July 2005 - MPlayer-DOCS - lists.mplayerhq.hu

CVS: homepage/src donations.src.en,1.85,1.86
by syncmail＠mplayerhq.hu 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

CVS change done by Alex Beregszaszi Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/homepage/src In directory mail:/home/alex/mplayer/homepage/src Modified Files: donations.src.en Log Message: some clarifications Index: donations.src.en =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/homepage/src/donations.src.en,v retrieving revision 1.85 retrieving revision 1.86 diff -u -r1.85 -r1.86 --- donations.src.en 28 Jun 2005 01:12:17 -0000 1.85 +++ donations.src.en 1 Jul 2005 21:44:26 -0000 1.86 @@ -53,14 +53,15 @@ The ever growing number of Wishes: <ul> <li>notebook DDR ram (PC2100), at least 256M, as I have 128M now, but one slot</li> -<li>some PDA eyetoy</li> -<li>some advanced audio hardware with 5.1/7.1/etc support (such as Audigy 2 - USB:)</li> -<li>some wireless (802.11b/g) access-point or wireless-router, preferably with external antenna support</li> +<li>PDA eyetoy</li> +<li>advanced audio hardware with 5.1/7.1/etc support (such as Audigy 2 - USB:)</li> +<li>wireless (802.11b/g) access-point or wireless-router, preferably with external antenna support</li> +<li>usb wireless adapter</li> <li>Cirrus Logic CLGD 54xx based video card</li> <li>a DVD burner</li> <li>any MIPS, m68k, m88k, SPARC, ARM, SH* based system</li> <li>(Xbox, Dreamcast, Gamecube for making a settopbox player)</li> -<li>some audio player hw like iPod (i would like to port lavc and write nut support)</li> +<li>some audio player hw like iPod (i would like to port FFmpeg and write NUT support)</li> <li>USB (2.0) / firewire external IDE (5.25"/3.5"/2.5") rack</li> <li>MPEG-2/MPEG-4 capturing card (with Linux support)</li> <li>DVD Discs: Back to the Future, Southpark Movie, etc (ask me ;)</li>

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CVS: homepage index.html,1.33,1.34
by syncmail＠mplayerhq.hu 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

CVS change done by Alex Beregszaszi Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/homepage In directory mail:/home/alex/mplayer/homepage Modified Files: index.html Log Message: better layout i think Index: index.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/homepage/index.html,v retrieving revision 1.33 retrieving revision 1.34 diff -u -r1.33 -r1.34 --- index.html 27 Jun 2005 23:16:52 -0000 1.33 +++ index.html 1 Jul 2005 19:57:35 -0000 1.34 @@ -10,13 +10,15 @@ <body style="padding:1em;"> - <a href="index-de.html">German version of this text</a> - <a href="index-es.html">Spanish version of this text</a> - <a href="index-fr.html">French version of this text</a> - <a href="index-hu_HU.html">Hungarian version of this text</a> - <a href="index-it.html">Italian version of this text</a> - <a href="index-pt_BR.html">Brazilian Portuguese version of this text</a> - <a href="index-pl.html">Polish version of this text</a> + Translations: + <a href="index-de.html">German</a>, + <a href="index-es.html">Spanish</a>, + <a href="index-fr.html">French</a>, + <a href="index-hu_HU.html">Hungarian</a>, + <a href="index-it.html">Italian</a>, + <a href="index-pt_BR.html">Brazilian Portuguese</a>, + <a href="index-pl.html">Polish</a> + <hr>

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Some points for cd-dvd.xml
by Jiri Heryan 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

About a line 31 in cd-dvd.xml is sugested to use "hdparm" or "cdspeed" for slow down IDE-CDROMs and few lines after is something like there is no solution for SCSI drives. I've no experience with cdspeed but hdparm failing with IDE-CD if you use an IDE-SCSI emulation for cd writer. Best solution (after hard searching) is set a speed=<speed> option to mount command. This work better for me than hdparm even in native ATAPI with my writer, because this drive resets its speed setting with every cd exchange so it need run hdparm many times (boring and slow). Maybe it is a solution for SCSI drives too. I can't prove it myself, have no native SCSI. Next we should point reasonable speed settings because all drives do not support many speeds. For example my cd writer supports about 15 various speeds but my previous toshiba cd-rom could be set to 14x and 40x only, so if I set 24x it turn out as 40x (noisy) but after I set it <=14x , it slowed down. In my experience is 8x speed reasonable minimum and 24x reasonable maximum with noise under fans level. Any ideas? Jiri

