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Linux Video Playback

2009-06-18T22:19:41Z

Souichi: /* MPlayer tweaks */

This article explains the best video playback options for Linux and provides installation instructions.

==List of recommended players==
;* [http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ MPlayer]
;* [http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/ SMPlayer]
==MPlayer==
===Installing MPlayer===
Perform the one of the following commands as root, depending on your distribution.
====Debian based distributions (Includes Ubuntu)====
aptitude install mplayer
====OpenSuse====
zypper in mplayer

====Fedora/Red Hat based distributions====
yum install mplayer
====Arch Linux====
pacman -S mplayer
====Gentoo====
emerge -ptva mplayer

===MPlayer codecs===
Not all distributions include the full set of mplayer codecs in their repositories. To install the full set follow these easy steps. 
1. Download: http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20071007.tar.bz2 
2. Extract with: tar xvf all-20071007.tar.bz2 
3. Copy the codecs (but not the directory) to the MPlayer codec directory. Default is /usr/lib/win32 

Debian/Ubuntu users: 
1. Visit http://debian-multimedia.org/ and add it as a package repository using the instructions in the red boxes. 
2. sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude install mplayer w32codecs

===MPlayer tweaks===
These are some sample configuration files tailored for specific preferences. The MPlayer configuration file can be found at: (<tt>~/.mplayer/config</tt>)

For English audio preference, then Spanish, with 4 audio channels for surround sound files.
vo=xv
ao=alsa
channels=4
alang=en,es

For Japanese audio preference, subtitles on. SDL A/V output for performence.
ao=sdl
vo=sdl
#Note: SDL video output does not work well with xinerama. Those wishing to watch video on a TV or other display should use "vo=xv"
alang=jpn,Japanese
#Not all files use the correct tags, so sometimes it will be necessary to switch audio streams manually or from the command line with "-aid x", where "x" is the number of the audio stream.
sid=0
subfont-autoscale=1
ass=1

====MPlayer Tricks====
MPLayer has a huge collection of filters included. Some of them are magical.

* View styled subs, even if you only have plain subs:
** mplayer -ass -embeddedfonts myvideo.ext
* View external subs:
** mplayer -ass -sub mysubs.srt myvideo.ext
* Play interlaced video without combing:
** mplayer -vf pullup myvideo.ext
* Increase saturation and contrast:
** mplayer -vf eq2=0.8 myvideo.ext
* Remove "mosquito" noise:
** mplayer -vf hqdn3d myvideo.ext
* Make crappy video look good:
** mplayer -vf pp7 myvideo.ext
* Combine:
** mplayer -ass -embeddedfonts -vf pullup,eq2=0.8,unsharp=l3x3:0.2,hqdn3d myvideo.ext

==SMPlayer==
MPlayer by itself is fine but SMPlayer provides an easy to use interface to MPlayer so it is a better choice for most. It contains a couple of nice features, including autosaving the playback position so you can continue watching your anime the next time you start it (this feature can be disabled of course).

===Installing SMPlayer===
====Debian/Ubuntu====
If you are using Debian Lenny/Sid or Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10), then you can simply
sudo apt-get install smplayer
Otherwise, you have 2 options:
* Download the .deb file from [http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/downloads.php the SMPlayer website] or
* Add the SMPlayer repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list.
8.04 (hardy):
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/rvm/ubuntu hardy main
8.10 (intrepid):
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/rvm/ubuntu intrepid main

====OpenSUSE====

You can find .rpm's via [http://software.opensuse.org/search the search page].

====Fedora/RedHat====

Build from source. See below.

====Arch Linux====
pacman -S smplayer

====Gentoo====
emerge -ptva smplayer

====Building from Source (Compiling)====

Grab the tarball from [http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/downloads.php the SMPlayer download page]. Decompress it, cd into the directory, and run
./configure
make
sudo make install
If you don't have sudo installed/configured, then the last step will be instead
su
make install

===SMPlayer tweaks===
After installation you'll need to configure it a little:
Start SMPlayer, open the options (Ctrl + P), go to the subtitles section, within the section go to the SSA/ASS library tab and check the check box for using SSA/ASS library. With this you can see the subtitle's colors and fonts (Note: the used fonts must be installed on the system for this).

