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MPlayer (C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy (A'rpi/ESP-team)
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=============================== * See the file AUTHORS for the complete list *
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http://mplayer.sourceforge.net
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About:
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MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX. It plays most MPEG, AVI and ASF files,
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supported by many native and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VCD, DVD and even
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DivX movies too. The another big feature of mplayer is the wide range of
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supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev,
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AAlib, but you can use SDL (and this way all drivers of SDL) and some lowlevel
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card-specific drivers (for Matrox/3dfx/SiS) too! Most of them supports software
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or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. And what about the
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nice big antialiased shaded subtitles (7 supported types!!!) with hungarian,
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english, cyrillic, czech, korean fonts, and OSD?
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History:
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2001-02-24 20:28:24 +00:00
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Yes. Yet another movie player for linux.
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What is the special with this? It works, at least for me :)
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I've tried lots of players under linux (mtv,xmps,dvdview,livid/oms,VideoLAN,
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xine,xanim,avifile,xmmp) but they all have some problem. Mostly with
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special files or with audio/video sync. Most of them is unable to play
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both MPEG1, MPEG2 and AVI (DivX) files. Many players have image quality
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or speed problems too. So I've decided to write/modify one...
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2001-04-20 02:45:09 +00:00
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- mpg12play v0.1-v0.3:
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The first try, hacked together in a half hour!
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I've used libmpeg3 from www.heroinewarrior.com up to the version 0.3,
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but there were image quality and speed problems with it.
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- mpg12play v0.5-v0.87:
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Mpeg codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was a great stuff,
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but it was slow and was written in C++ (I hate C++!!!)
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- mpg12play v0.9-v0.95pre5:
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Mpeg codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman & Michel Lespinasse.
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It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect image quality and
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100% MPEG standard conformance.
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- MPlayer v0.3-v0.9:
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It was a pack of two programs: mpg12playv0.95pre6 and my new simple AVI
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player 'avip' based on avifile's Win32 DLL loader.
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- MPlayer v0.10:
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The MPEG and AVI player in a single binary!
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- MPlayer v0.11:
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Added .ASF file support, and OpenDivX (see www.projectmayo.com) en/decoding.
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- MPlayer v0.17 "The IdegCounter"
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The release version of the 0.11pre after 4 months of heavy development!
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Try it, and be amazed! Thousands of new features added... and of course
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old code was improved too, bugs removed etc.
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- MPlayer 0.18
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2 months since 0.17 and here's a new release.. Completed ASF support,
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more subtitle formats, introduced libao (similar to libvo but to audio),
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even more stable than ever, and so on. It's a MUST !
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2001-05-10 09:48:03 +00:00
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As you see, I didn't write any codecs, just some players. Instead I spent
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a lot of time finding the best way to parse bad damaged input files
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(both MPEG and AVI) and to do perfect A-V sync with seeking ability.
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My player is rock solid playing damaged MPEG files (useful for some VCDs),
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and it plays bad AVI files which are unplayable with the famous
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windows media player. Even AVI files without index chunk are playable, and
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you can rebuild their indexes with the -idx option, thus enabling seeking!
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As you see, stability and quality are the most important things for me,
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but the speed is also amazing.
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What about the GUI?
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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I'm not a GUI programmer. I hate GUIs, I like the pure black 80x25 console.
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So the player has only keyboard control from the controlling console/xterm now.
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There is a GUI development for the player, coordinated by Pontscho/Fresh!
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It's still under development, but it will be merged and released real soon.
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BTW he needs some nice skins, if you are a good graphician, contact him!!!
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Supported input formats:
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- VCD (Video CD) directly from CD-ROM or from CDRwin's .bin image file
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- DVD, directly from your DVD disk, using optional libcss for decryption
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- MPEG 1/2 System Stream (PS/PES/VOB) and Elementary Stream (ES) file formats
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- RIFF AVI file format
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- ASF 1.0 file format
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- supports reading from file or stdin
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Supported audio & video codecs:
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*** See http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/DOCS/codecs.html ***
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*** for the complete list ***
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The most important video codecs:
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- MPEG1 (VCD) and MPEG2 (DVD) video
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- DivX, OpenDivX and other MPEG4 variants
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- Windows Media Video 7 (WMV1) used in .wmv files
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- Intel Indeo codecs (3.1,3.2,4.1,5.0)
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- MJPEG, ASV2 and other hardware formats
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The most important audio codecs:
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- MPEG layer 2, and layer 3 (MP3) audio
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- AC3 dolby audio
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- Voxware audio
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- alaw, msgsm, pcm and other simple old audio formats
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If you have a codec not listed here, and not supported yet, just
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read http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/DOCS/codecs.html and DOCS/CODECS
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to get info about its status and about how to help us adding support for it!
