Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 10:53 pm, Tommi Komulainen wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:51:25PM +0100, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: When I use -fs -vo x11, it opens in fullcreen, but the movie is still the same size located in the midlle of the screen, surrounded by black color. How about trying -vm instead of -fs? IIRC that's the option that makes MPlayer to switch to the closest video mode. Additionally if you visit http://xtiming.sf.net/ you can calculate precise modelines for all common video resolutions (384x288 etc.) That way that closest video mode will actually be truly full screen. At least it works wonders for me :) what I would like to ask you is how do I compile mplayer with gui support? I compiled it from source (0.50), but when I start it it tells me it's not compiled with gui support; isn't it autodetected? and by the way, both mplayer and avifile after ./configure presents me the autodetected compile options; both say mga_vid no, although I have an matrox G400 card; isn't mga_vid related to that? configure for both programs looks for /dev/mga_vid; how do I create that? thanks, dragos
Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
I compiled it from source (0.50), but when I start it it tells me it's not compiled with gui support; isn't it autodetected? and by the way, both mplayer and avifile after ./configure presents me the autodetected compile options; both say mga_vid no, although I have an matrox G400 card; isn't mga_vid related to that? configure for both programs looks for /dev/mga_vid; how do I create that? First, get a newer version from the mplayer cvs. It'll help things out a lot.. especially with the gui issue. I don't think it's default to install the gui.. so you'll have to specify in the ./configure --blah --guioption --etc. Same deal for playing encrypted dvd's (though I like ogle-gui better for that). ./configure just looks for supported drivers on your system. Your card may handle mga_vid, but if you don't have the driver your linux system has no idea how to access that function on the card. Grab the mga development libraries with apt/dselect and you're set. Same goes for sdl and all those other fun outputs.. Have a close look at what ./configure outputs when you run it without options and then go apt-get whatever packages you want and it doesn't find -- remember to grab the libsomething-dev, not just libsomething. cheers, Matt
Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 09:10 am, Matt wrote: I compiled it from source (0.50), but when I start it it tells me it's not compiled with gui support; isn't it autodetected? and by the way, both mplayer and avifile after ./configure presents me the autodetected compile options; both say mga_vid no, although I have an matrox G400 card; isn't mga_vid related to that? configure for both programs looks for /dev/mga_vid; how do I create that? First, get a newer version from the mplayer cvs. It'll help things out a lot.. especially with the gui issue. I don't think it's default to install the gui.. so you'll have to specify in the ./configure --blah --guioption --etc. Same deal for playing encrypted dvd's (though I like ogle-gui better for that). ./configure just looks for supported drivers on your system. Your card may handle mga_vid, but if you don't have the driver your linux system has no idea how to access that function on the card. Grab the mga development libraries with apt/dselect and you're set. Same goes for sdl and all those other fun outputs.. Have a close look at what ./configure outputs when you run it without options and then go apt-get whatever packages you want and it doesn't find -- remember to grab the libsomething-dev, not just libsomething. cheers, Matt thanks, dragos
Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
Le lun, 17 déc 2001 22:51:25, Mirek Dobsicek a écrit : Matt wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/filmy$ /usr/local/src/MPlayer-0.50/mplayer -fs -vo sdl Cesta.z.mesta.avi MPlayer 0.50 (C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!) This is an old version, you should try with a recent CVS snapshot. Philippe
Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
When I use -fs -vo x11, it opens in fullcreen, but the movie is still the same size located in the midlle of the screen, surrounded by black color. One workaround, albeit a cheesy one, is to just run in X11 fs mode and then just CTRL-ALT-- to a lower res to make the image appear larger. Are you sure that SDL compiled OK? Check the output when you run ./configure to see if SDL is flagged properly. Do you have the correct libsdl development packages/files installed? Also, try playing the movie as root to see if that makes a difference. Could be a permissions problem... cheers, Matt
Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:51:25PM +0100, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: When I use -fs -vo x11, it opens in fullcreen, but the movie is still the same size located in the midlle of the screen, surrounded by black color. How about trying -vm instead of -fs? IIRC that's the option that makes MPlayer to switch to the closest video mode. Additionally if you visit http://xtiming.sf.net/ you can calculate precise modelines for all common video resolutions (384x288 etc.) That way that closest video mode will actually be truly full screen. At least it works wonders for me :) -- Tommi Komulainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG 1024D/68388EE66FD6 DD79 EB38 BF6F 3533 09C0 04A8 9871 6838 8EE6 pgp2KueVmICp3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
