[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] zr, man page + manual update

[rsnel at cube.dyndns.org]

On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> rsnel at cube.dyndns.org writes:
> [...]
>  > +.B \-zrhelp
>  > +Display a list of all -zr* options, their default values and an example of
>  > +cinerama mode.
>
> Is this a typo or is this cinerama mode different from the XFree
> xinerama mode?
(for clarity: this driver does tv-out, owners of MJPEG cards know that) It
is different from XFree xinerama. 'cinerama mode' refers to the usage of
multiple projectors to project the movie on a large screen. Suppose that
you have two (preferably the same) MJPEG cards and two (preferably
the same) beamers the cinerama mode of this driver allows you to view to
movie on a wide screen that is considerably bigger than what can be done
by using only one beamer.

+-------------------+-------------------+
|                                       |
|          this is a widescreen         |
|                 movie                 |
|                                       |
|                                       |
+-------------------+-------------------+
  image of beamer 1   image of beamer 2

The aspect of this screen is 2.67:1, so it is a little too wide for most
movies but that can be solved by putting black borders on the left and the
right side of the combined screen.
(no I don't have a beamer (let alone 2 beamers) but I tested the system
with two televisions)

>  > +have a -zrdev in addition to the -zrcrop. For examples, see the output of
>  > +-zrhelp and the manual.
> Which manual?  This is confusing, isn't the man page supposed to be
> the manual?
With 'manual' I mean the 'HTML manual' as opposed to the 'man page'.

Greetings,

Rik.

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