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debian Add myself as Debian package maintainer, Dariush has not been active in years. 2007-09-19 14:47:12 +00:00
DOCS VIDIX is no longer a shared library. 2008-01-16 09:29:40 +00:00
drivers Fix illegal identifiers: Names starting with __ or _ and uppercase are reserved 2008-01-06 23:20:15 +00:00
dvdread 10l, removing the conditional bitfields from (audio|sub)_mapping_t requires the big->native conversion 2007-11-25 21:45:35 +00:00
etc add default deinterlace key 2008-01-15 19:37:16 +00:00
gui Make xpm arrays really const (I missed that they are not strings but 2008-01-13 16:52:33 +00:00
help syncet to r25663 2008-01-15 22:41:15 +00:00
input Remove a useless cast 2008-01-15 09:27:22 +00:00
liba52 Add proper license header. 2008-01-02 22:02:06 +00:00
libaf Fix buffer overflow bug by calculate the buffer size accurately. 2008-01-11 10:15:46 +00:00
libao2 Write functions used by send_mpeg_*_packet may _not_ modify data 2008-01-12 16:05:04 +00:00
libass Do not try to guess font metrics based on its bounding box. 2008-01-12 02:27:01 +00:00
libdvdcss Fix #endif comment, sync with libdvdcss r208. 2008-01-07 22:46:53 +00:00
libfaad2 Remove superfluous README file, its content is in the Copyright file. 2007-12-31 16:06:14 +00:00
libmenu Deny the code using realpath(). 2008-01-10 12:44:17 +00:00
libmpcodecs Remove unused variable 2008-01-12 15:45:47 +00:00
libmpdemux Put bff_mask into muxer context instead of a global variable. 2008-01-13 21:06:30 +00:00
libmpeg2 Remove Makefile changes from upstream diff. They are strictly local. 2007-10-08 12:53:02 +00:00
libswscale comment typo fixes 2007-12-21 11:47:09 +00:00
libvo Create/allocate conversion textures before scaler textures. 2008-01-15 18:14:00 +00:00
loader Remove another 2 useless casts 2008-01-13 10:19:06 +00:00
mp3lib Remove unnecessary <signal.h> includes 2008-01-09 01:17:49 +00:00
osdep Happy New Year! 2008-01-02 07:38:40 +00:00
rpm import cleaned-up RPM spec files 2007-10-06 20:13:30 +00:00
stream Simplify/cleanup of real_calc_response_and_checksum() 2008-01-13 21:21:25 +00:00
TOOLS Relicense to GPL v2 or later with Reimar's permission. 2008-01-06 21:19:59 +00:00
tremor _vorbis_block_alloc() is used w/o prototype, this will crash on ia64. 2007-10-20 22:41:24 +00:00
vidix Make some radeon vidix driver tables static and const 2008-01-13 17:52:29 +00:00
access_mpcontext.h Add multiple inclusion guards to all header files that lack them. 2008-01-01 21:35:58 +00:00
asxparser.c Replace http:// URLs in asx files by mmshttp://. 2007-11-26 19:04:31 +00:00
asxparser.h Fix illegal identifiers: Names starting with __ or _ and uppercase are reserved 2008-01-06 23:20:15 +00:00
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cfg-mencoder.h Add multiple inclusion guards to all header files that lack them. 2008-01-01 21:35:58 +00:00
cfg-mplayer-def.h
cfg-mplayer.h Add heartbeat-cmd option 2008-01-07 12:30:15 +00:00
Changelog angle switching in dvd 2008-01-05 14:34:29 +00:00
codec-cfg.c 100l, free strdup'd strings 2008-01-12 14:48:12 +00:00
codec-cfg.h Replace the persistent CODECS_FLAG_SELECTED by a local "stringset" with 2008-01-12 14:05:46 +00:00
command.c Make mp_properties const 2008-01-13 17:00:46 +00:00
command.h Add multiple inclusion guards to all header files that lack them. 2008-01-01 21:35:58 +00:00
common.mak sync with FFmpeg r10874 2007-10-30 07:54:56 +00:00
configure The GUI requires font support. 2008-01-14 23:08:24 +00:00
Copyright Fix #endif comment, sync with libdvdcss r208. 2008-01-07 22:46:53 +00:00
cpudetect.c support for xtensa CPU architecture 2007-12-11 22:37:36 +00:00
cpudetect.h Fix typo in multiple inclusion guard comment. 2007-12-31 11:51:54 +00:00
cpuinfo.c Sync with Linux kernel with some latest feature bits. 2007-11-09 01:56:31 +00:00
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edl.c
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find_sub.c Reset two static variables for nosub range when subdata changed/switched. 2007-10-27 00:37:46 +00:00
fmt-conversion.h DOCS/tech/colorspaces.txt says I420 and IYUV are the same, so add IYUV at the 2007-09-12 17:59:31 +00:00
get_path.c cosmetics: Fix up whitespace, indentation and similar things. 2007-08-29 09:43:00 +00:00
get_path.h Clean up the way get_path is handled: Compile get_path.c to an object to link 2007-08-28 11:20:24 +00:00
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m_config.c export m_config_set_profile() 2008-01-10 18:41:21 +00:00
m_config.h export m_config_set_profile() 2008-01-10 18:41:21 +00:00
m_option.c typo: begining --> beginning 2007-12-23 21:22:02 +00:00
m_option.h Option print functions may not and do not modify value 2007-12-02 15:56:38 +00:00
m_property.c All the m_property stuff works fine with constant m_option_t 2008-01-13 16:59:21 +00:00
m_property.h All the m_property stuff works fine with constant m_option_t 2008-01-13 16:59:21 +00:00
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mencoder.c Happy New Year! 2008-01-02 07:38:40 +00:00
metadata.h Do not use leading underscores in multiple inclusion guards, they are reserved. 2007-07-02 22:34:45 +00:00
mixer.c The audio balance feature implemented with af_pan. 2007-06-20 02:26:20 +00:00
mixer.h Identifiers starting with underscores are reserved. 2007-07-31 07:04:07 +00:00
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mp_fifo.c
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mp_msg-mencoder.c
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mpbswap.h Hide our swab prototype when the system has swab since at least the 2007-06-24 17:24:13 +00:00
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Welcome to MPlayer, The Movie Player. MPlayer can play most standard video
formats out of the box and almost all others with the help of external codecs.
MPlayer currently works best from the command line, but visual feedback for
many functions is available from its onscreen status display (OSD), which is
also used for displaying subtitles. MPlayer also has a GUI with skin support and
several unofficial alternative graphical frontends are available.