Alan, mplayer still relies on some win32 codecs -- these will soon be replaced by linux native/gpl'ed codecs. Is that what you're talking about? If it's only dvd that's not working, you probably need libcss (the supposedly illegal library) to play it. You can grab all of this.. or at least tips on where to find it.. at the mplayer site mentioned below. Try running mplayer as root when reading a dvd -- if it works, at least you know where to start fixing. I'm pretty sure yours is a problem of css decrypting, though...s cheers, Matt On Sat, 2001-12-15 at 21:44, Alan Chandler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 December 2001 3:24 pm, Matt wrote: Use mplayer. It's the best video player for linux .. but it's not in the debian testing dist. get it here: http://www.mplayerhq.hu I got it, configured and compiled it and tried to run it to play a dvd disk. It complained about a missing codecs file - but I haven't seen such a file mentioned anywhere in the documentation. Anyone any ideas. - -- Alan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD4DBQE8G/xq1mf3M5ZDr2kRAljlAJdI1J14Y58klmALHMGiRPiRFmIAAJ9MKRtK i6tQ65JRW+gzhGH3oTdLgw== =Cesj -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
great, it works, thanks a lot. But I cant get fullcreen mode :-( on my Woody box . My graphics card is S3 Trio3D/2X AGP. What can be wrong? What video output driver are you using? mplayer -vo sdl -fs yourfile.ext should work if you compiled sdl in properly. As a start, try mplayer -fs -vo x11 yourfile.ext to see if that even works. cheers, Matt
Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
Matt wrote: great, it works, thanks a lot. But I cant get fullcreen mode :-( on my Woody box . My graphics card is S3 Trio3D/2X AGP. What can be wrong? What video output driver are you using? mplayer -vo sdl -fs yourfile.ext should work if you compiled sdl in properly. As a start, try mplayer -fs -vo x11 yourfile.ext to see if that even works. cheers, Matt When I use -fs -vo x11, it opens in fullcreen, but the movie is still the same size located in the midlle of the screen, surrounded by black color. When I used -fs -vo sdl, it flush this error: (sdl was compilled without error, and mplayer's configure found it also good) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/filmy$ /usr/local/src/MPlayer-0.50/mplayer -fs -vo sdl Cesta.z.mesta.avi MPlayer 0.50 (C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!) Reading /home/elf/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 18 audio 40 video codecs font: can't open file: /home/elf/.mplayer/font/font.desc font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc Playing Cesta.z.mesta.avi Detected AVI file format! MainAVIHeader.dwFlags: (272) HAS_INDEX IS_INTERLEAVED VIDEO: [DIV3] 512x272 24bpp 25.00 fps 925.6 kbps (113.0 kbyte/s) [V] filefmt:3 fourcc:0x33564944 size:512x272 fps:25.00 ftime:=0.0400 Detected audio codec: [mp3] drv:1 (MPEG layer-2, layer-3) mp3lib: Processor ID: 642 mp3lib: Using AMD 3dnow-dsp(k7)! optimized decore. AUDIO: srate=44100 chans=2 bps=2 sfmt=0x10 ratio: 8000-176400 Detected video codec: [divxds] drv:4 (DivX ;-) (MS MPEG-4 v3)) Loading DLL: 'divx_c32.ax' Creating new registry Failed to open registry file for writing. Using DirectShow codec: divx_c32.ax Decoder is capable of YUV output ( flags 0x1 ) m_bIsDivX=1 Failed to open registry file for writing. Failed to open registry file for writing. Failed to open registry file for writing. Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. VO: [sdl] 512x272 = 512x272 Packed YUY2 fs Disabling DPMS stat: 1 SDL: Initializing of SDL failed: No available video device. FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver! Exiting... (End of file) Cheers, Mirek Dobsicek
Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 December 2001 6:51 pm, Matt wrote: Alan, mplayer still relies on some win32 codecs -- these will soon be replaced by linux native/gpl'ed codecs. Is that what you're talking about? If it's only dvd that's not working, you probably need libcss (the supposedly illegal library) to play it. You can grab all of this.. or at least tips on where to find it.. at the mplayer site mentioned below. I do have libcss and libdvdread I need to use mplayer -dvd 1 rather than -vcd 2 It was with a dvd - it now works as far as playing what I assume is the first .vob file and then stops with end of file. (logged in as normal user with cdrom group rights) Try running mplayer as root when reading a dvd -- if it works, at least you know where to start fixing. I'm pretty sure yours is a problem of css decrypting, though...s Ahh - now the movie seems to play past the first end of file - I think this must be a permissions problem - someone has said add write access to the dvd device - I will have to look into this. cheers, Matt On Sat, 2001-12-15 at 21:44, Alan Chandler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 December 2001 3:24 pm, Matt wrote: Use mplayer. It's the best video player for linux .. but it's not in the debian testing dist. get it here: http://www.mplayerhq.hu I got it, configured and compiled it and tried to run it to play a dvd disk. It complained about a missing codecs file - but I haven't seen such a file mentioned anywhere in the documentation. Anyone any ideas. - -- Alan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD4DBQE8G/xq1mf3M5ZDr2kRAljlAJdI1J14Y58klmALHMGiRPiRFmIAAJ9MKRtK i6tQ65JRW+gzhGH3oTdLgw== =Cesj -END PGP SIGNATURE- - -- Alan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8HoOM1mf3M5ZDr2kRAj7+AJ92TlnawRWrFnxk0bGzZjbtnLKRwQCeKzAq p3o6MlIxNyGkTl1dh1CxsDw= =Ptzg -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 December 2001 3:43 am, nate wrote: quote who=Alan Chandler -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 December 2001 3:24 pm, Matt wrote: Use mplayer. It's the best video player for linux .. but it's not It complained about a missing codecs file - but I haven't seen such a file mentioned anywhere in the documentation. Anyone any ideas. while im not sure about mplayer(havent used it), avifile has the codecs available on their site. a lot of players use