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MPlayer requirements
====================
Intro
*****
This document is to tell you what MPlayer's requirements are, and where can you
find 'em.
Current Minimal Requirements:
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Binutils:
~~~~~~~~~
Brief: These utilities deal with object files.
URL: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/binutils
Checking: as --version
ld --version
Note: Preferred versions are:
2.9.1 - if you interest with MMX only support
2.10.1- if you interest with qualitative support of
MMX2, 3dnow, K7, SSE instructions set
2.11 - was tested and works fine with mplayer
(supports SSE2, IA64, AMD's x86-64 sets)
GCC
~~~
Brief: Gnu Compilers Collection
URL: http://gcc.gnu.org
Checking: gcc --version
Note: Preferred versions are 2.95.3 (2.95.2 with updated libstc++ stuff)
2.96.xx won't work, they are RedHat's UNOFFICIAL and BUGGY releases
egcs-2.91.xx and early may have problems with inline assembler
GLIBC
~~~~~
Brief: GNU C library
URL: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/glibc
Checking: ls -l /lib/libc[.-]*
Note: Preferred versions are 2.1.3 or 2.2.3
make
~~~~
Brief: Make utility
URL: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/make
Checking: make --version
Note: Preferred versions are 3.79 and 3.79.1
(previous 3.7x versions have memory leaks and can cause
problems if your PC has <=32Mb of memory. As rule it's
finished by segfault).
XFree86
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Brief: Free port of X11 system on x86 architecture
URL: http://www.xfree86.org
Checking: X -version
Note: Preferred versions are 4.0.3 and DRI-CVS
Win32 codecs:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Brief: Collection of win32 audio/video codecs.
URL: ftp://thot.banki.hu/MPlayer/releases/w32codec.zip
Note: Please use only this codec set (it differs from avifile's)
Status/info page: http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/DOCS/codecs.html
Optional Requirements:
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ALSA
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Brief: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/
Note: Preferred version is 0.9.x+ . For details see DOCS/README
DRI
~~~
Brief: The Direct Rendering Infrastructure
URL: http://dri.sourceforge.net/
Note: For details see DOCS/VIDEOCARDS
Utah-GLX
~~~~~~~~
Brief: An open source hardware accelerated implementation of OpenGL/GLX.
URL: http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/
Note: For detail see DOCS/VIDEOCARDS
libcss
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Brief: libcss is required for viewing encrypted DVDs
URL: http://www.linuxvideo.org/user/dl.html
Note: For details see DOCS/DVD
libdvdread
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Brief: it's required for playing DVDs
URL: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd
Note: For detail see DOCS/DVD
liblirc
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Brief: Linux Infrared Remote Control. LIRC is a package that supports receiving
and sending IR signals from/for the most common IR remote controls.
URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lirc/
Note: For details see DOCS/LIRC
libpng
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Brief: Portable Network Graphic library
URL: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngcode.html
Note: For details see DOCS/README
You may need package 'zlib' too, because of libpng depends on it!
libsdl
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Brief: Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed
to provide fast access to the graphics framebuffer and audio device
URL: http://www.libsdl.org
Note: Preferred versions are 1.2.0+. For details see DOCS/SDL
libxmmp
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Brief: Linux MultiMedia Project
URL: http://www.frozenproductions.com/xmmp/
Alt URL: http://xmmp.sourceforge.net
Note: For details see DOCS/ChangeLog
aalib
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Brief: ASCII ARTS Rendering Engine Project
Allow to you to watch all videos in ASCII-Mode :) (-vo aa)
URL: http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/
Enjoy!
MPlayer team