MEncoder is a command line video encoder for advanced users that can be built
from the MPlayer source tree. Unofficial graphical frontends exist but are
not included.

This document is for getting you started in a few minutes. It cannot answer all
of your questions. If you have problems, please read the documentation in
DOCS/HTML/en/index.html, which should help you solve most of your problems.
Also read the man page to learn how to use MPlayer.


Requirements:
- You need a working development environment that can compile programs.
  On popular Linux distributions, this means having the glibc development
  package(s) installed.
- To compile MPlayer with X11 support, you need to have the X Window System
  development packages (like for XFree86 or X.Org) installed.
- For the GUI you need the GTK development packages.


Before you start...
Make sure that your version of X has Xvideo support, without it even very
fast machines may not be able to properly play high resolution videos in
fullscreen mode. Consult DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for details. There you may
also find out about special card-specific video output drivers that can yield
optimal performance.


______________________
STEP0: Getting MPlayer
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Official releases and Subversion snapshots, as well as binary codec packages
and a number of different skins for the GUI are available from the download
section of our homepage at

  http://www.mplayerhq.hu/dload.html

The GUI needs at least one skin and codec packages add support for some more
video and audio formats. MPlayer does not come with any of these by default,
you have to download and install them separately.

You can also get MPlayer via Subversion. Issue the following commands to get
the latest sources:

  svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer

A directory named 'mplayer' will be created. It will include all necessary
FFmpeg libraries, you don't need to get them separately as was the case in
the past. You can later update your sources by saying

  svn update

from within that directory.


