From a9e5d813247b2c2844953325afd3b7ec11146f81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Melanson Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:24:36 +0000 Subject: FAQ patch, courtesy of Diego from the MPlayer crew CVS patchset: 7065 CVS date: 2004/10/22 13:24:36 --- doc/faq/faq.sgml | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------- 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/faq/faq.sgml b/doc/faq/faq.sgml index 35a2a65c8..5952072ff 100644 --- a/doc/faq/faq.sgml +++ b/doc/faq/faq.sgml @@ -731,13 +731,13 @@ Possibly the most convenient way to get the Quicktime DLLs is to download - them from the mplayer website - - http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ + them from the MPlayer website + + http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html . - The package is called "QuickTime6 DLLs". Unpack it and move everything you find + The package is called "essential". Unpack it and move everything you find inside to /usr/lib/win32 (actually you can place them - anywhere you want, e.g. someplace in your homedirectory, but then you'll + anywhere you want, e.g. someplace in your home directory, but then you'll have to set codec.win32_path in your xine config file accordingly). Restart xine then and you should be able to watch Quicktime trailers. @@ -751,21 +751,23 @@ The situation with real files and streams is pretty similar to the situation with Quicktime Streams (see above). The newer real audio and video formats - are only supported by using binary-only codecs which are available from - real networks but are not included in xine. - - - One way to get these codecs is to download and install RealPlayer from - RealNetworks, for example in /usr/local/RealPlayer8 or - /opt/RealPlayer8. If you installed it in one of these - places, xine should automatically find and use the real binary codecs. - If it doesn't work, try to find out the exact path to where the real codecs - are installed on your system (look for a file named rv30.so.6.0 - which should reside in a directory called Codecs in the - directory where you have installed RealPlayer in) and set - codec.real_codecs_path in your xine config file - accordingly. + are only supported by using binary-only codecs which are not included in + xine. + + Possibly the most convenient way to get the Real codecs is to download + them from the MPlayer website + + http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html + . + The package is called "essential". Unpack it and move everything you + find inside to /usr/lib/win32 and set the + codec.real_codecs_path in your xine config file + to /usr/lib/win32 (actually you can place them + anywhere you want, e.g. someplace in your home directory, but then you'll + have to set codec.real_codecs_path accordingly). + Restart xine then and you should be able to watch Real files/streams. + What about (live) network streams (pnm://, rtsp:// style urls)? @@ -792,14 +794,14 @@ you'll need to install windows binary codecs (.DLLs). - Possibly the most convenient way to get the windows DLLs is to download - them from the mplayer website - - http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ + Possibly the most convenient way to get the Windows DLLs is to download + them from the MPlayer website + + http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html . - The package is called "Win32 Codecpack". Unpack it and move everything you find + The package is called "essential". Unpack it and move everything you find inside to /usr/lib/win32 (actually you can place them - anywhere you want, e.g. someplace in your homedirectory, but then you'll + anywhere you want, e.g. someplace in your home directory, but then you'll have to set codec.win32_path in your xine config file accordingly). Restart xine then and you should be able to watch windows media streams. -- cgit v1.2.3