./configure script improvements
</LI><LI>Makefile improvements
</LI><LI>prelimenary DVD support
</LI><LI>various X11 cleanups and fixes
</LI><LI>HTMLization of documentation
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Gábor Bérczi (Gabucino)</B> <gabucino@k2.jozsef.kando.hu>
<UL><LI>documentation writer & maintainer
</LI><LI>hungarian translation of documentation and homepage
</LI><LI>second webpage design&gfx
</LI><LI>webpage maintainer
</LI><LI>testing, codecs quality & speed comparsions
</LI><LI>IRC channels operator
(#MPlayer is user channel)
</LI><LI>experimental MINIX port :)
</LI><LI>MPsub subtitle format design
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Szabolcs Berecz (Szabi)</B> <szabi@inf.elte.hu>
<UL><LI>codecs.conf file parser
</LI><LI>config file and command line parser
</LI><LI>mga_vid fixes, module option etc.
</LI><LI>fbdev support in libvo
</LI><LI>type #7 subtitle support
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>László Megyer (Lez, Laaz)</B> <lez@sch.bme.hu>
<UL><LI>SUB reader
</LI><LI>screensaver+DPMS disable for libvo
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Gyula László (Chass, Tégla)</B> <chass-@freemail.hu>
<UL><LI>first fonts (mp_font1.zip)
</LI><LI>third (current) homepage design&gfx
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Zoltán Márk Vicián (Se7en)</B> <se7en@sch.bme.hu>
<UL><LI>SVGAlib support in libvo
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Alex Beregszaszi (Al3x)</B> <alex@naxine.org>
<UL><LI>ALSA output driver in libao2
</LI><LI>vo_ggi output driver in libvo (www.ggi-project.org)</LI>
<LI>xanim codecs support (incomplete yet!)</LI>
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Andreas Ackermann (Acki)</B> <asackerm@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
<UL><LI>LIRC support (see documentation)
</LI><LI>DGA support in libvo
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Felix Bünemann (Atmos)</B> <atmosfear@users.sourceforge.net>
<UL><LI>SDL driver maintainer
</LI><LI>Additional YUV formats fixes
</LI><LI>New font (mp_font2.zip)
</LI><LI>PNG file output support in libvo
</LI><LI>flipping support (for Indeo 3/4, etc)
</LI><LI>SDL audio driver in libao2
</LI><LI>RAW PCM/WAVE file writer for libao2
</LI><LI>OggVorbis audio support
</LI><LI>Various aspect code
</LI><LI>Win32 port
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>TeLeNiEkO</B> <telenieko@telenieko.com>
<UL><LI>spanish translation of documentation
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Michael Graffam</B> <mgraffam@idsi.net>
<UL><LI>XF86VidMode support to vo_x11 and vo_dga
</LI><LI>Video mode switching code to vo_dga
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Jens Hoffmann</B> <hoffmajs@gmx.de>
<UL><LI>Additional YUV formats support
</LI><LI>found the big BITMAPINFOHEADER problem -> solved ASV2 pixelization
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Nick Kurshev</B> <nickols_k@mail.ru>
<UL><LI>memcpy optimizations for AMD K7 and Intel Pentium III (fastmemcpy.h)
</LI><LI>CDROM tune info
</LI><LI>further 3DNow! optimizations into mp3lib and libac3 and ffmpeg
</LI><LI>russian translation of documentation
</LI><LI>radeonfb
</LI><LI>libvo driver: vo_vesa
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>German Gomez Garcia</B> <german@piraos.com>
<UL><LI>SPDIF AC3 output for SBLive!
