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Dudemanguy 8e8c34008f README: update minimum windows version and clarify
The README says Windows 7 and up, but the reality is that Windows
development is not done with 7 in mind and there are several known
issues that nobody is going to fix. Change this to 10 to reflect
reality. Also add a small paragraph explaining that we don't
intentionally break old systems, but don't expect them to always work.
Also change OSX to macOS.
2023-08-29 15:20:31 +00:00
Dudemanguy 3079ae5db3 README: replace outdated xinerama reference with xpresent
200992f90c stopped linking mpv to
libXinerama so this library isn't needed anymore. However, we do use
xpresent so mention that instead since all the other needed xorg
libraries are listed as well.
2023-08-27 20:43:45 -05:00
lights0123 f118faed42 DOCS: update LGPL building instructions
previous build system used --enable-lgpl
2023-08-10 11:05:31 +02:00
LaserEyess f2cce5f38f waf: remove waf as a build system
Remove waf entirely in favor of meson as the only supported build
system. Waf was officially deprecated in 0.36.0, and has not been
preferred over meson since 0.35.0.
2023-07-23 19:55:51 +00:00
Dudemanguy 3858a8102b build: officially deprecate waf
While the waf build has served us well for many years, it's time to
officially consider it deprecated. The meson build was added fully with
the intention to eventually replace waf and its current state is more
than good enough to do that. Let's start the deprecation period now to
give users a heads up to switch before we remove waf for good.
2023-01-15 16:46:11 +00:00
Dudemanguy 6ebc4928c5 ci: use meson setup build instead of meson build
The old "meson build" build command was actually deprecated a few months
ago*. It turns out that you're supposed to use "meson setup build"
instead which has been around for years. Go ahead and be a good citizen
and update this in the CI. Also replace any mention of "meson build"
with "meson setup build" in the documentation as well and change the one
random hardcoded string we have in meson.build to "meson configure
build" (might as well).

*: 3c7ab542c0
2022-10-29 17:55:33 +00:00
Cœur bb5b4b1ba6 various: fix typos 2022-04-25 09:07:18 -04:00
Dudemanguy ff322864f2 build: add meson build support
Adds support for the meson build system as well as a bit of
documentation. Compatibility with the existing waf build is
maintained.
2021-11-14 19:13:10 +00:00
Jan Ekström 7b9e024f37 waftools/features: add forgotten enable variants for enabled features
This brings enabled features on the same level as disabled and
auto-detected features by having both alternatives available.

Looking at the commit message of 652895abdc
this seems to have been the intent from the start, but this specific
definition was missing from the option creation in Features.
2021-09-20 00:43:12 +02:00
LaserEyess b7afac3248 DOCS: convert mpv.io and github links to https
Discovered with:

find . -type f \( -name '*.md' -o -name '*.rst' \)  -exec grep -n 'http://' {} +

All links to mpv.io or github.com/mpv-player that were http were
converted to https.
2021-08-17 13:42:21 +00:00
Jan Ekström 9cf5bb2979 {ci,docs,README}: update IRC references to new network 2021-06-08 16:45:22 +02:00
Guilherme ce0eb9b1e1 README: fix link to feature-request issues 2021-05-28 16:16:40 +02:00
der richter 8121d958ec README: update libass dependency harfbuzz as non-optional
since libass 0.15 harfbuzz is no longer optional.

Fixes #8412
2021-01-24 16:54:31 +02:00
wm4 448a964070 README: remove trolling
I guess this qualifies as trolling. It's becoming increasingly clear
that Microsoft will not be able to deliver on this promise, at least not
in the way they made it seem at first. I'm not sure if Microsoft was the
one who did the trolling, or me. I actually expected that we'd get full
GUI integration of Linux applications including accelerated graphics,
but it was always clear that it wasn't going to work as well as
natively.

In any case, there is no need to frighten any users. The time when you
can run only "Windows Store Apps" on Windows (== the end for mpv and
many other applications on Windows) will come soon enough.

The "faster than native" statement is based on other people's real
experience of software running faster in Linux VMs than native windows
ports, by the way.
2020-05-23 04:12:41 +02:00
wm4 a20ae0417f README: looks like we won't need win32 support anymore 2020-05-19 19:09:55 +02:00
Remita Amine c23b3ac53a README: fix typo 2019-12-04 16:20:40 +01:00
Timothy DeHerrera cb2d7c1534 README.md: fix dead FAQ link due to syntax error 2019-11-09 13:18:15 +01:00
wm4 3ae9f671d4 README.md: reduce focus on MPlayer, small improvements
MPlayer isn't all too well-known anymore. It does not make sense to
"advertise" with it (and it actually never did).

The GPU comment needed clarification. I think originally, it was just to
signal that you'll have a bad time with Intel. Make that broader.
2019-11-02 19:15:59 +01:00
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