[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS codecs.html,1.91,1.92 documentation.html,1.323,1.324
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RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/codecs.html,v
retrieving revision 1.91
retrieving revision 1.92
diff -u -r1.91 -r1.92
--- codecs.html 21 Oct 2002 01:57:23 -0000 1.91
+++ codecs.html 3 Nov 2002 03:25:26 -0000 1.92
@@ -97,19 +97,21 @@
<H4><A NAME="libavcodec">2.2.1.2 FFmpeg DivX/libavcodec</A></H4>
<P><A HREF="http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net">FFmpeg</A> contains an
- <B>open source</B> codec package, which is capable of decoding video streams
+ <B>open source</B> codec package, which is capable of decoding streams
encoded with
H263/MJPEG/RV10/DivX3/DivX4/DivX5/MP41/MP42/WMV1
- codecs. Not only some of them can be encoded with, but it also offers higher
- speed than the Win32 codecs or the ProjectMayo DivX4/5 library!</P>
+ video, or WMA (Windows Media Audio) audio codecs. Not only some of
+ them can be encoded with, but it also offers higher speed than the Win32
+ codecs or the DivX.com DivX4/5 library!</P>
<P>It contains a lot of nice codecs, especially important are the MPEG4
variants:
- DivX 3, DivX 4, DivX 5, Windows Media Video 7 (WMV1)</P>
+ DivX 3, DivX 4, DivX 5, Windows Media Video 7 (WMV1). Also a very
+ interesting one is the WMA decoder.</P>
<P>If you use an MPlayer release you have libavcodec right in the
package, just build as usual. If you use MPlayer from CVS you have to
- extract libavcodec from the FFmpeg CVS tree as FFmpeg 0.4.5 does <B>not</B>
+ extract libavcodec from the FFmpeg CVS tree as FFmpeg releases <B>don't</B>
work with MPlayer. In order to achieve this do:</P>
<OL>
Index: documentation.html
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RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/documentation.html,v
retrieving revision 1.323
retrieving revision 1.324
diff -u -r1.323 -r1.324
--- documentation.html 31 Oct 2002 11:30:09 -0000 1.323
+++ documentation.html 3 Nov 2002 03:25:27 -0000 1.324
@@ -448,7 +448,8 @@
<UL>
<LI><B>libavcodec</B>: This codec package is capable of decoding
- H263/MJPEG/RV10/DivX3/DivX4/DivX5/MP41/MP42/WMV1 encoded video streams, on
+ H263/MJPEG/RV10/DivX3/DivX4/DivX5/MP41/MP42/WMV1 encoded video streams and
+ WMA (Windows Media Audio) v1/v2 audio streams, on
multiple platforms. It is also known to be the fastest for this task.
See the <A HREF="codecs.html#libavcodec">libavcodec</A> section for details.
Features:<BR>
@@ -472,7 +473,9 @@
(example: DV, ATI VCR, MJPEG)</LI>
<LI>needed if you want to play <B>WMV8 movies</B>. Not needed for old
ASF's with MP41 or MP42 video (though VoxWare audio is frequent for these
- files - it's done by the Win32 codec), or WMV7.</LI>
+ files - it's done by the Win32 codec), or WMV7. Also not needed
+ for WMA (Windows Media Audio), libavcodec has opensource decoder
+ for that.</LI>
</UL>
</LI>
<LI><B>DivX4/DivX5</B>: information about this codec is available in the
@@ -1399,7 +1402,7 @@
<H2><A NAME="bsd">6.2 *BSD</A></H2>
-<P>Mplayer runs on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, BSD/OS and Darwin. To build MPlayer
+<P>MPlayer runs on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, BSD/OS and Darwin. To build MPlayer
you will need GNU make (gmake - native BSD make will not work) and a recent
version of binutils.</P>
@@ -1427,14 +1430,6 @@
<H2><A NAME="solaris">6.3 Solaris</A></H2>
<P>MPlayer should work on Solaris 2.6 or newer.</P>
-
-<P>AVI file playback works best on Solaris x86, because you have the
- option to use the win32 codecs on the x86 platform, or can use
- MMX/MMX2/3DNow/etc instructions for MP3/DivX/DVD/whatever. On Colaris SPARC,
- you'll find quite a few AVI files with non working video and/or audio
- playback, because the video/audio codecs using the Win32 DLLs are not
- available. However, <B>DivX/OpenDivX</B> movies should work, when using
- libavcodec.</P>
<P>On <B>UltraSPARC</B>s, MPlayer takes advantage of their <B>VIS</B>
extensions (equivalent to MMX), currently only in <I>libmpeg2</I>,
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