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Group codec library installation instructions together in a codec 

installation subsection.


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@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ please read the <link linkend="codec-importing">codec importing HOWTO</link>
and help us add support for it.
</para>
<sect1 id="video-codecs">
<title>Video codecs</title>
<sect1 id="codec_installation">
<title>Codec installation</title>
<!-- ********** -->
@ -93,6 +93,80 @@ Now rerun <filename>./configure</filename> for
<systemitem class="library">x264</systemitem> support.
</para>
</sect2>
<!-- ********** -->
<sect2 id="libmad">
<title><systemitem class="library">libmad</systemitem> support</title>
<para>
<ulink url="http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/"><systemitem class="library">libmad</systemitem></ulink>
is a multiplatform, integer (internally 24bit PCM) only
MPEG audio decoding library. It does not handle broken files well, and it
sometimes has problems with seeking, but it may perform better on FPU-less
(such as <link linkend="arm">ARM</link>)
platform than <systemitem class="library">mp3lib</systemitem>.
</para>
<para>
If you have a proper installation of
<systemitem class="library">libmad</systemitem>,
<filename>./configure</filename> will notice and support for MPEG audio
decoding via <systemitem class="library">libmad</systemitem> will be built
automatically.
</para>
</sect2>
<!-- ********** -->
<sect2 id="aac">
<title>AAC codec</title>
<para>
An open source AAC decoder called FAAD2 is available from
<ulink url="http://www.audiocoding.com/downloads.html"/>.
<application>MPlayer</application> includes a copy of it in its source tree.
If you want to use the external library instead, install it and pass
<option>--enable-faad-external</option> to <filename>./configure</filename>.
</para>
<para>
FAAD2 binaries are not available from audiocoding.com, but you can (apt-)get
Debian packages from
<ulink url="http://www.debian-multimedia.org/">Christian Marillat</ulink>,
Mandrake/Mandriva RPMs from the <ulink url="http://plf.zarb.org">P.L.F</ulink>
and Fedora RPMs from <ulink url="http://rpm.livna.org/">Livna</ulink>.
</para>
<para>
If you choose to build from source, you do not need all of FAAD2 to decode
AAC files, libfaad is enough. Build it like this:
<screen>
cd faad2/
sh bootstrap
./configure
cd libfaad
make
make install
</screen>
</para>
</sect2>
<!-- ********** -->
<sect2 id="amr">
<title>AMR codecs</title>
<para>
Adaptive Multi-Rate speech codec is used in third generation (3G) mobile
phones.
Reference implementation is available from
<ulink url="http://www.3gpp.org">The 3rd Generation Partnership Project</ulink>
(free for private use).
To enable support, download and install support libraries for
<ulink url="http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/amr">AMR-NB and AMR-WB</ulink>
following the instructions on that page. Recompile MPlayer afterwards.
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
@ -159,29 +233,6 @@ MPEG decoder cards.
<!-- ********** -->
<sect2 id="libmad">
<title><systemitem class="library">libmad</systemitem> support</title>
<para>
<ulink url="http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/"><systemitem class="library">libmad</systemitem></ulink>
is a multiplatform, integer (internally 24bit PCM) only
MPEG audio decoding library. It does not handle broken files well, and it
sometimes has problems with seeking, but it may perform better on FPU-less
(such as <link linkend="arm">ARM</link>)
platform than <systemitem class="library">mp3lib</systemitem>.
</para>
<para>
If you have a proper installation of
<systemitem class="library">libmad</systemitem>,
<filename>./configure</filename> will notice and support for MPEG audio
decoding via <systemitem class="library">libmad</systemitem> will be built
automatically.
</para>
</sect2>
<!-- ********** -->
<sect2 id="hwmpa">
<title>Hardware MPEG audio codec</title>
@ -195,57 +246,6 @@ only white noise).
</para>
</sect2>
<!-- ********** -->
<sect2 id="aac">
<title>AAC codec</title>
<para>
An open source AAC decoder called FAAD2 is available from
<ulink url="http://www.audiocoding.com/downloads.html"/>.
<application>MPlayer</application> includes a copy of it in its source tree.
If you want to use the external library instead, install it and pass
<option>--enable-faad-external</option> to <filename>./configure</filename>.
</para>
<para>
FAAD2 binaries are not available from audiocoding.com, but you can (apt-)get
Debian packages from
<ulink url="http://www.debian-multimedia.org/">Christian Marillat</ulink>,
Mandrake/Mandriva RPMs from the <ulink url="http://plf.zarb.org">P.L.F</ulink>
and Fedora RPMs from <ulink url="http://rpm.livna.org/">Livna</ulink>.
</para>
<para>
If you choose to build from source, you do not need all of FAAD2 to decode
AAC files, libfaad is enough. Build it like this:
<screen>
cd faad2/
sh bootstrap
./configure
cd libfaad
make
make install
</screen>
</para>
</sect2>
<!-- ********** -->
<sect2 id="amr">
<title>AMR codecs</title>
<para>
Adaptive Multi-Rate speech codec is used in third generation (3G) mobile
phones.
Reference implementation is available from
<ulink url="http://www.3gpp.org">The 3rd Generation Partnership Project</ulink>
(free for private use).
To enable support, download and install support libraries for
<ulink url="http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/amr">AMR-NB and AMR-WB</ulink>
following the instructions on that page. Recompile MPlayer afterwards.
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>