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Introduction

MPEG Audio/Video Player (mav_player) is a simple mpeg and ac3 player.

Features

+ Runs on Windows, Linux, and BSD systems. + Plays MPEG Transport Stream, Program Stream, and Elementary Stream files.
+ Basic DVD support (with libdvdnav on Linux/BSD systems only). + Decodes MPEG 1&2 Video, MPEG Layer 2 Audio, and AC3 audio. + All decoders use only integer operations, for faster performance. + Flexible, and easy to use decoders, that can decode streams in chunks as small as 1 byte (buffering is not necessary).

Requirements

+ OSS (Linux/BSD) or DirectSound (Windows)

Used to get sound to the soundcard. + X11 + Xv (Linux/BSD) or DirectDraw (Windows)

Used to get video onto the screen.

Optional

+ libdvdnav 0.1.10 or later (Linux/BSD only)

      Used to read streams from DVDs.
      http://dvd.sourceforge.net

Installation

Read the INSTALL file for instructions on how to build and install this application.

Documentation

See CONTROLS file for a list of keys that can be used to control playback (same keys are used for all systems!).

For Linux/BSD systems, use 'mav_player -help' to get a full list of command line options.

Contact

If you have any comments, problems, questions about this application, then send them to me (Dennis) at: dennis_L76@yahoo.ca