September 2006 - MPlayer-DOCS - lists.mplayerhq.hu

r19973 - in trunk/DOCS/xml/en: documentation.xml users-vs-dev.xml
by diego 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

Author: diego Date: Sun Sep 24 18:57:57 2006 New Revision: 19973 Removed: trunk/DOCS/xml/en/users-vs-dev.xml Modified: trunk/DOCS/xml/en/documentation.xml Log: Remove outdate, obsolete and inflammatory rants section. Modified: trunk/DOCS/xml/en/documentation.xml ============================================================================== --- trunk/DOCS/xml/en/documentation.xml (original) +++ trunk/DOCS/xml/en/documentation.xml Sun Sep 24 18:57:57 2006 @@ -196,4 +196,3 @@ &bugreports.xml; &bugs.xml; &skin.xml; -&users-vs-dev.xml;

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r19975 - trunk/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml
by diego 24 Sep '06

24 Sep '06

Author: diego Date: Sun Sep 24 19:01:07 2006 New Revision: 19975 Modified: trunk/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml Log: Also mention sysctl for adjusting RTC settings. Modified: trunk/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml ============================================================================== --- trunk/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml (original) +++ trunk/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml Sun Sep 24 19:01:07 2006 @@ -570,9 +570,14 @@ option enables it, but a properly set up kernel is required. If you are running kernel 2.4.19pre8 or later you can adjust the maximum RTC frequency for normal users through the <systemitem class="systemname">/proc - </systemitem> filesystem. Use this command to + </systemitem> filesystem. Use one of the following two commands to enable RTC for normal users: <screen>echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq</screen> + <screen>sysctl dev/rtc/max-user-freq=1024</screen> + You can make this setting permanent by adding the latter to + <filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename>. + </para> + <para> You can see the new timer's efficiency in the status line. The power management functions of some notebook BIOSes with speedstep CPUs interact badly with RTC. Audio and video may get out of sync. Plugging the

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r19974 - trunk/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml
by diego 24 Sep '06

24 Sep '06

Author: diego Date: Sun Sep 24 18:59:15 2006 New Revision: 19974 Modified: trunk/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml Log: Update gcc section, some rewording. Modified: trunk/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml ============================================================================== --- trunk/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml (original) +++ trunk/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml Sun Sep 24 18:59:15 2006 @@ -27,25 +27,17 @@ <itemizedlist> <listitem><para> - <emphasis role="bold">binutils</emphasis> - suggested version is <emphasis role="bold">2.11.x</emphasis>. + <emphasis role="bold">binutils</emphasis> - Recommended version is <emphasis role="bold">2.11.x</emphasis>. This program is responsible for generating MMX/ 3DNow!/etc instructions, thus very important. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> - <emphasis role="bold">gcc</emphasis> - suggested versions are: <emphasis role="bold">2.95.3</emphasis> - (maybe <emphasis role="bold">2.95.4</emphasis>) and <emphasis role="bold">3.2+</emphasis>. - <emphasis role="bold">Never</emphasis> use 2.96 or 3.0.x! They generate faulty code for - <application>MPlayer</application>. If you decide to change gcc from - 2.96, then don't decide in favor of 3.x just because it's newer! Early - releases of 3.x were even more buggy than 2.96. So downgrade to 2.95.x - (downgrade <systemitem class="library">libstdc++</systemitem> too, other - programs may need it) or don't up/downgrade at all (but in this case, be - prepared for runtime problems). If you vote for 3.x, try to use the - latest version, early releases had various bugs, so be sure you use at - least 3.1, it's tested and working. + <emphasis role="bold">gcc</emphasis> - Recommended versions are 2.95 + and 3.3+. 2.96 and 3.0.x are known to generate faulty code, 3.1 and + 3.2 also had problems. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> - <emphasis role="bold">XFree86</emphasis> - suggested version is <emphasis role="bold">always the + <emphasis role="bold">XFree86</emphasis> - Recommended version is <emphasis role="bold">always the newest</emphasis> (4.3). Normally, everyone wants this, as starting with XFree86 4.0.2, it contains the <link linkend="xv">XVideo</link> extension (somewhere referred to as <emphasis role="bold">Xv</emphasis>) @@ -56,7 +48,7 @@ For some video cards you don't need XFree86. See list below. </para></listitem> <listitem><para> - <emphasis role="bold">make</emphasis> - suggested version is + <emphasis role="bold">make</emphasis> - Recommended version is <emphasis role="bold">always the newest</emphasis> (at least 3.79.x). This usually isn't important. </para></listitem> @@ -82,7 +74,7 @@ </para></listitem> <listitem><para> <emphasis role="bold">lame</emphasis> - recommended, needed for encoding MP3 audio with - <application>MEncoder</application>, suggested version is + <application>MEncoder</application>, recommended version is <emphasis>always the newest</emphasis> (at least 3.90). </para></listitem> <listitem><para>

