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diff --git a/DOCS/README b/DOCS/README index a187bdcc93..013d59b0c0 100644 --- a/DOCS/README +++ b/DOCS/README @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ http://mplayer.sourceforge.net About: ~~~~~~ -MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX. It plays most mpeg, avi and asf files, -supported by many native and win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VCD, DVD and even +MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX. It plays most MPEG, AVI and ASF files, +supported by many native and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VCD, DVD and even DivX movies too. The another big feature of mplayer is the wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, but you can use SDL (and this way all drivers of SDL) and some lowlevel @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ What is the special with this? It works, at least for me :) I've tried lots of players under linux (mtv,xmps,dvdview,livid/oms,VideoLAN, xine,xanim,avifile,xmmp) but they all have some problem. Mostly with special files or with audio/video sync. Most of them is unable to play -both mpeg1, mpeg2 and avi (DivX) files. Many players have image quality +both MPEG1, MPEG2 and AVI (DivX) files. Many players have image quality or speed problems too. So I've decided to write/modify one... - mpg12play v0.1-v0.3: @@ -34,14 +34,14 @@ or speed problems too. So I've decided to write/modify one... - mpg12play v0.9-v0.95pre5: Mpeg codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman & Michel Lespinasse. It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect image quality and - 100% mpeg standard conformance. + 100% MPEG standard conformance. - MPlayer v0.3-v0.9: It was a pack of two programs: mpg12playv0.95pre6 and my new simple AVI player 'avip' based on avifile's Win32 DLL loader. - MPlayer v0.10: - The mpeg and avi player in a single binary! + The MPEG and AVI player in a single binary! - MPlayer v0.11: - Added .asf file support, and OpenDivX (see www.projectmayo.com) en/decoding. + Added .ASF file support, and OpenDivX (see www.projectmayo.com) en/decoding. - MPlayer v0.17 "The IdegCounter" The release version of the 0.11pre after 4 months of heavy development! Try it, and be amazed! Thousands of new features added... and of course @@ -49,19 +49,19 @@ or speed problems too. So I've decided to write/modify one... As you see, I didn't write any codecs, just some players. Instead I spent a lot of time finding the best way to parse bad damaged input files -(both mpg and avi) and to do perfect A-V sync with seeking ability. -My player is rock solid playing damaged mpeg files (useful for some VCDs), +(both MPEG and AVI) and to do perfect A-V sync with seeking ability. +My player is rock solid playing damaged MPEG files (useful for some VCDs), and it plays bad AVI files which are unplayable with the famous windows media player. Even AVI files without index chunk are playable, and you can rebuild their indexes with the -idx option, thus enabling seeking! As you see, stability and quality are the most important things for me, -speed has lower priority, but is still very important. +but the speed is also amazing. What about the GUI? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'm not a GUI programmer. I hate GUIs, I like the pure black 80x25 console. So the player has only keyboard control from the controlling console/xterm now. -But there is a GUI development for the player, coordinated by Pontscho/Fresh! +There is a GUI development for the player, coordinated by Pontscho/Fresh! It's still under development, but it will be merged and released real soon. BTW he needs some nice skins, if you are a good graphician, contact him!!! @@ -80,14 +80,14 @@ Supported audio & video codecs: *** for the complete list *** The most important video codecs: -- mpeg1 (VCD) and mpeg2 (DVD) video +- MPEG1 (VCD) and MPEG2 (DVD) video - DivX, OpenDivX and other MPEG4 variants - Windows Media Video 7 (WMV1) used in .wmv files - Intel Indeo codecs (3.1,3.2,4.1,5.0) - MJPEG, ASV2 and other hardware formats The most important audio codecs: -- mpeg layer 2, and layer 3 (MP3) audio +- MPEG layer 2, and layer 3 (MP3) audio - AC3 dolby audio - Voxware audio - alaw, msgsm, pcm and other simple old audio formats @@ -101,7 +101,8 @@ Supported video output devices: General: - x11: X11 with SHM extension - xv: X11 using overlays with the Xvideo extension (hardware YUV & scaling) -- gl: OpenGL renderer, works only with Utah-GLX! (no DRI or nVidia drivers) +- gl: OpenGL renderer, works only with Utah-GLX or Matrox with X >=4.0.3 ! + (no other DRI or nVidia drivers) - dga: X11 DGA extension - fsdga:X11 DGA extension with fullscreen scaling (only 24/32bpp and MPEG!) - fbdev:Output to general framebuffers @@ -114,13 +115,13 @@ Card specific: - mga: Matrox G200/G400 hardware YUV overlay via the mga_vid device - xmga: Matrox G200/G400 overlay (mga_vid) in X11 window (Xv emulation on X 3.3.x !) -- syncfb: Matrox G400 YUV support on framebuffer (obsoloted, use mga/xmga) +- syncfb: Matrox G400 YUV support on framebuffer (obsoleted, use mga/xmga) - 3dfx: Voodoo2/3 hardware YUV (/dev/3dfx) support (not yet tested, maybe broken) Special: - png: PNG files output (use -z switch to set compression) - pgm: PGM files output (for testing purposes or ffmpeg encoding) -- md5: MD5sum output (for mpeg conformance tests) +- md5: MD5sum output (for MPEG conformance tests) - odivx:OpenDivX AVI File writer (use -br to set encoding bitrate) - null: Null output (for speed tests/benchmarking) @@ -138,7 +139,7 @@ Speed: ~~~~~~ Most of time-critical parts are optimized for MMX/MMXext/SSE/3DNow!/3DNow!Ex. You can improve rendering speed by setting up MTRR registers, see doc in MTRR. -Some *old* benchmark results can be found in the doc file SPEED. +Some *old* benchmark results can be found in the file DOCS/SPEED. Usage: ~~~~~~ @@ -190,10 +191,10 @@ For example, to play a movie just downloaded from your favourite divx server: rar p ast-nssvcd.rar | mplayer -vo xmga -fs - -With an asf grabber or http dump program you can play from the net. +With an ASF grabber or http dump program you can play from the net. wget ftp://micorsops.com/something.avi -O - | mplayer - -(however we planned to add direct asf/http/ftp inputs with seeking and other +(however we planned to add direct ASF/http/ftp inputs with seeking and other stuff, but for now it's a good workaround) TV output: @@ -254,11 +255,12 @@ NOTE: language of above lists are ENGLISH, unless explicitly stated otherwise. License: ~~~~~~~~ -Since MPlayer incorporates a lot of code from other projects, this isn't -decided yet. We're going for GPL (will be pretty hard, though). +MPlayer incorporates a lot of code from other projects, but for now everything +except the OpenDivX stuff is under General Public License (GPL) version 2 or +later. See DOCS/COPYING Standard Disclaimer: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Use only at your own risk! There may be errors and inaccuracies that could -damage your system or your eye. Proceed with caution, and although this is +damage your system, your eye or ear. Proceed with caution, and although this is highly unlikely, we don't take any responsibility for that! |