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author | Uoti Urpala <uau@glyph.nonexistent.invalid> | 2008-11-06 20:41:40 +0200 |
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committer | Uoti Urpala <uau@glyph.nonexistent.invalid> | 2008-11-06 20:41:40 +0200 |
commit | e46ce9c0ac88cdc3b4604c249576cfde0c5c4946 (patch) | |
tree | 6553efdc461e8d81ae2c9a7508b2dec5f116905a /DOCS/xml/en/codecs.xml | |
parent | e51225dc3135e69d3f0fe6a5502c0c0e77952056 (diff) | |
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Merge svn changes up to r27899
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diff --git a/DOCS/xml/en/codecs.xml b/DOCS/xml/en/codecs.xml index bb63a39cc0..42af3a1be8 100644 --- a/DOCS/xml/en/codecs.xml +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/codecs.xml @@ -17,136 +17,6 @@ please read the <link linkend="codec-importing">codec importing HOWTO</link> and help us add support for it. </para> -<sect1 id="codec_installation"> -<title>Codec installation</title> - -<!-- ********** --> - -<sect2 id="xvid"> -<title>Xvid</title> - -<para> -<ulink url="http://www.xvid.org">Xvid</ulink> is a free software MPEG-4 ASP -compliant video codec. Note that Xvid is not necessary to decode Xvid-encoded -video. <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> is used by -default as it offers better speed. -</para> - -<procedure> -<title>Installing <systemitem class="library">Xvid</systemitem></title> -<para> - Like most open source software, it is available in two flavors: - <ulink url="http://www.xvid.org/downloads.html">official releases</ulink> - and the CVS version. - The CVS version is usually stable enough to use, as most of the time it - features fixes for bugs that exist in releases. - Here is what to do to make <systemitem class="library">Xvid</systemitem> - CVS work with <application>MEncoder</application>: -</para> -<step><para> - <screen>cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.xvid.org:/xvid login</screen> -</para></step> -<step><para> - <screen>cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.xvid.org:/xvid co xvidcore</screen> -</para></step> -<step><para> - <screen>cd xvidcore/build/generic</screen> -</para></step> -<step><para> - <screen>./bootstrap.sh && ./configure</screen> - You may have to add some options (examine the output of - <command>./configure --help</command>). -</para></step> -<step><para> - <screen>make && make install</screen> -</para></step> -<step><para> - Recompile <application>MPlayer</application>. -</para></step> -</procedure> -</sect2> - -<!-- ********** --> - -<sect2 id="codec-x264"> -<title><systemitem class="library">x264</systemitem></title> - -<para> -<ulink url="http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html"><systemitem class="library">x264</systemitem></ulink> -is a library for creating H.264 video. -<application>MPlayer</application> sources are updated whenever -an <systemitem class="library">x264</systemitem> API change -occurs, so it is always suggested to use -<application>MPlayer</application> from Subversion. -</para> - -<para> -If you have a GIT client installed, the latest x264 -sources can be gotten with this command: -<screen>git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git</screen> - -Then build and install in the standard way: -<screen>./configure && make && make install</screen> - -Now rerun <filename>./configure</filename> for -<application>MPlayer</application> to pick up -<systemitem class="library">x264</systemitem> support. -</para> -</sect2> - -<!-- ********** --> - -<sect2 id="aac"> -<title>AAC</title> - -<para> -An open source AAC decoder called FAAD2 is available from -<ulink url="http://www.audiocoding.com/downloads.html"/>. -<application>MPlayer</application> includes a copy of it in its source tree. -If you want to use the external library instead, install it and pass -<option>--enable-faad-external</option> to <filename>./configure</filename>. -</para> - -<para> -FAAD2 binaries are not available from audiocoding.com, but you can (apt-)get -Debian packages from -<ulink url="http://www.debian-multimedia.org/">Christian Marillat</ulink>, -Mandrake/Mandriva RPMs from the <ulink url="http://plf.zarb.org">P.L.F</ulink> -and Fedora RPMs from <ulink url="http://rpm.livna.org/">Livna</ulink>. -</para> -<para> -If you choose to build from source, you do not need all of FAAD2 to decode -AAC files, libfaad is enough. Build it like this: -<screen> -cd faad2/ -sh bootstrap -./configure -cd libfaad -make -make install -</screen> -</para> -</sect2> - -<!-- ********** --> - -<sect2 id="amr"> -<title>AMR</title> - -<para> -Adaptive Multi-Rate speech codec is used in third generation (3G) mobile -phones. -Reference implementation is available from -<ulink url="http://www.3gpp.org">The 3rd Generation Partnership Project</ulink> -(free for private use). -To enable support, download and install support libraries for -<ulink url="http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/amr">AMR-NB and AMR-WB</ulink> -following the instructions on that page. Recompile MPlayer afterwards. -</para> -</sect2> - -</sect1> - <!-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --> |