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eMoviX v0.9.0pre1 <http://movix.sf.net/> Author: Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net> Last update : 26 Dec 2003 What is it? ----------- eMoviX is a tiny Linux CD distribution containing all the software to boot from a CD and play automatically every video file localized in the CD root. Supported formats are all formats supported by MPlayer, most noticeably DivX & XviD but more in general most AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, WMV, ASF, FLI and a few others. If you put a subtitles file in the same position with the same name (e.g. movie.avi and movie.sub) then the subtitles will be automatically displayed. In other words, if you put your video file(s) and eMoviX in the same CD then you will have inside the CD not only the movie but also all the software needed to boot the PC and play the movie, so that you'll be able to play the movie in every PC even when no OS (or the wrong one :-) is installed (at least as long as that PC hardware is supported by Linux). Of course you will still able to read the CD and play the movie from any other OS, so the only thing you are going to lose are the ~8Mb that the eMoviX is going to occupy on the CD. How is it done? --------------- eMoviX is all made from software already available on the net. The main packages on which it is based are: syslinux v2.08 <syslinux.zytor.com> to make the CD bootable linux kernel v2.4.22 <www.kernel.org> to hearth of the system :-) busybox 1.0pre3 <www.busybox.net> the system binaries mplayer v0.92 <www.mplayerhq.hu> to play the movies alsa 1.0.0rc1 <www.alsa-project.org> as audio cards drivers This is the first version that is not based on slackware's initrd.gz root fs I had started working on more than a year ago. The system is now based on the movix-builder mechanism invented by Balazs Barany: all binaries are now automatically built inside a User-Mode Linux session based on Debian. If you don't know what UML is, go visit the following URLs: http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ http://usermodelinux.org/ This ingenous mechanism has the following large advantages over the old one: 1. makes the eMoviX development totally independent on the linux distro people work on 2. makes extremely easy keeping all packages up-to-date since to rebuild the whole system it is needed just to run a few commands 3. allows Linux users to customize eMoviX for their need in the easiest way possible If you are interested in using the movix-builder system, please read the README file online at http://tud.at/bb/download/movix-build/readme . From there, you can also download the necessary files. Please note that you need to be an experienced Linux user to be able to use the movix-builder system (and generally User Mode Linux). It's a complex system, and we can only give limited support so you are almost on your own. Documentation ------------- Up to now I did not have much time to write any doc about all this, so this file contains almost all the documentation available. Hopefull will find time in the future. A little info/docs are available at the boot prompt on every CD produced with eMoviX. Requirements ------------ --> Software: The only thing you need to use eMoviX is a software package to produce the bootable isoimage and one to burn the image on CD. On both Linux and M$ Window$ you can use mkisofs & cdrecord, that you can get from ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ Working copies of mkisofs.exe and cdrecord.exe for WinXX users are included in the file MoviX_Win32_Script.zip packaged by Christophe Paris and available for download in the usual MoviX download page http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61561. The file contain also useful .bat files written by Christophe that should make a lot easier using mkisofs and cdrecord to M$ users. Many thanks to Christophe for making available these files! IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR WINDOWS USERS There are two new packages that allow window$ users to create eMoviX images through a user-friendly GUI: - eMoviX win32 Setup by Clovis Sena (csena2k2@users.sf.net) This package is downloadable from the usual movix download page. - MovixISOCreator by Kangur (movixisocreator@o2.pl) This package is downloadable from http://www.movixisocreator.prv.pl/ --> Hardware: CPU Only x86 compatible are supported, and only >= i586 (you need at the very least a Pentium I 166MHz) RAM According to my tests all eMoviX features work with 36MB of RAM. Some feature [e.g. mpeg playback] works even with just 32MB but mileage can vary according to your HW and the type of file contained in the CD. MICE You need no mouse with eMoviX. CONTROLLERS All IDE controllers are supported. To keep the distro as small as possible only a few widespread SCSI controllers are supported (e.g. Adaptec controllers). Please write me an email if your controller seems not to work fine. VIDEO CARDS