Author: rthomsen
Date: 2012-03-15 17:46:54 -0600 (Thu, 15 Mar 2012)
New Revision: 9716
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/general.ent
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/ffmpeg.xml
trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer.xml
Log:
mplayer svn
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2012-03-15 21:31:16 UTC (rev 9715)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2012-03-15 23:46:54 UTC (rev 9716)
@@ -990,7 +990,7 @@
<!-- Chapter 41 -->
<!ENTITY ffmpeg-version "0.10">
<!ENTITY avifile-version "0.7.45">
-<!ENTITY mplayer-version "1.0rc1">
+<!ENTITY mplayer-version "svn_20120315">
<!ENTITY xine-ui-version "0.99.6">
<!ENTITY transcode-version "1.1.7">
<!ENTITY vlc-version "2.0.0">
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2012-03-15 21:31:16 UTC
(rev 9715)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2012-03-15 23:46:54 UTC
(rev 9716)
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@
<listitem>
<para>March 15th, 2012</para>
<itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[rthomsen] - Upgrade to MPlayer svn_20120315.</para>
+ </listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[abenton] - Openssl 1.0.1.</para>
</listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/ffmpeg.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/ffmpeg.xml 2012-03-15 21:31:16 UTC (rev
9715)
+++ trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/ffmpeg.xml 2012-03-15 23:46:54 UTC (rev
9716)
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@
try this variant : mmm, bizarrely, it accepts this but drops everything
from the first hyphen, so that in longindex.html it looks just right (one
library, two packages) -->
- <varlistentry id="libpostproc-from-ffmpeg">
+ <varlistentry id="libpostproc">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libpostproc.so</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>is the <application>FFmpeg</application> post processing
Modified: trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer.xml 2012-03-15 21:31:16 UTC
(rev 9715)
+++ trunk/BOOK/multimedia/videoutils/mplayer.xml 2012-03-15 23:46:54 UTC
(rev 9716)
@@ -4,25 +4,20 @@
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
%general-entities;
- <!ENTITY mplayer-download-http
"http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-&mplayer-version;.tar.bz2";>
- <!ENTITY mplayer-download-ftp
"ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-&mplayer-version;.tar.bz2";>
- <!ENTITY mplayer-md5sum "18c05d88e22c3b815a43ca8d7152ccdc">
- <!ENTITY mplayer-size "8.3 MB">
- <!ENTITY mplayer-buildsize "133-250 MB (additional 22 MB for essential
CODECs)">
- <!ENTITY mplayer-time "1.2-2.5 SBU (depends on how FFmpeg is linked
in)">
+ <!ENTITY mplayer-download-http
"http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~andy/mplayer-15-03-12.tar.xz";>
+ <!ENTITY mplayer-download-ftp " ">
+ <!ENTITY mplayer-md5sum "775fcefab99004de09d0fae2c52dc06b">
+ <!ENTITY mplayer-size "9.9 MB">
+ <!ENTITY mplayer-buildsize "137 MB">
+ <!ENTITY mplayer-time "4.7 SBU">
- <!ENTITY mplayer-codec "essential-20061022.tar.bz2">
- <!ENTITY mplayer-codec-md5sum "abcf4a3abc16cf88c9df7e0a77e9b941">
- <!ENTITY mplayer-codec-size "10.0 MB">
- <!ENTITY mplayer-alt-codec "all-20061022.tar.bz2">
+ <!ENTITY mplayer-codec "essential-20071007.tar.bz2">
+ <!ENTITY mplayer-codec-md5sum "4ea9c2dbd0945c83af1a8d0dd363993c">
+ <!ENTITY mplayer-codec-size "9.5 MB">
- <!ENTITY mplayer-skin "Blue-1.7.tar.bz2">
- <!ENTITY mplayer-skin-md5sum "e4e2020d11b681aac898103b3ba723c4">
- <!ENTITY mplayer-skin-size "222 KB">
-
- <!ENTITY mplayer-font "font-arial-iso-8859-1">
- <!ENTITY mplayer-font-md5sum "1ecd31d17b51f16332b1fcc7da36b312">
- <!ENTITY mplayer-font-size "234 KB">
+ <!ENTITY mplayer-skin "Blue-1.8.tar.bz2">
+ <!ENTITY mplayer-skin-md5sum "340368f4e33f767d9df109990fb29c02">
+ <!ENTITY mplayer-skin-size "218 KB">
]>
<sect1 id="mplayer" xreflabel="MPlayer-&mplayer-version;">
@@ -42,19 +37,20 @@
<sect2 role="package">
<title>Introduction to MPlayer</title>
- <para>The <application>MPlayer</application> package contains an
+ <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 and
- CODEC (COder/DECoder, also COmpressor/DECompressor). With supported video
- hardware and additional drivers, <application>MPlayer</application> can
+ 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://www1.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/info.html";>
+ <ulink url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/";>
<application>MPlayer</application> web site</ulink>.</para>
+
+ &lfs70_checked;
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
@@ -79,7 +75,7 @@
</itemizedlist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
-
+<!--
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<title>Patches</title>
<listitem>
@@ -95,11 +91,15 @@
url="&patch-root;/MPlayer-&mplayer-version;-ext_ffmpeg-1.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-
+-->
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<title>CODECs</title>
+ <para>Although MPlayer has built-in support for playing most popular
video
+ and audio formats, packages with proprietary binary CODECs that enable
support
+ for playing some rare formats are available. Most people don't need the
binary
+ CODECs.</para>
<listitem>
- <para>Proprietary CODECs: <ulink
+ <para>Essential binary CODECs: <ulink
url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/&mplayer-codec;"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>Download size: &mplayer-codec-size;</para>
</listitem>
+<!--
<listitem>
<para>Alternate CODECs (provides additional functionality and is a
