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added hardware accelerated video decoding chapter and other misc fixes

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY mplayer-download-http
8 "http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-&mplayer-version;.tar.xz">
9 <!ENTITY mplayer-download-ftp
10 "ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-&mplayer-version;.tar.xz">
11 <!ENTITY mplayer-md5sum "39dd55f30eb5403f219a606e79a6648a">
12 <!ENTITY mplayer-size "11 MB">
13 <!ENTITY mplayer-buildsize "183 MB (120 MB using system-installed FFMpeg)">
14 <!ENTITY mplayer-time "4 SBU (1.5 SBU using system-installed FFMpeg)">
15
16 <!ENTITY mplayer-skin "Clearlooks-1.5">
17 <!ENTITY mplayer-skin-download-http
18 "http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/&mplayer-skin;.tar.bz2">
19 <!ENTITY mplayer-skin-download-ftp
20 "ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/&mplayer-skin;.tar.bz2">
21 <!ENTITY mplayer-skin-md5sum "6b046a78fb15b243dc1eb5884276a750">
22 <!ENTITY mplayer-skin-size "40 KB">
23]>
24
25<sect1 id="mplayer" xreflabel="MPlayer-&mplayer-version;">
26 <?dbhtml filename="mplayer.html"?>
27
28 <sect1info>
29 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
30 <date>$Date$</date>
31 </sect1info>
32
33 <title>MPlayer-&mplayer-version;</title>
34
35 <indexterm zone="mplayer">
36 <primary sortas="a-MPlayer">MPlayer</primary>
37 </indexterm>
38
39 <sect2 role="package">
40 <title>Introduction to MPlayer</title>
41
42 <para>
43 <application>MPlayer</application> is a powerful audio/video player
44 controlled via the command line or a graphical interface that is able to
45 play almost every popular audio and video file format. With supported
46 video hardware and additional drivers, <application>MPlayer</application>
47 can play video files without an <application>X Window System</application>
48 installed.
49 </para>
50
51 &lfs73_checked;
52
53 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
54 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
55 <listitem>
56 <para>
57 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&mplayer-download-http;"/>
58 </para>
59 </listitem>
60 <listitem>
61 <para>
62 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&mplayer-download-ftp;"/>
63 </para>
64 </listitem>
65 <listitem>
66 <para>
67 Download MD5 sum: &mplayer-md5sum;
68 </para>
69 </listitem>
70 <listitem>
71 <para>
72 Download size: &mplayer-size;
73 </para>
74 </listitem>
75 <listitem>
76 <para>
77 Estimated disk space required: &mplayer-buildsize;
78 </para>
79 </listitem>
80 <listitem>
81 <para>
82 Estimated build time: &mplayer-time;
83 </para>
84 </listitem>
85 </itemizedlist>
86
87 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
88
89 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
90 <listitem>
91 <para>
92 Required patch:
93 <ulink url="&patch-root;/MPlayer-&mplayer-version;-giflib_fixes-1.patch"/>
94 </para>
95 </listitem>
96 <listitem>
97 <para>
98 Required patch:
99 <ulink url="&patch-root;/MPlayer-&mplayer-version;-live_fixes-1.patch"/>
100 </para>
101 </listitem>
102 </itemizedlist>
103
104 <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
105 <title>Skins</title>
106 <listitem>
107 <para>
108 GUI skin (HTTP): <ulink url="&mplayer-skin-download-http;"/>
109 </para>
110 </listitem>
111 <listitem>
112 <para>
113 GUI skin (FTP): <ulink url="&mplayer-skin-download-ftp;"/>
114 </para>
115 </listitem>
116 <listitem>
117 <para>
118 Skin MD5 sum: &mplayer-skin-md5sum;
119 </para>
120 </listitem>
121 <listitem>
122 <para>
123 Skin size: &mplayer-skin-size;
124 </para>
125 </listitem>
126 <listitem>
127 <para>
128 Alternative skins:
129 <ulink url="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/"/>
130 </para>
131 </listitem>
132 </itemizedlist>
133
134 <note>
135 <para>
136 Skins are only required to use the <application>Gtk+ 2</application>
137 user interface.
