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authorgabucino <gabucino@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2002-11-23 21:56:41 +0000
committergabucino <gabucino@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2002-11-23 21:56:41 +0000
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@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@
<LI><A HREF="video.html#tv-out_matrox_g450">2.3.1.5.2 Matrox G450/G550 cards</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#tv-out_ati">2.3.1.5.3 ATI cards</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="video.html#tv-out_voodoo">2.3.1.5.4 Voodoo 3</A></LI>
+ <LI><A HREF="video.html#tv-out_nvidia">2.3.1.5.5 nVidia</A></LI>
</UL>
</LI>
</UL>
@@ -205,6 +206,7 @@
<LI><A HREF="encoding.html#libavcodec">2.4.5 Encoding with the libavcodec codec family</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="encoding.html#image_files">2.4.6 Encoding from multiple input image files (JPEGs or PNGs)</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="encoding.html#vobsub">2.4.7 Extracting DVD subtitles to a Vobsub file</A></LI>
+ <LI><A HREF="encoding.html#aspect">2.4.8 Preserving aspect ratio</A></LI>
</UL>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF="#tv">2.5 TV input</A>
@@ -620,13 +622,15 @@
have problems with YV12 display, see <A HREF="video.html#xv_s3">S3 Xv
section</A> for details. Older, Trio cards have no, or slow hardware
support.</LI>
- <LI><B>nVidia cards</B>: very bad choice for video playing (nVidia
- <A HREF="users_against_developers.html#nvidia">does not think so</A>).
- nVidia's cards have very cheap and bad quality chips. Moreover, <B>the
- built-in nVidia driver in XFree86 does not support hardware YUV
+ <LI><B>nVidia cards</B>: may or may not be good choice for video playing.
+ If you do not have a GeForce2 (or newer) card, it's not likely to work
+ without bugs.
+ <B>The built-in nVidia driver in XFree86 does not support hardware YUV
acceleration on all nVidia cards.</B> You have to download nVidia's
- closed-source drivers from nVidia.com. See the <A
- HREF="video.html#xv_nvidia">nVidia Xv driver</A> section for details.</LI>
+ closed-source drivers from nVidia.com. See the
+ <A HREF="video.html#xv_nvidia">nVidia Xv driver</A> section for
+ details. Please also check the <A HREF="video.html#tv-out_nvidia">nVidia
+ TV-out section</A> if you wish to use a TV.</LI>
<LI><B>3DLabs GLINT R3 and Permedia3</B>: a VIDIX driver is provided
(pm3_vid). Please see the <A HREF="video.html#vidix">VIDIX</A> section for
details.</LI>
@@ -721,6 +725,8 @@
<LI>If you have a V4L compatible <B>TV tuner</B> card, and wish to watch/grab
and encode movies with MPlayer, read the <A HREF="#tv">TV input</A>
section.</LI>
+ <LI>There is a neat <B>OSD Menu</B> support ready to be used. Check the
+ <A HREF="#menu">OSD Menu</A> section.</LI>
</UL>
<P>Then build MPlayer:</P>
@@ -952,19 +958,27 @@
<H3><A NAME="menu">1.4.3 OSD menu</A></H3>
-<P>MPlayer has an OSD Menu interface, which is not only completely user
- defined, but is displayed as OSD, on the currently played video!</P>
+<P>MPlayer has a completely user definiable OSD Menu interface.</P>
<H4>Installation</H4>
<OL>
+ <LI>compile MPlayer by passing the <CODE>--enable-new-conf
+ --enable-menu</CODE> parameters to <CODE>./configure</CODE></LI>
+ <LI>make sure you have an OSD font installed</LI>
<LI>copy <CODE>etc/menu.conf</CODE> to your <CODE>.mplayer</CODE>
directory</LI>
<LI>copy <CODE>etc/input.conf</CODE> to your <CODE>.mplayer</CODE>
directory, or to the system-wide MPlayer config dir (default:
- <CODE>/usr/local/share/mplayer</CODE>)</LI>
+ <CODE>/usr/local/etc/mplayer</CODE>)</LI>
+ <LI>check and edit <CODE>input.conf</CODE> to enable menu movement
+ keys (it is described there).</LI>
+ <LI>start MPlayer by the following example:<BR>
+ <CODE>$ mplayer -menu file.avi</CODE></LI>
+ <LI>push any menu key you defined</LI>
</OL>
+<P>
<H2><A NAME="rtc">1.5 RTC</A></H2>