[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS bugreports.html,1.6,1.7 documentation.html,1.41,1.42
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+++ bugreports.html 29 Aug 2001 16:12:31 -0000 1.7
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
<P><B>How to report bugs?</B></P>
-<P>First read DOCS/BUGS, and other docs. If your problem isn't
+<P>First read <A HREF="documentation.html#D">Appendix D</A>, and other docs. If your problem isn't
known or isn't solved by our instructions, then report the bug:</P>
<P><B>Where?</B></P>
Index: documentation.html
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--- documentation.html 28 Aug 2001 16:10:49 -0000 1.41
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@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
<FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>
<P><CENTER><B>MPlayer - Movie Player for LINUX (C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy (A'rpi/ESP-team)</B><BR>
-<BR><A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu">http://www.mplayerhq.hu</A></CENTER></P>
+<BR><A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu">http://www.mplayerhq.hu</A><BR><BR>
+<A HREF="Hungarian/documentation.html">[ Hungarian translation ]</A></CENTER></P>
<P><HR></P>
@@ -98,6 +99,7 @@
</LI><UL><LI><A HREF="#A2">A/2. Maintainers</A></LI></UL>
</LI><LI><A HREF="#B">B. Mailing lists</A>
</LI><LI><A HREF="bugreports.html">C. How to report bugs</A>
+</LI><LI><A HREF="#D">D. Known bugs</A>
</LI></UL></P>
@@ -170,6 +172,22 @@
<P><B><A NAME=1.3>1.3. Installation</A></B></P>
+<P>You'll need the following packages and versions if you don't want to
+experience any problems:<BR>
+<UL>
+ <LI><B>binutils</B> - suggested version is <B>2.11.x</B> . This program is
+ responsible for generating MMX/3DNow!/etc instructions, thus very important.</LI>
+ <LI><B>gcc</B> - suggested version is from <B>2.95.2</B> to <B>2.95.4</B>.
+ <B>NEVER</B> use 2.96 or 3.x.x !!! They generate faulty code.</LI>
+ <LI><B>XFree86</B> - suggested version is <B>always the newest (4.1.0)</B>. Normally
+ everyone wants this. If you don't know why, you <B>do</B> need it.</LI>
+ <LI><B>make</B> - suggested version is <B>always the newest</B> (at least 3.79.x). This
+ usually isn't important.</LI>
+</UL>
+</P>
+
+<P>Read the following before trying to compile <B>MPlayer</B>:</P>
+
<UL>
<LI>If you plan to use <B>MPlayer</B> on x86 architecture, you possibly want to use
Win32 codecs. Download and unzip w32codecs.zip to /usr/lib/win32 .
@@ -179,7 +197,7 @@
<LI>If you own a Matrox G200/G400/G450 card, then please see the <A HREF="video.html#2.2.1.7">2.2.1.7</A>
section in order to gain big speedup. It is important to do these steps
-_before_ compiling <B>MPlayer</B>, otherwise no Matrox-specific support will be
+<I>before</I> compiling <B>MPlayer</B>, otherwise no Matrox-specific support will be
built.</LI>
<LI>If you plan to use the ProjectMayo's <B>DivX4</B> codec, check the
@@ -444,9 +462,10 @@
when using libavcodec.</P>
<P>On <B>UltraSPARC</B>s, <B>MPlayer</B> takes advantage of their <B>VIS</B>
-extensions (equivalent to MMX), currently only(?) in <I>libmpeg2</I> and <I>libvo</I>, not
-libavcodec/mp3lib. You can watch a VOB file on a 400Mhz CPU. You'll need
-<A HREF="http://www.sun.com/sparc/vis/mediaLib.html">mLib</A> installed.</P>
+extensions (equivalent to MMX), currently only in <I>libmpeg2</I>,
+<I>libvo</I> and <I>libavcodec</I>, but not in mp3lib. You can watch a VOB file
+on a 400Mhz CPU. You'll need <A
+HREF="http://www.sun.com/sparc/vis/mediaLib.html">mLib</A> installed.</P>
