On Thursday 13 April 2006 14:58, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
>       I asked this in the vlc mail-list already and was replied that VLC
> don't use external libraries like win32codecs. As such, it is not
> able to play rmvb (real Media) files and also it's current quicktime
> support is broken.
>
> I looked at the ebuild for vlc in gentoo and noticed the win32codecs
> USE flag. However, it does not seem to me that it is being honored in
> the compilation of VLC.
>
> Doing a configure --help of a VLC source does not have anything which
> shows the win32codecs usage.
>
> Has anyone in this list been able to successfully integrate
> Win32codecs into VLC and hence be able to play Quicktime/rmvb files?
>
> It is said that some Debian Sid people has managed to integrate it
> into their custom compilation. If anyone knows anything, would
> appreciate some heads up.
>
> --
> Ow Mun Heng
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> 0.37, 0.37


Check this out:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html

Look at the support for Real Media and your questions shall be 
answered :)

HTH,
Mrugesh

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