It is not easy to say on which video cards eMoviX will work. Cards brand that are generally known to work are: Matrox Ati NVidia Intel 3Dfx Sis S3 Trident VIA but it is likely that the majority of video cards will work fine. I plan to publish soon on the movix web site a more detailed video cards database, so if your video card is not on my list and works with eMoviX please let me know and I will add it to the list of cards known to work. Same if it does not! BTW, if you use the "aa" label than eMoviX will work no matter which card do you have. Ok, it is ASCII visualization but, what the hell, it works! :-) VIDEO CARDS WITH TV-OUT eMoviX has support for using the TV-out feature of at least some Matrox, ATI, S3 Savage, NVidia, SiS and VIA CastleRock video cards. - ATI: they activate their tv-out automatically if the output is connected to the TV when you boot the PC. - Matrox G400: use the TV boot label. - Matrox G450 and G550: use the TV boot label. The video will appear on the TV, it needs to be connected to the secondary output of the video card. - NVidia: use the TV boot label. - S3 Savage: use the TV boot label. The computer's screen will be blank, all output goes to the TV. After the movie ends, you can get back to the computer screen by entering "s3switch lcd" or "s3switch crt". - SiS: this card has been tested only on laptops. Boot with any label and activate the TV-out from your keyboard. - CastleRock: this card TV-out will be automatically activated starting eMoviX with the TV-out plug already connected to the TV. AUDIO CARDS eMoviX makes use of the ALSA sound drivers. A complete list of all supported cards with detailed info on each of them is available form the ALSA home page at http://www.alsa-project.org/ ETHERNET CARDS Net is not supported by eMoviX. REMOTES Currently supported remotes are: Hauppauge TV card remotes Hauppauge serial remotes Logitech serial remotes Pinnacle serial remotes You can make use of these remotes by specifying REMOTE=<name> as a boot parameter, where <name> can be one of the following: 'hauppauge' for IR receivers attached to your Hauppauge card, 'hauppauge2' for the Hauppauge PVR remote control and a receiver at the serial port 'haupserial' for the old Hauppauge remote control and a receiver at the serial port 'logitech' for the Logitech Value Infrared Remote Control 'pctv' for the PCTV Remote and a receiver at the serial port 'abit' for the AU10 audio card / windvd If you are interested in supporting more remotes post a message in the movix forums. For_experts_only: Basically you have to add a line in remotes.data. The first entry is the boot parameter and is also used for the files lircd.conf.* and lircrc.* which you have to create *before* "make install". You do also have to mention these two files in Makefile.am and do a make clean and rerun ./configure . The second entry is the internal lirc name for the device, you can get a list by typing "lircd -H help". The third column is the device lircd accesses while running. The last column specifies the (pseudo) module name that has to be loaded for lirc. See also rc.lirc for internal details. Supported Audio/Video formats ----------------------------- I am not at all an expert in this so I cannot be very precise about this. All I know is that you should be able to play most of the DivX/XviD files around and more in general most AVI, MPG file, QuickTime, ASF and WMV should be ok. About video files, all MP3 and OGG/VORBIS files should play fine. If you have examples of such files not working with eMoviX please let me know. Installation ------------ eMoviX uses the autoconf/automake mechanism, so installing eMoviX is as easy as untarring the tarball, cd-ing in the newly created directory and running the standard commands ./configure make make install By default the binaries "mkmovixiso", "movix-conf" and "movix-version" will be installed in /usr/local/bin and all eMoviX data files will be copied in /usr/local/share/emovix Or you can install the Debian package available at the usual download area. If all this does not make any sense to you or if you rather prefer making the iso image by hand, just forget what you've just read and read below. Linux GUIs for eMoviX --------------------- If you are not a CLI lover, there are two GUIs for you: * MoviXMaker MoviXMaker (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/movixmaker/) is a simple Perl GTK+/Gnome/GladeXML interface created by Pascal Giard <evilynux@users.sf.net> that helps you make, very easily, customized eMoviX/MoviX/MoviX2 disc images. * K3b K3b (http://www.k3b.org/) is a very nice KDE GUI for burning CDs with Drag'n'Drop capabilities and much more. Thanks to many users requests, its mantainer Sebastian Trueg decided to support the eMoviX format! This means that if you install K3b you'll be able to produce eMoviX CDs simply choosing to open a new "eMoviX Project" :-) You can safely ignore next 3 sections unless you are a 'die-hard' CLI lover like me ;-) Making