[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: homepage/src news-archive.src.en,1.49,1.50
Diego Biurrun CVS
syncmail at mplayerhq.hu
Fri Feb 11 00:34:46 CET 2005
CVS change done by Diego Biurrun CVS
Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/homepage/src
In directory mail:/var2/tmp/cvs-serv8204/src
Modified Files:
news-archive.src.en
Log Message:
HTML fixup, round two
Index: news-archive.src.en
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/homepage/src/news-archive.src.en,v
retrieving revision 1.49
retrieving revision 1.50
diff -u -r1.49 -r1.50
--- news-archive.src.en 10 Feb 2005 22:58:42 -0000 1.49
+++ news-archive.src.en 10 Feb 2005 23:34:43 -0000 1.50
@@ -1228,21 +1228,28 @@
<br><span class="poster">posted by A'rpi</span>
</h2>
+<p>
<a href="http://mplayerhq.hu/~arpi/g2/">MPlayer G2</a>
is the next generation of MPlayer, developed from scratch,
by reusing good parts of the "old" code, but built over a new, clean design.
The old project is not dead, we're just focusing more to the G2 code, which
-was almost invisible to users, until now.<br>
-<br>
+was almost invisible to users, until now.
+</p>
+
<p class="center">
<a href="../images/g2p39.png"><img src="../images/g2p39s.jpg" alt="G2 screenshot" width="200" height="150"></a><br>
MPlayer G2 in action
</p>
-<br>
+
+<p>
Recently there were big changes in G2 code, to get it ready for
-the first, brave testers :)<br>
-<br>
-You can expect:<br>
+the first, brave testers :)
+</p>
+
+<p>
+You can expect:
+</p>
+
<ul>
<li>Much better A-V sync, and timing in general, compared to G1</li>
<li>Native OGG and NSV demuxers</li>
@@ -1251,7 +1258,11 @@
<li>New, clean video-out API, with new <b>fbdev</b>, <b>x11</b>, <b>xv</b>, <b>mga</b>/<b>tdfx_vid</b> drivers</li>
<li>Stability, clean source code</li>
</ul>
+
+<p>
What you won't get yet:
+</p>
+
<ul>
<li>Playback of files <i>other than</i> <b>MPEG</b> (ES/PS/TS/MP3), <b>AVI</b>, <b>ASF/WMA/WMV</b> and <b>OGG/OGM</b>.</li>
<li>Seeking (some limited raw seeking is already there, but it's not finished)</li>
@@ -1267,9 +1278,13 @@
<a href="http://mplayerhq.hu/~arpi/g2/mplayer-G2-preview39.tar.gz"><b>here!</b></a>
You should <b>NOT</b> report bugs, but if you have file it can't play correctly (and it's
one of the supported formats mentioned above), upload to <a href="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu">ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu</a>,
-and mention <b>G2</b> in the attached .txt!<br>
-<br>
+and mention <b>G2</b> in the attached .txt!
+</p>
+
+<p>
<b>Download URLs</b>:
+</p>
+
<ul>
<li>Hungary 1
<a href="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/~arpi/g2/mplayer-G2-preview39.tar.gz">HTTP</a></li>
@@ -1286,14 +1301,18 @@
<br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
</h2>
+<p>
The European Union is just about to vote total control over software
patents! If you want to avoid the police harassing you, please read
the summary <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2003/06/msg00259.html">here</a>,
then sign two petitions at <a href="http://petition.eurolinux.org">http://petition.eurolinux.org</a> and
-<a href="http://petition.ffii.org/eubsa/en">http://petition.ffii.org</a>.<br>
-<br>
+<a href="http://petition.ffii.org/eubsa/en">http://petition.ffii.org</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
If you think all these efforts are in vain, then please tell your
nearest EU representative about the matter.
+</p>
</div>
@@ -1306,10 +1325,12 @@
<br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
</h2>
+<p>
I made some of the older homepage designs available, each is
dynamically generated and contains the same content. I don't
guarantee too much backward compatibility, but I see no reason for
any big breakage. Choose the one for your liking :)
+</p>
</div>
@@ -1322,9 +1343,11 @@
<br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
</h2>
+<p>
<a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1157">Kivilcim Hindistan</a> has written an O'Reilly
article about MPlayer.
<a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/04/06/mplayer.html">Click here to read!</a>
+</p>
</div>
@@ -1661,6 +1684,7 @@
<br><span class="poster">posted by A'rpi</span>
</h2>
+<p>
Fine tuning MPlayer, the movie player for Linux<br>
[written by Arpad Gereoffy (A'rpi), author/ex-maintainer of MPlayer, for <a href="http://freshmeat.net">freshmeat.net</a>]
@@ -1680,10 +1704,13 @@
<br><span class="poster">posted by Pontscho</span>
</h2>
+<p>
I'd like to propose a <b>Skin Design Compo</b>. We think the time
passed on the default skin. It's up to you to design a new, default
-skin.<br>
-<br>
+skin.
