VideoPlayer

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DVDPlayer is XBMC's video player, capable of playing DVD video and many other video formats. DVDPlayer supports DVD video with menus, from CD/DVD-media, harddrive, network, ISO/IMG-images and RAR/ZIP archives (and even RARed ISO/IMG-images as long as they are in 'stored/archive' mode and not compressed).

Currently Supported Codecs

• FFmpeg - all audio and video decoders supported by FFmpeg (avcodec/avformat) open source codec-suit
• MPEG-1/MPEG-2 video decoder based on libmpeg2
• MPEG-1/MPEG-2 (Layer I, Layer II, and Layer III, inc. MP3) audio decoder based on libmad
• DTS (Digital Theater System) audio decoder based on libdca (formaly known as "libdts")
• Dolby Digital AC3 audio decoder based on liba52
• AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) MPEG-4 audio decoder based on AudioCoding.com's libfaad2

Building Libraries (Audio / Video Codecs)

The dvdplayer depends on other libraries to function. These libraries are included in SVN by default as dll's under the "XBMC/system/players/dvdplayer" subfolder. The full source code of these libraries can be found under the "/docs/sources/dvdplayer/" subfolder in the SVN. To build these dll's yourself you need to have the following installed, (the .dll's must be then be placed under the "[XBMCFOLDER]/system/players/dvdplayer" subfolder).

• MinGW and MSYS
  • see http://ml20rc.msnfanatic.com/ffmpeg/1.html for installation for ffmpeg
  • use binutils version 2.16.91 (20060119) 1
• unrar