Re: Divx and Linux

[Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>]

On Aug 17 2001, Emil Wilmanski wrote:
> Somebody can help me run DIVX on Linux??

	According to my experience, while there are quite a few
	players for Linux that claim that they can play avi files
	(xine, xmps, avifile/player, mplayer), the best ones that I
	have used so far are avifile <http://avifile.sourceforge.net/>
	and mplayer <http://mplayer.dev.hu/homepage/>.

	Using avifile to play some self encoded divx files resulted in
	the audio being a little bit out of sync with the video (quite
	a lot in avifile 0.53 and a little bit out of sync with
	avifile 0.60), but mplayer plays the file that I created quite
	well and so it is my preferred choice.

	For DVD players, on the other hand, I think that the choice is
	much narrower, with the best ones being videolan
	<http://www.videolan.org/> and xine
	<http://xine.sourceforge.net/>, although I haven't run the
	"new generation" of xine, since the one in debian unstable
	(0.4.3) is at least two official releases behind the one
	available at the xine homepage (0.5.1).

	An honorable mention goes to ogle, which is able to use the
	menus that some DVDs contain for the "extra-goodies"
	(biographies, making of's etc).

	I guess that the way to go is to create self-packaged
	applications now, since some of these things either are way,
	way behind the current releases (oh, my!) or won't be package
	for Debian for legal reasons (lame, libcss etc).

	Anybody else interested in this also?


	[]s, Roger...

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