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Supported video output devices:
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General:
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- x11: X11 with SHM extension
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- xv: X11 using overlays with the Xvideo extension (hardware YUV & scaling)
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- gl: OpenGL renderer, so far works only with :
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- all cards with Utah-GLX
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- Matrox cards with X/DRI >=4.0.3
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- Radeon with X/DRI CVS
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- dga: X11 DGA extension
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- fsdga:X11 DGA extension with fullscreen scaling (only 24/32bpp and MPEG!)
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- fbdev:Output to general framebuffers
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- svga: Output to SVGAlib
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- sdl: 1.1.7 : supports software scaling
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1.1.8 : supports Xvideo
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1.2.0 : supports aalib
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- aalib:Textmode rendering (through SDL, native driver is coming soon!)
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Card specific:
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- mga: Matrox G200/G400 hardware YUV overlay via the mga_vid device
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- xmga: Matrox G200/G400 overlay (mga_vid) in X11 window
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(Xv emulation on X 3.3.x !)
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- syncfb: Matrox G400 YUV support on framebuffer (obsoleted, use mga/xmga)
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- 3dfx: Voodoo2/3 hardware YUV (/dev/3dfx) support (not yet tested, maybe broken)
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Special:
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- png: PNG files output (use -z switch to set compression)
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- pgm: PGM files output (for testing purposes or ffmpeg encoding)
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- md5: MD5sum output (for MPEG conformance tests)
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- odivx:OpenDivX AVI File writer (use -br to set encoding bitrate)
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- null: Null output (for speed tests/benchmarking)
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NOTE: check DOCS/VIDEOCARDS !
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Supported audio output devices:
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- OSS driver
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- ALSA driver with OSS emulation (ALSA >= 0.9 only!)
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- ESD with the esddsp utility (not tested)
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NOTE: check DOCS/SOUNDCARDS for details!
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Speed:
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Most of time-critical parts are optimized for MMX/MMXext/SSE/3DNow!/3DNow!Ex.
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You can improve rendering speed by setting up MTRR registers, see doc in MTRR.
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Some *old* benchmark results can be found in the file DOCS/SPEED.
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Usage:
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mplayer [options] [-vo driver] [path/]filename
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Options:
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see `mplayer -h' for options
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see `mplayer -vo help' for list of available output drivers
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Keys:
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<- or -> seek backward/forward 10 seconds
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up or down seek backward/forward 1 minute
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p or SPACE pause movie (press any key to continue)
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q or ^C stop playing and quit program
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o toggle OSD : none / seek / seek+timer
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/ and * decrease/increase volume
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m toggle using master/pcm channel for volume setting
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f toggle fullscreen (only with -vo sdl)
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Examples:
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mplayer -vo x11 /mnt/Films/Contact/contact2.mpg
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mplayer -vcd 2 /dev/cdrom
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mplayer -afm 3 /mnt/DVDtrailers/alien4.vob
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mplayer -dvd /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd/matrix.vob
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mplayer -abs 65536 -delay -0.4 -nobps ~/movies/test.avi
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Note: in order to use Matrox YUV driver (-vo mga or xmga), first you'll have
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to load the driver: see DOCS/VIDEOCARDS .
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Playing from Net & stdin:
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Now it's possible.
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To play something by reading from stdin, just use '-' as filename:
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cat test.mpg | mplayer -vo xv -
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Restrictions:
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mpg: no backward seeking
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asf: no backward seeking
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avi: no index reading -> no seeking at all, and playing of some files are
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+impossible
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No control from controlling terminal/xterm, but hotkeys and osd works
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from the window. or course LIRC still works everywhere.
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This feature combined with external wrappers extends possibilities.
