[MPlayer-dev-eng] recovery of rcs files from cvslog
Michael Niedermayer
michaelni at gmx.at
Sun Aug 14 21:46:50 CEST 2005
Hi
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 09:14:47PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 01:00:39PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 04:51:20AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 11:10:43PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > >
> > > > known bugs:
> > > > author names are messed up, thats simply because they are not directly
> > > > in cvslog or iam blind
> > >
> > > That should not be hard to fix afterwards with a simple search and
> > > replace, so no big deal. You can get the usernames from /etc/passwd.
> >
> > ok, fixed the names, new one attached, ill put this one on the server
> > soon
>
> done
rebuild README,v is attached, ill upload it soon
note, i dont have a complete cvslog of dload.src.en so i cant recover it
i just have (1.28-1.39, 1.143-1.160)
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Michael
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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. An unofficial graphical frontend exists but is
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 libpng and GTK 1.2 development packages.
Before you start...
Unless you know what are you doing, consult DOCS/HTML/en/video.html to see
which driver to use with your video card to get the best quality and
performance. Most cards require special drivers not included with XFree86 to
drive their 2-D video acceleration features like YUV and scaling.
A quick and incomplete list of recommendations:
- ATI cards: Get the GATOS drivers for X11/Xv or use VIDIX.
- Matrox G200/G4x0/G550: Compile and use mga_vid for Linux, on BSD use VIDIX.
- 3dfx Voodoo3/Banshee: Get XFree86 4.2.0+ for Xv or use the tdfxfb driver.
- nVidia cards: Get the X11 driver from www.nvidia.com for Xv support.
- NeoMagic cards: Get an Xv capable driver from our homepage as described in
DOCS/HTML/en/video.html.
Without accelerated video even an 800MHz P3 may be too slow to play DVDs.
______________________
STEP0: Getting MPlayer
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Official releases, prereleases and CVS snapshots, as well as fonts for the
OSD, 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/homepage/dload.html
A set of fonts is necessary for the OSD and subtitles unless you are using
TrueType fonts, 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 anonymous CVS. Issue the following commands to get
the latest sources:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/mplayer login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/mplayer co -P main
When asked for a password, just hit enter. A directory named 'main' will be
created. You can later update your sources by saying
cvs -z3 update -dPA
from within that directory.
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STEP1: Installing FFmpeg libavcodec/libavutil/libavformat
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you are using an official (pre)release or a CVS snapshot, skip this step,
since official releases include libavcodec. CVS sources do not include
libavcodec. To verify if you do have libavcodec or not, check if a subdirectory
named 'libavcodec' exists in the MPlayer source tree.
The FFmpeg project provides libavcodec, a very portable codec collection (among
the supported formats is MPEG-4/DivX) with excellent quality and speed, that is
the preferred MPEG-4/DivX codec of MPlayer. You have to get libavcodec directly
from the FFmpeg CVS server.
To get the FFmpeg sources, use the following commands in a suitable directory
outside the MPlayer source directory:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/ffmpeg login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/ffmpeg co ffmpeg
When asked for a password, you can just hit enter. A directory named 'ffmpeg'
with subdirectories named 'libavcodec' and 'libavutil' inside will be created.
Copy (symbolic linking does NOT suffice) these subdirectories into the MPlayer
source tree.
In order to force automatic updates of libavcodec when you update MPlayer, add
the following lines to main/CVS/Entries:
D/libavcodec////
D/libavutil////
FFmpeg also contains libavformat, a library to decode container formats that
can optionally be used to extend MPlayer's container format support. If you
wish to use it, also copy the libavformat subdirectory into the MPlayer
source tree and add another line to main/CVS/Entries.
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STEP2: Installing Binary Codecs
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
MPlayer and libavcodec have builtin support for the most common audio and video
formats, but some formats require external codecs. Examples include Real, Indeo
and QuickTime audio formats. Support for Windows Media formats except WMV9
exists but still has some bugs, your mileage may vary. This step is not
mandatory, but recommended for getting MPlayer to play a broader range of
formats. Please note that most codecs only work on Intel x86 compatible PCs.
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 using the '--with-codecsdir=DIR' option when you run
'./configure'.
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STEP3: Configuring MPlayer
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
MPlayer can be adapted to all kinds of needs and hardware environments. Run
./configure
to configure MPlayer with the default options. The codecs you installed above
should be autodetected. 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.
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STEP4: 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
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STEP5: Installing the onscreen display fonts
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Unpack the archive and choose one of the available font sizes. Then copy the
font files of the corresponding size into /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/ or
~/.mplayer/font/ (or whatever you set with './configure --datadir=DIR').
Alternatively you can use a TrueType font installed on your system. Just
make a symbolic link from either /usr/local/share/mplayer/subfont.ttf or
~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf to your TrueType font.
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STEP6: Installing a GUI skin
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Unpack the archive and put the contents in /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/ or
~/.mplayer/Skin/. MPlayer will use the skin in the subdirectory named default
of /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/ or ~/.mplayer/Skin/ unless told otherwise via
the '-skin' switch. You should therefore rename your skin subdirectory or make
a suitable symbolic link.
