[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] README

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:26:27PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> - nVidia cards: get the X11 driver from www.nvidia.com for Xv support

I was under the impression that latest X11 will do XV on nvidia
without the shitty nvidia binary drivers; only opengl support is
missing now. Can someone with nvidia check this?

> Without using accelerated video, even a 800MHz P3 may be slow to play DVD!

Isn't that a bit extreme? I'll check, but I'm pretty sure my K6/2-450
(which is a good bit slower than P3 800) can play DVDs with tolerably
low frame dropping using -vo fbdev. Of course -vo x11 is a good bit
slower perhaps.

> While MPlayer and libavcodec has built-in support for the most common audio
> and video formats, there are many others 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 most files playable!

IMO it would be nice to clarify what Divx audio is, since some users
might assume Win32 codecs are needed to get audio support with any
Divx files, and that's far from the truth. At least mention that it's
a Divx3-only thing, and perhaps that it's most common in low quality
rips.

IMHO, enough people out there are already confused that "mplayer needs
win32 dlls to do anything", so it's best not to further that
misconception even more in the INSTALL file.

> __________________
> STEP7: Let's play!
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This section looks very good!

Rich