The GL_LUMINANCE16 texture format had only 8 bit precision on Mesa
based drivers. This caused heavy degradation of the image when playing
formats with more than 8 bits per pixel, such as 10 bit h264. Use
GL_R16 instead, which at least Mesa and Nvidia drivers actually
implement as 16 bit textures. Since sampling from this texture format
doesn't return anything meaningful in the other color components
(unlike luminance textures), the shader code has to be slightly
changed.
GL_R16 requires the GL_ARB_texture_rg extension. Check for it, and fall
back to the old texture format if it's not available.
The low precision of the GL_LUMINANCE16 format has just been fixed in
upstream Mesa, but it'll take a while before that fix is available in
distros.
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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