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Dariush Pietrzak (Eyck)</B> <eyck@incubus.ar.lublin.pl>
<UL><LI>debian packaging support (see debian/* and this documentation)
</LI><LI>support for vplayer subtitle format
</LI><LI>prelimenary support for .RT subtitle format
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Marcus Comstedt</B> <marcus@idonex.se>
<UL><LI>initial solaris8-x86 support
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Jürgen Keil and Marcus Comstedt</B> <jk@tools.de>
<UL><LI>patched <B>MPlayer</B> to work on Solaris 8 x86
</LI><LI>configure fixes
</LI><LI>various fixes (win32, configure, etc)
</LI><LI>SUN audio driver in libao2
</LI><LI>mediaLib support in libavcodec
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Vladimir Kushnir</B> <vkushnir@Alfacom.net>
<UL><LI>patched <B>MPlayer</B> to work on FreeBSD x86
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Bertrand BAUDET</B> <bertrand_baudet@yahoo.com>
<UL><LI>network streaming support
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Artur Zaprzala</B> <zybi@fanthom.irc.pl>
<UL><LI>Complete font generator prog + OSD font (TOOLS/subfont-c)
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>lanzz@lanzz.org</B>
<UL><LI>GIMP font generator plugin (TOOLS/subfont-gimp)
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Adam Tla/lka</B> <atlka@pg.gda.pl>
<UL><LI>osd/sub review, fixes, optimization, utf8 support
</LI><LI>various fixes
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Folke Ashberg</B> <folke@ashberg.de>
<UL><LI>native AAlib driver (-vo aa)
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Kamil Toman</B> <ktoman@email.cz>
<UL><LI>czech fonts
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Ivan Kalvatchev</B> <iive@yahoo.com>
<UL><LI>interlaced MPEG2 support
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>pl</B> <p_l@gmx.fr>
<UL><LI>./configure fixes
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Michael Niedermayer</B> <michaelni@gmx.at>
<UL><LI>postprocessing support</LI>
<LI>software scaling C/MMX/MMX2/3DNow support (swscale.c)
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Sven Goethel</B> <sgoethel@jausoft.com>
<UL><LI>libvo driver: vo_gl2
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Bohdan Horst</B> <nexus@hoth.amu.edu.pl>
<UL><LI>iconv support on FreeBSD
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>joy_ping</B> <joy@pingfm.org>
<UL><LI>ao_alsa9 fixes
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Eric Anholt</B> <eanholt@gladstone.uoregon.edu>
<UL><LI>runtime CPU detection
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><B>Jiri Svoboda</B> <Jiri.Svoboda@seznam.cz>
<UL><LI>AQT type subtitles support</LI>
<LI>CRTC2 YUV support in mga_vid
</LI></UL>
</LI></UL></P>
<P>Main testers:</P>
<P><UL>
<LI>Tibor Balázs (Tibcu)
<LI>Péter Sasi (SaPe)
<LI>Christoph H. Lampert
<LI>Attila Kinali
<LI>Dirk Vornheder
</UL></P>
<P ALIGN=center><B><U>The codecs, libs:</U></B></P>
<P><UL>
<LI>Aaron Holtzman: <aholtzma@engr.uvic.ca>
<UL><LI>ac3dec (and libac3) author [AC3 audio decoder]
</LI><LI>mga_vid driver [Matrox G200/G400 YUV Back-end Scaler]
</LI><LI>mpeg2dec [Fast MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, currently used in player]
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI>Michel Lespinasse: <walken@zoy.org>
<UL><LI>did large libmpeg2 changes for better speed and mpeg conformance
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI>Eugene Kuznetsov: <divx@euro.ru>
<UL><LI>avifile author [AVI player library for linux, using Win32 VfW/ACM codecs]
</LI><LI>technical help about AVI and ASF formats, and how to get YUV using VfW...
</LI><LI>divx4linux techical support
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI>Zdenek Kabelac: <kabi@informatics.muni.cz>
<UL><LI>current avifile maintainer(?)
</LI><LI>some technical help about the win32 stuff and timers
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI>Gerard Lantau: <glantau@yahoo.fr>
<UL><LI>ffmpeg/libavcodec author,maintainer (opensource mpeg, mjpeg, divx en/decoder)
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI>Project Mayo: <<A HREF="http://www.projectmayo.com">http://www.projectmayo.com</A>>
