October 2002 - MPlayer-dev-eng - lists.mplayerhq.hu

[PATCH] README
by Diego Biurrun 17 Oct '03

17 Oct '03

Hello everybody! Hoping to bring the linewrap saga to a good end, here is my latest patch for the README. Lines are wrapped on column 80, meaning there are at most 79 characters of text on one line. The changes: - Added Step0: Getting MPlayer Download instructions are consolidated in one place instead of repeated at 3 different places throughout the text. Plus I included instructions for accessing CVS. - I mention the ~/.mplayer/Skin/ and ~/.mplayer/font/ installation locations for normal users. - A bunch of wording updates. Diego --- README Sat Jun 29 14:01:35 2002 +++ README-diego Sat Jun 29 15:51:40 2002 @@ -4,69 +4,105 @@ MPlayer currently works best from the command line, but there is a GUI with skin support in the alpha development stage. -This document is for getting you started in a few minutes. It cannot answer -all of your questions. If you have problems, please read the documentation in -DOCS/documentation.html. It is extensive and should answer most of your -questions. Also read the manpage to learn how to use MPlayer. +This document is for getting you started in a few minutes. It cannot answer all +of your questions. If you have problems, please read the documentation in +DOCS/documentation.html. It is extensive and should answer most of your +questions. Also read the man page to learn how to use MPlayer. + + +Requirements: +- To compile MPlayer with X11 support, you need to have the XFree86 development + packages installed. +- For the GUI you need the GTK development packages. -To compile MPlayer with X11 support, you need to have the XFree86 development -packages installed, for the GUI you also need the GTK development packages. Before you start... Unless you know what are you doing, consult DOCS/video.html to see which driver -to use with your video card to get the best video quality and performance. -Most cards require special drivers not included with standard X11, to drive -the 2-D video acceleration features (YUV, scaling etc) of your card! +to use with your video card to get the best quality and video performance. Most +cards require special drivers not included with standard X11 to drive their 2-D +video acceleration features like YUV and scaling. A quick and incomplete list of recommendations: -- ATI cards: get the GATOS drivers for X11/Xv or use vidix -- Matrox G200/G4x0/G550: compile and use mga_vid for Linux, use vidix for BSD -- 3dfx Voodoo3/Banshee: get XFree86 4.2.0+ for Xv or use the tdfxfb driver -- nVidia cards: get the X11 driver from www.nvidia.com for Xv support -Without having accelerated video, even a 800MHz P3 may be slow to play DVD! +- ATI cards: Get the GATOS drivers for X11/Xv or use VIDIX. +- Matrox G200/G4x0/G550: Compile and use mga_vid for Linux, on BSD use VIDIX. +- 3dfx Voodoo3/Banshee: Get XFree86 4.2.0+ for XV or use the tdfxfb driver. +- nVidia cards: Get the X11 driver from www.nvidia.com for XV support. +- NeoMagic cards: Get an XV capable driver from our homepage as described in + DOCS/video.html + +Without accelerated video even an 800MHz P3 may be too slow to play DVDs. + + +______________________ +STEP0: Getting MPlayer +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Official releases, prereleases and CVS snapshots are available from the download +section of our homepage at + + http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html + +You can also get fonts for the onscreen display (OSD), Win32 codecs and a number +of different skins for the GUI there. MPlayer does not come with any of these by +default, so if you want to have the OSD, the GUI or support for more video +formats, download these. + +MPlayer is also available via anonymous CVS. Issue the following commands to +get the latest sources: + + cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/mplayer login + cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/mplayer co main + +A directory named 'main' will be created. You can later update your sources with + + cvs -z3 update -dPA + +from within that directory. + ___________________________________ STEP1: Installing FFmpeg libavcodec ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -If you are using an official release, skip this step, since official releases -always include libavcodec. To verify this check if the libavcodec subdirectory -is empty or contains the sources! - The FFmpeg project provides libavcodec, a very portable MPEG4/DivX codec with -excellent speed and quality. It is the preferred codec of MPlayer for playing -mpeg4 and divx video. You have to get libavcodec directly from the FFmpeg CVS -server. Use the following commands in a suitable directory outside the MPlayer -source directory: +excellent speed and quality. It is the preferred MPEG4/DivX codec of MPlayer and +used to be included in the MPlayer CVS tree. This is no longer the case and you +have to get libavcodec directly from the FFmpeg CVS server. + +If you are using an official (pre)release, skip this step, since official +releases include libavcodec. CVS sources and CVS snapshots do not include +libavcodec. To verify if you do have libavcodec or not, check if the libavcodec +subdirectory in the MPlayer source tree is empty or not. + +To get the FFmpeg sources, use the following commands in a suitable directory +outside the MPlayer source directory: cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.ffmpeg.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ffmpeg login -cvs -z9 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.ffmpeg.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ffmpeg co ffmpeg/libavcodec +cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.ffmpeg.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ffmpeg co ffmpeg/libavcodec When asked for a password, you can just hit enter. -Now, replace the empty libavcodec directory with the FFmpeg libavcodec source -by removing the libavcodec subdirectory in the MPlayer source tree and then -copying (symbolic linking does not suffice!) the freshly downloaded FFmpeg -libavcodec directory back into the MPlayer source tree. +Now, replace the empty libavcodec directory in the MPlayer source tree with the +FFmpeg libavcodec source by removing the libavcodec subdirectory in the MPlayer +source tree and then copying (symbolic linking does not suffice) the freshly +downloaded FFmpeg libavcodec directory back into the MPlayer source tree. ______________________________ STEP2: Installing Win32 Codecs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -While MPlayer and libavcodec has built-in support for the most common audio -and video formats, some others are 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 MPlayer to play more -different file types! - -Grab the win32 codecs package from the download page +MPlayer and libavcodec have builtin support for the most common audio and video +formats, but some others are playable only with the Win32 DLLs or the XAnim +binary plugins. Examples include WMV video, DivX with WMA audio (not normal DivX +files) and Indeo. This step is not mandatory, but recommended for getting +MPlayer to play more different file types. + +Unpack the codecs archive and put the contents in a directory where MPlayer will +find them. The default directory is /usr/lib/win32/ but you can change that to +something else by using the '--with-win32libdir=DIR' option when you run +'./configure'. - http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html - -unpack it and put the contents in a directory where MPlayer will find them. -The default directory is /usr/lib/win32/ but you can change that to something -else by using the '--with-win32libdir=DIR' option when you run './configure' . __________________________ STEP3: Configuring MPlayer @@ -76,9 +112,8 @@ ./configure -to configure MPlayer with the default options. The options you installed above -should be autodetected, except GUI support, which has to be enabled separately, -run +to configure MPlayer with the default options. The codecs you installed above +should be autodetected. GUI support has to be enabled separately, run ./configure --enable-gui @@ -95,6 +130,7 @@ the file configure.log for errors and reasons for the failure. Repeat this step until you are satisfied with the enabled feature set. + ________________________ STEP4: Compiling MPlayer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -109,77 +145,78 @@ provided that you have write permission in the installation directory. -If all went well, you can run MPlayer by typing 'mplayer' -You should get a summary of the most common options and keys (help screen). +If all went well, you can run MPlayer by typing 'mplayer'. A help screen with a +summary of the most common options and keyboard shortcuts should be displayed. -If you get 'unable to load shared library' or similar errors, then run +If you get 'unable to load shared library' or similar errors, run 'ldd ./mplayer' to check which libraries fail and go back to STEP 3 to fix it. -Sometimes just running 'ldconfig' is enough. +Sometimes running 'ldconfig' is enough to fix the problem. NOTE: If you run Debian you can configure, compile and build a proper deb package with only one command: fakeroot debian/rules binary + ____________________________________________ STEP5: Installing the onscreen display fonts ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -To enable OSD (onscreen status display) and ASCII/TEXT subtitles you need some -fonts. Get them from our homepage: +To enable onscreen status display and ASCII subtitles you need some fonts. -http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html +Unpack the archive and choose one of the available font sizes. Then copy the +font files of the corresponding size into /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/ or +~/.mplayer/font/ (or whatever you set with './configure --datadir=DIR'). -Unpack the archive and choose one of the available font sizes. Then copy the -font files of the corresponding size into /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/ -(or whatever you set with './configure --datadir=DIR'). ____________________________ STEP6: Installing a GUI skin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please remember that the GUI is still in the alpha development stage and not -completely finished yet. Features like playlist, preferences and equalizer -do not work at all. Expect them for the 1.0 release -Basic stuff like file selection and seeking works, though. - -If you want to use the GUI you need to download a skin, since MPlayer does not -come with a skin by default. Choose one from the download page +completely finished yet. Features like playlist and preferences do not work at +all. Expect them for the 1.0 release. Basic stuff like file selection and +seeking works, though. + +Unpack the archive and put the contents in /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/ or +~/.mplayer/Skin/. MPlayer will use the skin in the default/ subdirectory of +/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/ or ~/.mplayer/Skin/ unless told otherwise via the +'-skin' switch. You should therefore rename your skin subdirectory or make a +suitable symbolic link. - http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html - -unpack it in /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/. MPlayer will use the skin in -the default/ subdirectory (/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default/*) unless -told otherwise via the '-skin' switch. You should therefore rename your -skin subdirectory, make a suitable symbolic link or set the skin name in -the file mplayer.conf by 'skin=skinname'. __________________ STEP7: Let's play! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -That's it for the moment. To start playing movies, open a command line and try +That's it for the moment. To start playing movies, open a command line and try mplayer <moviefile> -or for the GUI: +or for the GUI + mplayer -gui <moviefile> gmplayer <moviefile> - (just 'gmplayer' is enough to use the GUI fileselector) + +gmplayer is a symbolic link to mplayer created by 'make install'. +Without <moviefile>, MPlayer will come up and you will be able to use the GUI +filepicker. To play VCD track or DVD title, try: mplayer -vcd 2 -cdrom-device /dev/hdc mplayer -dvd 1 -alang en -slang hu -dvd-device /dev/hdd -See 'mplayer -help' and 'man mplayer' for further options. +See 'mplayer --help' and 'man mplayer' for further options. 'mplayer -vo help' will show you the available video output drivers. Experiment -with the '-vo' switch to see which one gives you the best performance! -If you get very jerky playback or no sound, experiment with -ao (see -ao help) -Note that jerky playback is caused by buggy audio drivers or too slow cpu/vga. -With a good audio and video driver combination, one can play DVDs and 720x576 -DivX files smoothly on a Celeron 366. For slower systems, you need -framedrop. +with the '-vo' switch to see which one gives you the best performance. +If you get jerky playback or no sound, experiment with the '-ao' switch (see +'-ao help') to choose between different audio drivers. Note that jerky playback +is caused by buggy audio drivers or a slow processor and video card. With a good +audio and video driver combination, one can play DVDs and 720x576 DivX files +smoothly on a Celeron 366. Slower systems may need the '-framedrop' option. Questions you may have are probably answered in the rest of the documentation. -The place to start reading is DOCS/faq.html and DOCS/documentation.html. +The places to start reading are the man page, DOCS/documentation.html and +DOCS/faq.html.

