Author: randy
Date: 2006-01-10 21:33:36 -0700 (Tue, 10 Jan 2006)
New Revision: 5544
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/general.ent
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer.xml
Log:
Updates to MPlayer: added an x264 patch, added new dependencies, updated the
version of the Skins file
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2006-01-10 17:55:50 UTC (rev 5543)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2006-01-11 04:33:36 UTC (rev 5544)
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!ENTITY day "10">
+<!ENTITY day "11">
<!ENTITY month "01">
<!ENTITY year "2006">
<!ENTITY version "svn-&year;&month;&day;">
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2006-01-10 17:55:50 UTC
(rev 5543)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2006-01-11 04:33:36 UTC
(rev 5544)
@@ -42,6 +42,16 @@
-->
<listitem>
+ <para>January 11, 2006</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[randy] - Updates to MPlayer: added an x264 patch, added new
+ dependencies, updated the version of the Skins file.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>January 10th, 2006</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer.xml 2006-01-10 17:55:50 UTC
(rev 5543)
+++ trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer.xml 2006-01-11 04:33:36 UTC
(rev 5544)
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
<!ENTITY mplayer-codec "essential-20050412.tar.bz2">
<!ENTITY mplayer-codec-md5sum "5fe89bb095bdf9b4f9cda5479dbde906">
<!ENTITY mplayer-codec-size "9.3 MB">
+ <!ENTITY mplayer-alt-codec "all-20050412.tar.bz2">
<!ENTITY mplayer-skin "Blue-1.4.tar.bz2">
<!ENTITY mplayer-skin-md5sum "05dd8e4f11a715c9e5d2abf1cdeb907c">
@@ -89,6 +90,10 @@
url="&patch-root;/MPlayer-&mplayer-version;-gcc4-1.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
+ <para>Required Patch: <ulink
+
url="&patch-root;/MPlayer-&mplayer-version;-x264_fixes-1.patch"/></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>Required Patch (for fbdev driver support): <ulink
url="&patch-root;/MPlayer-&mplayer-version;-kernel_2.6-1.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
@@ -106,6 +111,11 @@
<listitem>
<para>Download size: &mplayer-codec-size;</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Alternate CODECs (provides additional functionality and is a
+ larger file): <ulink
+
url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/&mplayer-alt-codec;"/></para>
+ </listitem>
<listitem><para>Additional CODECs: <ulink
url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/"/></para>
</listitem>
@@ -157,15 +167,16 @@
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Input Drivers and
Libraries</bridgehead>
<para role="optional"><xref linkend="cdparanoia"/>,
<xref linkend="libdv"/>,
- <xref linkend="libdvdread"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libdvdread"/> (must disable internal mpdvdkit support),
<xref linkend="samba3"/>,
<ulink url="http://www.live555.com/mplayer/";>LIVE555 Streaming
Media</ulink>,
<ulink url="http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/vstream-client/";>TiVo
vstream client</ulink>,
+ <!-- Disabling for now as only internal Matroska support is available
<ulink
url="http://www.matroska.org/downloads/linux.html";>libmatroska</ulink>
(requires
- <ulink url="http://dl.matroska.org/downloads/libebml/";>libebml</ulink>),
- <ulink url="http://www.linuxtv.org/";>DVB drivers</ulink>
- and <ulink url="http://www.metzlerbros.org/dvb/";>DVB</ulink></para>
+ <ulink url="http://dl.matroska.org/downloads/libebml/";>libebml</ulink>),
-->
+ <ulink url="http://www.linuxtv.org/";>DVB drivers</ulink>, and
+ <ulink url="http://www.metzlerbros.org/dvb/";>DVB</ulink></para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Audio Output Drivers and
Libraries</bridgehead>
<para role="optional"><xref linkend="alsa"/>,
@@ -174,10 +185,10 @@
<xref linkend="nas"/>,
<xref linkend="sdl"/> (also used for video output),
<xref linkend="xmms"/>,
- <ulink url="http://www.ladspa.org/";>LADSPA</ulink>,
<ulink
url="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/polypaudio/";>polypaudio</ulink>,
<ulink url="http://bio2jack.sourceforge.net/";>bio2jack</ulink> (requires
- <ulink url="http://jackit.sourceforge.net/";>JACK</ulink>)</para>
+ <ulink url="http://jackit.sourceforge.net/";>JACK</ulink>), and
+ <ulink url="http://www.ladspa.org/";>LADSPA</ulink></para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Video Output Drivers and
Libraries</bridgehead>
<para role="optional">X (<xref linkend="xfree86"/> or <xref
linkend="xorg"/>),
@@ -194,29 +205,83 @@
<ulink url="http://www.directfb.org/";>DirectFB</ulink>,
<ulink url="http://www.svgalib.org/";>SVGAlib</ulink>,
<ulink url="http://www.ggi-project.org/";>GGI</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/";>libcaca</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://dxr2.sourceforge.net/";>Dxr2</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://dxr3.sourceforge.net/";>libdxr3</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/zapping/";>MP1E</ulink> and
+ <ulink url="http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/";>libcaca</ulink>, and
