[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] README

[Arpi]

Hi,

> On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:26:27PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> > - nVidia cards: get the X11 driver from www.nvidia.com for Xv support
> 
> I was under the impression that latest X11 will do XV on nvidia
> without the shitty nvidia binary drivers; only opengl support is
> missing now. Can someone with nvidia check this?

there is some support for some cards, like gf2, but i'm pretty sure there is
no opensource xv for tnt2, and it's very probably neither for gf4.

anyway, the closedsource drivers use agp and dma, while the opensource
drivers memcpy...

but you're right, we should mention that there is slower, but open source xv
for some cards.

> > Without using accelerated video, even a 800MHz P3 may be slow to play DVD!
> 
> Isn't that a bit extreme? I'll check, but I'm pretty sure my K6/2-450
no

> (which is a good bit slower than P3 800) can play DVDs with tolerably
> low frame dropping using -vo fbdev. Of course -vo x11 is a good bit
> slower perhaps.

i meant with no framedrop. even a 486 can play dvd, with 98% framedrop :)

and fbdev is a way accelerated, at least it set up the card, mtrr etc,
compared to x11 most users try first. especially when you try -fs -zoom

> > While MPlayer and libavcodec has built-in support for the most common audi
> o
> > and video formats, there are many others playable only with the Win32 DLLs
> > or the XAnim binary plugins. Few examples: WMV video, Divx/WMA audio, Inde
> o.
> > This step is not mandatory, but recommended for getting most files playabl
> e!
> 
> IMO it would be nice to clarify what Divx audio is, since some users
> might assume Win32 codecs are needed to get audio support with any
> Divx files, and that's far from the truth. At least mention that it's
> a Divx3-only thing, and perhaps that it's most common in low quality
> rips.
yes, fortunatelly it's rare nowdays, but there are still a lot of .wmv files
using this audio codec, made by windows media encoder (used by beginner
rippers).

> IMHO, enough people out there are already confused that "mplayer needs
> win32 dlls to do anything", so it's best not to further that
> misconception even more in the INSTALL file.

agree

but there is the other side too - without them mplayer can't do more than
xine or avifile :)


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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