a bootable iso image with your audio/video files ------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER FOR WINDOWS USERS: as already pointed out above, there are two win32 GUIs for producing eMoviX ISO images, namely: - eMoviX win32 Setup, by Clovis Sena (csena2k2@users.sf.net) This package is downloadable from the usual movix download page (is the one with .exe extension ;-) - MovixISOCreator, by Kangur (movixisocreator@o2.pl) This package is downloadable from http://www.movixisocreator.prv.pl/ If you like the command line, you can use the Christophe Paris package MoviX_Win32_Script.zip, available for download in the usual MoviX download page, and follow the "Old style" instructions below, or install cygwin (http://cygwin.redhat.com/) and follow the "New style" instructions. *** New style [not good for winXX users unless you have installed cygwin] To make as easy as possible the creation of the bootable iso image, the perl script "mkmovixiso" is provided together with the package. The typical thing you have to type to produce an iso image containing the files "file1" and "file2" and all files in the directory "dir" is something like mkmovixiso -t "My title" -o /tmp/movix.iso file1 file2 dir Keep in mind that you may want to add also some playlist to the CD, in case you have more than one file and you want them played in some particular order. For more info read carefully the "Playlists" section below. To know more about mkmovixiso options try "mkmovixiso -h". If you use always the same output file or same language or like to add always the same extra options, you can avoid writing them explicitly every time you run mkmovixiso creating a .mkmovixisorc file in your home dir. Here is an example [WARNING: these are more or less random setting, use your own ones!!!]: # <--------- .mkmovixisorc sample # my .mkmovixisorc file # all lines starting by # are comments! # default output file location output-file=/tmp/movix.iso # default boot label boot-label=MoviX # default font set subtitleFonts=polish # extra options for mkisofs extra-mkisofs-options=-J ### Options to be passed to MPlayer # extra options for mplayer extra-mplayer-options=-double -aspect 4:3 # options you want to be sure won't be used by mplayer unwanted-mplayer-options=-fs -zoom # repeat the playback 5 times [0 = repeat for ever] loop=5 # do not enforce DMA usage #[use it only if your system hangs during the boot] dma=n # play all files in random order random=y # reboot after playback is over reboot=y # turn off the PC after playback is over # shut=y # eject after playback is over eject=y # delete temporary directory auto-delete=y # ---------> end of .mkmovixisorc sample No other options are available till now for the .movixrc *** Old style [for winXX users willing to use mkisofs without installing cygwin] If you like better the good old way do something similar to this: 0. make somewhere, e.g. inside the "utils" folder", a new directory, say you call it "movix"; 1. copy the folders src/isolinux and src/movix in the newly created "movix" folder [just to avoid misunderstandings, the new "movix" folder and src/movix are _not_ the same folder and the second won't appear anymore in this section...]; 2. if you have subtitles and wanna see them, create a folder called "mplayer" inside "movix", create a folder "font" inside "mplayer" and copy inside it your favorite character set from mplayer-fonts [inside "font" there should be at this point a few files with extension .raw an a single file called font.desc]; 3. copy all the audio/video files you want in the "movix" folder; 4. run "sh mkmovixiso.sh" if you are on unix and "mkmvxiso.bat" if you are on winXX; your bootable iso image will be created in "\tmp\movix.iso" and "c:\temp\movix.iso" respectively. Remember to edit the _-V "Film"_ string inside the script if you want to give a better title to your CD! Please let me know if you find any mistake in this algorithm :-) *** Don't wanna use mkisofs! Window$ users hating mkisofs can still produce bootable eMoviX CDs with the following method introduced to me by the very inventive Hakan Atac: 0. download the eMoviX bootable floppy image; 1. start Nero :-) 2. close the wizard (it has no bootable option); 3. select CD-ROM (boot) from left selection area, it takes you to the boot section; 4. select as disk image the floppy image you downloaded in step 0; 5. in expert settings, set "Kind of Emulation" to "No emulation"; 6. put the "isolinux" directory in the CD root. IMPORTANT: if you want to use subtitles you must create in the CD root also a "mplayer/font" dir (font is a subdir of mplayer) and put your favorite fontset inside it. For example, for turkish fonts you must put inside the "mplayer/font" folder all files you find in the "mplayer-fonts/turkish/" folder of the eMoviX package; 7. put all your audio/video files in the CD root [don't put them in any subdirectory!]; 8. if you want eMoviX to play your files in any particular order, put one or more playlists in the "movix" folder. By default eMoviX will play the one named "movix" (if any). 