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== Why MPlayer? ==
 
== Why MPlayer? ==
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Mplayer focuses on low latency displaying by avoiding caching and is therefore perfectly suited to display live video streams from Elphel cameras.
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== Usage with the Cameras ==
 
== Usage with the Cameras ==
== Defference with the Main Branch ==
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Mplayer consists of 2 applications:
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'''MPlayer''' allows viewing of multicast / unicast stream from the camera.
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'''MEncoder''' allows live transcoding/dumping of the cameras videostream.
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== Official Website ==
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[http://www.mplayerhq.hu mplayerhq.hu]
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== Binary Packages ==
 
== Binary Packages ==
== Getting Sources ==
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We do not maintain official binary releases.
*[http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html MPlayer sources]
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=== Libs ===
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But other places might offer binaries for a variety of operating systems.
*[http://live555.com/liveMedia/public/ live555 sources]
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*[http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/software/common/ ucl sources]
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Careful: The Ubuntu universe package of mplayer is outdated and not recommended.
*[http://theora.org/ Theora]
 
=== Patches ===
 
*[http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/elphel/live-fix-select.patch?download patch for live555]
 
*[http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/elphel/MPlayer-1.0pre7-elphel-1.patch.bz2?download patch for mplayer]
 
  
== Configure ==
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== Getting Sources and building up-to-date binaries ==
== Install and Uninstall ==
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Please see the [[Elphel_Software_Kit_for_Ubuntu | Elphel Software Kit for Ubuntu]].

Latest revision as of 08:19, 8 August 2009

Why MPlayer?

Mplayer focuses on low latency displaying by avoiding caching and is therefore perfectly suited to display live video streams from Elphel cameras.

Usage with the Cameras

Mplayer consists of 2 applications:

MPlayer allows viewing of multicast / unicast stream from the camera.

MEncoder allows live transcoding/dumping of the cameras videostream.

Official Website

mplayerhq.hu

Binary Packages

We do not maintain official binary releases.

But other places might offer binaries for a variety of operating systems.

Careful: The Ubuntu universe package of mplayer is outdated and not recommended.

Getting Sources and building up-to-date binaries

Please see the Elphel Software Kit for Ubuntu.