From 061d9b1afeae6281c63f1cba15c557c50fa0563b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wm4 Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 15:19:24 +0100 Subject: README: extend dependecy list, link Windows compilation docs Also, fix vo.rst, don't want to waste a separate commit on this. --- README.md | 19 +++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 280fac0662..59cd1aa359 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -42,16 +42,23 @@ Essential dependencies (incomplete list): - gcc or clang - X development headers (xlib, X extensions, libvdpau, libGL, libXv, ...) -- Audio output development headers (libasound, pulseaudio) -- FFmpeg libraries (libavutil libavcodec libavformat libswscale libavresample) +- Audio output development headers (libasound/ALSA, pulseaudio) +- FFmpeg libraries (libavutil libavcodec libavformat libswscale libavfilter + and either libswresample or libavresample) At least FFmpeg 2.1.4 or Libav 10 is required. -- libjpeg (for screenshots) -- Lua (strictly speaking optional, but required for the OSC pseudo-GUI) +- libass +- Lua (optional, required for the OSC pseudo-GUI) +- libjpeg (optional, used for screenshots only) +- Enca (optional, for subtitle charset detection) +- vdpau and vaapi libraries for hardware decoding on Linux (optional) Libass dependencies: - gcc or clang, yasm on x86 and x86_64 - fribidi, freetype, fontconfig development headers (for libass) +- harfbuzz (optional, required for correct rendering of combining characters, + particularly for correct rendering of non-English text on OSX, and + Arabic/Indic scripts on any platform) FFmpeg dependencies: @@ -72,6 +79,9 @@ If you are running Mac OSX and using homebrew we provide [homebrew-mpv][homebrew to date formula that compiles mpv with sensible dependencies and defaults for OSX. +If you want to build a Windows binary, you either have to use MSYS2 and MinGW, +or cross-compile from Linux with MinGW. See [Windows compilation][windows_compilation]. + FFmpeg vs. Libav ---------------- @@ -135,3 +145,4 @@ only if discretion is required. [mpv-devel]: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/mpv-devel [ffmpeg_vs_libav]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FFmpeg-versus-Libav [release-policy]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/release-policy.md +[windows_compilation]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/compile-windows.md -- cgit v1.2.3