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@@ -1,53 +1,43 @@ -KMPlayer, a simple frontend for MPlayer/FFMpeg/Xine. -It can play DVD/VCD movies, from file or url and from a video device. -If setup right, KMPlayer can embed inside konqueror. Which means if you click -on a movie file, the movie is played inside konqueror. -It can also embed inside tdehtml, enabling movie playback inside a html page. -Movie recording using mencoder (part of the mplayer package). No video during recording, but you can always open a new window and play it there. -Broadcasting, http streaming, by using ffserver/ffmpeg. For TV sources, you need v4lctl (part of the xawtv package). - -KMPlayer needs KDE3.1 and a working mplayer/mencoder somewhere in you PATH. -Additonally, for broadcasting, ffserver/ffmpeg/v4lctl also. -For DVD navigation Xine is used. MPlayer has broken dvdnav support. DVDNav is included in libxine and works fine. -Unless you reconfigure kmplayer, both mplayer and ffmpeg should be compiled with liblame for mp3. - -Quickly installing MPlayer -Download the sources from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/. -If you want quicktime support, also download the quicktime dll's -(http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/qt6dlls.tar.bz2) and unpack -them and copy the files to /usr/lib/win32 (make this dir if it doesn't exist). -Or download the 'All in one' package and have even more codecs. -Untar the mplayer source package (tar xfj MPlayer-0.90.tar.bz2), change to -that directory. Make sure $TDEDIR/bin is in you path (check if you can run -'artsplay'). -Now run configure (./configure) and make ('make'). Install it as root ('su -c "make install"'). -Finally you must setup the config files in ~/.mplayer ('mkdir ~/.mplayer'). -Copy the files, from the mplayer sources, etc/codecs.conf and etc/example.conf as codecs.conf and config resp -('cp etc/codecs.conf ~/.mplayer; cp etc/example.conf ~/.mplayer/config'). -Next change ~/.mplayer/config with an editor and change the video driver (vo=xv) and audio driver (ao=arts) and remove the last line. - -Quickly installing Xine -Download the sources for libxine (xine-lib-1-beta12.tar.gz) from http://xinehq.de. Unpack it (tar xfz xine-lib-1-beta12.tar.gz) and change to this directory (cd xine-lib-1-beta12). Now run configure (./configure) and make ('make'). Install it as root ('su -c "make install"'). -Recommended, for encrypted DVDs, install libdvdcss from http://developers.videolan.org/libdvdcss too. -Xine can use the codecs for MPlayer in /usr/lib/win32, however it can't find -the real codecs in there. Eg run - $ strings /usr/local/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.0/xineplug_decode_real.so |grep drv -after installing to see where it looks for the Real codecs. Either copy or -symlink for Xine to find them. - -Quickly installing ffmpeg/ffserver -Download the sources from http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/. If the current version is 0.4.6, I recommend using a more recent CVS snapshot because it uses less CPU when grabbing a TV device. -Untar the source package, run './configure --enable-mp3lame' and 'make'. Install as root 'su -c "make install"'. - -KMPlayer doesn't work with all the video drivers that mplayer supports. -I tested only xv (X Video Extension) and x11 (Image/Shm). If none work, you -might try the patch for the x11 driver and see if that works for you (not needed anymore for mplayer version >= 0.90-rc4). -You might need to change mimetype settings (Control Center | TDE Components | File Associations) to make sure KMPlayer (or 'Embedded MPlayer for TDE' in embedded tab) is set for all the formats you want to play with KMPlayer. -Also make sure in the 'Embedding' tab 'Show file in embedded viewer' is set. - -If you run an older versio of MPlayer (0.9x), set 'Post MPlayer 0.90=false' in -.kde/share/config/kmplayer.rc under group [MPlayer]. It will change some of the -mencoder arguments (for recording). - -Enjoy! + KMPlayer - a simple media player for TDE. + + +KMPlayer is a GUI for several backends, namely: + - Mplayer + - Xine + - Gstreamer + - ffmpeg + +It can play DVD/VCD movies, from file or url and from a video device. + + + +Features: +========= + * can act as a browser plugin for Konqueror + * can embed into a KOffice document. + * play DVD (DVDNav only with the Xine player) + * play VCD + * let the backend players play from a pipe (read from stdin) + * play from a TV device (experimental) + * show backend player's console output + * launch ffserver when viewing from a v4l device + * DCOP KMediaPlayer interface support + * VDR viewer frontend (with *kxvplayer), configure VDR keys with standard TDE + shortcut configure window + * Lots of configurable shortcuts. Highly recommended for the VDR keys + and volume increase/decrease + * Broadcaste http streaming by using ffserver/ffmpeg + + + +CONTRIBUTING +============== + +If you wish to contribute to kmplayer, you might do so: + +- TDE Gitea Workspace (TGW) collaboration tool. + https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea + +- TDE Weblate Translation Workspace (TWTW) collaboration tool. + https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate |