Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS In directory mplayer:/var/tmp.root/cvs-serv11920/DOCS Modified Files: documentation.html formats.html Log Message: Index: documentation.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/documentation.html,v retrieving revision 1.102 retrieving revision 1.103 diff -u -r1.102 -r1.103 --- documentation.html 6 Nov 2001 17:04:56 -0000 1.102 +++ documentation.html 7 Nov 2001 18:18:22 -0000 1.103 @@ -171,11 +171,10 @@ drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon) too! Most of them supports software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. <B>MPlayer</B> supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the -<B><A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/DVB">DVB</A></B> and <B> <A -HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/DXR3">DXR3/Hollywood+</A></B> ! And what -about the nice big antialiased shaded subtitles (<B>9 supported types!!!</B>) -with european/ISO 8859-1,2 (hungarian, english, czech, etc), cyrillic, korean -fonts, and OSD?</P> +<B><A HREF="DVB">DVB</A></B> and <B> <A HREF="DXR3">DXR3/Hollywood+</A></B> ! +And what about the nice big antialiased shaded subtitles (<B>9 supported +types!!!</B>) with european/ISO 8859-1,2 (hungarian, english, czech, etc), +cyrillic, korean fonts, and OSD?</P> <P><B>MPlayer</B> is basically GPL, but contains some non-GPL code which is not allowed to be distributed in binary form, and also contains the OpenDivX Index: formats.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/formats.html,v retrieving revision 1.1 retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -r1.1 -r1.2 --- formats.html 6 Nov 2001 17:04:56 -0000 1.1 +++ formats.html 7 Nov 2001 18:18:22 -0000 1.2 @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ <LI> <A HREF="#2.1.1.3">ASF/WMV</A> 1.0 file format <LI> <A HREF="#2.1.1.4">QT/MOV</A> file format with (un)compressed headers <LI> <A HREF="#2.1.1.5">VIVO</A> format (.viv files) -<LI> supports <A HREF="documentation.html#3.3">reading from file</A>, stdin, or network via HTTP +<LI> supports <A HREF="documentation.html#3.3">reading from stdin</A>, or network via HTTP </UL></P> <P>Note: about realmedia (.ra/.rm) support read the FAQ!</P> @@ -59,6 +59,12 @@ <CODE>-vcd</CODE> option to play the VideoCD.</LI> </P> +<P>One important feature for MPGs is that they have a field to describe +the aspect ratio of the video stream within. For example SVCDs have +480x480 resolution video, and in the header that field is set to 4:3, so +it's played at 640x480. AVI files don't have this field, so one has to +scale it during encoding.</P> + <P><B><A NAME=2.1.1.2>2.1.1.2. AVI files</A></B></P> @@ -67,7 +73,7 @@ videos. Has many known drawbacks, and inabilities (for example in streaming). Has support for one video stream, and 99 audio streams. Can be as big as 2Gb. There exists an extension for it to be bigger, called <B>OpenDMS</B>. -M$ is currently strongly discourages its use and propagates ASF/WMV. Not if +M$ currently strongly discourages its use and propagates ASF/WMV. Not if anybody cares.<BR> <B>NOTE</B> : DV cameras can create two types of AVI format, one is the usual and playable, the other is neither.</P>