Author: andy
Date: 2012-06-12 05:53:14 -0600 (Tue, 12 Jun 2012)
New Revision: 10317
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/general.ent
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer.xml
Log:
mplayer-1.1
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2012-06-12 02:55:33 UTC (rev 10316)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2012-06-12 11:53:14 UTC (rev 10317)
@@ -1055,7 +1055,7 @@
<!ENTITY dvb-apps-version "2012-06-10">
<!ENTITY ffmpeg-version "0.10.3">
<!-- <!ENTITY avifile-version "0.7.45"> -->
-<!ENTITY mplayer-version "svn_20120427">
+<!ENTITY mplayer-version "1.1">
<!ENTITY xine-ui-version "0.99.6">
<!ENTITY transcode-version "1.1.7">
<!ENTITY vlc-version "2.0.1">
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2012-06-12 02:55:33 UTC
(rev 10316)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2012-06-12 11:53:14 UTC
(rev 10317)
@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@
<listitem>
<para>[dj] - Removed X.sh script from profile.d directory.</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[abenton] - Updated MPlayer to 1.1.</para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer.xml 2012-06-12 02:55:33 UTC
(rev 10316)
+++ trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer.xml 2012-06-12 11:53:14 UTC
(rev 10317)
@@ -4,17 +4,22 @@
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
%general-entities;
- <!ENTITY mplayer-download-http
"http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/mplayer-1.0~rc4+svn20120427.tar.xz";>
-<!-- <!ENTITY mplayer-download-http
"http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/BLFS/svn/m/mplayer-svn_20120427.tar.xz";>-->
- <!ENTITY mplayer-download-ftp " ">
- <!ENTITY mplayer-md5sum "f2723e317e5a6935af2460b48c3fa0c4 ">
- <!ENTITY mplayer-size "10 MB">
- <!ENTITY mplayer-buildsize "178 MB">
- <!ENTITY mplayer-time "2.2 SBU">
+ <!ENTITY mplayer-download-http
+
"http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-&mplayer-version;.tar.xz";>
+ <!ENTITY mplayer-download-ftp
+ "ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-&mplayer-version;.tar.xz";>
+ <!ENTITY mplayer-md5sum "ac7bf1cfedc1c5c24bfc83107eefb1d9">
+ <!ENTITY mplayer-size "11 MB">
+ <!ENTITY mplayer-buildsize "183 MB">
+ <!ENTITY mplayer-time "4 SBU">
- <!ENTITY mplayer-skin "Blue-1.8.tar.bz2">
- <!ENTITY mplayer-skin-md5sum "340368f4e33f767d9df109990fb29c02">
- <!ENTITY mplayer-skin-size "218 KB">
+ <!ENTITY mplayer-skin "clearplayer-0.9">
+ <!ENTITY mplayer-skin-download-http
+ "http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/&mplayer-skin;.tar.bz2";>
+ <!ENTITY mplayer-skin-download-ftp
+ "ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/&mplayer-skin;.tar.bz2";>
+ <!ENTITY mplayer-skin-md5sum "fd5bda4882d5efb60ae03ee38f9db559">
+ <!ENTITY mplayer-skin-size "64 KB">
]>
<sect1 id="mplayer" xreflabel="MPlayer-&mplayer-version;">
@@ -34,19 +39,15 @@
<sect2 role="package">
<title>Introduction to MPlayer</title>
- <para>The <application>MPlayer</application> package contains a powerful
- audio/video player controlled via the command line or graphical interface
- which is able to play almost every popular audio and video file format.
With
- supported video hardware and additional drivers,
<application>MPlayer</application> can
- play video files without an <application>X Window System</application>
- installed.</para>
+ <para>
+ <application>MPlayer</application> is a powerful audio/video player
+ controlled via the command line or graphical interface which is able to
+ play almost every popular audio and video file format. With supported
+ video hardware and additional drivers, <application>MPlayer</application>
+ can play video files without an <application>X Window
System</application>
+ installed.