larger file): <ulink
@@ -116,8 +117,9 @@
<listitem><para>Additional CODECs: <ulink
url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/"/></para>
</listitem>
+-->
</itemizedlist>
-
+
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<title>Skins</title>
<listitem>
@@ -135,7 +137,7 @@
url="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/"/></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-
+<!--
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<title>Fonts</title>
<listitem>
@@ -153,26 +155,33 @@
url="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/fonts/"/></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-
- <para>The CODECs, skins and fonts are not required to
+-->
+ <para>The CODECs and skins are not required to
build and use <application>MPlayer</application>.</para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">MPlayer Dependencies</bridgehead>
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
+ <para role="recommended">
+ <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>
+ </para>
+
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Input Drivers and
Libraries</bridgehead>
- <para role="optional"><xref linkend="cdparanoia"/>,
- <ulink url="http://www.metzlerbros.org/dvb/";>DVB</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://www.linuxtv.org/";>DVB drivers</ulink>,
+ <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>,
- <xref linkend="libdv"/>,
- <xref linkend="libdvdread"/>,
<ulink url="http://www.live555.com/mplayer/";>LIVE555 Streaming
Media</ulink>,
- <xref linkend="samba3"/>, and
- <ulink url="http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/vstream-client/";>TiVo
vstream client</ulink></para>
- <!-- 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://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 uses internal versions of these:
+ <xref linkend="libdvdread"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libdvdnav"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libdvdcss"/>,
+ -->
+ </para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Audio Output Drivers and
Libraries</bridgehead>
<para role="optional">
@@ -180,108 +189,69 @@
<xref linkend="arts"/>,
<xref linkend="esound"/>,
<xref linkend='pulseaudio'/>,
- <xref linkend="sdl"/> (also used for video output),
- <ulink url="http://jackit.sourceforge.net/";>JACK</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://www.ladspa.org/";>LADSPA</ulink>, and
- <ulink url="http://openal.org/";>OpenAL</ulink>
- <!--<xref linkend="nas"/>,-->
- <!--<xref linkend="xmms"/>-->
+ <xref linkend="sdl"/>,
+ <ulink url="http://jackaudio.org/";>JACK</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="http://openal.org/";>OpenAL</ulink> and
+ <ulink url="http://www.radscan.com/nas.html";>NAS</ulink>
</para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Video Output Drivers and
Libraries</bridgehead>
- <para role="optional"><xref linkend="aalib"/>,
- <ulink url="http://www.directfb.org/";>DirectFB</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://trific.ath.cx/software/enca/";>Enca</ulink>,
- <xref linkend="fontconfig"/>,
- <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
- <xref linkend="fribidi"/>,
- <ulink url="http://www.ggi-project.org/";>GGI</ulink>,
+ <para role="optional">
+ <xref linkend="aalib"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
+ <xref linkend="libmng"/>,
<xref linkend="giflib"/>,
- <xref linkend="gtk2"/> <!-- or
- <xref linkend="GTK"/>, -->
+ <ulink url="http://www.directfb.org/";>DirectFB</ulink>,
<ulink url="http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/";>libcaca</ulink>,
- <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
- <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
- <ulink url="http://maemo.org/";>maemo</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://vidix.sourceforge.net/";>VIDIX</ulink>, and
- <xref linkend="x-window-system"/></para>
+ <ulink url="http://www.svgalib.org/";>SVGAlib</ulink> and
+ <ulink url="http://www.openjpeg.org/";>OpenJPEG</ulink>
+ </para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional CODECs</bridgehead>
- <para role="optional"><ulink
-
url="http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/latest/Rel-7/26_series/26104-700.zip";>AMR
- narrowband (floating point)</ulink> or
- <ulink
url="http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/latest/Rel-7/26_series/26073-700.zip";>AMR
- naarrowband (fixed point)</ulink>,
- <ulink
url="http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/latest/Rel-7/26_series/26204-710.zip";>
- AMR wideband</ulink>,
- <!-- Dead link <ulink
url="http://www.divx.com/divx/linux/";>DivX</ulink>, i-->
- <xref linkend="faac"/>,
- <xref linkend="faad2"/> (must disable the internal version),
- <xref linkend="ffmpeg"/>,
- <xref linkend="lame"/>,
- <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdca.html";>libdca</ulink>,
- <xref linkend="libfame"/>,
+ <para role="optional">
<xref linkend="libmad"/>,
- <ulink url="http://www.musepack.net/";>libmpcdec</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/nut/src/trunk/";>libnut</ulink> (SVN
checkout),
- <xref linkend="libvorbis"/>,
- <ulink url="http://www.lirc.org/";>LIRC</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://www.dolda2000.cjb.net/~fredrik/lirccd/";>lirccd</ulink>,
- <xref linkend="LZO"/> (requires
- <ulink
url="http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/download/LZO-v1/lzo-1.08.tar.gz";>Version
1</ulink>),
- <ulink url="http://www.svgalib.org/";>SVGAlib</ulink>,
+ <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="http://www.xiph.org/vorbis/";>Tremor</ulink> (requires
