diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia/chapter.sgml
index 5c554393c1..398c83a282 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia/chapter.sgml
@@ -1065,38 +1065,35 @@ no adaptors present
another. Therefore, it is important to build it from
ports and not to use a binary package. Additionally, a
number of options can be specified in the make
- command line, as described at the start of the build.
+ command line, as described in the Makefile and at the start of the build:
&prompt.root; cd /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer
&prompt.root; make
-You can enable additional compilation optimizations
-by defining WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS
-You can enable GTK GUI by defining WITH_GUI.
-You can enable DVD support by defining WITH_DVD.
-You can enable SVGALIB support by defining WITH_SVGALIB.
-You can enable VORBIS sound support by defining WITH_VORBIS.
-You can enable XAnim DLL support by defining WITH_XANIM.
+N - O - T - E
+
+Take a careful look into the Makefile in order
+to learn how to tune mplayer towards you personal preferences!
+For example,
+make WITH_GTK1
+builds MPlayer with GTK1-GUI support.
+If you want to use the GUI, you can either install
+/usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer-skins
+or download official skin collections from
+http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html
- If you have x11-toolkits/gtk12 installed, then
- you might as well enable the GUI. Otherwise, it is not
- worth the effort. If you intend to play (possibly CSS
- encoded) DVD's with MPlayer you must enable the DVD support
- option here Unauthorized DVD playback is a
- serious criminal act in some countries. Check local laws
- before enabling this option.. Some
- reasonable options are:
-
- &prompt.root; make WITH_DVD=yes WITH_SVGALIB=yes
+ The default port options should be sufficient for most
+ users. However, if you need the XviD codec, you have to
+ specify the WITH_XVID option in the
+ command line. The default DVD device can also be defined
+ with the WITH_DVD_DEVICE option, by
+ default /dev/acd0 will be used.As of this writing, the MPlayer port will build its HTML
- documentation and one executable,
- mplayer. It can also be made to build an
- encoder, mencoder, which is a tool for
- re-encoding video. A modification to the
- Makefile can enable it. It may be
- enabled by default in subsequent versions of the port.
+ documentation and two executables,
+ mplayer, and
+ mencoder, which is a tool for
+ re-encoding video.
The HTML documentation for MPlayer is very informative.
If the reader finds the information on video hardware and
@@ -1142,14 +1139,23 @@ You can enable XAnim DLL support by defining WITH_XANIM.
with hardware.To play from a DVD, replace the
- testfile.avi with where N is
the title number to play and
DEVICE is the
device node for the DVD-ROM. For example, to play title 3
from /dev/dvd:
- &prompt.root; mplayer -vo dga -dvd 3 /dev/dvd
+ &prompt.root; mplayer -vo xv dvd://3 -dvd-device /dev/dvd
+
+
+ The default DVD device can be defined during the build
+ of the MPlayer port via the
+ WITH_DVD_DEVICE option. By default,
+ this device is /dev/acd0. More
+ details can be found in the port
+ Makefile.
+ To stop, pause, advance and so on, consult the
keybindings, which are output by running mplayer
@@ -1171,7 +1177,7 @@ zoom=yes
DVD title into a .vob file. To dump
out the second title from a DVD, type this:
- &prompt.root; mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile out.vob -dvd 2 /dev/dvd
+ &prompt.root; mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile out.vob dvd://2 -dvd-device /dev/dvdThe output file, out.vob, will be
MPEG and can be manipulated by the other packages described
@@ -1184,9 +1190,7 @@ zoom=yes
mencoder
- If you opt to install mencoder when
- you build MPlayer, be forewarned
- that it is still an experimental component. Before using
+ Before using
mencoder it is a good idea to
familiarize yourself with the options from the HTML
documentation. There is a manual page, but it is not very
@@ -1214,7 +1218,7 @@ zoom=yes
and xine.input.avi can be replaced with
- and run as
+ and run as
root to re-encode a DVD title
directly. Since you are likely to be dissatisfied with
your results the first time around, it is recommended you