+ </para>
- <para>For <application>MPlayer</application> general information and
- available features, including a full list of file formats, codecs and
- output devices supported by <application>MPlayer</application>, visit the
- <ulink url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/";>
- <application>MPlayer</application> web site</ulink>.</para>
-
&lfs71_checked;
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
@@ -72,90 +73,59 @@
</itemizedlist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
-<!--
- <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
- <title>Patches</title>
- <listitem>
- <para>Required Patch: <ulink
-
url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/patches/asmrules_fix_20061231.diff"/></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Required Patch: <ulink
-
url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/patches/cddb_fix_20070605.diff"/></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Required Patch: <ulink
-
url="&patch-root;/MPlayer-&mplayer-version;-ext_ffmpeg-1.patch"/></para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
--->
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<title>Skins</title>
<listitem>
- <para>Default GUI skin: <ulink
- url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/&mplayer-skin;"/></para>
+ <para>
+ GUI skin (HTTP): <ulink url="&mplayer-skin-download-http;"/>
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Download MD5 sum: &mplayer-skin-md5sum;</para>
+ <para>GUI skin (FTP): <ulink url="&mplayer-skin-download-ftp;"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Download size: &mplayer-skin-size;</para>
+ <para>Skin MD5 sum: &mplayer-skin-md5sum;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Additional skins: <ulink
- url="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/"/></para>
+ <para>Skin size: &mplayer-skin-size;</para>
</listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-<!--
- <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
- <title>Fonts</title>
<listitem>
- <para>Prerendered fonts: <ulink
-
url="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/fonts/&mplayer-font;.tar.bz2"/></para>
+ <para>
+ Alternative skins:
+ <ulink url="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/"/>
+ </para>
</listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Download MD5 sum: &mplayer-font-md5sum;</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Download size: &mplayer-font-size;</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Additional fonts: <ulink
- url="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/fonts/"/></para>
- </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
--->
- <para>Skins are not required to build and use <application>MPlayer
- </application>.</para>
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ Skins are only required to use the Gtk+ 2 user interface.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">MPlayer Dependencies</bridgehead>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
- <para role="required">
- <xref linkend="yasm"/>
- </para>
-
+ <para role="required"><xref linkend="yasm"/></para>
+
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
- <para role="recommended">
- <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>
- </para>
-
+ <para role="recommended"><xref linkend="gtk2"/></para>
+
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Input Drivers and
Libraries</bridgehead>
<para role="optional">
- <xref linkend="cdparanoia"/>,
- <xref linkend="samba3"/>,
- <ulink
url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libbluray.html";>libbluray</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/libcdio/";>libcdio</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://www.live555.com/mplayer/";>LIVE555 Streaming
Media</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/";>RTMPDump</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/vstream-client/";>TiVo vstream
client</ulink> and
- <ulink url="http://www.xmms.org/";>XMMS</ulink>
- <!-- Mplayer can only use internal versions of these at the moment:
- <xref linkend="libdvdread"/>,
- <xref linkend="libdvdnav"/>,
- <xref linkend="libdvdcss"/>,
- -->
+ <xref linkend="cdparanoia"/>,
+ <xref linkend="samba3"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libdvdread"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libdvdnav"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libdvdcss"/>,
+ <ulink
url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libbluray.html";>libbluray</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/libcdio/";>libcdio</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://www.live555.com/mplayer/";>LIVE555 Streaming
Media</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/";>RTMPDump</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/vstream-client/";>TiVo vstream
client</ulink>
+ and
+ <ulink url="http://www.xmms.org/";>XMMS</ulink>
</para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Audio Output Drivers and
Libraries</bridgehead>
@@ -163,7 +133,7 @@
<xref linkend="alsa"/>,
<!-- <xref linkend="arts"/>, -->
<xref linkend="esound"/>,
- <xref linkend='pulseaudio'/>,
+ <xref linkend='pulseaudio'/>,
<xref linkend="sdl"/>,
<ulink url="http://jackaudio.org/";>JACK</ulink>,
<ulink url="http://openal.org/";>OpenAL</ulink> and
@@ -172,48 +142,47 @@
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Video Output Drivers and
Libraries</bridgehead>
<para role="optional">
- <xref linkend="aalib"/>,
- <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
- <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
- <xref linkend="libmng"/>,
- <xref linkend="giflib"/>,
- <ulink url="http://www.directfb.org/";>DirectFB</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/";>libcaca</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://www.svgalib.org/";>SVGAlib</ulink> and
- <xref linkend="openjpeg"/>
+ <xref linkend="aalib"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libmng"/>,