If you see a black screen at playing, or the colors doesn't seems to be right, or the playing is too slow or wrong you may need to change the video rendering mode. To do this go to the options, general section, general tab, output drivers, Video, and set it to <tt>x11</tt> - this will use software rendering. Alternatively you can use <tt>xv</tt> for XVideo rendering or either <tt>gl</tt> or <tt>gl2</tt> for OpenGL rendering. In general you should try these options in the following order for best quality and performance: <tt>xv</tt>, <tt>gl2</tt>, <tt>gl</tt> and finally <tt>x11</tt>.

Talk:Staff List

2009-06-17T15:05:44Z

Souichi:

== Box ==

I'd have made a change to the top ... but I'm not sure if I should go that far. :) --[[User:KyanWan|KyanWan]] 20:16, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

== General ==

The entries should be made into links by placing them in "<nowiki>[[]]</nowiki>", that way if any staff member creates a page it will be linked from here. [[User:Souichi|Souichi]] 15:05, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

User:Souichi

2009-06-17T15:01:34Z

Souichi: New page: I am a wiki programmer from the dark ages. I'll mostly contribute page cleanup to this wiki... Very casually and at long intervals.

I am a wiki programmer from the dark ages. I'll mostly contribute page cleanup to this wiki... Very casually and at long intervals.

Talk:BT clients

2009-06-17T14:44:55Z

Souichi: /* New Client Suggestions */

===What more?===
What more does the page need? Let's help out and do a list. --[[User:Deimon|Deimon]] 17:46, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
* Descriptions on all clients

===Page Arrangement===

Could use more descriptive editing and formatting. --[[User:Tsikura|Tsikura]] 08:28, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Still needs a lot of information. I like how its organized now. i wish i could say the same about the Windows playback page, but thats under hot debate right now. --[[User:MarchHare|MarchHare]] 08:53, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Wouldn't it be better to order it from Good -> Bad instead of Bad/Good/Acceptable as it's now? And maybe undercategories within each section by OS...? --[[User:Deimon|Deimon]] 11:02, 24 August 2008 (UTC) 
- I've changed it, looks better now. --[[User:Deimon|Deimon]] 12:27, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Moved Vuze (Azureus) from Acceptable to Good, since it's one of the two only recommended clients. Also corrected it's title and added a short desc. about it's community part. --[[User:Deimon|Deimon]] 14:34, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

I was under the impression that Bitspirit was very similar to Bitcomet. There doesn't seem to be much discussion about it, so I won't be moving it to "Bad".
[[User:Kanzar|Kanzar]] 10:30, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Someone moved BitSpirit back... Anyway, it's not well documentation on it so there's no real reason to move it to "Bad" unless we hear complains from the users. --[[User:Deimon|Deimon]] 05:54, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

:Well, I wasn't the one to move it there in the first place... <_< Ah well. [[User:Kanzar|Kanzar]] 01:30, 29 August 2008 (UTC):

Just wondering... why isn't Transmission listed under "good"? It's based on on libTorrent, just like rTorrent (which is currently under "Good") --[[User:Iindigo|Iindigo]] 22:00, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Clients features more than just what the lib it's based on features. I don't know who moved rTorrent to recommended but only Vuze and uTorrent is recommended by the staff of BoxTorrents, if my memory serves me. This may be a wiki but I don't like people making decisions based on only their own experiences, which involves a bigger part of the community. Can someone who actually have used these applications (Transmission and rTorrent) write the pro's and con's about them, so we can decide which to put under recommended. I don't like the fact with rTorrent that it's terminal based as I think all recommended must at least have a GUI for easier control of the applications, since not everyone on Linux use terminal often. --[[User:Deimon|Deimon]] 05:55, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
:rTorrent uses a fantastically small amount of resources. Plus, the fact that it's ncurses-based means that you can keep it in a detached screen session on a server, and ssh in and control it from anywhere. [[User:Xiong Chiamiov|Xiong Chiamiov]] 01:11, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
:Oh, also, it was [http://wiki.boxtorrents.com/index.php?title=BT_Clients&diff=390&oldid=301 this edit] that added rTorrent in under "Good" (now "Recommended"). [[User:Xiong Chiamiov|Xiong Chiamiov]] 01:40, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