<ulink url="http://trific.ath.cx/software/enca/";>Enca</ulink></para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional CODECs</bridgehead>
<para role="optional"><xref linkend="libvorbis"/>,
<xref linkend="xvid"/>,
- <xref linkend="LZO"/>,
+ <xref linkend="LZO"/> (requires <ulink
+
url="http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/download/LZO-v1/lzo-1.08.tar.gz";>
+ Version 1</ulink>),
<xref linkend="libmad"/>,
<xref linkend="lame"/>,
<xref linkend="libfame"/>,
<ulink url="http://www.theora.org/";>Theora</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html";>Tremor</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/faac";>FAAD2</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://www.divx.com/divx/linux/";>DivX4Linux</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html";>Tremor</ulink>
+ (requires <xref linkend="libvorbis"/> and you must disable the internal
+ version),
+ <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/faac";>FAAD2</ulink>
+ (must disable internal version to use the system-installed version),
+ <ulink url="http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html";>x264</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://www.divx.com/divx/linux/";>DivX</ulink>,
+ <ulink
url="http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/latest/Rel-5/26_series/26104-540.zip";>
+ AMR narrowband (floating point)</ulink> or
+ <ulink
url="http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/latest/Rel-5/26_series/26073-530.zip";>
+ AMR naarrowband (fixed point)</ulink>,
+ <ulink
url="http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/latest/Rel-5/26_series/26204-530.zip";>
+ AMR wideband</ulink>,
<ulink
url="ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/0.8.2/contrib/toolame-02m-beta8.tar.bz2";>
tooLAME</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://www.dolda2000.cjb.net/~fredrik/lirccd/";>lirccd</ulink>
- and <ulink url="http://www.lirc.org/";>LIRC</ulink></para>
+ <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/libdca.html";>libdts</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://www.dolda2000.cjb.net/~fredrik/lirccd/";>lirccd</ulink>,
and
+ <ulink url="http://www.lirc.org/";>LIRC</ulink></para>
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Hardware Specific
Options</bridgehead>
+ <para>There is hardware specific packages (or vendor supplied software) you
+ can install to improve the performance of your video card when using
+ <application>MPlayer</application>. Some of the packages and/or vendor
+ supplied software and the <application>MPlayer</application> specific
+ driver created if it is found is shown here.</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>mga: Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 hardware YUV overlay via the
+ mga_vid device</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>xmga: Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 overlay (mga_vid) in X11
+ window</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>syncfb: Matrox G400 YUV support on framebuffer</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>3dfx: Voodoo 3/Banshee hardware YUV support (/dev/3dfx)</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>tdfxfb: Voodoo 3/Banshee hardware YUV support on tdfx
+ framebuffer</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>mpegpes: support for Siemens DVB hardware MPEG-1/2 decoder boards
+ (or MPEG-PES file output)</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>dxr2: support for DXR2 hardware MPEG-1/2 decoder boards
+ <ulink url="http://dxr2.sourceforge.net/";>Dxr2</ulink></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>dxr3: support for DXR3/Hollywood+ hardware MPEG-1/2 decoder
+ boards <ulink
+ url="http://dxr3.sourceforge.net/";>libdxr3</ulink></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>zr: support for Zoran360[56]7 based hardware MJPEG cards</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
@@ -257,7 +322,7 @@
tar -xvf ../&mplayer-skin; \
-C /usr/share/mplayer/Skin &&
chown -v -R root:root /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/Blue &&
-chmod -v 0755 /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/Blue{,/icons} &&
+chmod -v 755 /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/Blue{,/icons} &&
ln -sfv Blue /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default</userinput></screen>
</sect3>
@@ -267,8 +332,8 @@
<para>To enable OSD (On Screen Display) and subtitles support, add
<option>--enable-menu</option> to the <command>configure</command>
- script. You'll also need to set up at least one font (see font
installation
- instructions a little later).</para>
+ script. You'll also need to set up at least one font (see font
+ installation instructions a little later).</para>
</sect3>
@@ -280,15 +345,18 @@
optimizations.</para>
</note>
- <para><application>MPlayer</application> can build a shared
post-processing
- library from the internal <application>FFmpeg</application> package which
- other packages can link to. This requires
<application>MPlayer</application>
- to link dynamically to this library instead of the default statically
linked method.
