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@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@
<LI><A HREF="video.html#tv-out_matrox_g450">2.3.1.5.2 Matrox G450/G550 cards</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#tv-out_ati">2.3.1.5.3 ATI cards</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#tv-out_voodoo">2.3.1.5.4 Voodoo 3</A></LI>
+ <LI><A HREF="video.html#tv-out_nvidia">2.3.1.5.5 nVidia</A></LI>
</UL>
</LI>
</UL>
@@ -205,6 +206,7 @@
<LI><A HREF="encoding.html#libavcodec">2.4.5 Encoding with the libavcodec codec family</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="encoding.html#image_files">2.4.6 Encoding from multiple input image files (JPEGs or PNGs)</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="encoding.html#vobsub">2.4.7 Extracting DVD subtitles to a Vobsub file</A></LI>
+ <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#aspect">2.4.8 Preserving aspect ratio</A></LI>
</UL>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#tv">2.5 TV input</A>
@@ -620,13 +622,15 @@
have problems with YV12 display, see <A HREF="video.html#xv_s3">S3 Xv
section</A> for details. Older, Trio cards have no, or slow hardware
support.</LI>
- <LI><B>nVidia cards</B>: very bad choice for video playing (nVidia
- <A HREF="users_against_developers.html#nvidia">does not think so</A>).
- nVidia's cards have very cheap and bad quality chips. Moreover, <B>the
- built-in nVidia driver in XFree86 does not support hardware YUV
+ <LI><B>nVidia cards</B>: may or may not be good choice for video playing.
+ If you do not have a GeForce2 (or newer) card, it's not likely to work
+ without bugs.
+ <B>The built-in nVidia driver in XFree86 does not support hardware YUV
acceleration on all nVidia cards.</B> You have to download nVidia's
- closed-source drivers from nVidia.com. See the <A
- HREF="video.html#xv_nvidia">nVidia Xv driver</A> section for details.</LI>
+ closed-source drivers from nVidia.com. See the
+ <A HREF="video.html#xv_nvidia">nVidia Xv driver</A> section for
+ details. Please also check the <A HREF="video.html#tv-out_nvidia">nVidia
+ TV-out section</A> if you wish to use a TV.</LI>
<LI><B>3DLabs GLINT R3 and Permedia3</B>: a VIDIX driver is provided
(pm3_vid). Please see the <A HREF="video.html#vidix">VIDIX</A> section for
details.</LI>
@@ -721,6 +725,8 @@
<LI>If you have a V4L compatible <B>TV tuner</B> card, and wish to watch/grab
and encode movies with MPlayer, read the <A HREF="#tv">TV input</A>
section.</LI>
+ <LI>There is a neat <B>OSD Menu</B> support ready to be used. Check the
+ <A HREF="#menu">OSD Menu</A> section.</LI>
</UL>
<P>Then build MPlayer:</P>
@@ -952,19 +958,27 @@
<H3><A NAME="menu">1.4.3 OSD menu</A></H3>
-<P>MPlayer has an OSD Menu interface, which is not only completely user
- defined, but is displayed as OSD, on the currently played video!</P>
+<P>MPlayer has a completely user definiable OSD Menu interface.</P>
<H4>Installation</H4>
<OL>
+ <LI>compile MPlayer by passing the <CODE>--enable-new-conf
+ --enable-menu</CODE> parameters to <CODE>./configure</CODE></LI>
+ <LI>make sure you have an OSD font installed</LI>
<LI>copy <CODE>etc/menu.conf</CODE> to your <CODE>.mplayer</CODE>
directory</LI>
<LI>copy <CODE>etc/input.conf</CODE> to your <CODE>.mplayer</CODE>
directory, or to the system-wide MPlayer config dir (default:
- <CODE>/usr/local/share/mplayer</CODE>)</LI>
+ <CODE>/usr/local/etc/mplayer</CODE>)</LI>
+ <LI>check and edit <CODE>input.conf</CODE> to enable menu movement
+ keys (it is described there).</LI>
+ <LI>start MPlayer by the following example:<BR>
+ <CODE>$ mplayer -menu file.avi</CODE></LI>
+ <LI>push any menu key you defined</LI>
</OL>
+<P>
<H2><A NAME="rtc">1.5 RTC</A></H2>
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@@ -102,24 +102,22 @@
<H3><A NAME="rescaling">2.4.2 Rescaling movies</A></H3>
-<P>Often the need to resize movie images' size emerges. Its reasons can be many,
- examples are decreasing output file size, encoding SVCDs to DivX. Ripped DVDs
- are mostly rescaled, for example a 4:3 DVD should be 640x480, especially
- when you want it to fit to 1 CD, and have good quality at the same time.