+ <xref linkend="giflib"/>,
+ <ulink url="http://www.directfb.org/";>DirectFB</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/";>libcaca</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://www.svgalib.org/";>SVGAlib</ulink> and
+ <xref linkend="openjpeg"/>
</para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional CODECs</bridgehead>
<para role="optional">
- <xref linkend="libmad"/>,
- <xref linkend="LZO"/>,
- <xref linkend="speex"/>,
- <xref linkend="libtheora"/>,
- <xref linkend="mpg123"/>,
- <xref linkend="liba52"/>,
- <xref linkend="faac"/>,
- <xref linkend="faad2"/>,
- <xref linkend="libdv"/>,
- <xref linkend="xvid"/>,
- <xref linkend="libvpx"/>,
- <xref linkend="lame"/>,
- <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/0.8.2/contrib/toolame-02m-beta8.tar.bz2";>tooLAME</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/twolame/";>TwoLAME</ulink>,
- <ulink url="https://launchpad.net/libgsm";>libgsm</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdca.html";>libdca</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://www.musepack.net/";>libmpcdec</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr/";>OpenCore
Adaptive Multi Rate</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://www.broadcom.com/support/crystal_hd/";>CrystalHD</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html";>x264</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://diracvideo.org/download/dirac-research/";>Dirac</ulink>,
- <ulink
url="http://diracvideo.org/download/schroedinger/";>Schroedinger</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=NUT";>libnut</ulink>
-
- <!-- MPlayer can only use an internal version of this at the moment
- <xref linkend="ffmpeg"/> -->
-
+ <xref linkend="libmad"/>,
+ <xref linkend="LZO"/>,
+ <xref linkend="speex"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libtheora"/>,
+ <xref linkend="mpg123"/>,
+ <xref linkend="liba52"/>,
+ <xref linkend="faac"/>,
+ <xref linkend="faad2"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libdv"/>,
+ <xref linkend="xvid"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libvpx"/>,
+ <xref linkend="lame"/>,
+ <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/0.8.2/contrib/toolame-02m-beta8.tar.bz2";>tooLAME</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/twolame/";>TwoLAME</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="https://launchpad.net/libgsm";>libgsm</ulink>,
+ <ulink
url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdca.html";>libdca</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://www.musepack.net/";>libmpcdec</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr/";>OpenCore
+ Adaptive Multi Rate</ulink>,
+ <ulink
url="http://www.broadcom.com/support/crystal_hd/";>CrystalHD</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html";>x264</ulink>,
+ <ulink
url="http://diracvideo.org/download/dirac-research/";>Dirac</ulink>,
+ <ulink
url="http://diracvideo.org/download/schroedinger/";>Schroedinger</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=NUT";>libnut</ulink>
+ <!-- MPlayer can only use an internal version of this at the moment
+ <xref linkend="ffmpeg"/> -->
</para>
-
+
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Miscellaneous
Dependencies</bridgehead>
<para role="optional">
<xref linkend="fontconfig"/>,
@@ -225,52 +194,21 @@
<ulink url="http://www.ladspa.org/";>LADSPA</ulink>,
<ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/bs2b/";>libbs2b</ulink>,
<ulink url="http://www.lirc.org/";>LIRC</ulink> and
- <ulink url="http://www.dolda2000.com/~fredrik/lirccd/";>LIRC Client
Daemon</ulink>,
- <xref linkend="libxslt"/> (required to build the HTML documentation),
- <xref linkend="DocBook"/> (required to build the HTML documentation) and
+ <ulink url="http://www.dolda2000.com/~fredrik/lirccd/";>LIRC Client
Daemon</ulink>,
+ <xref linkend="libxslt"/> (required to build the HTML documentation),
+ <xref linkend="DocBook"/> (required to build the HTML documentation) and
<xref linkend="docbook-xsl"/> (required to build the HTML documentation)
</para>
-
- <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
- <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/mplayer"/></para>
+ <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
+ User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/mplayer"/>
+ </para>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of MPlayer</title>
-<!-- MPlayer can play most filetypes without this
<sect3>
- <title>CODEC Installation (Optional)</title>
-
- <para>If you downloaded the binary CODECs, extract them to
- <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/mplayer/codecs</filename> using the
- following commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
- user (substitute and/or add different CODEC filenames, if
necessary):</para>
-
-<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -d -m755 /usr/lib/mplayer/codecs
&&
-tar -xvf ../&mplayer-codec; \
- -C /usr/lib/mplayer/codecs -strip-components=1 &&
-chown -v -R root:root /usr/lib/mplayer/codecs</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>If you installed any CODECs, ensure you add
- <option>-codecsdir=/usr/lib/mplayer/codecs</option>
- to the <command>configure</command> script.</para>
-
- </sect3>
--->
-<!-- No longer needed
- <sect3>
- <title>Installing OSD and Subtitles Support (Optional)</title>
-
- <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>
-
- </sect3>
--->
- <sect3>
<title>Main MPlayer Installation</title>
<note>
@@ -278,140 +216,93 @@
optimizations.</para>
</note>
- <para>You may wish to examine the output from
- <command>./configure --help</command> to find out what additional
- parameters to <command>configure</command> are needed to include
- the dependencies you have installed on your system.</para>
+ <para>
+ You may wish to examine the output from
+ <command>./configure --help</command> to find out what additional
+ parameters to <command>configure</command> are needed to include the
+ dependencies you have installed on your system.