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Suggestions for documentation improvements
by Axel Boldt 24 Sep '06

24 Sep '06

Hello, here are a couple minor nitpicks regarding the documentation, mainly for users running mplayer on Windows: * the README.txt in http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/windows-essential-20060611.… is mainly directed at Windows users and should therefore mention where to put the codecs on a standard Windows installation of mplayer. * The main documentation http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/index.html, in the section about keyboard control (probably a major reason people consult the docs), simply refers the reader to the man page; at least a link would be nice here since Windows users usually don't install man pages. * The codec section 7.1 of the main documentation refers the user to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ for downloading codecs. This directory has no README, and it is unclear which file contains what. In particular, the differences between the win32codecs, windows-all and windows-essential packages is not explained anywhere as far as I can see. * STEP1 of http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/README should mention where to get the binary codecs. Also, the sentence "Support for Windows Media formats except WMV9 exists but still has some bugs, your mileage may vary." is unclear; it should clearly say that WMV9 is supported by binary codecs only, while the other Windows Media formats have some native support. * The main documentation file http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/en/MPlayer.html mentions -loop repeatedly but doesn't explain what it does nor where that information could be found. Neither are the other command line options explained in section 3.1 titled "Command Line". This needs at least a link to the man page. * The man page should explain the difference between "mplayer -loop 0 file.mpg" and "mplayer file.mpg -loop 0", the latter being vastly more useful. All this is of course meant in the friendly spirit of E.4. Cheers, Axel

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[homepage]: r2657 - trunk/src/info.src.en
by diego 23 Sep '06

23 Sep '06

Author: diego Date: Sat Sep 23 00:33:27 2006 New Revision: 2657 Modified: trunk/src/info.src.en Log: Update information about the state of the documentation translations. Modified: trunk/src/info.src.en ============================================================================== --- trunk/src/info.src.en (original) +++ trunk/src/info.src.en Sat Sep 23 00:33:27 2006 @@ -253,28 +253,28 @@ <li>Czech: <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/cs/index.html">HTML</a> or <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/cs/MPlayer.html">HTML single file</a></li> + <li>German (help wanted): + <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/de/index.html">HTML</a> or + <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/de/MPlayer.html">HTML single file</a></li> <li>Hungarian: <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/hu/index.html">HTML</a> or <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/hu/MPlayer.html">HTML single file</a></li> - <li>Polish: - <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/pl/index.html">HTML</a> or - <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/pl/MPlayer.html">HTML single file</a></li> + <li>Russian: + <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/ru/index.html">HTML</a> or + <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/ru/MPlayer.html">HTML single file</a></li> <li>French (outdated. Contact <a href="mailto:gpoirier_REMOVE_THE_UNDERSCORES_AND_THE_TEXT_IN_BETWEEN_@mplayerhq.hu">Guillaume Poirier</a> if you want to offer your help): <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/fr/index.html">HTML</a> or <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/fr/MPlayer.html">HTML single file</a></li> - <li>German (incomplete, help wanted): - <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/de/index.html">HTML</a> or - <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/de/MPlayer.html">HTML single file</a></li> - <li>Russian (incomplete, outdated, new translator needed): - <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/ru/index.html">HTML</a> or - <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/ru/MPlayer.html">HTML single file</a></li> + <li>Polish (outdated, help wanted): + <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/pl/index.html">HTML</a> or + <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/pl/MPlayer.html">HTML single file</a></li> <li>Spanish (outdated, new translator needed): <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/es/index.html">HTML</a> or <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/es/MPlayer.html">HTML single file</a></li> - <li>Italian (outdated, new translator needed): + <li>Italian (very outdated, new translator needed): <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/it/documentation.html">HTML</a></li> - <li>Chinese (outdated, new translator needed): + <li>Chinese (very outdated, new translator needed): <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/zh/documentation.html">HTML</a></li> </ul> @@ -309,15 +309,15 @@ <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/it/mplayer.1.html">HTML</a> or <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/it/mplayer.1">ROFF</a> or <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/it/mplayer.1.txt">TXT</a></li> - <li>Polish: + <li>Polish (outdated, help wanted): <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/pl/mplayer.1.html">HTML</a> or <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/pl/mplayer.1">ROFF</a> or <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/pl/mplayer.1.txt">TXT</a></li> - <li>Chinese (outdated, new translator needed):): + <li>Chinese (very outdated, new translator needed):): <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/zh/mplayer.1.html">HTML</a> or <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/zh/mplayer.1">ROFF</a> or <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/zh/mplayer.1.txt">TXT</a></li> - <li>Spanish (outdated, new translator needed):): + <li>Spanish (very outdated, new translator needed):): <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/es/mplayer.1.html">HTML</a> or <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/es/mplayer.1">ROFF</a> or <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/es/mplayer.1.txt">TXT</a></li>

