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Diffstat (limited to 'DOCS/tech')
| -rw-r--r-- | DOCS/tech/binary-packaging.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | DOCS/tech/release-howto.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | DOCS/tech/win32-codec-howto.txt | 10 |
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/DOCS/tech/binary-packaging.txt b/DOCS/tech/binary-packaging.txt index 71a19295e2..9d852372db 100644 --- a/DOCS/tech/binary-packaging.txt +++ b/DOCS/tech/binary-packaging.txt @@ -52,14 +52,13 @@ the following features MUST be included in any official binary package: - XAnim codecs support (*) * general: - - default font - FreeType fonts support - HTML documentation - large file support - man page(s) * input/demuxers: - - DVD(mpdvdkit2) + - DVD(libdvdread4/libdvdnav) - streaming - Matroska(internal) - (S)VCD @@ -108,10 +107,10 @@ for Red Hat and Fedora RPMs I am using FHS-compliant paths: /etc/mplayer/ system-wide configs /usr/bin/ binaries /usr/lib/codecs/ binary codecs +/usr/lib64/codecs/ binary codecs on 64bit Linux /usr/share/doc/mplayer-version/ docs /usr/share/man/man1/ man page /usr/share/man/XX/man1/ translated man page -/usr/share/mplayer/font/ fonts /usr/share/mplayer/skins/ GUI skins You MUST NOT include the codecs.conf file in your package. It is useful @@ -134,12 +133,9 @@ mplayer contains MPlayer binary without GUI (mplayer), config files, man pages and documentation; required by mplayer-gui mplayer-codecs-* contain binary codecs available from MPlayer's site -mplayer-font-* contain various bitmap fonts for OSD (obsolete) mplayer-gui contains MPlayer binary with GUI (gmplayer); contains default skin (Blue) mplayer-skin-* contain various MPlayer GUI skins -mplayer-vidix contains VIDIX support library for MPlayer -mplayer-vidix-* contain VIDIX drivers for specific cards, one per package There is no strict policy for now, just use your common sense. diff --git a/DOCS/tech/release-howto.txt b/DOCS/tech/release-howto.txt index 5cf0fef514..b490f80283 100644 --- a/DOCS/tech/release-howto.txt +++ b/DOCS/tech/release-howto.txt @@ -15,17 +15,12 @@ preparations: create the release tree: - tag Subversion with release name +- Add a VERSION file with the release version to the root of the source tree. - update release.sh script with version number ***the following steps are done automatically by release.sh script*** - checkout the mplayer src tree - check out FFmpeg subdirs - remove obsolete DOCS translations, help files -- replace version.sh with this (change version number too...): - -============ -#!/bin/sh -echo "#define VERSION \"1.0pre5-$1 \"" > version.h -============ - build the HTML docs from XML sources, then clean up: make html-chunked; make releaseclean @@ -38,9 +33,9 @@ release the tree: ***end of part done by release.sh** test it (download to your local machine, extract, compile, run) - - compilers: gcc 3, gcc 2.95, mingw, cygwin + - compilers: gcc 4.x, gcc 3.x, gcc 2.95, MinGW, Cygwin - architectures: PPC, AMD64, x86 with MMX[2], SSE[2], 3DNow - - OS: Linux, BSD, Windows, MacOS X + - OS: Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac OS X copy to FTP: cp MPlayer-0.90rc5.tar.bz2 /home/ftp/MPlayer/releases/ diff --git a/DOCS/tech/win32-codec-howto.txt b/DOCS/tech/win32-codec-howto.txt index 3346de47bb..e6a684df32 100644 --- a/DOCS/tech/win32-codec-howto.txt +++ b/DOCS/tech/win32-codec-howto.txt @@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ If you want to add a codec yourself, read DOCS/tech/codecs.conf.txt. -VFW codecs +VfW codecs ~~~~~~~~~~ -VFW (Video for Windows) is the old video API for Windows. Its codecs have +VfW (Video for Windows) is the old video API for Windows. Its codecs have the '.dll' or (rarely) '.drv' extension. If MPlayer fails at playing your AVI with this kind of message: @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x55594648. It means your AVI is encoded with a codec which has the HFYU fourcc (HFYU = HuffYUV codec, DIV3 = DivX Low Motion, etc.). Now that you know this, you have to find out which DLL Windows loads in order to play this file. -You can find the vfw codec by searching the internet for e.g. VIDC.HFYU. +You can find the VfW codec by searching the internet for e.g. VIDC.HFYU. In our case, the 'system.ini' also contains this information in a line that reads: @@ -111,9 +111,9 @@ false hits, but you may get lucky... Tips: ~~~~~~~ If you get an error loading a new codec, it may need some more files to work. -Start the filemon utility before loading MPlayer to find out which dlls are +Start the filemon utility before loading MPlayer to find out which DLLs are trying to be loaded. -Your codec may load some external .dll libraries. If the codec is already +Your codec may load some external DLL libraries. If the codec is already installed in Windows, run listdlls wmplayer.exe while Windows Media Player is playing your file to find out which. |