+ </para>
- <para>Install <application>MPlayer</application> by running the following
- commands:</para>
-<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
- --confdir=/etc/mplayer \
+ <para>
+ Install <application>MPlayer</application> by running the following
+ commands:
+ </para>
+
+<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
+ --confdir=/etc/mplayer \
--enable-dynamic-plugins \
- --enable-menu \
- --enable-gui &&
+ --enable-menu \
+ --enable-gui &&
make</userinput></screen>
<para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
- <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
user:</para>
+ <para>
+ Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
+ </para>
-<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &&</userinput></screen>
+<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
-<para>To build and install the HTML documentation, run as
-<systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:</para>
+ <para>
+ To build and install the HTML documentation, run as
+ <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:
+ </para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>make doc &&
install -d /usr/share/doc/mplayer-&mplayer-version; &&
cp -v DOCS/HTML/en/*
/usr/share/doc/mplayer-&mplayer-version;</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>
+ <para>
+ You will only need <filename>codecs.conf</filename> 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 as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
+ user:
+ </para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m644 etc/codecs.conf
/etc/mplayer</userinput></screen>
- <para>You may alternatively want to copy all the default configuration
files to
- <filename class='directory'>/etc/mplayer</filename> for future reference
- or more customization ability.</para>
+ <para>
+ You may alternatively want to copy all the default configuration files
+ to <filename class='directory'>/etc/mplayer</filename> for future
+ reference or more customization ability. As the
+ <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
+ </para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m644 etc/*.conf
/etc/mplayer</userinput></screen>
-
- <!-- Is this needed?
- <para><application>MPlayer</application> requires that the RTC run at a
- frequency of 1024 Hz. Make this setting change at boot-time by adding
- a line to <filename>/etc/sysctl.conf</filename>:</para>
-
-<screen role="root"><userinput>echo "dev.rtc.max-user-freq=1024" >>
/etc/sysctl.conf</userinput></screen>
- -->
-
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>Skin Installation (Optional)</title>
- <para>To enable the GTK frontend of <application>MPlayer</application>,
- you'll need to install at least one skin. Extract the desired skin and
- create the default location (as the <systemitem
class="username">root</systemitem>
- user):</para>
-
-<!-- moved from within screen.../screen but kept in case ever needed.
- we are already root ; almost everything in the skin is a graphic
-chown -v -R root:root /usr/share/mplayer/skins/Blue &&
-chmod -v 755 /usr/share/mplayer/skins/Blue{,/icons} &&-->
-<screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xvf ../&mplayer-skin; \
- -C /usr/share/mplayer/skins &&
-ln -sfv Blue /usr/share/mplayer/skins/default</userinput></screen>
+ <para>
+ To enable the Gtk+ 2 frontend of <application>MPlayer</application>,
+ you'll need to install at least one skin. Extract the desired skin and
+ create the default location (as the
+ <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user):
+ </para>
+<screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xvf ../&mplayer-skin;.tar.xz \
+ -C /usr/share/mplayer/skins &&
+ln -sfv &mplayer-skin; /usr/share/mplayer/skins/default</userinput></screen>
</sect3>
-
-<!--
- <sect3>
- <title>OSD and Subtitles Font Installation (Required if '-enable-menu'
Was
- Passed to 'configure')</title>
+ </sect2>
- <para>The recommended method to set up a font for
- <application>MPlayer</application> is to link a TTF file to
- the <filename class="directory">/usr/share/mplayer</filename> directory.