+</p>
+
+<p>
<b>Conditions</b>:
<ul>
<li>we DON'T accept xmms/winamp/etc skin ports</li>
@@ -1700,9 +1727,12 @@
<br>
Please send inquiries and skins to <b>pontscho at kac.poliod.hu</b>
<br>
-Thankfully,<br>
-<br>
+Thankfully,
+</p>
+
+<p>
<b>Pontscho / fresh!mindworkz</b>
+</p>
</div>
@@ -2190,7 +2220,6 @@
<br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
</h2>
-
<p>Oops... We did it again :) So you can play your favourite brand-new
quicktime movie trailers with mplayer! Oops... you cannot yet... at least the
code is working, and was uploaded to CVS, but it needs some hacking to get it
@@ -2299,7 +2328,10 @@
<a href="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre10.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
<a href="ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre10.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
</ul>
+
+<p>
now! :)
+</p>
</div>
@@ -2460,7 +2492,10 @@
<a href="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre9.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
<a href="ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre9.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
</ul>
+
+<p>
now! :)
+</p>
</div>
@@ -2493,7 +2528,6 @@
<br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
</h2>
-
<p>Some win32 guys made a <a href="http://xboxmediaplayer.de">media player</a>
for Micro$oft's well-known "console", the X-box. Unfortunately they used
FFMPEG and XVID sources in their closed-source product, and failed to make
@@ -2583,7 +2617,10 @@
<a href="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre8.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
<a href="ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre8.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
</ul>
+
+<p>
now!
+</p>
</div>
@@ -2638,7 +2675,10 @@
<a href="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre7.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
<a href="ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre7.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
</ul>
+
+<p>
now!
+</p>
</div>
@@ -2755,7 +2795,10 @@
<li>Hungary
<a href="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre6.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
</ul>
+
+<p>
now! :)
+</p>
</div>
@@ -2910,12 +2953,12 @@
<br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
</h2>
-
<p>The well-known video card maker <a href="http://www.matrox.com">Matrox</a>
has released its new card continuing the <i>Gxx</i> series: <b>Parhelia</b>.
Unfortunately <code>mga_vid</code> won't support it, unless someone
sends us some of this baby. We mailed Matrox some weeks ago, but - sadly -
haven't received any answer.</p>
+
<p>Donations are welcome.</p>
</div>
@@ -2929,7 +2972,6 @@
<br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
</h2>
-
<p>I can't think of any introduction text. So: the new pre-release 0.90-pre4 of
the <a href="http://freshmeat.net/stats/#popularity">most popular</a>
movie player is out. List of main changes:</p>
@@ -2963,7 +3005,6 @@
<br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
</h2>
-
<p>This prerelease contains some serious bugfixes, and no big new features.
We promised various big things in pre2 announcement, but they are delayed to
pre4 now, as we want to release these fixes ASAP. The most important fixes were:
@@ -3007,7 +3048,6 @@
<br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
</h2>
-
<p>This is the second pre-release intended for public testing. We'd like to make
a totally bugfree 0.90 later, so please try this out and report problems!
We've got many bugreports since 0.90-pre1, most of these have been fixed.
@@ -3061,7 +3101,6 @@
<br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
</h2>
-
<p>This is a pre-release intended for public testing. We'd like to make
a totally bugfree 0.90 later, so please try this out and report problems!</p>
@@ -3104,7 +3143,6 @@
<br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
</h2>
-
<p>
As some of you may have already noticed, there is a new project on
Sourceforge, called <a href="http://mplayerxp.sf.net">MPlayerXP</a>.
@@ -3269,7 +3307,6 @@
<br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
</h2>
-
<p>Yes, Linuxworld hasn't fired this guy yet. This time he examined Xine.. I do
not (?:) intend to go ranting about the article, as it does not directly
concern <b>MPlayer</b>. Instead, I'd like to point out on some things :</p>
@@ -3339,7 +3376,6 @@
<br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
</h2>
-
<p>...and it works! So currently <b>MPlayer</b> is the <b>FASTEST</b>
movie player on FreeBSD, with Matrox G400 cards ! (G200 currently doesn't
work with Vidix)
@@ -3356,7 +3392,6 @@
<br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
</h2>
-
<p>
<b>VIDIX</b> is an interface for the sole purpose of <b>direct access to
videocards' framebuffers, DGA and BES</b>.
@@ -3376,10 +3411,14 @@
for all these drivers. I mentioned that it also provides direct hardware
access. And what does a standard interface for hardware access mean?
It means that now it's very easy to write <b>*_vid</b> drivers for
-virtually <b>EVERY</b> videocard.<br>
-<br>
-For those which don't have XVideo support in X11.<br>
-<br>
+virtually <b>EVERY</b> videocard.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+For those which don't have XVideo support in X11.