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STEP7: 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>, MPlayer will come up and you will be able to use 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 DivX
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.
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STEP1: Installing FFmpeg libavcodec/libavformat
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with a subdirectory named 'libavcodec' inside will be created. Copy (symbolic
linking does NOT suffice) this subdirectory into the MPlayer source tree.
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the following line to main/CVS/Entries:
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can optionally be used to extend MPlayer's container format support. Get it
from FFmpeg CVS by the same steps outlined above for libavcodec, just
substitute libavcodec by libavformat everywhere.
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@mentioning xorg
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development packages (like for XFree86 or xorg) installed.
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- To compile MPlayer with X11 support, you need to have the XFree86 development
packages installed.
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Alternatively you can use a ttf font installed on your system and
make a symbolic link to either /usr/local/share/mplayer/subfont.ttf or
~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf.
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@Explain how to include libavcodec in cvs updates.
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the supported formats is MPEG4/DivX) with excellent quality and speed, that is
the preferred MPEG4/DivX codec of MPlayer. You have to get libavcodec directly
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Unless you know what are you doing, consult DOCS/HTML/en/devices.html#video-dev
to see which driver to use with your video card to get the best quality and
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@Explain how to use custom options while building Debian packages, based on a
patch by Guillaume Poirier.
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STEP1: Installing FFmpeg libavcodec
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Welcome to MPlayer, the Unix movie player. MPlayer can play most standard video
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A set of fonts is necessary for the OSD and subtitles, 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. A wide range of codec packages can be downloaded at
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/
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@CVS snapshots come with libavcodec.
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@Pruning empty directories is a good idea and even better is using the
correct cvs syntax to do it.
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If you are using an official (pre)release, skip this step, since official
releases include libavcodec. CVS sources and thus CVS snapshots do not include
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cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/mplayer co main
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DOCS/en/documentation.html, which should help you solve most of your problems.
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Unless you know what are you doing, consult DOCS/en/video.html to see which driver
to use with your video card to get the best quality and performance. Most cards
require special drivers not included with XFree86 to drive their 2-D video
acceleration features like YUV and scaling.
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DOCS/en/video.html.
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The places to start reading are the man page, DOCS/en/documentation.html and
DOCS/en/faq.html. If you find a bug, read DOCS/en/bugreports.html first!
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cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ffmpeg login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ffmpeg co ffmpeg/libavcodec
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mplayer vcd://2/dev/hdc
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mplayer -vcd 2 -cdrom-device /dev/hdc
mplayer -dvd 1 -alang en -slang hu -dvd-device /dev/hdd
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- You have to install libc6 (glibc) development packages or kernel headers.
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STEP2: Installing Win32 Codecs
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and Sorenson3 (newer Quicktime) formats. Support for Windows Media formats
except WMV9 exists but still has some bugs, your mileage may vary. This step is
not mandatory, but recommended for getting MPlayer to play a broader range of
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will find them. The default directory is /usr/lib/win32/ but you can change
that to something else by using the '--with-win32libdir=DIR' option when you
run './configure'.
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cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@@cvs.ffmpeg.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ffmpeg login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@@cvs.ffmpeg.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ffmpeg co ffmpeg/libavcodec
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also used for displaying subtitles. A GUI with skin support is in the alpha
development stage, but not completely finished yet.
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DOCS/documentation.html, which should help you solve most of your problems.
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Unless you know what are you doing, consult DOCS/video.html to see which driver
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DOCS/video.html.
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OSD, Win32 codecs and a number of different skins for the GUI are available
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one skin and Win32 codecs add support for some more video and audio formats.
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install them separately.
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MPlayer is also available via anonymous CVS. Issue the following commands to
get the latest sources:
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releases include libavcodec. CVS sources and CVS snapshots do not include
libavcodec. To verify if you do have libavcodec or not, check if the libavcodec
subdirectory in the MPlayer source tree is empty or not.
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When asked for a password, you can just hit enter.
Now, replace the empty libavcodec directory in the MPlayer source tree with the
FFmpeg libavcodec source by removing the libavcodec subdirectory in the MPlayer
source tree and then copying (symbolic linking does NOT suffice) the freshly
downloaded FFmpeg libavcodec directory back into the MPlayer source tree.
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formats, but some others are playable only with the Win32 DLLs or the XAnim
binary plugins. Examples include WMV8 video, DivX with WMA audio (not normal
DivX files) and Indeo. This step is not mandatory, but recommended for getting
MPlayer to play more different file types. Note that Win32 codecs only work on
Intel x86 compatible PCs.
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Unpack the codecs archive and put the contents in a directory where MPlayer
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MPlayer has a lot of options that get selected in this phase. Run
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~/.mplayer/Skin/. MPlayer will use the skin in the default/ subdirectory of
/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/ or ~/.mplayer/Skin/ unless told otherwise via
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The places to start reading are the man page, DOCS/documentation.html and
DOCS/faq.html. If you find a bug, read DOCS/bugreports.html first!
