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1SMPlayer _VERSION_ _BUILD_ README
2
3(W) Christian Hennecke, Oct 5, 2009
4last update March 16, 2012
5
6
70. CONTENTS OF THIS FILE
8========================
9
101. INTRODUCTION
11
122. REQUIREMENTS
13
143. INSTALLATION
15
164. LICENSE, COPYRIGHT, DISCLAIMER
17
185. CONTACT
19
206. CREDITS
21
227. SUPPORT AND DONATIONS
23
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
76The following requirements can be installed either by RPM or by ZIP files.
77
78RPM Installation:
79
80klibc
81-----
82
83 1. yum install libc
84
85GCC4Core
86--------
87
88 1. yum install libgcc
89 2. yum install gcc-stack-protector
90 3. yum install gcc-stdc++-shared-library
91 4. yum install gcc-supc++-shared-library
92
93Qt4 dll
94-------
95
96 1. yum install libqt4
97 2. Install the xsystray plugin as noted in the readme.os2 and also in readme.xsystray
98
99
100ZIP Installation:
101
102klibc
103-----
104
105 1. Download klibc 0.6.4 or better (see http://svn.netlabs.org/libc for more information)
106 2. Install the files to your libpath eg x:\ecs\dll
107
108GCC4Core
109--------
110
111 1. Download GCC4Core 1.2.1 or better from http://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc
112 2. Install the files to your libpath eg. x:\ecs\dll
113
114Qt4 dll
115-------
116
117 1. Download Qt4 4.7.3 or better (see http://svn.netlabs.org/qt4 for more information)
118 2. Install the files according to the readme
119 3. Install the xsystray plugin as noted in the readme.os2 and also in readme.xsystray
120
121The following requirements are only available as ZIP.
122
123MPlayer
124-------
125
126 http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?key=mplayer&pushbutton=Search
127
128 WARNING: To use the combination of SMPlayer and MPlayer to its full extent,
129 at least version mplayer-dev-SVN-r27724-OS2-4.3.2.zip is required.
130 Earlier versions do not support scaling, i.e., you will always
131 see a video in its original size, regardless of the zoom setting
132 or fullscreen mode.
133
134Win32 codecs (optional)
135-----------------------
136
137 http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html#binary_codecs
138
139 MPlayer is able to use Win32 codec DLLs for codecs it does not support
140 natively.
141
142
1433. INSTALLATION
144===============
145
146To install SMPlayer, do the following:
147
148MPlayer
149-------
150
151 1. Download a recent version of MPlayer.
152 2. Create a new directory for MPlayer.
153 3. Extract the MPlayer package to the new directory.
154 4. Copy the .mplayer subdirectory -- if included -- to your HOME directory.
155 5. To be able to use subtitles, copy a TrueType font of your choice to the
156 %HOME%\.mplayer directory and rename it to subfont.ttf.
157
158Win32 codecs
159------------
160
161 1. Download the codec package from the MPlayer site.
162 2. Go to the directory where you installed MPlayer and create a "codecs"
163 subdirectory.
164 3. Extract the package to the "codecs" subdirectory.
165 4. Add a SET MPLAYER_CODECS_DIR statement to your CONFIG.SYS, and point it
166 to the "codecs" subdirectory you create above.
167
168SMPlayer
169--------
170
171 1. Create a directory for SMPlayer. This will be called x:\smplayer below.
172 2. Extract the SMPlayer package to the new directory.
173 3. Create a WPS object for smplayer.exe
174 4. Start SMPlayer by double-clicking on the WPS object.
175 5. Open the settings dialog via "Options > Settings."
176 6. In the left pane, choose "General."
177 7. On the "General" tab in the "Paths" group, press the "Browse" button and
178 locate the MPlayer executable mplayer.exe.
179 8. In the "Output Device Driver" group, choose "kva" for "Video" and "dart"
180 for "Audio."
181 9. In the left pane, choose "Drives."
182 10. Under "Drives," select your CD-ROM and DVD drives.
183 11. In the left pane, go to "Subtitles."
184 12. On the "Font" tab in the "Font" group, you can either directly choose a
185 font file to use or select one of the fonts installed in your system:
186 * To select a specific font file, select the "TTF Font" radio button, press
187 "Browse," and locate the font file of the TrueType font you would like to
188 use for subtitles.
