Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?

[Dragos <dragos.delcea@farmexim.ro>]

On Saturday 15 December 2001 05:47 pm, Steffen Evers wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 02:05, nate wrote:
> > <quote who="Dragos">
> >
> > > xine barks about library divxc32.dll !?
> > > plaympeg doesn't do anything, and if I try to apt-get smpeg-xmms,
> > > it's saying  that it has unmet dependencies depends: libsdl1.2 but
> > > it's not instalable; should I upgrade to unstable?
> >
> > i wouldnt reccomend it..but i would never run unstable so..
> >
> > i play(and encode) divx  in testing a lot(i don't upgrade
> > testing a lot, maybe once every 2 months). go to
> > avifile.sourceforge.net and get avifile. it supports
> > opendivx too(what i encode in).
>
> You can get the avifile packages from unstable and install them manually
> or simply get them with apt-get (what I do):
>
> - add unstable methods to /etc/apt/sources.list
> - set your /etc/apt/preferences like this:
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=stable
> Pin-Priority: 900
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release o=unstable
> Pin-Priority: -10
>
> - apt-get update
> - apt-get install avifile-player libavifile0.6
> - comment out added methods for unstable in sources.list
> - apt-get update (last two, so you do not update all your packages by
>   dselect)
>
> However, then you still need the codecs files ...
>
> This works great for me!
>
> Bye, Steffen
thank you all.
I took avifile source and compiled it.
I was eager for something like that after all that apt-get's...
it works.
and I'll compile install mplayer too.

thanks again, dragos