- SVCDs have 480x480 size, and their header contains the aspect ratio the
- player should use (Ex.: 480x480 + 4:3 = 640x480). However when encoding to
- AVI (DivX) files, you have be aware that AVI headers don't store this
- value. Thus, the only solution is rescaling.</P>
+<P>Often the need to resize movie images' size emerges. Its reasons can be
+ many: decreasing file size, network bandwidth, etc. Most people
+ even do rescaling when converting DVDs or SVCDs to DivX AVI. <B>This is bad.</B>
+ Instead of even you doing so, read the <A HREF="#aspect">Preserving
+ aspect ratio</A> section.</P>
<P>The scaling process is handled by the <I>'scale'</I> video filter:
- <CODE>-vop scale=X:Y</CODE>. Its quality can be set with the
+ <CODE>-vop scale=widht:height</CODE>. Its quality can be set with the
<CODE>-sws</CODE> option. If it's not specified, MEncoder will use 0:
fast bilinear.</P>
-<P>Usage:<BR>
- <CODE> mencoder sample-svcd.mpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts
- vcodec=mpeg4:more_options -vop scale=640:480 -oac copy -o
- output.avi</CODE></P>
+<H5>Usage:</H5>
+
+<P><CODE> mencoder input.mpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts
+ vcodec=mpeg4:more_options -vop scale=640:480 -oac copy -o
+ output.avi</CODE></P>
<H3><A NAME="copying">2.4.3 Stream copying</A></H3>
@@ -267,6 +265,34 @@
<CODE>mencoder movie.mpg -ifo movie.ifo -vobsubout subtitles
-vobsuboutindex 0 -vobsuboutid fr -sid 1</CODE></P>
+
+<H3><A NAME="aspect">2.4.8 Preserving aspect ratio</A></H3>
+
+<P>DVDs and SVCDs (i.e. MPEG1/2) files contain an aspect ratio value,
+ which describes how should the player scale the video stream, so humans
+ won't have egg heads (ex.: 480x480 + 4:3 = 640x480). However when encoding
+ to AVI (DivX) files, you have be aware that AVI headers don't store this
+ value. Rescaling the movie is disgusting and time consuming, there
+ must be a better feature!</P>
+
+<P>There is.</P>
+
+<P>MPEG4 has an unique feature: the video stream can contain
+ its needed aspect ratio. Yes, just like MPEG1/2 files (DVD, SVCD).
+ Regretfully, there are <U>no</U> video players outside which support this
+ attribute. Except MPlayer.</P>
+
+<P>This feature can be used only with <B>libavcodec</B>'s <CODE>mpeg4</CODE>
+ codec. Keep in mind: although MPlayer will correctly play the created file,
+ other players will use the wrong aspect ratio.</P>
+
+<P>You seriously should crop the black bands over and below the movie image.
+ See TODO.</P>
+
+<H5>Usage:</H5>
+
+<P><CODE>$ mencoder sample-svcd.mpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts
+ vcodec=mpeg4:aspect=16.0/9.0 -vop crop=714:548:0:14 -oac copy -o output.avi</CODE></P>
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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
<TABLE BORDER=0>
<TR><TD COLSPAN=4><P><B>General:</B></P></TD></TR>
<TR><TD> </TD><TD VALIGN=top>oss</TD><TD> </TD><TD>OSS (ioctl) driver (supports hardware AC3 passthrough)</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>sdl</TD><TD></TD><TD>SDL driver (supports up/downsampling, <B>ESD</B>, <B>ARTS</B> etc)</TD></TR>
+ <TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>sdl</TD><TD></TD><TD>SDL driver (supports <B>ESD</B>, <B>ARTS</B> etc)</TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>nas</TD><TD></TD><TD>NAS (Network Audio System) driver</TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>alsa5</TD><TD></TD><TD>native ALSA 0.5 driver</TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top>alsa9</TD><TD></TD><TD>native ALSA 0.9 driver (supports hardware AC3 passthrough)</TD></TR>
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
default). If you experience glitches, halts or anything out of the
ordinary, try <CODE>-ao sdl</CODE> (NOTE: you need to have SDL libraries
and header files installed). The SDL audio driver helps in a lot of cases
- and also supports ESD, ARTS, and up/downsampling. (ESD is the sound daemon
+ and also supports ESD, ARTS. (ESD is the sound daemon
from GNOME, ARTS is from KDE.)</LI>
<LI>If you have ALSA version 0.5, then you almost always have to use
<CODE>-ao alsa5</CODE> , since ALSA 0.5 has buggy OSS emulation code, and
@@ -183,8 +183,8 @@
<P>MPlayer fully supports up/downsampling of the sound. This plugin can
be used if you have a fixed frequency sound card or if you are
stuck with an old sound card that is only capable of max 44.1kHz.
- Limitations in your hardware are not auto detected, so you have to specify
- the sample frequency explicitly. This plugin has one switch:
+ Whether is usage of this plugin is neccessary or not, is <B>autodetected</B>.
+ This plugin has one switch:
<CODE>fout</CODE> which is used for setting the desired output sample
frequency. It defaults to 48kHz, and is given in
<Hz>.</P>
Index: video.html
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@@ -1438,5 +1438,39 @@
<P>Check <A HREF="http://www.iki.fi/too/tvout-voodoo3-3000-xfree">this URL</A>.</P>
+
+<H4><A NAME="tv-out_nvidia">2.3.1.5.5 nVidia</A></H4>
+
+<P>First, you MUST download the closed-source drivers from
+ <A HREF="http://nvidia.com">http://nvidia.com</A>. I will not describe the
+ installation and configuration process because it does not cover the
+ scope of this documentation.</P>
+
+<P>After XFree86, XVideo, and 3D acceleration is properly working,
+ edit your card's Device section in the <CODE>XF86Config</CODE> file,
+ according to the following example (adapt for your card/TV):</P>
+
+<PRE>
+Section "Device"
+ Identifier "GeForce"
+ VendorName "ASUS"
+ BoardName "nVidia GeForce2/MX 400"
+ Driver "nvidia"
+ #Option "NvAGP" "1"
+ Option "NoLogo"
+ Option "CursorShadow" "on"
+
+ Option "TwinView"
+ Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"
+ Option "MetaModes" "1024x768,640x480"
+ Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT, TV"
+ Option "TVStandard" "PAL-B"
+ Option "TVOutFormat" "Composite"
+
+EndSection
+</PRE>
+
+<P>Of course the important thing is the TwinView part.</P>
+
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