===Shareza===

Why is '''Shareza''' not suggested? I know that there is a false Shareza V4 which is bundled with adware but the real V2 doesn't have that. --[[User:Deimon|Deimon]] 12:27, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

I would like to notify all people concerned with Shareaza that they're making a new client, It's very much and alpha and crashes alot, but the team is taking shareazaV2's code and re-formulating it from the ground up. It doesn't need to be included yet, but watched at the very least. http://www.pantheraproject.com/
Reference -> http://torrentfreak.com/shareaza-team-fight-back-with-panthera-project-080818/
--[[User:Aranjedeath|Aranjedeath]]

Shareaza is a bad client because the upload is very low ;)
(i am not 100% sure if this is for V2 too, but i thought so)

===New Client Suggestions===

There's a new client called [http://www.binarynotions.com/halite-bittorrent-client Halite] that looks to be 'the next uTorrent'. Also worth keeping an eye on.
[[User:Kanzar|Kanzar]] 10:29, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Read about it in TorrentFreak a while back... Tested it but it's not as small as they said (RAM usage, it's not less than uTorrent, which they state), and the scan for how much percent completed you have of one torrent takes a long time. Sorry, forgot to add my byline :P. --[[User:Deimon|Deimon]] 23:44, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

I added an entry for Aria2 - I did it before I read the talk page and realised that this is a "moderated" page. If you don't like it I won't be offended if you remove it. [[User:Souichi|Souichi]] 14:44, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

===Web Frontend Section?===
I was thinking about chanting up a section centered around web interfaces for command-line torrent clients, and general advice for dedicated torrent servers. Buuut, I'm thinking maybe that's way outside the scope of this document. Would anybody be interested in such a thing? Perhaps as a seperate page altogether? -[[User:iddqd|iddqd]]

Sounds interesting, I'm sure some more advanced people than the regular user would be interesting in that. If you want all you need to do is add it within a new page and then link from here to there. --[[User:Deimon|Deimon]] 02:38, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

:I can contribute some knowledge of the web frontends for Deluge, rTorrent and btg.

=== Deluge as a recommended client instead of acceptable? ===

What do you guys think about this? I find it to work amazingly, pretty much like uTorrent (I use it with Ubuntu so I don't know how good it is on Windows). It's lighter than craploaded Azureus, and pretty much as powerful and light as uTorrent. Why not put it there? --[[User:Koolabsol|Calvin]] 02:35, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

== Accepted clients ==

We're (mods+admins) currently discussing which clients are recommended, accepted and unacceptable. This will probably take quite some time though, especially in the light of Jarudin's upcoming trip to Japan. Don't take it as official word yet, but for the moment uTorrent, Vuze and some libtorrent-based clients are the only clients on the recommended list. The libtorrent clients are kinda tricky since there are so many frontends for them, and we're not going to take the libtorrent library as the only requirement for "recommendation".

[[User:Raznak|Raznak]] 05:20, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

BT clients

2009-06-17T14:38:46Z

Souichi: /* Acceptable */

A '''''BitTorrent Client''''' is computer software that utilizes the BitTorrent P2P protocol to download and upload data. The original BitTorrent client was released in 2002 by Bram Cohen. Since then, many different clients have developed, all of which are at least partially based on the original BitTorrent client.

==BitTorrent Clients==
'''Please be sure to avoid all clients listed as ''[[BT Clients#Forbidden|Forbidden]]'' unless you want your account disabled. Also, keep in mind that ''[[BT Clients#Not Recommended|Not Recommended]]'' clients are not suggested to use with BakaBT because of various reasons.'''