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CVS: main/DOCS/xml/en cd-dvd.xml,1.14,1.15
by syncmail＠mplayerhq.hu 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

CVS change done by Diego Biurrun CVS Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/xml/en In directory mail:/var2/tmp/cvs-serv1597/en Modified Files: cd-dvd.xml Log Message: Slightly restructured, mention more tools, small fixes, cosmetics. Index: cd-dvd.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/xml/en/cd-dvd.xml,v retrieving revision 1.14 retrieving revision 1.15 diff -u -r1.14 -r1.15 --- cd-dvd.xml 14 Dec 2004 11:32:35 -0000 1.14 +++ cd-dvd.xml 1 Jul 2005 09:33:27 -0000 1.15 @@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ <sect1 id="drives"> <title>CD/DVD drives</title> -<para> -Linux documentation excerpt: -</para> <para> Modern CD-ROM drives can attain very high head speeds, yet some CD-ROM drives @@ -27,11 +24,20 @@ </para></listitem> </itemizedlist> +<sect2 id="drives_linux"> +<title>Linux</title> + <para> -You can reduce the speed of IDE CD-ROM drives with <command>hdparm</command> or a -program called <command>setcd</command>. It works like this: +You can reduce the speed of IDE CD-ROM drives with <command>hdparm</command>, +<command>setcd</command> or <command>cdctl</command>. It works like this: <screen>hdparm -E <replaceable>[speed]</replaceable> <replaceable>[cdrom device]</replaceable></screen> <screen>setcd -x <replaceable>[speed]</replaceable> <replaceable>[cdrom device]</replaceable></screen> +<screen>cdctl -bS <replaceable>[speed]</replaceable></screen> +</para> + +<para> +If you are using SCSI emulation, you might have to apply the settings to the +real IDE device, not the emulated SCSI device. </para> <para> @@ -44,7 +50,7 @@ If you set it to too high, the drive will continuously spin up and down, and will dramatically decrease the performance. It is recommended that you also tune your CD-ROM drive with <command>hdparm</command>: -<screen>hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 <replaceable>cdrom device</replaceable></screen> +<screen>hdparm -d1 -a8 -u1 <replaceable>[cdrom device]</replaceable></screen> </para> <para> @@ -63,11 +69,30 @@ <ulink url="http://das.ist.org/~georg/">Plextor SCSI drives</ulink>. </para> -<para>FreeBSD:</para> -<para>Speed: <command>cdcontrol [-f <replaceable>device</replaceable>] speed <replaceable>speed</replaceable></command></para> -<para>DMA: <command>sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma=1</command></para> +</sect2> + + +<sect2 id="drives_freebsd"> +<title>FreeBSD</title> + +<para>speed: +<screen> +cdcontrol [-f <replaceable>device</replaceable>] speed <replaceable>[speed]</replaceable> +</screen> +</para> + +<para>DMA: +<screen> +sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 +</screen> +</para> + +</sect2> + </sect1> + + <sect1 id="dvd"> <title>DVD playback</title> <para> @@ -245,6 +270,8 @@ </para> </sect1> + + <sect1 id="vcd"> <title>VCD playback</title> <para>

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[PATCH] xvid zones patch doc (was [MPlayer-dev-eng] xvid zones patch)
by Guillaume POIRIER 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

Hi, (conversation move to the DOCS ML) On 6/1/05, Doom9 Feedback Hotline <feedback123(a)doom9.org> wrote: > Attached is the diff and the documentation for the patch. Here's the patch for the man page. I think the examples should either go in the XviD section of the xml doc when I'll find the time to write it. What do you think? The last example is a little bit tricky, so if it's not available this might pollute the ML... Guillaume -- Jazz music and Open Source development looks like chaos to an untrained eye, but end-up producing masterpieces like "Kind of Blue" and "MPlayer". That's why I love them both... -- John Coltrane

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[PATCH] DOCS/tech/tearing.txt
by Oded Shimon 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

Simple document explaining all about what/why/how tearing is... I re-read again now, it seems to me all correct and good. Anyone spot anything incorrect or misleading in it? - ods15

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