<UL><LI>the OpenDivX codec authors
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI>Michael Hipp:
<UL><LI>mpglib author [isn't used directly but some parts in mp3lib]
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI>Mark Podlipec:
<UL><LI>xa_gsm.c author [MS-GSM audio codec]
[from a GSM library by Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann]
</LI></UL>
</LI></UL></P>
<P>Their code is not used in current player version, but I've got some ideas or
other technical help from:</P>
<P><UL>
<LI>John F. McGowan http://www.jmcgowan.com/
<UL><LI>AVI FAQ author/collector. [site with many useful docs on codecs and avi fmt]
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI>Dirk Farin: <farin@ti.uni-mannheim.de>
<UL><LI>dvdview author [MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, used in v0.5-v0.8]
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI>Adam Williams: <broadcast@earthling.net>
<UL><LI>libmpeg3 (and xmovie) author [MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, used in v0.1-v0.4]
</LI></UL>
</UL></P>
<P><B><A NAME=A2>Appendix A/2 - MPlayer code and documentation maintainers</A></B></P>
<P>Homepage
<UL>
<LI><B>Design</B>: Chass
<LI><B>Contents</B>: Gabucino
</UL></P>
<P>English documentation
<UL>
<LI><B>tech-hun.txt</B>: A'rpi
<LI><B>all the others</B>: Gabucino
<LI><B>HTMLization</B>: LGB
</UL></P>
<P>Documentation translations
<UL>
<LI><B>Hungarian</B>: Gabucino
<LI><B>German</B>: <A HREF="mailto:johannes.feigl@mcse.at">Johannes Feigl</A>
<LI><B>French</B>: <A HREF="mailto:smarteau@eso.org">Stephane Marteau</A>
<LI><B>Spanish</B>: TeLeNiEkO (outdated)
<LI><B>Russian</B>: Nick Kurshev (outdated)
<LI><B>Polish</B>: Dariush Pietrzak (outdated)
</UL></P>
<P>Platforms/ports
<UL>
<LI><B>DEBIAN packaging</B>: Dariush Pietrzak
<LI><B>FreeBSD support</B>: Vladimir Kushnir
<LI><B>Solaris 8 support</B>: Jürgen Keil
</UL></P>
<P>MPlayer code:
<UL>
<LI><B>fileformat detection, demuxers</B>: A'rpi
<LI><B>DVD support</B>: (alpha version was: LGB) now: A'rpi
<LI><B>network streaming</B>: Bertrand BAUDET
<LI><B>A-V sync code</B>: A'rpi
<LI><B>subtitles file parser/reader</B>: Lez (most of them)
<LI><B>config files & commandline parser</B>: Szabi
<LI><B>fastmemcpy</B>: Nick Kurshev
<LI><B>LIRC support</B>: Acki
<LI><B>SUB/OSD renderer</B>: Adam Tla/lka
</UL></P>
<P>libvo drivers:
<UL>
<LI><B>vo_3dfx.c</B> - OBSOLETED, use xv or tdfxfb
<LI><B>vo_tdfxfb.c</B> - <A HREF="mailto:zsteva@ptt.yu">Zeljko Stevanovic</A>
<LI><B>vo_aa.c</B> - Folke Ashberg
<LI><B>vo_dga.c</B> - Acki
<LI><B>vo_fbdev.c</B> - Szabi
<LI><B>vo_fsdga.c</B> - OBSOLETED, use dga
<LI><B>vo_ggi.c</B> - al3x
<LI><B>vo_gl.c</B> - A'rpi
<LI><B>vo_gl2.c</B> - <A HREF="mailto:sgoethel@jausoft.com">Sven Goethel</A>
<LI><B>vo_md5.c</B> - A'rpi
<LI><B>vo_mga.c</B> - A'rpi
<LI><B>vo_mpegpes.c</B> - A'rpi
<LI><B>vo_null.c</B> - A'rpi
<LI><B>vo_odivx.c</B> - A'rpi
<LI><B>vo_pgm.c</B> - A'rpi
<LI><B>vo_png.c</B> - Atmos
<LI><B>vo_sdl.c</B> - Atmos
<LI><B>vo_svga.c</B> - se7en
<LI><B>vo_syncfb.c</B> - OBSOLETED, use mga
<LI><B>vo_vesa.c</B> - Nick Kurshev
<LI><B>vo_x11.c</B> - Pontscho
<LI><B>vo_xmga.c</B> - Pontscho
<LI><B>vo_xv.c</B> - Pontscho
</UL></P>
<P>libao2 drivers:
<UL>
<LI><B>ao_alsa5.c</B> - al3x
<LI><B>ao_alsa9.c</B> - al3x (fixed by <A HREF="mailto:joy@pingfm.org">joy_ping</A>)
<LI><B>ao_null.c</B> - A'rpi
<LI><B>ao_oss.c</B> - A'rpi
<LI><B>ao_pcm.c</B> - Atmos
<LI><B>ao_sdl.c</B> - Atmos
<LI><B>ao_sun.c</B> - Jürgen Keil
</UL></P>
<P>TOOLS:
<UL>
<LI><B>subfont-c</B> - Artur Zaprzala: <zybi@fanthom.irc.pl></B>
<LI><B>subfont-GIMP</B> - lanzz@lanzz.org</B>
<LI><B>*.pl</B> - Atmos</B>
<LI><B>x2mpsub</B> - Gabucino</B>
<LI><B>others</B> - A'rpi</B>
</UL></P>
<P><B><A NAME=B>Appendix B - Mailing lists</A></B></P>
<P>There are some public mailing lists on <B>MPlayer</B>. Subscribing can be
achieved on the following addresses:</P>
<P><UL>
<LI>MPlayer developers list:<BR>
<A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng</A>
<P>This list is about mplayer development! Talking about interface/API changes,
new libraryes, code optimization, ./configure changes, and send patches here.
Do NOT send bugreports, user questions, feature requests here!