+</p>
+
+<p>
For NVidia users who have to mess with buggy drivers and
incompatibilities. We already started writing <b>nvidia_vid</b> !
</p>
@@ -3405,7 +3444,6 @@
<br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
</h2>
-
<p>
I've just created a new section for patches that didn't make it to CVS,
but may be interesting for some people. See the download page.
@@ -3422,7 +3460,6 @@
<br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
</h2>
-
<p>
We've set up a mirror for the entire site (except the CVS). It can be reached
at <a href="http://www2.mplayerhq.hu">http://www2.mplayerhq.hu</a> and
@@ -3743,8 +3780,10 @@
<p>
<b>MPlayer</b> now can use XAnim codecs (even <b>3ivx</b>!) for video decoding !
The documentation is already updated, check the new <a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html#xanim">XAnim codecs section</a> for
-installation/usage instructions !<br>
-<br>
+installation/usage instructions !
+</p>
+
+<p>
<b>ATTENTION: </b> using some XAnim codecs with other software than XAnim is <b>ILLEGAL</b>!<br>
</p>
@@ -3780,12 +3819,16 @@
<p>
Just go and download.<br>
-New after 0.50-pre3: mostly build fixes for non-linux systems, docs updates.<br>
-<br>
+New after 0.50-pre3: mostly build fixes for non-linux systems, docs updates.
+</p>
+
+<p>
Note: mov "support" disabled, if you want to play with it, then use CVS.
(mov support is far from being finished. no seeking and only cvid video and
-raw audio are supported - so it's very useless)<br>
-<br>
+raw audio are supported - so it's very useless)
+</p>
+
+<p>
Also, we moved the mplayer-users mailing list to our new server. If
you weren't automatically resubscribed, you can do it
<a href="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users">here</a>.
@@ -3862,8 +3905,10 @@
</h2>
<p>
-Dear ppl,<br>
-<br>
+Dear ppl,
+</p>
+
+<p>
We, <b>MPlayer</b> developers, condemn those that are involved in the creation
of this senseless massacre, and would like to express our sincerest condolences
to the relatives of all who died due to these terrosist attacks.<br>
@@ -4222,7 +4267,9 @@
</li>
</ul>
+<p>
Any much much more! Check out from <a href="dload.html">CVS</a> !
+</p>
</div>
@@ -4246,6 +4293,7 @@
will never recover, two weeks on backup sys is too long...)
or we can finally set up our new server in <b>Hungary</b>.
</p>
+
<p>A'rpi</p>
</div>
@@ -4283,17 +4331,25 @@
Many people asked about portability. <a href="mailto:gz at lysator.liu.se">Gernot Ziegler</a>
went so far that he tried to port mpg12play sources to IRIX operating systems.
Now this project goes serious... The goal is to produce a portable MPEG1/MPEG2
-player.<br>
-<br>
-From <b>A'rpi</b> :<br>
-<br>
-The project has been started...<br>
-<br>
+player.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+From <b>A'rpi</b> :
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The project has been started...
+</p>
+
+<p>
1. I've removed all win32/avi stuff from mpg12play (MPlayer-0.09 version)
and imported to the CVS with module name <b>mpg12play</b>.
It still has some x86 code, but most places it's disabled. remaining code
-must be #ifdefed (do not remove!) to get it compile on non-x86 arch.<br>
-<br>
+must be #ifdefed (do not remove!) to get it compile on non-x86 arch.
+</p>
+
+<p>
2. Created a mailing list called <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-mpg12play">mplayer-mpg12play</a> (yes, silly name,
but SF doesn't allow other than mplayer-*)
Please subscribe to the list, if you are interested, and aren't
@@ -4435,8 +4491,10 @@
font package</a>.<br>
Next, unzip it to <b>$HOME/.mplayer/font</b> .<br>
Get latest CVS, compile it, use either <b>Xv, MGA, X11 (only in 24bpp), or
-fbdev</b> output, specify your sub file with the <b>-sub</b> option, and you're done!<br>
-<br>
+fbdev</b> output, specify your sub file with the <b>-sub</b> option, and you're done!
+</p>
+
+<p>
Thanks to <b>Laaz</b> for the SUB reader, <b>A'rpi</b> for the great
OSD+SUB displayer and <b>Chass</b> for the font(s)!<br>
</p>
@@ -4613,8 +4671,9 @@
<p>
On the MPlayer mailing list, <b>A'rpi</b> announced the proposed changes in the
-<b>0.12</b> series.<br>
+<b>0.12</b> series.
</p>
+
<p>
The biggest change will be the <i>change from libvo to
<a href="http://frozenproductions.com"><b>libxmm</b></a></i> . libxmm aka
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