===Recommended===
;[http://www.utorrent.com/ µTorrent / uTorrent] (Windows, WINE)
*One of the most preferred clients on BakaBT. This client is known for having a small distribution size, despite being feature rich, and using little system resources. Available for Windows and WINE emulation only.

;[http://www.vuze.com/app?service=home Vuze (''Azureus'')] (Windows, Linux, Mac)
* One of the most preferred clients on BakaBT. This client has recently changed name to Vuze from it's old name Azureus.
* What Vuze is unique for is it's community part, which allows you to share torrents easily with your friends.
* While this client is very rich in features, it is written in Java, which makes it slow by nature, and is quite a memory hog. Despite these enormous flaws, it is still one of the best.
;[http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ rTorrent] (Linux, cygwin?)
* A mature BitTorrent client built around the libTorrent C++ library. Ncurses-based.
* Uses very minimal resources.
* Often used in a detached GNU Screen session.
* Has [http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/wiki/UtilsList many] web front-ends available.

===Acceptable===
;[http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/ ABC] (Windows, Linux)

;[http://aria2.sourceforge.net/ Aria2] (Linux, BSD, Mac)
* ''Adaptive'' download client with a full-featured BT mode. Interesting hybrid mode where data can be downloaded via FTP or HTTP and added to an active torrent. Small footprint application in active development.

;[http://www.bittornado.com/ BitTornado] (Windows, Linux, Mac)
* Client developed by John Hoffman. This client was the first to include [[super seeding]]. This client automatically bans connections with [http://www.bitcomet.com/ BitComet] clients.

;[http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/ BitTorrent 5 (''Mainline'')] (Windows, Linux, Mac)
* The official BitTorrent client, nicknamed ''Mainline'' by developers. The last version before BitTorrent Inc. switched to the [http://www.utorrent.com uTorrent] build.
* The newest version for Mac is 4.27.2 and Linux 5.2.0.

;[http://www.bittorrent.com/ BitTorrent 6] (Windows)
* The official BitTorrent client. It is based on the [http://www.utorrent.com uTorrent] client. Only big difference from [http://www.utorrent.com uTorrent] is that it comes with support for BitTorrent DNA™.

;[http://www.167bt.com/intl/ BitSpirit] (Windows)

;[http://deluge-torrent.org/ Deluge] (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X)
* Deluge is a lightweight, Free Software, cross-platform BitTorrent client.

;[http://ktorrent.org/ KTorrent] (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X)

;[http://thegraveyard.org/qtorrent.php QTorrent] (Windows, Linux, Mac)
* QTorrent bundles it's own version of BitTornado but depend on [http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyQt PyQt] (which you much install separately).

;[http://www.transmissionbt.com/ Transmission] (Linux, Mac OS X, BeOS)
* A client that runs on Unix based systems, Mac OS X, and BeOS. Default client for Ubuntu Linux, Zenwalk Linux and some other distributions. This client is known for having a small distribution size.

===Not Recommended===
;[http://www.bitcomet.com/ BitComet] (Windows)
* This client is not suggested for use in the BakaBT community. It is currently only available for the Windows platform.

;[http://www.bitlord.com/ BitLord] (Windows)
* This client is based on the source code of the BitComet 0.56 core and includes adware and malware. It is not suggested for use in the BakaBT community. It is currently only available for the Windows platform.

;[http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/ Shareaza] (Windows)
* There exists two Shareza, one false and the true client. '''Shareza V4''' is the false one, and it comes bundled with '''adware'''. '''Shareza V2''' is the true client.

===Forbidden===
;[http://www.xunlei.com/ Xunlei] (Windows)
* Client that doesn't follow the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(protocol) Bittorrent protocol] properly, reports fake transfer stats to give you a constant 1.0 ratio. Certain to get your account disabled once we find out.

==External Websites==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_client BitTorrent clients on Wikipedia]