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1SMPlayer _VERSION_ _BUILD_ README
2
3(W) Christian Hennecke, Oct 5, 2009
4last update Jan 29, 2010
5
6
70. CONTENTS OF THIS FILE
8========================
9
101. INTRODUCTION
11
122. REQUIREMENTS
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143. INSTALLATION
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164. LICENSE, COPYRIGHT, DISCLAIMER
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185. CONTACT
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206. CREDITS
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227. SUPPORT AND DONATIONS
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248. HISTORY
25
26
271. INTRODUCTION
28===============
29
30Welcome to SMPlayer _VERSION_ _BUILD_ for OS/2 and eComStation.
31
32SMPlayer is a GUI front-end for MPlayer, a command-line movie player that is
33available for many systems and supports a wide range of formats and codecs,
34either natively or via Win32 DLL codecs. For instance, you can watch VideoCD,
35SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV, and even H.264 movies.
36
37SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features
38like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for
39MPlayer filters and more.
40
41One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of
42all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave...
43don't worry, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point
44you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume...
45
46Other additional interesting features:
47
48 * Configurable subtitles. You can choose font and size, and even colors for
49 the subtitles.
50 * Audio track switching. You can choose the audio track you want to listen.
51 Works with avi and mkv. And of course with DVDs.
52 * Seeking by mouse wheel. You can use your mouse wheel to go forward or
53 backward in the video.
54 * Video equalizer, allows you to adjust the brightness, contrast, hue,
55 saturation and gamma of the video image.
56 * Multiple speed playback. You can play at 2X, 4X... and even in slow motion.
57 * Filters. Several filters are available: deinterlace, postprocessing,
58 denoise... and even a karaoke filter (voice removal).
59 * Audio and subtitles delay adjustment. Allows you to sync audio and
60 subtitles.
61 * Advanced options, such as selecting a demuxer or video & audio codecs.
62 * Playlist. Allows you to enqueue several files to be played one after each
63 other. Autorepeat and shuffle supported too.
64 * Preferences dialog. You can easily configure every option of SMPlayer by
65 using a nice preferences dialog.
66 * Possibility to search automatically for subtitles in opensubtitles.org.
67 * Translations: currently SMPlayer is translated into more than 20 languages,
68 including Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese....
69 * It's multiplatform. Binaries available for Windows, Linux, and now OS/2.
70 * SMPlayer is under the GPL license.
71
72
732. REQUIREMENTS
74===============
75
76* klibc 0.6.4 or later
77
78 ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.4-csd4.zip
79
80* Qt4 dll
81
82 see http://svn.netlabs.org/qt4 for more information whats needed
83
84* MPlayer
85
86 http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?key=mplayer&pushbutton=Search
87
88 WARNING: To use the combination of SMPlayer and MPlayer to its full extent,
89 at least version mplayer-dev-SVN-r27724-OS2-4.3.2.zip is required.
90 Earlier versions do not support scaling, i.e., you will always
91 see a video in its original size, regardless of the zoom setting
92 or fullscreen mode.
93
94* Win32 codecs (optional)
95
96 http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html#binary_codecs
97
98 MPlayer is able to use Win32 codec DLLs for codecs it does not support
99 natively.
100
101
1023. INSTALLATION
103===============
104
105To install SMPlayer, do the following:
106
107klibc
108-----
109
110 1. Download klibc 0.6.4 csd4 or later.
111 2. Extract all dll to your libpath. preferable x:\ecs\dll or x:\os2\dll where x: is your boot drive
112
113
114Qt4 dll
115-------
116
117 1. Download the package
118 2. Extract all dll to your libpath. preferable x:\ecs\dll or x:\os2\dll where x: is your boot drive
119 3. Install the xsystray plugin as noted in the readme.os2 and also in readme.xsystray
120
121MPlayer
122-------
123
124 1. Download a recent version of MPlayer.
125 2. Create a new directory for MPlayer.
126 3. Extract the MPlayer package to the new directory.
127 4. Copy the .mplayer subdirectory -- if included -- to your HOME directory.
128 5. To be able to use subtitles, copy a TrueType font of your choice to the
129 %HOME%\.mplayer directory and rename it to subfont.ttf.
130
131Win32 codecs
132------------
133
134 1. Download the codec package from the MPlayer site.
135 2. Go to the directory where you installed MPlayer and create a "codecs"
136 subdirectory.
137 3. Extract the package to the "codecs" subdirectory.
138 4. Add a SET MPLAYER_CODECS_DIR statement to your CONFIG.SYS, and point it
139 to the "codecs" subdirectory you create above.
140
141SMPlayer
142--------
143
144 1. Create a directory for SMPlayer. This will be called x:\smplayer below.
145 2. Extract the SMPlayer package to the new directory.
146 3. Create a WPS object for smplayer.exe
147 4. Start SMPlayer by double-clicking on the WPS object.
148 5. Open the settings dialog via "Options > Settings."
149 6. In the left pane, choose "General."
