<sect1 id="howto-installation">
<title
>Installatie</title>

<sect2 id="howto-installation-dependencies">
<title
>Afhankelijkheden</title>

<sect3 id="howto-installation-mplayer">
<title
>MPlayer</title>

<para
>&kplayer; uses <ulink url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/"
>&mplayer;</ulink
> as the multimedia backend for playing audio and video files and streams. This ensures maximum variety of supported types of files and encodings.</para>

<para
>You need to have &mplayer; version 1.0-pre8 or later. If there are good binary packages for your distribution, use those. For example on Debian you would do</para>

<para
><userinput
><command
>echo</command
> 'deb http://debian-multimedia.org unstable main' 
>
> <filename
>/etc/apt/sources.list</filename
></userinput
></para>

<para
><userinput
><command
>apt-get</command
> update</userinput
></para>

<para
><userinput
><command
>apt-get</command
> install mplayer</userinput
></para>

<para
>Substitute <literal
>unstable</literal
> for <literal
>stable</literal
> or <literal
>testing</literal
> as required. The same repository also has a &kplayer; package, so you can install it as well:</para>

<para
><userinput
><command
>apt-get</command
> install kplayer</userinput
></para>

<para
>As always <ulink url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html#faq-compilation"
>compiling from source</ulink
> is an option.</para>

</sect3>

<sect3 id="howto-installation-xvideo">
<title
>X11 and XVideo</title>

<para
>X11 is required. The X Server and libraries released by X.org are recommended. XFree86 may also work.</para>

<para
>XVideo extension is recommended. You can check your <filename
>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</filename
> or <filename
>/etc/X11/XF86Config-4</filename
> file for a line that reads</para>

<para
><userinput
>"extmod" laden</userinput
></para>

<para
>This is the line that loads XVideo extension, so make sure it is not disabled. Also check <filename
>/var/log/Xorg.0.log</filename
> or <filename
>/var/log/XFree86.0.log</filename
> to make sure that XVideo is loaded without error.</para>

<para
>See the <link linkend="howto-configuration"
>Configuration micro-HOWTO</link
> if you want to use a different video output.</para>

</sect3>

<sect3 id="howto-installation-kde">
<title
>Qt and KDE</title>

<para
>&kplayer; 0.7 supports &kde; 4.2 and later, so you need to either run a relatively recent &kde; (recommended) or at least have &kde; libraries and the corresponding Qt libraries on your system.</para>

</sect3>

</sect2>

<sect2 id="howto-installation-installation">
<title
>Installatie</title>

<sect3 id="howto-installation-binary">
<title
>Binary install</title>

<para
>The recommended way to install &kplayer; is by using the binary package built specifically for your distribution.</para>

</sect3>

<sect3 id="howto-installation-source">
<title
>Compileren vanuit de broncode</title>

<para
>Als u geen voorgecompileerd binair programma kunt installeren om welke reden dan ook, dan kunt u &kplayer; zelf compileren. Zie <link linkend="howto-compilation"
>Micro-HOWTO voor compilatie</link
> voor instructies.</para>

</sect3>

<sect3 id="howto-installation-git">
<title
>Compileren vanuit git</title>
<para
>If you want to try the latest and greatest &kplayer; features at the risk of getting some parts of it broken, you can compile the latest <acronym
>Git</acronym
> code. See the <link linkend="howto-compilation"
>Compilation Micro-HOWTO</link
> for details.</para>

</sect3>

</sect2>

</sect1>
