From 3591369fecdc46a75123ad6f7bab5580e68f3488 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: folke Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:21:25 +0000 Subject: AAlib section updated git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@1535 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2 --- DOCS/documentation.html | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'DOCS') diff --git a/DOCS/documentation.html b/DOCS/documentation.html index a84165092b..eef2d6d81e 100644 --- a/DOCS/documentation.html +++ b/DOCS/documentation.html @@ -819,7 +819,7 @@ Table of Contents W/S mappings for * and / (mixer control) KNOWN BUGS: - - Keys pressed under aalib console driver repeat forever. (use -vo aa !) + - Keys pressed under sdl:aalib console driver repeat forever. (use -vo aa !) It's bug in SDL, I can't change it (tested with SDL 1.2.1). @@ -962,15 +962,46 @@ Table of Contents ASCII renderer. There are LOTS of programs already supporting it, like Doom, Quake, etc. MPlayer contains a very usable driver for it. If ./configure detects aalib installed, the aalib libvo driver will be built. - It uses some keys to change Fast rendering ON/OFF, dithering mode change, - inverse picture, contrast, brightness. Use -vo aa and look out for the help - text. + + You can use some keys in the AA Window to change rendering options: + 1 : switch fast rendering on/off + 2 : set dithering mode (none, error distribution, floyd steinberg) + 3 : invert image + 4 : decrease contrast + 5 : increase contrast + 6 : decrease brightness + 7 : increase brightness + + + The following command line options can be used: + -aaosdcolor=V : change osd color + -aasubcolor=V : change osd color + where V can be: (0/normal, 1/dark, 2/bold, 3/boldfont, 4/reverse, 5/special) + + AAlib itselves provides a large sum of options. + Here are some important: + -aadriver : set recommended aa driver (X11, curses, linux) + -aaextended : use all 256 characters + -aaeight : use eight bit ascii + -aahelp : prints out all aalib options + + + + NOTE: the rendering is very CPU intensive, especially when using AA-on-X (using aalib on X), and it's least CPU intensive on standard, non-framebuffer console. Use SVGATextMode to set up a big textmode, then enjoy! (secondary head Hercules cards rock :)) (anyone can enhance - fbdev to do conversion/dithering to hgafb? Would be neat :) + fbdev to do conversion/dithering to hgafb? Would be neat :) + + Use the -framedrop option if your comp isn't fast enough to render all frames! + + Playing on terminal you'll get better speed and quality using the linux driver, not + curses (-aadriver linux). But therefore you need write access on /dev/vcsa! + That isn't autodetected by aalib, bu vo_aa tries to find the best mode. + See http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/tune/ for further tuning issues. + 2.2.2. Audio output devices @@ -1999,7 +2030,7 @@ Vladimir Kushnir: Bertrand BAUDET: - network streaming support -Folke Ashberg: - native AAlib driver (-vo aa) Main testers: -- cgit v1.2.3