150 7. On the "General" tab in the "Paths" group, press the "Browse" button and
151 locate the MPlayer executable mplayer.exe.
152 8. In the "Output Device Driver" group, choose "kva" for "Video" and "dart"
153 for "Audio."
154 9. In the left pane, choose "Drives."
155 10. Under "Drives," select your CD-ROM and DVD drives.
156 11. In the left pane, go to "Subtitles."
157 12. On the "Font" tab in the "Font" group, you can either directly choose a
158 font file to use or select one of the fonts installed in your system:
159 * To select a specific font file, select the "TTF Font" radio button, press
160 "Browse," and locate the font file of the TrueType font you would like to
161 use for subtitles.
162 * To select an installed font, select the "System Font" radio button, press
163 "Choose," and select a TrueType font you would like to use for subtitles.
164 CAUTION: mplayer.exe will crash if you select a non-TrueType font!
165 13. To get prettier fonts, go to the "SSA/ASS Library" tab and enable the
166 option "Use SSA/ASS library for subtitle rendering." Optionally adjust the
167 color and font attributes.
168 14. Press OK to exit the settings dialog.
169
170If you have a slow machine, also do the following:
171
172 1. In the left pane, choose "Performance."
173 2. In the "Cache" group, enable the "Use cache" option.
174 3. Enable the "Skip frames" option.
175
176If you have a sound card that does not support 48kHz sampling rate, also do the
177following:
178
179 1. In the left pane, choose "Advanced."
180 2. In the "Audio Filter" entry field, enter:
181
182 resample=44100:0:1
183
184
1854. LICENSE, COPYRIGHT, DISCLAIMER
186=================================
187
188SMPlayer is copyright (C) 2006 - 2011 RVM <rvm@escomposlinux.org>.
189
190The OS/2 port is copyright (c) 2008, 2010 Silvan Scherrer.
191
192This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
193it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as contained in
194the file COPYING in the installation directory.
195
196The original source code is available at:
197
198 http://smplayer.sourceforge.net
199
200Changes for the OS/2 version are included in the file:
201
202 smplayer.diff (not included in the beta)
203
204This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
205but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
206MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
207
208For details, refer to the file COPYING.
209
210
2115. CONTACT
212==========
213
214If you find a bug, then add a ticket to the trac at http://svn.netlabs.org/qtapps
215
216Only bug reports with a reproducable bug are accepted. :-)
217
218
2196. CREDITS
220==========
221
222The port was done by:
223
224Silvan Scherrer aka _diver
225
226Thanks go to:
227
228 * Yuri Dario
229 * Doodle
230 * KO Myung-Hun
231 * Herwig Bauernfeind
232 * Christian Hennecke
233
234They either helped me when I had some nasty questions or did some testing for
235me.
236
237
2387. SUPPORT AND DONATIONS
239========================
240
241SMPlayer is based on volunteer work. If you would like to support further
242development, you can do so in one of the following ways:
243
244 * Donate to the Qt4 project: see http://qt.netlabs.org for more information
245
246 * Contribute to the project: Besides actual development, this also includes
247 maintaining the documentation and the project web site as well as help
248 for users.
249
250
2518. HISTORY
252==========
253
2542011-12-27
255 * updated to latest SMPlayer svn code
256
2572011-11-11
258 * updated to Qt 4.7.3
259 * fixed a possible hang when ending SMPlayer while playing a movie (patch by Rudi)
260
2612010-06-30
262 * fixed a nasty 1 second delay
263
2642010-04-29
265 * updated to Qt4 4.6.2
266 * added support for mplayer -ao kai (latest mplayer version)
267
2682010-01-29
269 * updated to latest Qt4 source
270 * enabled colorkey (thanks to KO Myung-Hun)
271
2722009-11-11
273 * fixed hang with broken media
274 * changed to Qt4 beta4
275
2762009-10-22
277 * removed requirement for MPlayer DLLs to be in PATH or SMPlayer directory
278 (fixed in Qt)
279 * removed requirement for C:\PSFONTS\helv.pfb (fixed in Qt)
280 * added Screensaver functionality for Doodle Screensaver
281
2822009-10-02
283 * beta1 of newest SMPlayer version with Qt4 support
284
2852009-01-22
286 * fixed a crash when playing audio files
287
2882008-11-24
289 * added french and german readme (done by Guillaume Gay and Christian Hennecke)
290 * added nice looking icons for exe and folder (done by David Graser)
291 * updated Qt DLL with newest version from SVN
292
2932008-11-04
294 * fixed a bug in Qt DLL which occured when playing from playlist
295 * renamed icon files to match wps behaviour
296
2972008-10-27
298 * with newest mplayer from hobbes the resizing problem is fixed
299 * fixed a bug introduced when adding more file extensions
300
3012008-10-20
302 * switched to custom-built Qt DLL sqt.dll (latest version from svn.netlabs.org/qt)
303 * added a couple more file extensions to the open file dialog
304
3052008-10-14
306 * initial release
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