189 * To select an installed font, select the "System Font" radio button, press
190 "Choose," and select a TrueType font you would like to use for subtitles.
191 CAUTION: mplayer.exe will crash if you select a non-TrueType font!
192 13. To get prettier fonts, go to the "SSA/ASS Library" tab and enable the
193 option "Use SSA/ASS library for subtitle rendering." Optionally adjust the
194 color and font attributes.
195 14. Press OK to exit the settings dialog.
196
197If you have a slow machine, also do the following:
198
199 1. In the left pane, choose "Performance."
200 2. In the "Cache" group, enable the "Use cache" option.
201 3. Enable the "Skip frames" option.
202
203If you have a sound card that does not support 48kHz sampling rate, also do the
204following:
205
206 1. In the left pane, choose "Advanced."
207 2. In the "Audio Filter" entry field, enter:
208
209 resample=44100:0:1
210
211
2124. LICENSE, COPYRIGHT, DISCLAIMER
213=================================
214
215SMPlayer is copyright (C) 2006 - 2012 RVM <rvm@escomposlinux.org>.
216
217The OS/2 port is copyright (c) 2008, 2012 Silvan Scherrer.
218
219This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
220it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as contained in
221the file COPYING in the installation directory.
222
223The original source code is available at:
224
225 http://smplayer.sourceforge.net
226
227This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
228but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
229MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
230
231For details, refer to the file COPYING.
232
233
2345. CONTACT
235==========
236
237If you find a bug, then add a ticket to the trac at
238http://svn.netlabs.org/qtapps
239
240Only bug reports with a reproducable bug are accepted. :-)
241
242
2436. CREDITS
244==========
245
246The port was done by:
247
248Silvan Scherrer aka _diver
249
250Thanks go to:
251
252 * Yuri Dario
253 * Doodle
254 * KO Myung-Hun
255 * Herwig Bauernfeind
256 * Christian Hennecke
257
258They either helped me when I had some nasty questions or did some testing for
259me.
260
261
2627. SUPPORT AND DONATIONS
263========================
264
265SMPlayer is based on volunteer work. If you would like to support further
266development, you can do so in one of the following ways:
267
268 * Donate to the Qt4 project: see http://qt.netlabs.org for more information
269
270 * Contribute to the project: Besides actual development, this also includes
271 maintaining the documentation and the project web site as well as help
272 for users.
273
274
2758. HISTORY
276==========
277
2782012-03-16
279 * updated to SMPlayer version 0.7.1
280
2812011-12-27
282 * updated to latest SMPlayer svn code
283
2842011-11-11
285 * updated to Qt 4.7.3
286 * fixed a possible hang when ending SMPlayer while playing a movie (patch by Rudi)
287
2882010-06-30
289 * fixed a nasty 1 second delay
290
2912010-04-29
292 * updated to Qt4 4.6.2
293 * added support for mplayer -ao kai (latest mplayer version)
294
2952010-01-29
296 * updated to latest Qt4 source
297 * enabled colorkey (thanks to KO Myung-Hun)
298
2992009-11-11
300 * fixed hang with broken media
301 * changed to Qt4 beta4
302
3032009-10-22
304 * removed requirement for MPlayer DLLs to be in PATH or SMPlayer directory
305 (fixed in Qt)
306 * removed requirement for C:\PSFONTS\helv.pfb (fixed in Qt)
307 * added Screensaver functionality for Doodle Screensaver
308
3092009-10-02
310 * beta1 of newest SMPlayer version with Qt4 support
311
3122009-01-22
313 * fixed a crash when playing audio files
314
3152008-11-24
316 * added french and german readme (done by Guillaume Gay and Christian Hennecke)
317 * added nice looking icons for exe and folder (done by David Graser)
318 * updated Qt DLL with newest version from SVN
319
3202008-11-04
321 * fixed a bug in Qt DLL which occured when playing from playlist
322 * renamed icon files to match wps behaviour
323
3242008-10-27
325 * with newest mplayer from hobbes the resizing problem is fixed
326 * fixed a bug introduced when adding more file extensions
327
3282008-10-20
329 * switched to custom-built Qt DLL sqt.dll (latest version from svn.netlabs.org/qt)
330 * added a couple more file extensions to the open file dialog
331
3322008-10-14
333 * initial release
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