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For example, to play a movie just downloaded from your favourite divx
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server:
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rar p ast-nssvcd.rar | mplayer -vo xmga -fs -
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or:
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wget ftp://micorsops.com/something.avi -O - | mplayer -
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TV output:
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If you have a Matrox G400 Dual-Head card, you can watch movies on TV, using
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the TV-out feature of the second head. Read DOCS/TVout-G400 for details!
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Sending bugreports, comments, feature requests etc:
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First please read all the docs in this package, most of the problems are
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described somewhere. At least read DOCS/BUGS ! We don't like answering
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questions which are already answered in this readme or other docs.
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2001-04-30 02:38:41 +00:00
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Read the DOCS/MPlayer-FAQ. Most common problems are answered there!
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You should try the latest development version (from CVS) too, maybe your
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bug is already fixed, but the new version hasn't been released.
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If you couldn't solve the problem, then send a quality bugreport:
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read DOCS/BUGREPORTS for instructions (where, what and how...)
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Subscribe to the mplayer-users mailing list. There are many MPlayer
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users, maybe they can help or know the solution to your problem.
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You also should send ideas, feature requests, comments to there!
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Please do not ask for features already listed in the DOCS/TODO!
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Contact information:
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Homepage: http://mplayer.sourceforge.net
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Mailing lists:
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There are some public mailing lists on MPlayer. Subscribing can be achieved on
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the following addresses:
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- MPlayer core/hungarian developers list:
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http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-devel
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I dunno, it is the FLAME list in hungarian language :)
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Also some talking about mplayer core team internals, like mplayer
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party, sponsors etc can be here.
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- MPlayer developers list:
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http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng
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2001-06-09 15:17:31 +00:00
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This list is about mplayer development! Talking about interface/API changes,
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new libraryes, code optimization, ./configure changes, and send patches here.
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Do NOT send bugreports, user questions, feature requests here!
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This list should be kept low-traffic.
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- MPlayer users list:
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http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-users
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- send bugreports here (after reading DOCS/BUGS, BUGREPORTS)
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- send feature requests here (after reading DOCS/TODO)
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- send user questions here (after reading DOCS/README, INSTALL, FAQ etc)
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- MPlayer & Matrox G200/G400/G450 users:
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2001-03-14 23:57:36 +00:00
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http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-matrox
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2001-06-09 15:17:31 +00:00
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Send matrox-related questions here,
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- things about mga_vid,
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- matrox's official beta drivers (for X 4.xx)
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- and about matroxfb-TVout stuff.
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2001-05-15 15:18:15 +00:00
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- mpg12play-portable developers:
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http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-mpg12play
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2001-06-09 15:17:31 +00:00
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This list is for talking about mplayer ports to non-x86 platforms
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(IRIX, Solaris-SPARC, Alpha, Commodore64, Sharp Calculator,
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Teapot etc...)
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- MPlayer announce:
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2001-04-30 02:16:55 +00:00
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http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-announce
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2001-06-09 15:17:31 +00:00
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Very low traffic list :)
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And it's read-only. I'll post something shit there if a new release
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is done.
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- MPlayer CVS-log:
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2001-03-14 23:57:36 +00:00
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http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog
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2001-02-24 20:28:24 +00:00
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2001-06-09 15:17:31 +00:00
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Send only questions about CVS changes here.
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(if you don't understand why a change is required or you've better fix)
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Be sure in that your target developer reads this list!
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2001-05-10 09:48:03 +00:00
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NOTE: language of above lists are ENGLISH, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
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Please do not send messages using other language!
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2001-04-30 02:16:55 +00:00
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2001-05-11 13:13:33 +00:00
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License:
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2001-04-30 02:16:55 +00:00
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~~~~~~~~
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2001-05-29 19:46:50 +00:00
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MPlayer incorporates a lot of code from other projects, but for now everything
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except the OpenDivX stuff is under General Public License (GPL) version 2 or
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later. See DOCS/COPYING
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2001-04-30 02:16:55 +00:00
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2001-02-24 20:28:24 +00:00
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Standard Disclaimer:
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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2001-04-19 12:10:18 +00:00
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Use only at your own risk! There may be errors and inaccuracies that could
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2001-05-29 19:46:50 +00:00
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damage your system, your eye or ear. Proceed with caution, and although this is
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2001-04-19 12:10:18 +00:00
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highly unlikely, we don't take any responsibility for that!
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