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mga_vid memory detection error
by Eric Lammerts 02 Mar '03

02 Mar '03

Hi, I've got a 16Mb Matrox G400 card that is misdetected as a 32Mb model. The result is a green screen. With mga_ram_size=16, everything works fine. (I'm using the current CVS). Since "lspci -v" reports "16Mb", wouldn't it be a good idea to use the subsystem vendor/device id for the memory detection? Eric dmesg: Matrox MGA G200/G400/G450/G550 YUV Video interface v2.01 (c) Aaron Holtzman & A'rpi mga_vid: Found MGA G400/G450 mga_vid: MMIO at 0xd2882000 IRQ: 10 framebuffer: 0xD4000000 mga_vid: OPTION word: 0x50044120 mem: 0x10 SGRAM mga_vid: detected RAMSIZE is 32 MB syncfb (mga): IRQ disabled in mga_vid.c # lspci -d 102b: -v 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Matrox Graphics, Inc. Millennium G400 Dual Head 16Mb Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10 Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M] Memory at d6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Memory at d7000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [f0] AGP version 2.0 # lspci -d 102b: -xxx 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 04) 00: 2b 10 25 05 07 00 90 02 04 00 00 03 08 20 00 00 10: 08 00 00 d4 00 00 00 d6 00 00 00 d7 00 00 00 00 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2b 10 59 21 30: 00 00 00 00 dc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 01 10 20 40: 20 41 04 50 00 3c 00 00 42 42 ff 42 00 00 00 00 50: 00 30 00 01 21 a4 90 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 60: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 f0 22 00 e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f0: 02 00 20 00 03 02 00 1f 01 03 00 1f 00 00 00 00

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[PATCH] NetBSD SSE detection support
by Nick Hudson 22 Dec '02

22 Dec '02

I just committed the attached patch to NetBSD/pkgsrc mplayer to enable SSE checking and detection on NetBSD. Please included it in the mplayer tree Thanks, Nick

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[PATCH][?]ao_sdl pause problem
by Colin Leroy 08 Dec '02

08 Dec '02

Hi, You probably know there's a problem with ao_sdl when pausing : sound looping a very short sample, most of the time strange sound after unpausing. This simple diff fixes it. It seems /too simple/, I'm dubitative, is there a reason why it wasn't used ? If there wasn't any reason, is this fix ok ? Shall i commit ? Cheers, -- Colin Hack a powerbook! http://geekounet.org/powerbook/

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[PATCH] fix handling of XVideo COLORKEY attributes
by Ben Liblit 08 Dec '02

08 Dec '02

A recent thread on <mplayer-users> has revealed a flaw in MPlayer's management of the XVideo "XV_COLORKEY" and "XV_AUTOPAINT_COLORKEY" attributes. This flaw results in MPlayer being unable to display video properly on many nVidia graphics cards. The thread archive starts at <http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2002-October/022024.html>. Thread participants have reached the conclusion that the flaw can be fixed in one of two possible ways. One approach is to always set the XV_AUTOPAINT_COLORKEY attribute if available on the XVideo port being used. The other is to set the video output window's background pixel to the value of XV_COLORKEY if that attribute is available. Since I'm seeing the bug, I tried fixing it using each of these approaches. Either one fixes the problem just fine. I really don't know XVideo well at all, and I certainly don't know it well enough to decide which fix is preferable. So I'm attaching *two* patches below. The first uses the XV_AUTOPAINT_COLORKEY approach, while the second uses the approach of changing the window background. Again, both are tested, and either one fixes the bug. If one of you developers has reason to prefer one over the other, please grab your favorite and check it in. Incidentally, somebody should probably tell the SDL people about this, as "-vo sdl:x11" has exactly the same problem. Thank you!

