| 1 | SMPlayer _VERSION_ _BUILD_ README
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| 3 | (W) Christian Hennecke, Oct 5, 2009
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| 4 | last update Jan 29, 2010
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| 5 |
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| 6 |
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| 7 | 0. CONTENTS OF THIS FILE
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| 8 | ========================
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| 9 |
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| 10 | 1. INTRODUCTION
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| 11 |
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| 12 | 2. REQUIREMENTS
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| 13 |
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| 14 | 3. INSTALLATION
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| 15 |
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| 16 | 4. LICENSE, COPYRIGHT, DISCLAIMER
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| 17 |
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| 18 | 5. CONTACT
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| 19 |
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| 20 | 6. CREDITS
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| 21 |
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| 22 | 7. SUPPORT AND DONATIONS
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| 23 |
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| 24 | 8. HISTORY
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| 25 |
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| 26 |
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| 27 | 1. INTRODUCTION
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| 28 | ===============
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| 29 |
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| 30 | Welcome to SMPlayer _VERSION_ _BUILD_ for OS/2 and eComStation.
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| 31 |
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| 32 | SMPlayer is a GUI front-end for MPlayer, a command-line movie player that is
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| 33 | available for many systems and supports a wide range of formats and codecs,
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| 34 | either natively or via Win32 DLL codecs. For instance, you can watch VideoCD,
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| 35 | SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV, and even H.264 movies.
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| 36 |
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| 37 | SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features
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| 38 | like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for
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| 39 | MPlayer filters and more.
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| 40 |
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| 41 | One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of
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| 42 | all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave...
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| 43 | don't worry, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point
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| 44 | you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume...
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| 45 |
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| 46 | Other additional interesting features:
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| 47 |
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| 48 | * Configurable subtitles. You can choose font and size, and even colors for
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| 49 | the subtitles.
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| 50 | * Audio track switching. You can choose the audio track you want to listen.
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| 51 | Works with avi and mkv. And of course with DVDs.
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| 52 | * Seeking by mouse wheel. You can use your mouse wheel to go forward or
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| 53 | backward in the video.
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| 54 | * Video equalizer, allows you to adjust the brightness, contrast, hue,
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| 55 | saturation and gamma of the video image.
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| 56 | * Multiple speed playback. You can play at 2X, 4X... and even in slow motion.
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| 57 | * Filters. Several filters are available: deinterlace, postprocessing,
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| 58 | denoise... and even a karaoke filter (voice removal).
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| 59 | * Audio and subtitles delay adjustment. Allows you to sync audio and
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| 60 | subtitles.
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| 61 | * Advanced options, such as selecting a demuxer or video & audio codecs.
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| 62 | * Playlist. Allows you to enqueue several files to be played one after each
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| 63 | other. Autorepeat and shuffle supported too.
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| 64 | * Preferences dialog. You can easily configure every option of SMPlayer by
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| 65 | using a nice preferences dialog.
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| 66 | * Possibility to search automatically for subtitles in opensubtitles.org.
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| 67 | * Translations: currently SMPlayer is translated into more than 20 languages,
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| 68 | including Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese....
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| 69 | * It's multiplatform. Binaries available for Windows, Linux, and now OS/2.
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| 70 | * SMPlayer is under the GPL license.
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| 71 |
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| 72 |
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| 73 | 2. REQUIREMENTS
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| 74 | ===============
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| 75 |
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| 76 | * klibc 0.6.3 or later
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| 77 |
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| 78 | ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0_6_3-csd3.wpi
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| 79 |
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| 80 | * Qt4 dll
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| 81 |
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| 82 | ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qt4/qt-lib-4_5_1-xx.wpi (exchange xx with the most current available)
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| 83 | if GA is available it's in it's own subdir 4.5.1-ga
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| 84 |
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| 85 | * MPlayer
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| 86 |
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| 87 | http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?key=mplayer&pushbutton=Search
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| 88 |
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| 89 | WARNING: To use the combination of SMPlayer and MPlayer to its full extent,
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| 90 | at least version mplayer-dev-SVN-r27724-OS2-4.3.2.zip is required.
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| 91 | Earlier versions do not support scaling, i.e., you will always
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| 92 | see a video in its original size, regardless of the zoom setting
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| 93 | or fullscreen mode.
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| 94 |
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| 95 | * Win32 codecs (optional)
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| 96 |
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| 97 | http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html#binary_codecs
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| 98 |
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| 99 | MPlayer is able to use Win32 codec DLLs for codecs it does not support
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| 100 | natively.