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- For the GUI you need the GTK 1.2 development packages.
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source tree and then copying (symbolic linking does not suffice) the freshly
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binary plugins. Examples include WMV video, DivX with WMA audio (not normal
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Intel compatible PCs.
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DOCS/faq.html.
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steps. Added Step0 with downloading instructions instead of repeating this
in several steps. Mention system wide as well as per user file locations.
Rewordings everywhere, hopefully clearer.
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mplayer -gui <moviefile>
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MPlayer currently works best from the command line, but there is a GUI with
skin support in the alpha development stage.
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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/documentation.html. It is extensive and should answer most of your
questions. Also read the manpage to learn how to use MPlayer.
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To compile MPlayer with X11 support, you need to have the XFree86 development
packages installed, for the GUI you also need the GTK development packages.
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to use with your video card to get the best video quality and performance.
Most cards require special drivers not included with standard X11, to drive
the 2-D video acceleration features (YUV, scaling etc) of your card!
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- ATI cards: get the GATOS drivers for X11/Xv or use vidix
- Matrox G200/G4x0/G550: compile and use mga_vid for Linux, use vidix for BSD
- 3dfx Voodoo3/Banshee: get XFree86 4.2.0+ for Xv or use the tdfxfb driver
- nVidia cards: get the X11 driver from www.nvidia.com for Xv support
Without having accelerated video, even a 800MHz P3 may be slow to play DVD!
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If you are using an official release, skip this step, since official releases
always include libavcodec. To verify this check if the libavcodec subdirectory
is empty or contains the sources!
The FFmpeg project provides libavcodec, a very portable MPEG4/DivX codec with
excellent speed and quality. It is the preferred codec of MPlayer for playing
mpeg4 and divx video. You have to get libavcodec directly from the FFmpeg CVS
server. Use the following commands in a suitable directory outside the MPlayer
source directory:
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cvs -z9 -d:pserver:anonymous@@cvs.ffmpeg.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ffmpeg co ffmpeg/libavcodec
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Now, replace the empty libavcodec directory with the FFmpeg libavcodec source
by removing the libavcodec subdirectory in the MPlayer source tree and then
copying (symbolic linking does not suffice!) the freshly downloaded FFmpeg
libavcodec directory back into the MPlayer source tree.
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While MPlayer and libavcodec has built-in support for the most common audio
and video formats, some others are playable only with the Win32 DLLs
or the XAnim binary plugins. Few examples: WMV video, Divx/WMA audio, Indeo.
This step is not mandatory, but recommended for getting MPlayer to play more
different file types!
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Grab the win32 codecs package from the download page
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html
unpack it and put the contents in a directory where MPlayer will find them.
The default directory is /usr/lib/win32/ but you can change that to something
else by using the '--with-win32libdir=DIR' option when you run './configure' .
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to configure MPlayer with the default options. The options you installed above
should be autodetected, except GUI support, which has to be enabled separately,
run
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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.
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If all went well, you can run MPlayer by typing 'mplayer'
You should get a summary of the most common options and keys (help screen).
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If you get 'unable to load shared library' or similar errors, then run
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Sometimes just running 'ldconfig' is enough.
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NOTE: If you run Debian you can configure, compile and build a proper deb
package with only one command:
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To enable OSD (onscreen status display) and ASCII/TEXT subtitles you need some
fonts. Get them from our homepage:
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http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html
Unpack the archive and choose one of the available font sizes. Then copy the
font files of the corresponding size into /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/
(or whatever you set with './configure --datadir=DIR').
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Please remember that the GUI is still in the alpha development stage and not
completely finished yet. Features like playlist, preferences and equalizer
do not work at all. Expect them for the 1.0 release
Basic stuff like file selection and seeking works, though.
If you want to use the GUI you need to download a skin, since MPlayer does not
come with a skin by default. Choose one from the download page
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http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html
unpack it in /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/. MPlayer will use the skin in
the default/ subdirectory (/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default/*) unless
told otherwise via the '-skin' switch. You should therefore rename your
skin subdirectory, make a suitable symbolic link or set the skin name in
the file mplayer.conf by 'skin=skinname'.
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That's it for the moment. To start playing movies, open a command line and try
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or for the GUI:
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(just 'gmplayer' is enough to use the GUI fileselector)
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To play VCD track or DVD title, try:
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with the '-vo' switch to see which one gives you the best performance!
If you get very jerky playback or no sound, experiment with -ao (see -ao help)
Note that jerky playback is caused by buggy audio drivers or too slow cpu/vga.
With a good audio and video driver combination, one can play DVDs and 720x576
DivX files smoothly on a Celeron 366. For slower systems, you need -framedrop.
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The place to start reading is DOCS/faq.html and DOCS/documentation.html.
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Unless you know what are you doing, consult DOCS/video.html to see which
driver you should get for your video card to have the best quality and video
performance. Most cards require special drivers not included with standard X11,
to drive the 2-D video acceleration features of your card!
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This step is not mandatory, but recommended for getting MPlayer to play
play more different file types!
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The main documentation file is DOCS/documentation.html
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