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salve mode - timestamp command added
by Andre Merzky 08 Dec '02

08 Dec '02

Hi, I am about to include mplayer into some Java project (please don't ask me why.. - really stupid reasons...) Anyway, easiest way it to catch mplayers stdin/stdout, and to steer it via the slave mode, since I do not need much functionality. One thing I do need is a timestamp though, in order to query the actual movie time. I append a small patch to the current CVS version, which does exactly this. I would be happy if someone could look over it (its just a couple of lines) and tell me if this makes sense. If it does, I would be happy to see it go to the CVS tree... Many thanks, best regards, Andre. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Andre Merzky | phon: ++49 - 30 - 84 1 85 - 339 | | Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) | fax : ++49 - 30 - 84 1 85 - 107 | | - Scientific Visualization - | mail: merzky(a)zib.de | | Takustr. 7 - D-14195 Berlin | www : http://www.zib.de/merzky/ | +------------------------------------------------------------------+

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PATCH: experimental DVB input
by nsabbi＠libero.it 08 Dec '02

08 Dec '02

Hello, attached is an initial implementation of an input layer from DVB cards. It can read a vdr configuration file, named ~/.mplayer/channels.conf, and (sometimes) change channel up and down using 'h' and 'k' keys. I wrote sometimes because it hangs in certain situations, that to my experience seem to be: -either change in resolution -or change in bitrate. Additionally it adds the following parameters to mplayer: -dvbin with sub-options: on=1 (required) aid=<id> vid=<id> freq=<frequency / 1000) srate=<symbol-rate / 1000> pol=[VH] e.g.: mplayer -dvbin on=1:vid=160:aid=80:freq=11766:pol=V:srate=27500 The code needs serious cleanups: - an MPEG TS->PS pipe attached to the streaming layer needs to be removed and substituted with something else. I know it's _REALLY_ horrible but I didn't have any other way to test the code; -I used a new stream_type because I want to be able to add teletext support in the future - many others, maybe the streaming model I built isn't the most adapt. The code was all taken from dvbstream written by David Chapman and mpegtools written by R. & M. Metzler (thanks very much!); there's no support for Diseqc because I never understood which the **** Diseqc commands are available. Can anyone explain, please? I generated the patch with diff -Naur against the lates cvs. I hope to receive feedback and especially to get help to make it clean and better. Thanks, Nico Sabbi

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i prepared turkish fonts for mplayer
by Emre UYGURO�LU 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

uploaded them to mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming as turkish-fonts-iso-8859-9.tar.bz2. i hope somebody has time to put them in the download page. Emre UYGUROGLU _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

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[BUG] (fonts && downloadable files && documentation) || Gui
by Fabian Franz 29 Nov '02

29 Nov '02

Hi folks, Not a serious bug, but a nerving one ... The MPlayer-Docu and the Readme of the mp-arial-iso-8859-1.zip-fonts-package say: mkdir ~/.mplayer/font cd ~/.mplayer/font unzip mp-arial-iso-8859-1.zip ln -s ~/.mplayer/font/arial-24 font or Usage: select font size and copy the content of the directory to ~/.mplayer/font/ example: cp arial-18/* ~/.mplayer/font/ The first one is even wrong, because there is a directory in the .zip-file called iso-8859-1 (before arial-24, so dead symlink) ... No one of them seems to work, because the gui always gives the error: font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc It doesn't seem to care about a local (home-dir) font-file ... I wonder if this is a bug in the gui or in the config-code ... I hope this helps, cu Fabian PS: Sorry, I don't have the time for a patch or more detailed bug report. Please excuse ...

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[PATCH] hide cursor on terminal
by D Richard Felker III 29 Nov '02

29 Nov '02

Hey. I would just commit this directly, but I'm not too familiar with getch2.c so I'd like to run it by everyone first. This patch hides the cursor when getch2 is enabled, which is needed when using the bes on some cards, since the annoying flashing cursor appears over top of the overlay. The old TOOLS/mpconsole script I wrote works around this, but since it's mostly obsolete already I'd like to go ahead and make it entirely obsolete. If no one objects I'll commit this patch soon. Rich

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