<titlepag>
<title>VLC HOWTO</title>
<author>by the Videolan Team<tt><htmlurl url="mailto:videolan-faq@videlan.org" name="videolan-faq@videlan.org"></tt></author>
- <date>v0.0.2, 21 apr 2001</date>
+ <date>v0.0.3, 21 apr 2001</date>
<abstract>
This document describes how to use the vlc (VideoLAN client) to read DVDs and mpeg files and DVDs.
<sect1>
<heading>What is VideoLAN ?</heading>
<p>
- VideoLAN is a project of sudent of the École Centrale Paris which aims
+ VideoLAN is a project of sudents of the École Centrale Paris which aims
to broadcast video on the campus, and provide the students with a MPEG2
software-only decoder. VideoLAN is an OpenSource project which will thus
allow anyone to watch DVD movies under Linux, BeOS, MacOS and most Unix
<p>
Vlc stands for VideoLAN client. It is the name of the program which is
capable of decoding MPEG streams, and displaying them onto your screen,
- so you can watch you favorite movies, confortably sit in your armchair
+ so you can watch you favourite movies, confortably sit in your armchair
:-).
</p>
</sect1>
<sect>
<heading>Installing the vlc : the packages</heading>
<p>
- This is certainly the most simple way to intsall the vlc on your system,
+ This is certainly the simplest way to intsall the vlc on your system,
especially if you're using a packaged OS.
</p>
<sect1>
<heading>Linux/Unix users</heading>
<sect2>
- <heading>What package to chose ?</heading>
+ <heading>Which package to chose ?</heading>
<p>
- There are different packages because vlc has "plugins" which provide functionnalities
- but also enlarges the executable and requires external libs.
+ There are different packages because vlc has "plugins" which provide features
+ but also enlarge the executable and require external libs.
</p>
<p>
SDL is a lib which allows you to have an accelerated video output.
You will need libsdl > 1.1.6
</p>
<p>
- If you're using the enlighted sound daemon, you may want to try
+ If you're using the enlightened sound daemon, you may want to try
the esd-aware vlc.
</p>
<p>
<verb>
vlc [file name]
</verb>
- To play a dvd, if you dvd device is "/dev/dvd", you'll type :
+ To play a dvd, if your dvd device is "/dev/dvd", you'll type :
<verb>
vlc dvd:/dev/dvd
</verb>
</p>
<p>
When you're done with Makefile.opts (which also works if you leave it untouched), just
- make, typing :
+ type:
<verb>
make
</verb>
<heading>Using the videolan network solution</heading>
<p>
I'll only speak about the vlc here. There will be a howto on the whole network solution.
- You have to say to the vlc that it'll receive network streams. This can be done either by *
+ You have to tell the vlc that it will receive network streams. This can be done either by
using the "network" button of the interface, or in the command line :
<verb>
vlc ts://server[:port]
* mpeg_system.c: TS, PS and PES management
*****************************************************************************
* Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000 VideoLAN
- * $Id: mpeg_system.c,v 1.52 2001/04/28 03:36:25 sam Exp $
+ * $Id: mpeg_system.c,v 1.53 2001/05/02 13:30:30 henri Exp $
*
* Authors: Christophe Massiot <massiot@via.ecp.fr>
* Michel Lespinasse <walken@via.ecp.fr>
/* If this is a PCR_PID, and this TS packet contains a
* PCR, we pass it along to the PCR decoder. */
- if( (p_pgrm_demux->i_pcr_pid == i_pid) && (p[5] & 0x10) )
+ if( !b_psi && (p_pgrm_demux->i_pcr_pid == i_pid) && (p[5] & 0x10) )
{
/* There should be a PCR field in the packet, check
* if the adaptation field is long enough to carry
break;
case MPEG1_AUDIO_ES:
case MPEG2_AUDIO_ES:
- case AC3_AUDIO_ES :
case LPCM_AUDIO_ES :
p_new_es->i_cat = AUDIO_ES;
i_audio_es += 1;
if( i_audio_es == i_required_audio_es )
input_SelectES( p_input, p_new_es );
break;
+ case AC3_AUDIO_ES :
+ p_new_es->i_stream_id = 0xBD;
+ p_new_es->i_cat = AUDIO_ES;
+ i_audio_es += 1;
+ if( i_audio_es == i_required_audio_es )
+ input_SelectES( p_input, p_new_es );
+ break;
/* Not sure this one is fully norm-compliant */
case DVD_SPU_ES :
p_new_es->i_cat = SPU_ES;