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| 101 |
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| 102 |
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| 103 | 3. INSTALLATION
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| 104 | ===============
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| 105 |
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| 106 | To install SMPlayer, do the following:
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| 107 |
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| 108 | klibc
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| 109 | -----
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| 110 |
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| 111 | 1. Download klibc 0.6.3 csd3 or later.
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| 112 | 2. Install the package by double-clicking on the WPI file.
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| 113 |
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| 114 |
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| 115 | Qt4 dll
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| 116 | -------
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| 117 |
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| 118 | 1. Download the package
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| 119 | 2. Extract all dll to your libpath. preferable x:\ecs\dll or x:\os2\dll where x: is your boot drive
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| 120 | 3. Install the xsystray plugin as noted in the readme.os2 and also in readme.xsystray
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| 121 |
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| 122 |
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| 123 | MPlayer
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| 124 | -------
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| 125 |
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| 126 | 1. Download a recent version of MPlayer.
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| 127 | 2. Create a new directory for MPlayer.
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| 128 | 3. Extract the MPlayer package to the new directory.
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| 129 | 4. Copy the .mplayer subdirectory -- if included -- to your HOME directory.
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| 130 | 4. To be able to use subtitles, copy a TrueType font of your choice to the
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| 131 | %HOME%\.mplayer directory and rename it to subfont.ttf.
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| 132 |
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| 133 |
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| 134 | Win32 codecs
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| 135 | ------------
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| 136 |
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| 137 | 1. Download the codec package from the MPlayer site.
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| 138 | 2. Go to the directory where you installed MPlayer and create a "codecs"
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| 139 | subdirectory.
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| 140 | 3. Extract the package to the "codecs" subdirectory.
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| 141 | 4. Add a SET MPLAYER_CODECS_DIR statement to your CONFIG.SYS, and point it
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| 142 | to the "codecs" subdirectory you create above.
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| 143 |
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| 144 |
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| 145 | SMPlayer
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| 146 | --------
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| 147 |
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| 148 | 1. Create a directory for SMPlayer. This will be called x:\smplayer below.
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| 149 | 2. Extract the SMPlayer package to the new directory.
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| 150 | 3. Create a WPS object for smplayer.exe
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| 151 | 4. Start SMPlayer by double-clicking on the WPS object.
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| 152 | 5. Open the settings dialog via "Options > Settings."
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| 153 | 6. In the left pane, choose "General."
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| 154 | 7. On the "General" tab in the "Paths" group, press the "Browse" button and
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| 155 | locate the MPlayer executable mplayer.exe.
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| 156 | 8. In the "Output Device Driver" group, choose "kva" for "Video" and "dart"
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| 157 | for "Audio."
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| 158 | 9. In the left pane, choose "Drives."
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| 159 | 10. Under "Drives," select your CD-ROM and DVD drives.
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| 160 | 11. In the left pane, go to "Subtitles."
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| 161 | 12. On the "Font" tab in the "Font" group, you can either directly choose a
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| 162 | font file to use or select one of the fonts installed in your system:
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| 163 | * To select a specific font file, select the "TTF Font" radio button, press
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| 164 | "Browse," and locate the font file of the TrueType font you would like to
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| 165 | use for subtitles.
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| 166 | * To select an installed font, select the "System Font" radio button, press
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| 167 | "Choose," and select a TrueType font you would like to use for subtitles.
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| 168 | CAUTION: mplayer.exe will crash if you select a non-TrueType font!
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| 169 | 13. To get prettier fonts, go to the "SSA/ASS Library" tab and enable the
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| 170 | option "Use SSA/ASS library for subtitle rendering." Optionally adjust the
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| 171 | color and font attributes.
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| 172 | 14. Press OK to exit the settings dialog.
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| 173 |
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| 174 | If you have a slow machine, also do the following:
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| 175 |
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| 176 | 1. In the left pane, choose "Performance."
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| 177 | 2. In the "Cache" group, enable the "Use cache" option.
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| 178 | 3. Enable the "Skip frames" option.
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| 179 |
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| 180 | If you have a sound card that does not support 48kHz sampling rate, also do the
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| 181 | following:
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| 182 |
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| 183 | 1. In the left pane, choose "Advanced."
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| 184 | 2. In the "Audio Filter" entry field, enter:
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| 185 |
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| 186 | resample=44100:0:1
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| 187 |
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| 188 |
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| 189 | 4. LICENSE, COPYRIGHT, DISCLAIMER
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| 190 | =================================
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| 191 |
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| 192 | SMPlayer is copyright (C) 2006 - 2007 RVM <rvm@escomposlinux.org>.
