Re: DivX

[Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

"Dannis 't Hart" <dannis@wanadoo.nl> writes:

> On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 18:53, Peter Watkinson wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > Is there a Div X player for Alpha Linux. I don't know to much about DivX is it sort of like avi for Windows or Real player? Is it not owned by anyone in particular a bit like mp3?
> There are. There's Mplayer. It uses ffmpeg. There was a thread on this
> some 2 months ago, I think. One of the Debian developers, Falk Hueffner,
> made available some patched version that works for me.

Falk Hueffner's patches should be in the mplayer sources already. But
he's still tweaking it every now and then. 21264 optimized routines
might come when hes back from his holidays since he now got one himself.

MfG
        Goswin

PS: The XV extension of X is pretty much needed to play anything with
decent quality in realtime.