- <xref linkend="libvorbis"/> and you must disable the internal version),
- <ulink url="http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html";>x264</ulink>, and
- <xref linkend="xvid"/></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>
-
+ <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>
+
+ <!-- Internal <xref linkend="ffmpeg"/>, -->
+
+ </para>
+
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Miscellaneous
Dependencies</bridgehead>
+ <para role="optional">
+ <xref linkend="fontconfig"/>,
+ <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
+ <xref linkend="fribidi"/>,
+ <xref linkend="unrar"/>,
+ <xref linkend="gtk2"/> (required for the GUI),
+ <ulink url="http://cihar.com/software/enca/";>Enca</ulink>,
+ <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>
+ </para>
+
<para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
<ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/mplayer"/></para>
@@ -293,12 +263,10 @@
<sect3>
<title>CODEC Installation (Optional)</title>
- <para>If you downloaded any proprietary CODECs (which can provide support
- for additional audio and video formats such as Real, Indeo and
QuickTime),
- 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>
+ <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; \
@@ -306,40 +274,22 @@
chown -v -R root:root /usr/lib/mplayer/codecs</userinput></screen>
<para>If you installed any CODECs, ensure you add
- <option>--with-codecsdir=/usr/lib/mplayer/codecs</option>
+ <option>--codecsdir=/usr/lib/mplayer/codecs</option>
to the <command>configure</command> script.</para>
</sect3>
+<!--
<sect3>
- <title>GUI Installation (Optional)</title>
-
- <para>To enable building the GUI version of
- <application>MPlayer</application> (requires <xref linkend="gtk2"/><!--
or
- <xref linkend="GTK"/>-->), add <option>--enable-gui</option> to the
- <command>configure</command> script. You'll also need to extract 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>install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/mplayer/Skin
&&
-tar -xvf ../&mplayer-skin; \
- -C /usr/share/mplayer/Skin &&
-chown -v -R root:root /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/Blue &&
-chmod -v 755 /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/Blue{,/icons} &&
-ln -sfv Blue /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default</userinput></screen>
-
- </sect3>
-
- <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>
+ <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>
@@ -351,63 +301,29 @@
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";
href="../../xincludes/X11R6_symlink.xml"/>
- <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> to the <command>configure</command>
- script. Note that the <application>FFmpeg</application> package can also
- build this library (which <application>MPlayer</application> can link to
- instead of building it), ensure you don't overwrite an existing
one.</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. To link in existing
- <application>FFmpeg</application> libraries (and
- <application>MPlayer</application> won't have to build them), you must
- pass a total of nine additional options to the
- <command>configure</command> script. Four to disable building the static
- <application>FFmpeg</application> libraries, four to enable using the
- system-installed shared libraries and
- <option>--with-extraincdir=/usr/include/ffmpeg</option> so the build can
- locate the <application>FFmpeg</application> interface headers.</para>
+ the dependencies you have installed on your system.</para>
<para>Install <application>MPlayer</application> by running the following
commands:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>patch -Np0 -i ../asmrules_fix_20061231.diff &&
-patch -Np0 -i ../cddb_fix_20070605.diff &&
-patch -Np1 -i ../MPlayer-&mplayer-version;-ext_ffmpeg-1.patch &&
-
-./configure --prefix=/usr \
+<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
--confdir=/etc/mplayer \
- --enable-largefiles \
- --enable-dynamic-plugins &&
+ --enable-dynamic-plugins \
+ --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>
-<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &&
-
+<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &&</userinput></screen>
+<!--
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/mplayer-&mplayer-version; &&
cp -v -R DOCS/*
/usr/share/doc/mplayer-&mplayer-version;</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>Passing certain 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 symbolic link:</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>
@@ -423,25 +339,43 @@
<screen role="root"><userinput>install -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>OSD and Subtitles Font Installation (Required if '--enable-menu'
Was
+ <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>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>tar -xvf ../&mplayer-skin; \
+ -C /usr/share/mplayer/skins &&
+chown -v -R root:root /usr/share/mplayer/skins/Blue &&
+chmod -v 755 /usr/share/mplayer/skins/Blue{,/icons} &&
+ln -sfv Blue /usr/share/mplayer/skins/default</userinput></screen>
+
+ </sect3>
+
+<!--
+ <sect3>
+ <title>OSD and Subtitles Font Installation (Required if '-enable-menu'
Was
Passed to 'configure')</title>
<para>The recommended method to set up a font for
<application>MPlayer</application> is to link a TTF file to
- your <filename class="directory">~/.mplayer</filename> directory. A link
- should be created in each user's home directory who may use
- <application>MPlayer</application>. For example:</para>
+ the <filename class="directory">/usr/share/mplayer</filename> directory.