9. burn the CD! Thanks a lot to Hakan Atac for providing this nice way to build bootable CDs with Nero! MultiSession ------------ To learn how to add sessions to an eMoviX CD you can read the docs on http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/doc-advcd.html in sections 5-7. WARNING: making an eMoviX multisession CD with Nero is tricky because Nero is not aware of the Rock-Ridge CD format, so please *read* the sections above. NOTE: a user suggested using Winimage to add files to a bootable ISO file under WinXX. I had no time to test this, so if you try it please let me know if it works! Usage ----- Once you have your iso image you can burn it over a CD with something like cdrecord dev=0,0 -v -eject /tmp/movix.iso or just use Nero or any package able to burn iso images on CDs. Leave the newly created CD in the CD-ROM drive and reboot your PC: if everything went fine your PC will boot from the CD and after a few seconds the mplayer copy contained in eMoviX will start playing all of your files. Boot Labels ----------- There are a lot of video cards out there and a lot of mplayer video drivers and not necessarily all of their combinations work well together. The movix.pl script tries to determine automatically the best options for you, so that you don't need in general to enter anything at the boot prompt. But in case you are not satisfied with the playback video quality there are a few extra boot labels you can try to force eMoviX to use a particular driver: Label Comment MoviX - The default label causes the movix script to choose (default) automagically the best mplayer driver for your card. sdl - Very good subtitles rendering but not the best video quality. vesa - The "vesa" driver should work for most cards. vesaFB - Use the generic vesa FrameBuffer driver (800x600). vesaFB640, vesaFB800, vesaFB1024, vesaFB1280, vesaFB1400 - vesaFB labels for the following resolutions: 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1400x1050 FB - Use the specific FB driver for yr card (if any). aa - Watch your videos in ASCII format! :-) aa1024 - Watch your videos in ASCII format at a 1024x768 resolution. aa1280 - Watch your videos in ASCII format at a 1280x1024 resolution. (these last two requires a CPU >= 1GHz) TV - Initialize the applications [if any] needed to activate the TV-out of your card. NVidiaTV - Try this label if the TV-out of your NVidia card does not work. There are also two extra labels that can be useful too when you forget an eMoviX CD in your drive: hd - forget the CD and boot from the HD floppy - forget the CD and boot from the Floppy Thanks a lot to Christophe Paris for this nice suggestion, I use it many times a day! Boot Arguments -------------- You can also provide at boot time a few options that will be automagically passed to the movix.pl script to modify its behaviour: Boot Args Values Effect SLOW y,n By default movix slows down your CD-ROM drives to decrease their noise, but sometimes this messes them up. If your CD drive seems to behave in some strange way try using this option. ACCEL sw,no Force software or no rescaling. If your playback appears to be very slow you can try "ACCEL=no" to make it smoother [but your movie won't be rescaled to fullscreen!]. VO_DRIVER <driver> Force vo driver (read mplayer DOCS first!). MP_OPTIONS <opts> Add mplayer options (same as above!). LIST <list> Use "list" as default playlist. DMA y,n Use "DMA=n" if your system hangs at boot time trying to access your CD drive. SHUT y,n Power off PC after playing all CD files. This is especially useful if you are likely to fall asleep before the end of the playback :-) REBOOT y,n Reboot PC after playing all CD files. LOOP <N> Loops playback n times. Setting "LOOP=0" let mplayer playing your files for ever. RANDOM y,n Play all the CD files in random order. REGION <region> Either one of NTSC, NTSC-J, PAL, PAL-B, PAL-M, PAL-NC, PAL-60, PAL-M60 or SECAM. For your TV-Out to work properly, your video card needs to know what mode uses your TV (ATI cards don't need this). AUDIO <N> Audio card selection (if you have more than one) 0 for the "first" card, 1 for the "second" etc. The order in which the audio cards are detected by eMoviX is somewhat arbitrary, so you might need to try 0 and 1. SCSI <module> Force eMoviX to load the SCSI module.o module (e.g. "SCSI=tmscsim") REMOTE <model> Either one of: hauppauge, haupserial, logitech pctv, hauppauge2, abit DXR3 n Don't use your DXR3/H+ card (if any) Example: if you like the standard boot label but you want to play your "sleepy.asx" playlist and you want your PC to shut down after the playlist's end (probably because you shut down way before that) and you don't want to slow down your CD-ROM because you like that buzzing background, then you should use the folowing boot string: boot: MoviX LIST=sleepy.asx SLOW=n SHUT=y FOR EXPERTS ONLY: You can create your own customized boot