Subject: Re: divx
From: Jason Fritz (jafritz@alaska.com)
Date: Sat Feb 16 2002 - 13:18:35 AKST
Try the X movie player. When you load up the video file it should search
for the codec, if the codec was installed correctly.
Here is a web site for X movie player if you don't already have it.
http://xmps.sourceforge.net/
Jason
----- Original Message -----
From: "That Guy Josh" <augustus@acerbic.org>
To: <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 1:05 PM
Subject: divx
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> Has anyone had any luck playing divx movies under X? While the divx.com
> page has a linux download it's only the codec's and doesn't include a
> player, or instructions (that I saw) for actually playing files under
> linux. The brief research I've done turns up a couple of divx projects for
> linux but no "offical" linux player seems to exist. Before I get mired in
> the process of downloading and testing a whole lot of packages I was
> hoping that someone could recomend a good linux divx player. Thanks !
>
> "The Americans, who are the most efficient people on earth...have invented
> so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an
> amusing and animated converstation without giving a moments reflection
> to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more
> important matters of big business and fornication."
> - W. Somerset Maugham
>
> Josh Burroughs
> augustus@acerbic.org
> http://www.acerbic.org
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