138 </para>
139 </note>
140
141 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">MPlayer Dependencies</bridgehead>
142
143 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
144 <para role="required">
145 <xref linkend="yasm"/>
146 </para>
147
148 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
149 <para role="recommended">
150 <xref linkend="gtk2"/> and
151 <xref linkend="libvdpau"/>
152 </para>
153
154 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Input Drivers and Libraries</bridgehead>
155 <para role="optional">
156 <xref linkend="cdparanoia"/>,
157 <xref linkend="samba"/>,
158 <xref linkend="libdvdread"/>,
159 <xref linkend="libdvdnav"/>,
160 <xref linkend="libdvdcss"/>,
161 <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libbluray.html">libbluray</ulink>,
162 <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/libcdio/">libcdio</ulink>,
163 <ulink url="http://www.live555.com/">LIVE555 Streaming Media</ulink>,
164 <ulink url="http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/">RTMPDump</ulink>,
165 <ulink url="http://code.google.com/p/vstream-client/">TiVo vstream client</ulink> and
166 <ulink url="http://www.xmms.org/">XMMS</ulink>
167 </para>
168
169 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Audio Output Drivers and Libraries</bridgehead>
170 <para role="optional">
171 <xref linkend="alsa"/>,
172 <xref linkend="esound"/>,
173 <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/>,
174 <xref linkend="sdl"/>,
175 <ulink url="http://jackaudio.org/">JACK</ulink>,
176 <ulink url="http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal-releases/">OpenAL</ulink> and
177 <ulink url="http://www.radscan.com/nas.html">NAS</ulink>
178 </para>
179
180 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Video Output Drivers and Libraries</bridgehead>
181 <para role="optional">
182 <xref linkend="aalib"/>,
183 <ulink url="http://www.directfb.org/">DirectFB</ulink>,
184 <xref linkend="giflib"/>,
185 <ulink url="http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/">libcaca</ulink>,
186 <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
187 <xref linkend="libmng"/>,
188 <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
189 <xref linkend="openjpeg"/> and
190 <ulink url="http://www.svgalib.org/">SVGAlib</ulink>
191 </para>
192
193 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional CODECs</bridgehead>
194 <para role="optional">
195 <xref linkend="ffmpeg"/>,
196 <xref linkend="libmad"/>,
197 <xref linkend="LZO"/>,
198 <xref linkend="speex"/>,
199 <xref linkend="libtheora"/>,
200 <xref linkend="mpg123"/>,
201 <xref linkend="liba52"/>,
202 <xref linkend="faac"/>,
203 <xref linkend="faad2"/>,
204 <xref linkend="libdv"/>,
205 <xref linkend="xvid"/>,
206 <xref linkend="libvpx"/>,
207 <xref linkend="lame"/>,
208 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/twolame/">TwoLAME</ulink>,
209 <ulink url="http://www.quut.com/gsm/">GSM</ulink>,
210 <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdca.html">libdca</ulink>,
211 <ulink url="http://www.musepack.net/">libmpcdec</ulink>,
212 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr/">OpenCore
213 Adaptive Multi Rate</ulink>,
214 <ulink url="http://www.broadcom.com/support/crystal_hd/">CrystalHD</ulink>,
215 <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html">x264</ulink>,
216 <ulink url="http://diracvideo.org/download/dirac-research/">Dirac</ulink>,
217 <ulink url="http://diracvideo.org/download/schroedinger/">Schroedinger</ulink> and
218 <ulink url="http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=NUT">libnut</ulink>
219 </para>
220
221 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Miscellaneous Dependencies</bridgehead>
222 <para role="optional">
223 <ulink url="http://cihar.com/software/enca/">Enca</ulink>,
224 <xref linkend="fontconfig"/>,
225 <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
226 <xref linkend="fribidi"/>,
227 <ulink url="http://www.ladspa.org/">LADSPA</ulink>,
228 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/bs2b/">libbs2b</ulink>,
229 <ulink url="http://www.lirc.org/">LIRC</ulink> (and
230 <ulink url="http://www.dolda2000.com/~fredrik/lirccd/">LIRC Client Daemon</ulink>),
231 <xref linkend="unrar"/>, and
232 <xref linkend="libxslt"/>,
233 <xref linkend="DocBook"/> and
234 <xref linkend="docbook-xsl"/> (all three required to build the HTML documentation)
235 </para>
236
237 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
238 User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/mplayer"/>
239 </para>
240 </sect2>
241
242 <sect2 role="installation">
243 <title>Installation of MPlayer</title>
244
245 <sect3>
246 <title>Main MPlayer Installation</title>
247
248 <note>
249 <para>
250 The package maintainers recommend building without any
251 optimizations.