This list should be kept low-traffic.</P>
</LI><LI>MPlayer users list:<BR>
<A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users</A>
<P><UL>
<LI>send bugreports here (after reading DOCS/BUGS, Appendix <A HREF="#C">C</A>)</LI>
<LI>send feature requests here (after reading bugreports.html)</LI>
<LI>send user questions here (after reading all this documentation)</LI>
</UL></P>
</LI><LI>MPlayer & Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 users:<BR>
<A HREF="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-matrox">http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-matrox</A>
<P>Send matrox-related questions here<UL>
<LI>things about mga_vid</LI>
<LI>matrox's official beta drivers (for X 4.x.x)</LI>
<LI>and about matroxfb-TVout stuff.</LI></UL></P>
</LI><LI>MPlayer & DVB card users:<BR>
<A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dvb">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dvb</A>
<P>Things related to the hardware decoder card called DVB.<UL>
</P>
</LI><LI>MPlayer CVS-log: <BR>
<A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog">http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog</A>
<P>Send only questions about CVS changes here.
(if you don't understand why a change is required or you've better fix)
Be sure in that your target developer reads this list!</P>
</LI></UL></P>
<P>NOTE: language of above lists are ENGLISH, unless explicitly stated
otherwise. Please do not send messages using other language!</P>
<P>NOTE: you can reach the searchable mailing list archives
<A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch">here</A>.
<P><B><A NAME=C><A HREF="bugreports.html">Appendix C</A> - How to report bugs</A></B></P>
<P><B><A NAME=D>Appendix D - Known bugs</A></B></P>
<P>Special system/cpu-specific bugs/problems:</P>
<UL>
<LI> SIGILL (signal 4) in draw_frame, on P3 (mostly with 2.2.x kernels):<BR>
Problem: movups is crashing in libvo/fastmemcpy.h<BR>
Workaround: ./configure --disable-fastmemcpy<BR>
SOLVED: disabled SSE code in fastmemcpy.h ;(</LI>
<LI>No image (black image) in RGB 15/16bpp (x11,dga,fbdev,svga) playing
MPEG or OpenDivX files:<BR>
Problem: gcc 2.96 bug<BR>
Workaround: ./configure --disable-mmx, or use gcc 2.95.x<BR>
SOLVED: code fixed</LI>
<LI>SIGILL (signal 4) or other fault at loading l3codeca.acm:<BR>
Problem: shared libs are loaded to 0x00xxxxxx instead of 0x40xxxxxx<BR>
Workaround: mplayer -afm 1 ...<BR>
SOLVED: you are using some security kernel patch, like OpenWall etc.</LI>
<LI>SIGILL (signal 4) on P3 using 2.2.x kernels:<BR>
Problem: kernel 2.2.x doesn't have proper (working) SSE support<BR>
Solution: upgrade kernel to 2.4.x<BR>
Workaround: ./configure --disable-sse</LI>
<LI>General SIGILL (signal 4):<BR>
Problem: you compiled and run mplayer in different machines
(for example compiled on P3 and running on celeron)<BR>
Solution: compile MPlayer on the same machine where you will use it!<BR>
Workaround: ./configure --disable-sse etc. options</LI>
</UL>
<P>Various A-V sync and other audio problems:</P>
General audio delay or jerky sound (exists with all or many files):<BR>
<UL>
<LI>audio buffer problems (buffer size badly detected)<BR>
Workaround: mplayer -abs option</LI>
<LI>slow machine (cpu or vga)<BR>
try with -vo null, if it plays well, then you have slow VGA card/driver<BR>
Workaround: buy a faster card or read this documentation about how to speed up<BR>
SOLVED: try -framedrop</LI>
</UL><BR>
Audio delay/de-sync specific to one or a few files:<BR>
<UL>
<LI>bad file (please upload the file, so we can check & fix)<BR>
Workaround: -ni or -nobps option (for non-interleaved or bad files)<BR>
-mc 0 (required for files with badly interleaved VBR audio)<BR>
-delay option or +/- keys at runtime to adjust delay</LI>
<LI>your soundcard doesn't support 48Khz playback<BR>
Workaround: buy a better soundcard... or try to decrease fps by 10% (use -fps 27 for a 30fps movie)</LI>
<LI>slow machine<BR>
(if A-V is not around 0, and the last number in the status line increasing)<BR>
Workaround: -framedrop</LI>
</UL><BR>
No sound at all:<BR>
<UL>
<LI>your file uses an unsupported codec<BR>
Workaround: read the documentation and help us adding support for it</LI>
</UL>
<P>Video-out problems:</P>
<P>First note: options -fs -vm and -zoom are just recommendations, not (yet)
supported by all drivers. So it isn't a bug if it doesn't work.
Only a few driver supports scaling/zooming, don't expect this from x11 or dga.</P>
<P>OSD/sub flickering:<BR>
- x11 driver: sorry, it can't be fixed now<BR>
- xv driver: use -double option</P>
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