Change ao_pcm to use the new audio output driver API and clean up some
of the code. Rewrite the logic controlling how playback timing works
when using -ao pcm. Deprecate the "fast" suboption; its only effect
now is to print a warning, but it's still accepted so that specifying
it is not an error.
Before, timing with -ao pcm and video enabled had two possible
modes. In the default mode playback speed was rather arbitrary - not
realtime, but not particularly fast. -ao pcm:fast tried to play back
at maximum video playback speed - mostly succeeding, but not quite
guaranteed to work in all cases. Now the default is to play at
realtime speed. The -benchmark option can now be used to get faster
playback (same as the video-only case). In the audio-only case
playback is always maximum speed.
Compiling with full features requires development files for several
external libraries. Below is a list of some important requirements. For
more information see the output of './configure --help' for a list of options,
or look at the list of enabled and disabled features printed after running
'./configure'. If you think you have support for some feature installed
but configure fails to detect it, the file config.log may contain information
about the reasons for the failure.
Libraries specific to particular video output methods
(you'll want at least one of VDPAU, GL or Xv):
- libvdpau (for VDPAU output, best choice for NVIDIA cards)
- libGL (OpenGL output)
- libXv (XVideo output)
general:
- libasound (ALSA audio output)
- various general X development libraries
- libfreetype
- libfontconfig
- libass
- FFmpeg libraries (libavutil libavcodec libavformat libswscale libpostproc)
Most of the above libraries are available in suitable versions on normal
Linux distributions. However FFmpeg is an exception (distro versions may be
too old to work at all or work well). For that reason you may want to use
the separately available build wrapper that first compiles FFmpeg libraries
and libass, and then compiles the player statically linked against those.
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