- If you desire to build the shared library, add
<option>--enable-shared-pp</option>
- and <option>--disable-fastmemcpy</option> to the
<command>configure</command>
+ <para><application>MPlayer</application> can build a shared
+ post-processing library from the internal
+ <application>FFmpeg</application> package which
+ other packages can link to. This requires
+ <application>MPlayer</application>
+ to link dynamically to this library instead of the default statically
+ linked method. If you desire to build the shared library, add
+ <option>--enable-shared-pp</option> and
+ <option>--disable-fastmemcpy</option> to the <command>configure</command>
script. The <option>--disable-fastmemcpy</option> parameter is required
to
- avoid <computeroutput>undefined reference</computeroutput> errors when
other
- packages link to the shared library.</para>
+ avoid <computeroutput>undefined reference</computeroutput> errors when
+ other packages link to the shared library.</para>
<para>You may wish to examine the output from
<command>./configure --help</command> to find out what additional
@@ -300,6 +368,7 @@
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i
../MPlayer-&mplayer-version;-kernel_2.6-1.patch &&
patch -Np1 -i ../MPlayer-&mplayer-version;-gcc4-1.patch &&
+patch -Np1 -i ../MPlayer-&mplayer-version;-x264_fixes-1.patch &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --confdir=/etc/mplayer \
--enable-largefiles &&
make</userinput></screen>
@@ -313,26 +382,27 @@
cp -v -R DOCS/* /usr/share/doc/mplayer-&mplayer-version;</userinput></screen>
<para>Passing parameters to <command>configure</command> may result
- in the creation of <filename
class='libraryfile'>libdha.so.1.0</filename>. If so,
- you may wish to create a symlink to this library in case other packages
link
- to <filename class='libraryfile'>libdha.so</filename>. Use the following
- command as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user
- to create the symlink:</para>
+ in the creation of <filename
class='libraryfile'>libdha.so.1.0</filename>.
+ If so, you may wish to create a symlink to this library in case other
+ packages link to <filename class='libraryfile'>libdha.so</filename>. Use
+ the following command as the
+ <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user to create the
+ symlink:</para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>ln -v -s libdha.so.1.0
/usr/lib/libdha.so</userinput></screen>
<para>You will need <filename>codecs.conf</filename> only if you want to
change its properties, as the main binary contains an internal copy of
- it. Ensure any changes you make to <filename>codecs.conf</filename>
achieve
- the desired results, as incorrect entries in this file have been known to
- cause errors and render the player unusable. If necessary, create the
file
- using the following command.</para>
+ it. Ensure any changes you make to <filename>codecs.conf</filename>
+ achieve the desired results, as incorrect entries in this file have been
+ known to cause errors and render the player unusable. If necessary,
+ create the file using the following command.</para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>install -m644 etc/codecs.conf
/etc/mplayer</userinput></screen>
<para>You may also want to copy all the default configuration files to
- <filename class='directory'>/etc/mplayer</filename> for future reference
or
- more customization ability.</para>
+ <filename class='directory'>/etc/mplayer</filename> for future reference
+ or more customization ability.</para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>install -m644 etc/*.conf
/etc/mplayer</userinput></screen>
@@ -429,11 +499,11 @@
<sect3>
<title>Configuration Information</title>
- <para>Typically, there's no configuration required for the system-wide
files
- in <filename class='directory'>/etc/mplayer</filename> (in fact, this
- directory is empty unless you copied the default files as mentioned
above).
- Configuration can be accomplished by choosing the configuration button
located
- on the <application>MPlayer</application> GUI. Any
+ <para>Typically, there's no configuration required for the system-wide
+ files in <filename class='directory'>/etc/mplayer</filename> (in fact,
+ this directory is empty unless you copied the default files as mentioned
+ above). Configuration can be accomplished by choosing the configuration
+ button located on the <application>MPlayer</application> GUI. Any
configuration changes made here will be copied to the user's
<filename class='directory'>~/.mplayer</filename> directory.</para>
@@ -491,8 +561,8 @@
mplayer \
http://www.students.uni-marburg.de/~Klossa/hapkidofight_lo.mpg</userinput></screen>
- <para>For further information, look at the very good documentation
included
- with the package in the source tree subdirectory
+ <para>For further information, look at the very good documentation
+ included with the package in the source tree subdirectory
<filename class="directory">DOCS</filename> (also installed at
<filename
class='directory'>/usr/share/doc/mplayer</filename>).</para>
<indexterm zone="mplayer mplayer-prog">
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