_______________________________
STEP1: Installing Binary Codecs
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

MPlayer has builtin support for the most common audio and video formats. For a
few formats no native decoder exists and external binary codecs are required
to handle them, for example newer RealVideo variants and a variety of uncommon
formats. This step is not mandatory, but recommended for getting MPlayer to
play a broader range of formats. Please note that binary codecs only work on
the processor architecture they were compiled for.

Unpack the codecs archives and put the contents in a directory where MPlayer
will find them. The default directory is /usr/local/lib/codecs/ (it used to be
/usr/local/lib/win32 in the past, this also works) but you can change that to
something else by passing the '--codecsdir' option to './configure'.


__________________________
STEP2: Configuring MPlayer
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

MPlayer can be adapted to all kinds of needs and hardware environments. Run

  ./configure

to configure MPlayer with the default options. GUI support has to be enabled
separately, run

  ./configure --enable-gui

if you want to use the GUI.

If something does not work as expected, try

  ./configure --help

to see the available options and select what you need.

The configure script prints a summary of enabled and disabled options. If you
have something installed that configure fails to detect, check the file
configure.log for errors and reasons for the failure. Repeat this step until
you are satisfied with the enabled feature set.


________________________
STEP3: Compiling MPlayer
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Now you can start the compilation by typing

  make

You can install MPlayer with

  make install

provided that you have write permission in the installation directory.

If all went well, you can run MPlayer by typing 'mplayer'. A help screen with a
summary of the most common options and keyboard shortcuts should be displayed.

If you get 'unable to load shared library' or similar errors, run
'ldd ./mplayer' to check which libraries fail and go back to STEP 3 to fix it.
Sometimes running 'ldconfig' is enough to fix the problem.

NOTE: If you run Debian you can configure, compile and build a proper Debian
.deb package with only one command:

  fakeroot debian/rules binary

If you want to pass custom options to configure, you can set up the
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable. For instance, if you want GUI
and OSD menu support you would use:

  DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="--enable-gui --enable-menu" fakeroot debian/rules binary

You can also pass some variables to the Makefile. For example, if you want
to compile with gcc 3.4 even if it's not the default compiler:

  CC=gcc-3.4 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="--enable-gui" fakeroot debian/rules binary

To clean up the source tree run the following command:

  fakeroot debian/rules clean

______________________________________
STEP4: Choose an onscreen display font
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

You can use any TrueType font installed on your system. Just pass '-font
/path/to/font.ttf' on the command line or add 'font=/path/to/font.ttf' to
your configuration file. The manual page has more details. Alternatively
you can create a symbolic link from either ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf or
/usr/local/share/mplayer/subfont.ttf to your TrueType font.


____________________________
STEP5: Installing a GUI skin
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Unpack the archive and put the contents in /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/ or
~/.mplayer/skins/. MPlayer will use the skin in the subdirectory named default
of /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/ or ~/.mplayer/skins/ unless told otherwise
via the '-skin' switch. You should therefore rename your skin subdirectory or
make a suitable symbolic link.


__________________
STEP6: Let's play!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

That's it for the moment. To start playing movies, open a command line and try

  mplayer <moviefile>

or for the GUI

  gmplayer <moviefile>

gmplayer is a symbolic link to mplayer created by 'make install'.
Without <moviefile>, gmplayer will start with the GUI filepicker.

To play a VCD track or a DVD title, try:

  mplayer vcd://2 -cdrom-device /dev/hdc
  mplayer dvd://1 -alang en -slang hu -dvd-device /dev/hdd

See 'mplayer -help' and 'man mplayer' for further options.

'mplayer -vo help' will show you the available video output drivers. Experiment
with the '-vo' switch to see which one gives you the best performance.
If you get jerky playback or no sound, experiment with the '-ao' switch (see
'-ao help') to choose between different audio drivers. Note that jerky playback
is caused by buggy audio drivers or a slow processor and video card. With a
good audio and video driver combination, one can play DVDs and 720x576 MPEG-4
files smoothly on a Celeron 366. Slower systems may need the '-framedrop'
option.

Questions you may have are probably answered in the rest of the documentation.
The places to start reading are the man page, DOCS/HTML/en/index.html and
DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html. If you find a bug, please report it, but first read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.