diff --git a/DOCS/codecs.html b/DOCS/codecs.html index 243628afe7..e38bb0c9a8 100644 --- a/DOCS/codecs.html +++ b/DOCS/codecs.html @@ -97,19 +97,21 @@

2.2.1.2 FFmpeg DivX/libavcodec

FFmpeg contains an - open source codec package, which is capable of decoding video streams + open source codec package, which is capable of decoding streams encoded with H263/MJPEG/RV10/DivX3/DivX4/DivX5/MP41/MP42/WMV1 - codecs. Not only some of them can be encoded with, but it also offers higher - speed than the Win32 codecs or the ProjectMayo DivX4/5 library!

+ video, or WMA (Windows Media Audio) audio codecs. Not only some of + them can be encoded with, but it also offers higher speed than the Win32 + codecs or the DivX.com DivX4/5 library!

It contains a lot of nice codecs, especially important are the MPEG4 variants: - DivX 3, DivX 4, DivX 5, Windows Media Video 7 (WMV1)

+ DivX 3, DivX 4, DivX 5, Windows Media Video 7 (WMV1). Also a very + interesting one is the WMA decoder.

If you use an MPlayer release you have libavcodec right in the package, just build as usual. If you use MPlayer from CVS you have to - extract libavcodec from the FFmpeg CVS tree as FFmpeg 0.4.5 does not + extract libavcodec from the FFmpeg CVS tree as FFmpeg releases don't work with MPlayer. In order to achieve this do:

    diff --git a/DOCS/documentation.html b/DOCS/documentation.html index f75dec03a2..195e639962 100644 --- a/DOCS/documentation.html +++ b/DOCS/documentation.html @@ -448,7 +448,8 @@
  1. DivX4/DivX5: information about this codec is available in the @@ -1399,7 +1402,7 @@ end

    6.2 *BSD

    -

    Mplayer runs on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, BSD/OS and Darwin. To build MPlayer +

    MPlayer runs on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, BSD/OS and Darwin. To build MPlayer you will need GNU make (gmake - native BSD make will not work) and a recent version of binutils.

    @@ -1428,14 +1431,6 @@ end

    MPlayer should work on Solaris 2.6 or newer.

    -

    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 Colaris 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, DivX/OpenDivX movies should work, when using - libavcodec.

    -

    On UltraSPARCs, MPlayer takes advantage of their VIS extensions (equivalent to MMX), currently only in libmpeg2, libvo and libavcodec, but not in mp3lib. You can watch a VOB