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wm4 f203a881e5 README.md: minor cleanups
I don't think MPlayer/mplayer2 and Libav are well-known enough anymore
to warrant such a prominent place in the top-level README file of this
project. It's just useless noise to most users. So I've moved these
things to the FAQ.

Update some other minor things.
2019-10-02 13:53:35 +02:00
Vítor Galvão 643db416a1 README.md: remove dead homebrew-mpv link 2019-10-02 13:26:10 +02:00
wm4 3a035f2a8c README: remove old googlegroups mailing list address
Is anyone still monitoring this in any way? I think not.
2019-09-14 16:40:50 +02:00
Aman b7339a7c7e Improve readme aesthetics.
This fixes the line under the header, creates a title header, and
slightly improves list formatting.
2018-09-30 15:56:22 +03:00
wm4 7af6cabcba README: mention that Libav support is broken
I hoped Libav would add the FFmpeg changes (codec/demuxer/filter list
APIs), but nothing happened. So it's broken currently.
2018-04-20 12:37:34 +02:00
wm4 4a5a4b676e README: mention some semi-required FFmpeg dependencies
I think DASH playback tends to work much better with FFmpeg's DASH
demuxer, which requires libxml2.

For nvdec, FFmpeg git master now requires the external nvidia headers,
since the builtin ones were removed.
2018-03-03 02:38:01 +02:00
Larivact d744dca537 README: some rewording and markdown improvements 2017-12-15 22:16:59 -08:00
Larivact 732c33e884 README: reorganize table of contents
Add missing sections, make order consistent, create a new section for external
links and rename "Manual" link.
2017-12-15 22:16:55 -08:00
Rostislav Pehlivanov f19797dea6 Remove support for ffmpeg-mpv 2017-12-05 08:27:55 +00:00
Vijay Marupudi e7c12bead4 README: fix markdown formatting of ffmpeg link
Pretty self-explanatory, square brackets instead of curly ones.
2017-11-26 13:36:29 -08:00
wm4 a7a1ae0b3d build: make it easier to force FFmpeg upstream
Apparently some people want this. Actually making it compile is still
their problem, though, and I expect that build with FFmpeg upstream will
occasionally be broken (as it is right now). This is because mpv also
relies on API provided by Libav, and if FFmpeg hasn't merged that yet,
it's not our problem - we provide a version of FFmpeg upstream with
those changes merged, and it's called ffmpeg-mpv.

Also adjust the README which still talked about FFmpeg releases.
2017-11-01 16:50:18 +01:00
wm4 a7f4ecb012 Bump libav* API use
(Not tested on Windows and OSX.)
2017-10-30 20:55:42 +01:00
wm4 fc013ea8ac Copyright: some more licensing clarifications
Unfortunately I'm also adding the full text of the LGPL license text,
because the GPL one was already present in this repository, and I don't
want to imply that the GPL somehow has priority.
2017-10-13 15:44:55 +02:00
wm4 cabb1ca549 README.md: explicitly link contribute.md
Also move the license section, because it looks strange how the link
list is above it.
2017-10-09 16:00:08 +02:00
Martin Herkt 4ab9aac196
README: drop support for Windows Vista
See #4952.
2017-10-04 03:07:12 +02:00
wm4 ae7db6503b video: drop old D3D11/DXVA2 support
Now you need FFmpeg git, or something.

This also gets rid of the last real use of gpu_memcpy(). libavutil does
that itself. (vaapi.c still used it, but it was essentially unused,
because the code path isn't really in use anymore. It wasn't even
included due to the d3d-hwaccel dependency in wscript.)
2017-09-26 18:58:45 +02:00
Martin Herkt 82d9419f62
Revert "x11: drop xscrnsaver use"
This broke screensaver/powersave inhibition with at least KDE and
LXDE. This is a release blocker.

Since fdo, KDE and GNOME idiots seem to be unable to reach
a consensus on a simple protocol, this seems unlikely to get
fixed upstream this year, so revert this change.

Fixes #4752.
Breaks #4706 but I don’t give a damn.

This reverts commit 3f75b3c343.
2017-08-20 09:18:39 +02:00
wm4 3f75b3c343 x11: drop xscrnsaver use
It's an ancient X11 protocol extension that apparently nobody uses
anymore (desktop environments in particular have replaced it with
equally bad protocols that require tons of dependencies). Users keep
complaining about it being a required dependency.

The impact is likely minimal to none.

Fixes #4706 and other annoying people.
2017-08-08 12:55:41 +02:00
wm4 e7990944de README: shorten a section and link to FAQ instead 2017-06-27 11:36:20 +02:00
Ricardo Constantino 2491a79a9e
README: missing correction from previous commit
Also add links pointing to wiki and issue tracker feature requests
for new contributions.
2017-06-21 20:52:55 +01:00
Ricardo Constantino 6634f71fa0
README: more grammar and spelling corrections
Most of them pointed out and corrected by uau.
2017-06-21 19:58:15 +01:00
adeshkp aaeec09f03 README.md: spelling corrections 2017-06-20 19:22:19 +02:00
wm4 7e889e5e63 README: add example compilation commands
Not sure if that helps.
2017-06-02 21:13:29 +02:00
wm4 f59371de21 video: drop vaapi/vdpau hw decoding support with FFmpeg 3.2
This drops support for the old libavcodec APIs. Now FFmpeg 3.3 or FFmpeg
git is required. Libav has no release with the new APIs yet, so for
Libav git as of a few weeks or months ago or so is required if you want
to use Libav.