252 </para>
253 </note>
254
255 <para>
256 You may wish to examine the output from
257 <command>./configure --help</command> to find out what additional
258 parameters to <command>configure</command> are needed to include the
259 dependencies you have installed on your system.
260 </para>
261
262 <para>
263 Install <application>MPlayer</application> by running the following
264 commands:
265 </para>
266
267<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../MPlayer-&mplayer-version;-giflib_fixes-1.patch &amp;&amp;
268patch -Np1 -i ../MPlayer-&mplayer-version;-live_fixes-1.patch &amp;&amp;
269sed -i 's:libsmbclient.h:samba-4.0/&amp;:' configure stream/stream_smb.c &amp;&amp;
270./configure --prefix=/usr \
271 --confdir=/etc/mplayer \
272 --enable-dynamic-plugins \
273 --enable-menu \
274 --enable-gui &amp;&amp;
275make</userinput></screen>
276
277 <para>
278 If you wish to rebuild the chunked HTML documentation and build
279 a non-chunked HTML version of the docs, issue the following command:
280 </para>
281
282<screen><userinput>make doc</userinput></screen>
283
284 <para>
285 This package does not come with a test suite.
286 </para>
287
288 <para>
289 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
290 </para>
291
292<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
293
294 <para>
295 To install the HTML documentation, issue the following commands as the
296 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
297 </para>
298
299<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/mplayer-&mplayer-version; &amp;&amp;
300install -v -m644 DOCS/HTML/en/* \
301 /usr/share/doc/mplayer-&mplayer-version;</userinput></screen>
302
303 <para>
304 You will only need <filename>codecs.conf</filename> if you want to
305 change its properties, as the main binary contains an internal copy of
306 it. Ensure any changes you make to <filename>codecs.conf</filename>
307 achieve the desired results, as incorrect entries in this file have been
308 known to cause errors and render the player unusable. If necessary,
309 create the file as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
310 user:
311 </para>
312
313<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m644 etc/codecs.conf /etc/mplayer</userinput></screen>
314
315 <para>
316 You may alternatively want to copy all the default configuration files
317 to <filename class='directory'>/etc/mplayer</filename> for future
318 reference or more customization ability. As the
319 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
320 </para>
321
322<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m644 etc/*.conf /etc/mplayer</userinput></screen>
323
324 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
325 href="../../xincludes/update-icons-and-desktop.xml"/>
326
327 </sect3>
328
329 <sect3>
330 <title>Skin Installation (Optional)</title>
331
332 <para>
333 To enable the Gtk+ 2 frontend of <application>MPlayer</application>,
334 you'll need to install at least one skin. Extract the desired skin and
335 create the default location (as the
336 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user):
337 </para>
338
339<screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xvf ../&mplayer-skin;.tar.bz2 \
340 -C /usr/share/mplayer/skins &amp;&amp;
341ln -sfv Clearlooks /usr/share/mplayer/skins/default</userinput></screen>
342 </sect3>
343 </sect2>
344
345 <sect2 role="commands">
346 <title>Command Explanations</title>
347
348 <para>
349 <parameter>--enable-gui</parameter>: This option builds the GUI interface
350 into <command>mplayer</command>.