+ For example:</para>
-<screen><userinput>install -v -m750 -d ~/.mplayer &&
+<screen><userinput>install -v -m750 -d /usr/share/mplayer &&
ln -v -sf /usr/share/fonts/X11-TTF/luxisri.ttf \
~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf</userinput></screen>
@@ -462,7 +396,8 @@
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
@@ -479,8 +414,19 @@
</sect3>
-->
-
</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>
@@ -509,13 +455,13 @@
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
+ 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>
@@ -525,10 +471,10 @@
<segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
- <seg>gmplayer, mplayer, and mencoder</seg>
- <seg>libdha.so and optionally, libpostproc.so</seg>
- <seg>~/.mplayer, /etc/mplayer, /usr/include/postproc, /usr/lib/mplayer,
- /usr/share/mplayer, and /usr/share/doc/mplayer-&mplayer-version;</seg>
+ <seg>gmplayer, mplayer and mencoder</seg>
+ <seg>none</seg>
+ <seg>/etc/mplayer, /usr/lib/mplayer, /usr/share/mplayer and
+ /usr/share/doc/mplayer</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
@@ -541,7 +487,7 @@
<term><command>gmplayer</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>is a symlink to <command>mplayer</command> which
- brings up the graphical user interface component of
+ brings up the GTK frontend of
<application>MPlayer</application>.</para>
<indexterm zone="mplayer gmplayer">
<primary sortas="b-gmplayer">gmplayer</primary>
@@ -552,12 +498,10 @@
<varlistentry id="mplayer-prog">
<term><command>mplayer</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para> manages the input formats, the CODECs and
- the output formats to play video files, DVDs,
- (S)VCDs or network streams containing audio and/or video
- information on your system.</para>
+ <para> is the main MPlayer video player.</para>
- <para>Examples:</para>
+<!-- This is not the place for usage directions, right?
+<para>Examples of usage:</para>
<screen><userinput>mplayer -fs blfs.avi
mplayer -vo fbdev -fb /dev/fb0 dvd://1 \
@@ -569,7 +513,7 @@
included with the package in the source tree subdirectory
<filename class="directory">DOCS</filename> (also installed at
<filename
class='directory'>/usr/share/doc/mplayer-&mplayer-version;</filename>).</para>
-
+ -->
<indexterm zone="mplayer mplayer-prog">
<primary sortas="b-mplayer">mplayer</primary>
</indexterm>
@@ -579,7 +523,10 @@
<varlistentry id="mencoder">
<term><command>mencoder</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para>is used to encode any <application>MPlayer</application>
+ <para>is a powerful command line video decoding, encoding and
+ filtering tool.</para>
+<!-- Usage directions
+ is used to encode any <application>MPlayer</application>
playable movie to DivX4, <application>XviD</application> or any
CODEC in <filename class='libraryfile'>libavcodec</filename> with
PCM/MP3/VBRMP3 audio.</para>
@@ -602,12 +549,13 @@
-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=2:vhq:vbitrate=<bitrate> \
-o <name.avi>
mencoder -forceidx <name.avi></userinput></screen>
+-->
<indexterm zone="mplayer mencoder">
<primary sortas="b-mencoder">mencoder</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
-
+<!-- not installed anymore?
<varlistentry id="libdha">
<term><filename class='libraryfile'>libdha.so</filename></term>
<listitem>
@@ -618,7 +566,8 @@
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
-
+-->
+<!-- not installed anymore
<varlistentry id="libpostproc">
<term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpostproc.so</filename></term>
<listitem>
@@ -629,7 +578,7 @@
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
-
+-->
</variablelist>
</sect2>
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