label for every PC you know in the file isolinux.cfg . This way you do not have to type the name of your remote control or any other special setting over and over again. How to play QuickTime/ASF/WMV/RP files -------------------------------------- To play these kinds of files files MPlayer needs a few special DLL. They are not included in the eMoviX package to keep it slim, so you have to download them by yourself at the following addresses: - Win32 codecs (asf,wmv) http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/win32codecs.tar.bz2 - QuickTime6 DLLs http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/qt6dlls.tar.bz2 - RealPlayer9 codecs http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/rp9codecs.tar.bz2 - RealPlayer Win32 codecs http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/rp9win32codecs.tar.bz2 - XAnim DLLs http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/xanimdlls.tar.bz2 To make eMoviX able to play these kind of files follow the following instructions: 1. download the DLL files you need 2. create a directory "codecs" inside the $prefix/share/emovix/ directory (by default $prefix is /usr/local/) 3. put the bz2 archives inside the newly created "codecs" dir; do *not* unpack the tarball, eMoviX itself will take care of it 4. every time you put, say, QuickTime files in an eMoviX CD, add the "--hasQT" option to the mkmovixiso line you normally use. Find out about all "--hasXX" options with "mkmovixiso -h" WARNING ABOUT QUICKTIME FILES: for a MPlayer bug, mplayer will crash when trying to play its second QuickTime file, so till this bug will be fixed it does not make much sense adding more than one QuickTime file to an eMoviX CD. Mplayer Menu ------------ You can easily use the MPlayer "menu" feature to "navigate" through your videos selection and/or to play any kind of media! Just wait for mplayer to start and press the key "m" to activate the menu. The list of the other active keys for the mplayer is available in the "Menu Manual" entry od the menu or on the mplayer site. The list of the most important keys is also available on every eMoviX CD when the splash-page logo appears. How to play other media after the playback is over without rebooting -------------------------------------------------------------------- After the playback is over you will have access to the MPlayer menu, so you can play whatever you want from it :-) If you want to play *all* files contained in a CD, then you may find useful using the "Play -> CD" menu ;-) If you are a CLI lover, then you may go back to the shell selecting "Exit -> Shell Prompt". The following commands are available for playback: movix (to play a CD with audio/video files inside) dvd N (where N is usually 1 or 2) dvd (automatically plays the longest DVD track) vcd N (where N is usually 1 or 2) acd mcd *** IMPORTANT DVD NEWS *** Because of the DeCSS legal problems, this eMoviX version cannot read encrypted DVDs unless *you* add *by your own* the libdvdcss.so library to the distro. The libdvdcss library makes use of the DeCSS algorithm, that has been declared *illegal* in some country (e.g. USA and Germany), so before adding it I suggest you to make sure it is ok to use it in your country. Because of the extremely unclear status of the legal matters about DeCSS I can't even provide a link for those who legitimally can make use of it. Nevertheless all you should do is going in your favorite search engine, look for the package named libdvdcss-1.2.6-1.i386.rpm and copy that package in your $prefix/share/emovix/movix directory (or in src/movix if you are building eMoviX CDs without using the mkmovixiso script). Once the library is in you eMoviX installation, remember to add "-css" to the mkmovixiso options for all eMoviX CDs that you want to make able to read encrypted DVDs. ********************** To get a much more powerful interface to MPlayer go back at the MoviX web site and download the last MoviX or MoviX2 version! What to do if audio is too low or absent ---------------------------------------- If the audio is too low or absent even after maximizing it from mplayer then you can try the following: stop the movie, change console with ALT-F2, change the volume with alsamixer, go back to the original console with ALT-F1 and start back the playback with the "movix" command. Note: you *cannot* do this while the movie is playing! Playlists --------- Since version 0.6 eMoviX supports playlists! The supported formats are: .asx .m3u .pls .txt .list E.g. if you have a file "My Video.avi" and "My Audio.mp3" you may write the following lists: 1. movix.asx that will look like: <asx version = "3.0"> <title>My List</title> <entry> <ref href = "/cdrom/My Video.avi"/> </entry> <entry> <ref href = "/cdrom/My Audio.mp3"/> </entry> </asx> 2. movix.list or movix.txt that will look like: /cdrom/My Video.avi /cdrom/My Audio.mp3 Don't know much about pls or m3u formats but I know that they work, at least in some case :-) eMoviX by default looks