<P>To build the package you will need GNU make (gmake, /opt/sfw/gmake), native
Solaris make will not work. Typical error you get when building with solaris'
@@ -659,6 +678,7 @@
</LI><LI>configure fixes
</LI><LI>various fixes (win32, configure, etc)
</LI><LI>SUN audio driver in libao2
+</LI><LI>mediaLib support in libavcodec
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI>Vladimir Kushnir: <vkushnir at Alfacom.net>
@@ -890,6 +910,79 @@
<P><B><A NAME=C><A HREF="bugreports.html">Appendix C</A> - How to report bugs</A></B></P>
+
+<P><B><A NAME=D>Appendix D - Known bugs</A></B></P>
+
+<P>Special system/cpu-specific bugs/problems:</P>
+<UL>
+<LI> SIGILL (signal 4) in draw_frame, on P3 (mostly with 2.2.x kernels):<BR>
+ Problem: movups is crashing in libvo/fastmemcpy.h<BR>
+ Workaround: ./configure --disable-fastmemcpy<BR>
+ SOLVED: disabled SSE code in fastmemcpy.h ;(</LI>
+
+<LI>No image (black image) in RGB 15/16bpp (x11,dga,fbdev,svga) playing
+ MPEG or OpenDivX files:<BR>
+ Problem: gcc 2.96 bug<BR>
+ Workaround: ./configure --disable-mmx, or use gcc 2.95.x<BR>
+ SOLVED: code fixed<LI>
+
+<LI>SIGILL (signal 4) or other fault at loading l3codeca.acm:<BR>
+ Problem: shared libs are loaded to 0x00xxxxxx instead of 0x40xxxxxx<BR>
+ Workaround: mplayer -afm 1 ...<BR>
+ SOLVED: you are using some security kernel patch, like OpenWall etc.</LI>
+
+<LI>SIGILL (signal 4) on P3 using 2.2.x kernels:<BR>
+ Problem: kernel 2.2.x doesn't have proper (working) SSE support<BR>
+ Solution: upgrade kernel to 2.4.x<BR>
+ Workaround: ./configure --disable-sse<BR>
+
+<LI>General SIGILL (signal 4):<BR>
+ Problem: you compiled and run mplayer in different machines
+ (for example compiled on P3 and running on celeron)<BR>
+ Solution: compile MPlayer on the same machine where you will use it!<BR>
+ Workaround: ./configure --disable-sse etc. options<BR>
+</UL>
+
+<P>Various A-V sync and other audio problems:</P>
+
+General audio delay or jerky sound (exists with all or many files):<BR>
+<UL>
+<LI>audio buffer problems (buffer size badly detected)<BR>
+ Workaround: mplayer -abs option</LI>
+<LI>slow machine (cpu or vga)<BR>
+ try with -vo null, if it plays well, then you have slow VGA card/driver<BR>
+ Workaround: buy a faster card or read this documentation about how to speed up<BR>
+ SOLVED: try -framedrop</LI>
+</UL><BR>
+
+Audio delay/de-sync specific to one or a few files:<BR>
+<UL>
+<LI>bad file (please upload the file, so we can check & fix)<BR>
+ Workaround: -ni or -bps option (for non-interlaved or bad files)<BR>
+ -mc 0 (required for files with VBR audio)<BR>
+ -delay option or +/- keys at runtime to adjust delay</LI>
+<LI>your soundcard doesn't support 48Khz playback<BR>
+ Workaround: buy a better soundcard... or try to decrease fps by 10% (use -fps 27 for a 30fps movie)</LI>
+<LI>slow machine<BR>
+ (if A-V is not around 0, and the last number in the status line increasing)<BR>
+ Workaround: -framedrop</LI>
+</UL><BR>
+
+No sound at all:<BR>
+<UL>
+<LI>your file uses an unsupported codec<BR>
+ Workaround: read the documentation and help us adding support for it</LI>
+</UL>
+
+<P>Video-out problems:</P>
+
+<P>First note: options -fs -vm and -zoom are just recommendations, not (yet)
+supported by all drivers. So it isn't a bug if it doesn't work.
+Only a few driver supports scaling/zooming, don't expect this from x11 or dga.</P>
+
+<P>OSD/sub flickering:<BR>
+- x11 driver: sorry, it can't be fixed now<BR>
+- xv driver: use -double option</P>
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