[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/xml/en ports.xml,1.38,1.39
Diego Biurrun CVS
syncmail at mplayerhq.hu
Tue Apr 27 19:43:20 CEST 2004
CVS change done by Diego Biurrun CVS
Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/xml/en
In directory mail:/var2/tmp/cvs-serv11945/en
Modified Files:
ports.xml
Log Message:
Hint about testing different colorspaces and putting codes in ./, based on
a patch by Compn.
Index: ports.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/xml/en/ports.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.38
retrieving revision 1.39
diff -u -r1.38 -r1.39
--- ports.xml 9 Mar 2004 01:45:58 -0000 1.38
+++ ports.xml 27 Apr 2004 17:43:18 -0000 1.39
@@ -295,6 +295,20 @@
<ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/dx7headers.tgz">DirectX 7 header files</ulink>
to compile the DirectX video output driver.</para>
+<para>For best results <application>MPlayer</application> should use a
+ colorspace that your video card supports in hardware. Unfortunately many
+ Windows graphics drivers wrongly report some colorspaces as supported in
+ hardware. To find out which, try
+
+ <screen>mplayer -benchmark -nosound -frames 100 -vf format=<replaceable>colorspace</replaceable> <replaceable>movie</replaceable></screen>
+
+ where <replaceable>colorspace</replaceable> can be any colorspace
+ printed by the <option>-vf format=fmt=help</option> option. If you
+ find a colorspace your card handles particularly bad
+ <option>-vf noformat=<replaceable>colorspace</replaceable></option>
+ will keep it from being used. Add this to your config file to permanently
+ keep it from being used.</para>
+
<para>You can use Win32 codecs and Real Win32 codecs (not Real Linux codecs)
if you want to. Put the codecs somewhere in your path or pass
<option>--with-codecsdir=<replaceable>c:/path/to/your/codecs</replaceable></option> (alternatively
@@ -305,7 +319,8 @@
them writable if you have problems. QuickTime DLLs also work, but you will
have to put them in your Windows system directory
(<filename class="directory"><replaceable>C:\Windows\system\</replaceable></filename>
- or similar).</para>
+ or similar). As a last resort, try putting them in the same directory as
+ <application>MPlayer</application>.</para>
<para>The <application>Cygwin</application>/<application>MinGW</application>
console is rather slow. Redirecting output or using the
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