351 </para>
352
353 <para>
354 <parameter>--enable-menu</parameter>: This option is set to enable the
355 on-screen display.
356 </para>
357
358 <para>
359 <option>--disable-ffmpeg_a</option>: You can use this option if you have
360 installed <xref linkend="ffmpeg"/>. MPlayer includes a copy of the FFmpeg
361 source and without this option it will statically compile the included
362 version of FFmpeg into itself. Dynamically linking to a system installed
363 FFmpeg makes MPlayer and Mencoder about 9MB smaller. If MPlayer exhibits
364 unstable behavior linked to a system installed FFmpeg, try recompiling MPlayer
365 without this option (it is always more thoroughly tested with the included
366 FFmpeg).
367 </para>
368
369 </sect2>
370
371 <sect2 role="configuration">
372 <title>Configuring MPlayer</title>
373
374 <sect3 id="mplayer-config">
375 <title>Config Files</title>
376
377 <para>
378 <filename>/etc/mplayer/*</filename> and
379 <filename>~/.mplayer/*</filename>
380 </para>
381
382 <indexterm zone="mplayer mplayer-config">
383 <primary sortas="e-AA.mplayer">~/.mplayer/*</primary>
384 </indexterm>
385
386 <indexterm zone="mplayer mplayer-config">
387 <primary sortas="e-etc-mplayer">/etc/mplayer/*</primary>
388 </indexterm>
389 </sect3>
390
391 <sect3>
392 <title>Configuration Information</title>
393
394 <para>
395 Typically, there's no configuration required for the system-wide files
396 in <filename class='directory'>/etc/mplayer</filename> (in fact, this
397 directory is empty unless you copied the default files as mentioned
398 above). Configuration can be accomplished by choosing the configuration
399 button located on the <application>MPlayer</application> GUI. Any
400 configuration changes made in the GUI will be saved in the user's
401 <filename class='directory'>~/.mplayer</filename> directory.
402 </para>
403
404 </sect3>
405
406 </sect2>
407
408 <sect2 role="content">
409 <title>Contents</title>
410
411 <segmentedlist>
412 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
413 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
414 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
415
416 <seglistitem>
417 <seg>
418 gmplayer, mplayer and mencoder
419 </seg>
420 <seg>
421 None
422 </seg>
423 <seg>
424 /etc/mplayer,
425 /usr/lib/mplayer,
426 /usr/share/mplayer and
427 /usr/share/doc/mplayer
428 </seg>
429 </seglistitem>
430 </segmentedlist>
431
432 <variablelist>
433 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
434 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
435 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
436
437 <varlistentry id="gmplayer">
438 <term><command>gmplayer</command></term>
439 <listitem>
440 <para>
441 is a symlink to <command>mplayer</command> which brings up the
442 GTK+ 2 frontend of <application>MPlayer</application>.
443 </para>
444 <indexterm zone="mplayer gmplayer">
445 <primary sortas="b-gmplayer">gmplayer</primary>
446 </indexterm>
447 </listitem>
448 </varlistentry>
449
450 <varlistentry id="mplayer-prog">
451 <term><command>mplayer</command></term>
452 <listitem>
453 <para> is the main MPlayer video player.</para>
454 <indexterm zone="mplayer mplayer-prog">
455 <primary sortas="b-mplayer">mplayer</primary>
456 </indexterm>
457 </listitem>
458 </varlistentry>
459
460 <varlistentry id="mencoder">
461 <term><command>mencoder</command></term>
462 <listitem>
463 <para>
464 is a powerful command line video decoding, encoding and filtering
465 tool that is useful for (amongst other things) ripping DVDs to files
466 on your hard disk (see
467 /usr/share/doc/mplayer-&mplayer-version;/mencoder.html)
468 </para>
469 <indexterm zone="mplayer mencoder">
470 <primary sortas="b-mencoder">mencoder</primary>
471 </indexterm>
472 </listitem>
473 </varlistentry>
474
475 </variablelist>
476
477 </sect2>
478
479</sect1>
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