- For example:</para>
+ <sect2 role="commands">
+ <title>Command Explanations</title>
-<screen><userinput>install -v -m750 -d /usr/share/mplayer &&
-ln -v -sf /usr/share/fonts/X11-TTF/luxisri.ttf \
- ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf</userinput></screen>
+ <para>
+ <parameter>--enable-gui</parameter>: This option is set to build
GMPlayer,
+ a Gtk+ 2 frontend for MPlayer.
+ </para>
- <para>There are several other ways to set up a font package. To use a
- prerendered <application>MPlayer</application> font package, extract
- and link one of the font tarballs using the following commands:</para>
-
-<screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xvf ../&mplayer-font;.tar.bz2 \
- -C /usr/share/mplayer/font &&
-chown -v -R root:root /usr/share/mplayer/font &&
-cd /usr/share/mplayer/font &&
-ln -v -sf &mplayer-font;/font-arial-<replaceable><font
size></replaceable>-iso-8859-1/* .</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>Available font sizes are 14, 18, 24 or 28.</para>
-
- <para>Additional information as well as additional methods to set up an
- <application>MPlayer</application> font package can be found at <ulink
-
url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/subosd.html#mpsub-install"/>.</para>
-
- </sect3>
- -->
-
- <!--
- Following section should be removed after BLFS-6.2.
- Current Udev creates persistent cd/dvd links automatically
- <sect3>
- <title>Installation for DVD Playback (Optional)</title>
-
- <para>If you want DVD playback with <application>MPlayer</application>,
- you need to ensure a link exists between your DVD drive and
- <filename>/dev/dvd</filename>. This process is described in the
- <ulink url="&lfs-root;/chapter07/symlinks.html">Creating custom
- symlinks to devices</ulink> section in LFS. The user must be part
- of the <systemitem class="groupname">cdrom</systemitem> group in
- order to use the device.</para>
-
- </sect3>
- -->
+ <para>
+ <parameter>--enable-menu</parameter>: This option is set to enable the
+ on-screen display.
+ </para>
</sect2>
-
- <sect2 role="commands">
- <title>Command Explanations</title>
-
- <para><parameter>--enable-gui</parameter>: This option is set to build
GMPlayer,
- a GTK frontend for MPlayer.</para>
- <para><parameter>--enable-menu</parameter>: This option is set to enable
the
- on-screen-display.</para>
- <!--
- <para><parameter>-codecsdir=/usr/lib/mplayer/codecs</parameter>: Use this
option
- if you installed the binary codecs.</para>
- -->
-
- </sect2>
<sect2 role="configuration">
<title>Configuring MPlayer</title>
@@ -429,22 +320,23 @@
<indexterm zone="mplayer mplayer-config">
<primary sortas="e-etc-mplayer">/etc/mplayer/*</primary>
</indexterm>
-
</sect3>
<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
- configuration changes made in the GUI will be saved in the user's
- <filename class='directory'>~/.mplayer</filename> directory.</para>
+ <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 in the GUI will be saved in the user's
+ <filename class='directory'>~/.mplayer</filename> directory.
+ </para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
-
+
<sect2 role="content">
<title>Contents</title>
@@ -459,7 +351,7 @@
<seg>
/etc/mplayer,
/usr/lib/mplayer,
- /usr/share/mplayer and
+ /usr/share/mplayer and
/usr/share/doc/mplayer
</seg>
</seglistitem>
@@ -473,9 +365,10 @@
<varlistentry id="gmplayer">
<term><command>gmplayer</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para>is a symlink to <command>mplayer</command> which
- brings up the GTK frontend of
- <application>MPlayer</application>.</para>
+ <para>
+ is a symlink to <command>mplayer</command> which brings up the
+ Gtk+ 2 frontend of <application>MPlayer</application>.
+ </para>
<indexterm zone="mplayer gmplayer">
<primary sortas="b-gmplayer">gmplayer</primary>
</indexterm>
@@ -497,7 +390,9 @@
<listitem>
<para>
is a powerful command line video decoding, encoding and filtering
- tool.
+ tool that is useful for (amongst other things) ripping DVDs to
files
+ on your hard disk (see
+ /usr/share/doc/mplayer-&mplayer-version;/mencoder.html)
</para>
<indexterm zone="mplayer mencoder">
<primary sortas="b-mencoder">mencoder</primary>
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