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CVS: main/DOCS/man/en mplayer.1,1.1252,1.1253
by syncmail＠mplayerhq.hu 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

CVS change done by Guillaume Poirier CVS Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/man/en In directory mail:/var2/tmp/cvs-serv31500/DOCS/man/en Modified Files: mplayer.1 Log Message: Document sinesupress audio filter, thanks to the help of Michael Niedermayer and Jan Knutar. Index: mplayer.1 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1,v retrieving revision 1.1252 retrieving revision 1.1253 diff -u -r1.1252 -r1.1253 --- mplayer.1 8 Apr 2006 15:43:32 -0000 1.1252 +++ mplayer.1 13 Apr 2006 21:25:37 -0000 1.1253 @@ -4069,6 +4069,23 @@ .PD 1 . .TP +.B sinesupress[=freq:delay] +Remove a sine at the specified frequency. +Usefull to get rid of the 50/60hz noise on low quality audio equipment. +It probably only works on mono input. +.PD 0 +.RSs +.IPs <freq> +The frequency of the sine which should be removed (in Hz) (default: 50) +.IPs <decay> +Controls the adaptivity (a larger value will make the filter adapt to +amplitude and phase changes quicker, a smaller value will make the +adaptation slower) (default: 0.0001). +Reasonable values are around 0.001. +.RE +.PD 1 +. +.TP .B hrtf[=flag] Head-related transfer function: Converts multichannel audio to 2 channel output for headphones, preserving the spatiality of the sound.

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r19927 - trunk/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
by diego 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Author: diego Date: Fri Sep 22 10:53:04 2006 New Revision: 19927 Modified: trunk/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 Log: Fix typos noticed by Paul TT. Modified: trunk/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 ============================================================================== --- trunk/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 (original) +++ trunk/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 Fri Sep 22 10:53:04 2006 @@ -4403,9 +4403,9 @@ .PD 1 . .TP -.B sinesuppress[=freq:delay] +.B sinesuppress[=freq:decay] Remove a sine at the specified frequency. -Useful to get rid of the 50/60hz noise on low quality audio equipment. +Useful to get rid of the 50/60Hz noise on low quality audio equipment. It probably only works on mono input. .PD 0 .RSs

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[homepage]: r2656 - trunk/src/mailing_lists.src.en
by diego 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