in the CD root for "movix.asx" or "movix.list" or similar. If none of them is available, then files should be played in alphabetic order. If you like to have more than a playlist you can use other names and activate the other ones booting the CD with the LIST parameter. E.g if you have two playlists named "movix.list" and "alt.list" and want to use the second, then boot the CD in the following way: boot: MoviX LIST=alt.list NOTE: keep in mind that the new mplayer "menu" feature allows you to open a new playlist (or even to move from file) without having to reboot! Internationalization -------------------- NOTE: That can be selected using K3b, MoviXMaker or MoviXISOCreator. eMoviX contains translations in several languages for the boot-messages. To get a complete list use "mkmovixiso -h". To use boot messages in a language different from english use the "-lang <lang>" option of mkmovixiso [get details with "mkmovixiso -h"]. International keyboard support ------------------------------ NOTE: That can be selected using K3b, MoviXMaker or MoviXISOCreator. On many non-English keyboards like German and Hungarian the characters needed by eMoviX are hard to type and not where you would expect them. (IBM compatible PCs and eMoviX use the US English keyboard layout by default.) You can use the --keyboard=<language> switch to change the keyboard layout both for the boot command line and for the Linux shell. Example: "mkmovixiso --keyboard=de" will create an eMoviX CD that uses the German keyboard layout. Supported font sets ------------------- NOTE: That can be selected using K3b, MoviXMaker or MoviXISOCreator. The eMoviX package contains the following mplayer fonts: centralEU-cp1250, centralEU-iso-8859-2, czech, cyrillic, greek, hebrew, polish, russian and turkish. All these packages support latin characters (iso-8859-1) plus their specific characters. eMoviX also contains the following TrueType fonts: FreeFonts, VeraFonts Don't even ask about adding the standard Microsoft TrueType fonts such as Arial, Courier and so on: they are free of charge but they are not under any kind of "Open Source" license :-( Nevertheless, you can add them very easily to your own eMoviX installation just copying the ttf files from your c:\windows\fonts\ directory (if any ;-) to your $prefix/share/emovix/mplayer-fonts/ directory or getting the fonts directly from the http://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/ page. Of course all this under your own responsibility ;-) Thanks a lot to Balazs Barany for pointing out this little copyright problem to me! :-) By default the FreeSerifBoldItalic font is added to the iso image. To have no fonts included add the -noSub option to the "mkmovixiso" command. See "mkmovixiso -h" to see how to choose a different font set. In general you'll write something like mkmovixiso -a filename -t "My title" -sub=greek -o /tmp/movix.iso All mplayer fonts packages were extracted from ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/fonts/ except for the polish fonts (sent me by Krzysztof Kajkowski) and hebrew fonts (sent me by Pavel Bibergal). Here is where the included True Type fonts come from: FreeFonts - http://www.nongnu.org/freefont/ VeraFonts - http://gnome.org/fonts/ For space reasons I did not include them all. If you want more choice, go get them and add all you want! Chinese Fonts ------------- Chinese fonts are not included in the package simply because the size of a set of Chinese characters is ~50% of the whole eMoviX package :-) If you want to add chinese characters support, you can either follow the instructions at http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=878378&forum_id=207427 or download the true type chinese fonts at http://www.arphic.com.tw/free/free.htm Korean Fonts ------------ Same problem as with Chinese fonts. If you need them, get the package from ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.6/i386/All/baekmuk-ttf-2.0.tgz Debugging --------- For debugging purposes, after a nice suggestion by Jose' M. Fandinho, I added to eMoviX a script that will put on a floppy the following info: 1. output of dmesg 2. /proc/pci 3. movix script logs 4. settings of all cd-rom on the machine To run the script just put an empty floppy in the floppy drive, write "debug" and press ENTER. All debug info will be put in the floppy inside a single file named bugreport.txt . Kernel & MPlayer configuration ----------------------------- You will find the config files for the current eMoviX mplayer and vmlinuz in the "config" dir of this package. Acknowledgments --------------- I want to thank the great guys at www.scriptamanent.it for making the logo for the eMoviX project. I also want to thanks my friend Andrea Assorgia for all his encouragements and good advices about making eMoviX and for actually having suggested the name of the project. Special thanks go to my brother Vincenzo that bought me a very fast CD burner speeding up a lot the development of this package! :-)