summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/DOCS/xml/en/ports.xml
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authordiego <diego@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2006-01-03 16:11:07 +0000
committerdiego <diego@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2006-01-03 16:11:07 +0000
commitf52aefae121417b898f9b259488c0ee9aac12b9e (patch)
tree85abded1978b0aa127a4f6f0a5b6b69d58808484 /DOCS/xml/en/ports.xml
parent700e724e86df2f240f09fd0ecb5aae67d1145193 (diff)
downloadmpv-f52aefae121417b898f9b259488c0ee9aac12b9e.tar.bz2
mpv-f52aefae121417b898f9b259488c0ee9aac12b9e.tar.xz
Restructure ports section.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@17295 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2
Diffstat (limited to 'DOCS/xml/en/ports.xml')
-rw-r--r--DOCS/xml/en/ports.xml73
1 files changed, 48 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/DOCS/xml/en/ports.xml b/DOCS/xml/en/ports.xml
index d08a9e5006..0c5ea61fa8 100644
--- a/DOCS/xml/en/ports.xml
+++ b/DOCS/xml/en/ports.xml
@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ If you need a GUI frontend, you can use xmms-embedded.
<sect1 id="bsd">
<title>*BSD</title>
<para>
-<application>MPlayer</application> runs on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD,
-BSD/OS and Darwin. There are ports/pkgsrc/fink/etc versions of <application>MPlayer</application>
+<application>MPlayer</application> runs on all known BSD flavors.
+There are ports/pkgsrc/fink/etc versions of <application>MPlayer</application>
available that are probably easier to use than our raw sources.
</para>
@@ -141,8 +141,18 @@ See the <link linkend="macos">Mac OS</link> section.
</sect2>
</sect1>
-<sect1 id="solaris">
-<title>Sun Solaris</title>
+<sect1 id="unix">
+<title>Commercial Unix</title>
+
+<para>
+<application>MPlayer</application> has been ported to a number of commercial
+Unix variants. Since the development environments on these systems tend to be
+different from those found on free Unixes, you may have to make some manual
+adjustments to make the build work.
+</para>
+
+<sect2 id="solaris">
+<title>Solaris</title>
<para>
<application>MPlayer</application> should work on Solaris 2.6 or newer.
Use the SUN audio driver with the <option>-ao sun</option> option for sound.
@@ -239,10 +249,10 @@ accessed modulo 4GB
The hsfs problem can be fixed by installing patch 109764-04 (sparc) / 109765-04 (x86).
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-</sect1>
+</sect2>
-<sect1 id="irix">
-<title>Silicon Graphics Irix</title>
+<sect2 id="irix">
+<title>IRIX</title>
<para>
You can either try to install the GNU install program, and (if you did
not put it in your global path) then point to the location with:
@@ -268,10 +278,10 @@ And then do (from within the <application>MPlayer</application> source dir):
<screen>cp DOCS/mplayer.1 . ; cp etc/codecs.conf .</screen>
and then go on with building and installing.
</para>
-</sect1>
+</sect2>
-<sect1 id="hp-ux">
+<sect2 id="hp-ux">
<title>HP-UX</title>
<para>
Joe Page hosts a detailed HP-UX <application>MPlayer</application>
@@ -388,21 +398,7 @@ default of 64MB is enough or not.)
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-</sect1>
-
-
-<sect1 id="qnx">
-<title>QNX</title>
-<para>
-Works. You'll need to download SDL for QNX, and install it. Then run
-<application>MPlayer</application> with <option>-vo sdl:photon</option>
-and <option>-ao sdl:nto</option> options, and it should be fast.
-</para>
-
-<para>
-The <option>-vo x11</option> output will be even slower than on Linux,
-since QNX has only X <emphasis>emulation</emphasis> which is VERY slow. Use SDL.
-</para>
+</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="windows">
@@ -575,6 +571,8 @@ GCC 3.x or later. If you have Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later and QuickTime 7
you can use the macosx video output driver.
</para>
+<sect2 id="osx_gui">
+<title>MPlayer OS X GUI</title>
<para>
You can get a native GUI for <application>MPlayer</application> together with
precompiled <application>MPlayer</application> binaries for Mac OS X from the
@@ -675,7 +673,31 @@ not work anymore.
</para>
</sect1>
-<sect1 id="amiga">
+<sect1 id="exotic_platforms">
+<title>Exotic Platforms</title>
+
+<para>
+<application>MPlayer</application> runs on a number of exotic platforms,
+but most of the platform-specific changes from those systems have not been
+merged back into the main source tree.
+For build instructions you should refer to the system-specific documentation.
+</para>
+
+<sect2 id="qnx">
+<title>QNX</title>
+<para>
+You'll need to download and install SDL for QNX. Then run
+<application>MPlayer</application> with <option>-vo sdl:photon</option>
+and <option>-ao sdl:nto</option> options, it should be fast.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The <option>-vo x11</option> output will be even slower than on Linux,
+since QNX has only X <emphasis>emulation</emphasis> which is very slow.
+</para>
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 id="amiga">
<title>Amiga/MorphOS (GeekGadgets)</title>
<para>
The people over at <ulink url="www.amigasoft.net">www.amigasoft.net</ulink>
@@ -705,6 +727,7 @@ Get if from <ulink url="http://www.morphzone.org/">MorphZone</ulink>:
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
+</sect2>
</sect1>
</chapter>