Author: diego Date: Wed Sep 20 18:01:02 2006 New Revision: 2656 Modified: trunk/src/mailing_lists.src.en Log: page restructuring Modified: trunk/src/mailing_lists.src.en ============================================================================== --- trunk/src/mailing_lists.src.en (original) +++ trunk/src/mailing_lists.src.en Wed Sep 20 18:01:02 2006 @@ -8,32 +8,47 @@ <p> There are public MPlayer development and user support mailing lists. Due to spam problems you can only post to our lists after subscribing. + Unless explicitly stated otherwise the lists are English-only. There + is a limit on message size, so you may have to put big files up for + download somewhere instead of attaching them. +</p> + +<p> Before posting please learn and follow <a href="http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html">Netiquette</a> as well as general rules about writing and quoting just as on usenet. For a complete refresher please read <a href="http://www.river.com/users/share/etiquette/edit.html">HOWTO Edit Messages</a>. As a guideline, remember that HTML mail, top-posting and posting - unrelated messages as replies to existing threads are frowned upon. + unrelated messages as replies to existing threads are forbidden. Playing by the rules makes the life of those who read your mails a lot easier and significantly increases your chances of getting an answer. - Unless explicitly stated otherwise the lists are <b>English-only</b>. - If you send an overly big attachment and your mail gets rejected, put - the attachment up for download somewhere instead. Please read the whole - documentation before posting your problems and feature requests. </p> -<h2>For users:</h2> +<h2>General:</h2> <ul> -<li>MPlayer-announce: low traffic mailing list for release, security advisory, - etc announcements<br> +<li>MPlayer-announce: low traffic read-only mailing list for release, + security advisory, etc announcements<br> <a href="http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-announce">subscribe</a> :: <a href="http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-announce/">archives</a> ::  search :: <a href="http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.announce">search on gmane</a> :: <a href="http://archives.free.net.ph/list/mplayer-announce.en.html">search on Free Network Group</a></li> +</ul> + + +<h2>For users:</h2> + +<p> + This is the place to get support for problems related to + usage, compilation and similar things. Please read all + relevant parts of the documentation before posting your + problems and feature requests. +</p> + +<ul> <li>MPlayer-users: This is the place to ask about compilation problems, usage questions and similar things. Bug reports about MPlayer belong on this list as well, but read the @@ -79,6 +94,13 @@ <h2>For developers:</h2> +<p> + The development mailing lists are for development related discussions + and patches <b>only</b>! Usage-related questions, compilation troubles + and similar things are offtopic and highly unwelcome. You have been + warned. +</p> + <ul> <li>MPlayer-dev-eng: Main development mailing list, patches belong here. This list is about MPlayer development <b>only</b>! Bug reports, @@ -114,12 +136,18 @@  search :: <a href="http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.cygwin">search on gmane</a> :: <a href="http://archives.free.net.ph/list/mplayer-cygwin.en.html">search on Free Network Group</a></li> -<li>MPlayer-G2-dev: mailing list for discussion about MPlayer G2, the next - generation video player<br> +<li>MPlayer-G2-dev: (INACTIVE) mailing list for discussion about MPlayer G2, + the next generation video player<br> <a href="http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-g2-dev">subscribe</a> :: <a href="http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-g2-dev/">archives</a> ::  search :: <a href="http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.g2.devel">search on gmane</a></li> +</ul> + + +<h2>Other:</h2> + +<ul> <li>MPlayer-mirror: mailing list for discussion about mirror server infrastructure.<br> <a href="http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-mirror">subscribe</a> :: @@ -148,7 +176,7 @@ </ul> -<h2><a name="irc">IRC Channels</a></h2> +<h1><a name="irc">IRC Channels</a></h1> <p> There are two official channels on the <a href="http://freenode.net/">freenode</a>

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Change charset for help_mp-de.h
by mail＠kraymer.de 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

Hey folks, since I'm using unicode on my system for a while now, I'd like to change the character encoding of help_mp-de.h from iso-8859-1 to utf-8. It makes editing the file easier for me.My guess is that iconv will take care of all necessary conversions when the sources are compiled but well, I thought I better ask here for opinions on that before commiting the following changes: 1. conversion: iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 help_mp-de.h > <new version> 2. change of help_mp-de.h.charset Is it okay to go with that? Sebastian -- "Man, it's hot! How hot is it? It's so hot, I poured McDonalds coffee in my lap to cool off!" *giggle* "Johnny Carson said it." --Fry, Futurama (Crimes of the Hot)

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r19895 - in trunk: ChangeLog DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 libao2/ao_alsa.c
by cladisch 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

Author: cladisch Date: Mon Sep 18 18:58:21 2006 New Revision: 19895 Modified: trunk/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 Changes in other areas also in this revision: Modified: trunk/ChangeLog trunk/libao2/ao_alsa.c Log: When the hardware sample format is AC3, do not force using an hardcoded device name. The setting of the non-audio bit is now done by changing the default value of the AES0 parameter in the ALSA configuration structures. This works with user-specified devices, too. Modified: trunk/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 ============================================================================== --- trunk/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 (original) +++ trunk/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 Mon Sep 18 18:58:21 2006 @@ -2359,7 +2359,7 @@ .IPs device=<device> Sets the device name. Replace any ',' with '.' and any ':' with '=' in the ALSA device name. -Make sure you do not set this when you want hwac3 output via S/PDIF, unless +For hwac3 output via S/PDIF, use an "iec958" or "spdif" device, unless you really know how to set it correctly. .RE .PD 1

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