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Gus Wirth wrote:
> Tracy R Reed wrote:
>> Christopher Smith wrote:
>>> The DivX's look quite a bit smaller... why do the MPEG's?
>> So that you don't have to use any proprietary codecs to play them on
>> your Linux box.
> 
> DivX has been reverse engineered as Xvid. The codecs that come with
> mplayer play them just fine and are open source.

Technically, I believe the codec is still proprietary, but the code isn't!

- --Chris
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