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| 193 |
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| 194 | The OS/2 port is copyright (c) 2008, 2010 Silvan Scherrer.
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| 195 |
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| 196 | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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| 197 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as contained in
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| 198 | the file COPYING in the installation directory.
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| 199 |
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| 200 | The original source code is available at:
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| 201 |
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| 202 | http://smplayer.sourceforge.net
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| 203 |
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| 204 | Changes for the OS/2 version are included in the file:
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| 205 |
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| 206 | smplayer.diff (not included in the beta)
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| 207 |
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| 208 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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| 209 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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| 210 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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| 211 |
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| 212 | For details, refer to the file COPYING.
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| 213 |
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| 214 |
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| 215 | 5. CONTACT
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| 216 | ==========
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| 217 |
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| 218 | Please send bugreports to:
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| 219 |
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| 220 | ecs@aroa.ch
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| 221 |
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| 222 | Only bug reports with a reproducable bug are accepted. :-)
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| 223 |
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| 224 | Please enclose the error.log file that is produced with the setup described
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| 225 | above under INSTALLATION.
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| 226 |
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| 227 |
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| 228 | 6. CREDITS
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| 229 | ==========
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| 230 |
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| 231 | The port was done by:
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| 232 |
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| 233 | Silvan Scherrer aka _diver
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| 234 |
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| 235 | Thanks go to:
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| 236 |
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| 237 | * Yuri Dario
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| 238 | * Doodle
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| 239 | * KO Myung-Hun
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| 240 | * Herwig Bauernfeind
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| 241 | * Christian Hennecke
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| 242 |
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| 243 | They either helped me when I had some nasty questions or did some testing for
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| 244 | me.
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| 245 |
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| 246 |
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| 247 | 7. SUPPORT AND DONATIONS
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| 248 | ========================
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| 249 |
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| 250 | SMPlayer is based on volunteer work. If you would like to support further
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| 251 | development, you can do so in one of the following ways:
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| 252 |
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| 253 | * Donate to the Qt4 project: see http://qt.netlabs.org for more information
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| 254 |
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| 255 | * Contribute to the project: Besides actual development, this also includes
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| 256 | maintaining the documentation and the project web site as well as help
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| 257 | for users.
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| 258 |
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| 259 |
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| 260 | 8. HISTORY
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| 261 | ==========
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| 262 |
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| 263 | 2010-04-29
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| 264 | * updated to Qt4 4.6.2
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| 265 | * added support for mplayer -ao kai (latest mplayer version)
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| 266 |
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| 267 | 2010-01-29
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| 268 | * updated to latest Qt4 source
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| 269 | * enabled colorkey (thanks to KO Myung-Hun)
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| 270 |
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| 271 | 2009-11-11
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| 272 |
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| 273 | * fixed hang with broken media
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| 274 | * changed to Qt4 beta4
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| 275 |
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| 276 | 2009-10-22
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| 277 |
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| 278 | * removed requirement for MPlayer DLLs to be in PATH or SMPlayer directory
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| 279 | (fixed in Qt)
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| 280 | * removed requirement for C:\PSFONTS\helv.pfb (fixed in Qt)
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| 281 | * added Screensaver functionality for Doodle Screensaver
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| 282 |
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| 283 | 2009-10-02
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| 284 |
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| 285 | * beta1 of newest smplayer version with Qt4 support
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| 286 |
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| 287 | 2009-01-22
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| 288 |
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| 289 | * fixed a crash when playing audio files
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| 290 |
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| 291 | 2008-11-24
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| 292 |
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| 293 | * added french and german readme (done by Guillaume Gay and Christian Hennecke)
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| 294 | * added nice looking icons for exe and folder (done by David Graser)
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| 295 | * updated Qt DLL with newest version from SVN
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| 296 |
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| 297 | 2008-11-04
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| 298 |
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| 299 | * fixed a bug in Qt DLL which occured when playing from playlist
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| 300 | * renamed icon files to match wps behaviour
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| 301 |
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| 302 | 2008-10-27
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| 303 |
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| 304 | * with newest mplayer from hobbes the resizing problem is fixed
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| 305 | * fixed a bug introduced when adding more file extensions
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| 306 |
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| 307 | 2008-10-20
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| 308 |
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| 309 | * switched to custom-built Qt DLL sqt.dll (latest version from svn.netlabs.org/qt)
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| 310 | * added a couple more file extensions to the open file dialog
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| 311 |
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| 312 | 2008-10-14
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| 313 |
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| 314 | * initial release
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| 315 |
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