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diff --git a/DOCS/xml/en/documentation.xml b/DOCS/xml/en/documentation.xml index 8d4a5e38a4..2d6e16c4c2 100644 --- a/DOCS/xml/en/documentation.xml +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/documentation.xml @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ <bookinfo id="toc"> <title><application>MPlayer</application> - The Movie Player</title> -<subtitle><ulink url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu"></ulink></subtitle> +<subtitle><ulink url="http://www.mplayer2.org/"></ulink></subtitle> <date>March 24, 2003</date> <copyright> <year>2000</year> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ <year>2008</year> <year>2009</year> <year>2010</year> + <year>2011</year> <holder>MPlayer team</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> @@ -45,116 +46,17 @@ If you are a first-time installer: be sure to read everything from here to the end of the Installation section, and follow the links you will find. If you have any other questions, return to the <link linkend="toc">Table of Contents</link> and search for the topic, read the <xref linkend="faq"/>, -or try grepping through the files. Most questions should be answered somewhere -here and the rest has probably already been asked on our -<ulink url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/mailing_lists.html">mailing lists</ulink>. -Check the -<ulink url="https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo">archives</ulink>, there -is a lot of valuable information to be found there. +or try grepping through the files. </para> </preface> <chapter id="intro"> <title>Introduction</title> - -<para> -<application>MPlayer</application> is a movie player for Linux (runs on -many other Unices, and non-x86 CPUs, see <xref linkend="ports"/>). -It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, -NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, PVA, Matroska files, supported by -many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch -Video CD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, RealMedia, Sorenson, Theora, -and MPEG-4 (DivX) movies, too. Another big -feature of <application>MPlayer</application> is the wide range of -supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, -fbdev, AAlib, libcaca, DirectFB, but you can use GGI and SDL (and this way all -their drivers) and some low level card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and -Radeon, Mach64, Permedia3) too! Most of them support software or hardware -scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. -<application>MPlayer</application> supports displaying through some -hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the <link linkend="dvb">DVB</link> and -<link linkend="dxr3">DXR3/Hollywood+</link>. And what about the nice big -antialiased shaded subtitles (14 supported types) -with European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic, Korean -fonts, and the onscreen display (OSD)? -</para> - +OUTDATED CONTENT REMOVED <para> -The player is rock solid playing damaged MPEG files (useful for some VCDs), -and it plays bad AVI files which are unplayable with the famous -<application>Windows Media Player</application>. -Even AVI files without index chunk are playable, and you can -temporarily rebuild their indexes with the <option>-idx</option> option, or -permanently with <application>MEncoder</application>, thus enabling -seeking! As you see, stability and quality are the most important things, -but the speed is also amazing. There is also a powerful filter system for -video and audio manipulation. </para> -<para> -<application>MEncoder</application> (<application>MPlayer</application>'s Movie -Encoder) is a simple movie encoder, designed to encode -<application>MPlayer</application>-playable movies -AVI/ASF/OGG/DVD/VCD/VOB/MPG/MOV/VIV/FLI/RM/NUV/NET/PVA -to other <application>MPlayer</application>-playable formats (see below). -It can encode with various codecs, like MPEG-4 (DivX4) -(one or two passes), <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem>, -PCM/MP3/VBR MP3 audio. -</para> - -<itemizedlist> -<title><application>MEncoder</application> features</title> -<listitem><para> - Encoding from the wide range of file formats and decoders of - <application>MPlayer</application> -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> - Encoding to all the codecs of FFmpeg's - <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> - Video encoding from V4L compatible TV tuners -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> - Encoding/multiplexing to interleaved AVI files with proper index -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> - Creating files from external audio stream -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> - 1, 2 or 3 pass encoding -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> - VBR MP3 audio -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> - PCM audio -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> - Stream copying -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> - Input A/V synchronizing (pts-based, can be disabled with - <option>-mc 0</option> option) -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> - fps correction with <option>-ofps</option> option (useful when encoding - 30000/1001 fps VOB to 24000/1001 fps AVI) -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> - Using our very powerful filter system (crop, expand, flip, postprocess, - rotate, scale, RGB/YUV conversion) -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> - Can encode DVD/VOBsub and text subtitles - into the output file -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> - Can rip DVD subtitles to VOBsub format -</para></listitem> -</itemizedlist> - <!-- FIXME: the license should be in bookinfo --> <para> <application>MPlayer</application> and <application>MEncoder</application> |