Not much actually changes in hwdec_vaegl.c - some code is removed, but
the reindentation inflates the diff.
2017-04-23 16:07:03 +02:00
wm4 1d0a858447 README: list some more X11 dependencies 2017-04-23 16:01:49 +02:00
wm4 927afa311d build: make various x11 protocol extension libs mandatory
Reduces the ifdeffery, which is good and will avoid silent breakages, or
weird behavior if a lib is omitted.

Also reorder the x11_common.c include statements.
2017-04-21 07:30:03 +02:00
wm4 8aaef132f6 Switch demuxing and decoding to GStreamer (finally FFmpeg independence!)
README.md: fix linebreaks

It's only a README, but the 80 columns limit should be followed.
2017-04-01 13:42:10 +02:00
wm4 240868e348 README.md: update comments about Windows hwdec/GL
We have direct rendering with hardware decoding now (so no SSE4 for
memcpy from GPU memory required), and also OpenGL drivers are not so
much of a problem anymore with ANGLE being default.
2017-03-13 12:36:44 +01:00
wm4 a660e15c9b build: bump required minimum versions to FFmpeg 3.2.2 and Libav 12
Fixes the build with Libav 11 (not).
2016-12-07 19:13:14 +01:00
wm4 106f607ef7 README: add links to various changelogs
We're too lazy to maintain a full changelog, but there are still a bunch
of places which document specific changes. A user really should check
them on each update, even if there are transition periods (including
printing warnings etc.) for most changes. It's a good idea to give them
more exposure by adding them to the README.
2016-11-15 23:42:33 +01:00
Ben Boeckel b2ce00ed56 readme: fix typo 2016-07-01 19:12:26 -04:00
wm4 d057e7a142 player: fatal error if linked and compiled FFmpeg versions mismatch
We don't support this anymore.

This tries to exit in a controlled way after command line options are
applied in order to honor logging options and, in case of libmpv, not to
kill the host. Not sure if it would be better to just vomit text to
stderr and call abort().
2016-07-01 20:56:59 +02:00
wm4 2d6da37b6b README: declare that we do not respect FFmpeg ABI rules 2016-06-29 21:16:42 +02:00
wm4 881bc23927 README: eloborate on stable FFmpeg releases further
We _really_ try to discourage using older releases.
2016-03-10 22:02:45 +01:00
wm4 11d0290543 README: edit release section, add section about preferred FFmpeg version
All using properly seasoned words.
2016-03-07 14:44:14 +01:00
Stefano Pigozzi d804e7b903 README: remove pointer to homebrew-mpv 2015-12-26 23:04:04 +01:00
wm4 b38094ad91 README: add something about system requirements
This is actually all bullshit. There are many factors that can ruin the
video playback experience (and most outside of our or the user's
control).

One thing that makes sense is that this declares incompatibility with
Windows XP (fixes #2473).
2015-11-22 18:19:35 +01:00
wm4 514f5d760e README: suggest uchardet instead of Enca as dependency
Enca is dead, uchardet is better (in half of all cases; on others it's
worse).
2015-11-16 16:24:26 +01:00
wm4 1c593f1497 README: link to Copyright instead of LICENSE file
The Copyright file explains the whole license mess. The earlier change
was apparently confusing, because the link reading "details" merely
linked to the GPLv2 license instead of explaining anything. In fact, I
meant to link to the Copyright file in the first place.
2015-10-06 18:19:20 +02:00
wm4 29e42b78c0 README: clarify license statement
Fixes #2382.
2015-10-06 09:28:38 +02:00
wm4 f3e8108c78 README: remove dead links to mailing lists
These were deleted due to inactivity.

Fixes #2135.
2015-07-14 00:12:14 +02:00
Marcin Kurczewski 797277a233 Various spelling fixes
Signed-off-by: wm4 <wm4@nowhere>
2015-06-18 19:36:58 +02:00
wm4 0f063a5011 old-configure: hide
It shouldn't be used, but it's still in the repo because I say so.
2015-05-09 19:55:11 +02:00
Niklas Haas d2292c179c manpage: update mpv IRC channels
Moved to #mpv and #mpv-devel, respectively. Travis details were also
updated.
2015-04-27 23:21:58 +02:00
wm4 be6cca7849 README: remove dead link 2015-04-10 12:50:02 +02:00
Cris 13a0ff8cb7 Update README.md
Signed-off-by: wm4 <wm4@nowhere>
2015-04-09 20:36:39 +02:00
wm4 6d4a758295 README: fix typos 2015-03-04 18:53:40 +01:00
wm4 771cb34932 README: add some better links
Also write something about MPlayer, since this is a frequently asked
question.
2015-03-04 17:28:41 +01:00
wm4 5808f1c408 build: bump required FFmpeg/Libav libraries
The af_lavrresample commit made compilation fail on Libav 10, so I think
it's time to require somewhat more recent dependencies.

Libav 11 is the latest release, and FFmpeg 2.4 seems to correspond to
Libav 11. So use these.

Also adjust the configure failure message. Instead of (accidentally)
printing the pkg-config versions twice, print the release version
numbers too. This is helpful, because the release version numbers are
completely different from the pkg-config ones.

I will probably remove some compatibility hacks in the following commits
too.
2015-03-03 11:56:44 +01:00
wm4 c314385280 build: require recent libass
Nobody should use an older version. It's perfectly backwards and forward
compatible, so distros have no excuse not to package a recent version.
Older versions lack tons of bug fixes (some of them crashing bugs, and
potentially security relevant).

With love to Debian, which is still on 0.10.2.
2015-02-18 21:13:11 +01:00