avifile's code/libraries so its possible it uses the same files .. nate I realise I wasn't to clear on my problem. mplayer complains there is a missing codecs.conf file - thus MPlayer CVS-011215-05:00-2.95.4 (C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!) CPU vendor name: AuthenticAMD max cpuid level: 1 CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon TB Thunderbird (Type: 6, Stepping: 2) extended cpuid-level: 6 CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 Reading /home/alan/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/home/alan/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /usr/local/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/usr/local/share/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory (copy/ln etc/codecs.conf (from MPlayer source tree) to ~/.mplayer/codecs.conf) Terminated HOWEVER - I fixed that problem (now I have another) by finding the file in the source tree like it says. Now it just complains it can't read the headers thus [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ mplayer -vcd 2 /dev/dvd MPlayer CVS-011215-05:00-2.95.4 (C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!) CPU vendor name: AuthenticAMD max cpuid level: 1 CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon TB Thunderbird (Type: 6, Stepping: 2) extended cpuid-level: 6 CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 Reading /home/alan/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 23 audio 64 video codecs font: can't open file: /home/alan/.mplayer/font/font.desc font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc Linux RTC init: open: Permission denied Using usleep() timing Playing /dev/dvd read CDROM toc header: : Input/output error read CDROM toc header: : Input/output error Error selecting VCD track! (get) Exiting... (End of file) (I just checked the permissions in /dev/dvd - these look fine) - -- Alan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8HHr/1mf3M5ZDr2kRAsM/AJ9GV1RKjFKjICWN6BiEj4yzrYYUogCgmgRf CnT79MrEH4UQYtqlsvao5z0= =2sOj -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
There's a separate downloadable *zip file with codecs on the web site. Alec great, it works, thanks a lot. But I cant get fullcreen mode :-( on my Woody box . My graphics card is S3 Trio3D/2X AGP. What can be wrong? Regards, Mirek Dobsicek
Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ mplayer -vcd 2 /dev/dvd MPlayer CVS-011215-05:00-2.95.4 (C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!) CPU vendor name: AuthenticAMD max cpuid level: 1 CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon TB Thunderbird (Type: 6, Stepping: 2) extended cpuid-level: 6 CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 Reading /home/alan/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 23 audio 64 video codecs font: can't open file: /home/alan/.mplayer/font/font.desc font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc Linux RTC init: open: Permission denied Using usleep() timing Playing /dev/dvd read CDROM toc header: : Input/output error read CDROM toc header: : Input/output error Error selecting VCD track! (get) Exiting... (End of file) (I just checked the permissions in /dev/dvd - these look fine) First of all, /dev/dvd is probably a symlink to the real device - check the permissions of that. Secondly, you need write permissions to the device becuse of the CSS negotiation. -- Keith Willoughby Sunsh ne ess rt
Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 10:44, Alan Chandler wrote: Linux RTC init: open: Permission denied Using usleep() timing Real Time Clock does not work. Requires root priviliges. Check /dev/rtc. Maybe this is the problem. Playing /dev/dvd read CDROM toc header: : Input/output error read CDROM toc header: : Input/output error Error selecting VCD track! (get) It cannot even read your toc. How does 'cat /dev/dvd /dev/null' work? What is written in your syslog about this? Bye, Steffen
Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 December 2001 2:42 pm, Keith Willoughby wrote: Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ mplayer -vcd 2 /dev/dvd the -vcd 2 seemed to be the problem -dvd 1 solved it [or at least allowed me to play the first few minutes of the dvd - It gives up at the end of the first (?) .vob file.] ... (I just checked the permissions in /dev/dvd - these look fine) First of all, /dev/dvd is probably a symlink to the real device - It is - I have devfs so the symlink is to some ide device (about 4 layers down). check the permissions of that. Secondly, you need write permissions to the device becuse of the CSS negotiation. REALLY - this is a read-only dvd device??? and the permissions are set as r_xr_xr_x - -- Alan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8HSFx1mf3M5ZDr2kRAjbCAJ9zQNAPr/Z1+ekdOZohLrM3Bz4SHgCePoTJ ErueSP8xe+654TOlIpdR8GQ= =AEyu -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: check the permissions of that. Secondly, you need write permissions to the device becuse of the CSS negotiation. REALLY - this is a read-only dvd device??? and the permissions are set as r_xr_xr_x The drive is read-only, but the device file needs to be written to for key negotiation. Don't ask me how it works, but that's what it does. -- Keith Willoughby Sunsh ne ess rt
how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
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? dragos
Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
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). nate
Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
On Saturday 15 December 2001 12:05 pm, 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). nate ok, thanks, I'll try that. I guess I'll have to download divx4linux too... dragos
Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
Use mplayer. It's the best video player for linux .. but it's not in the debian testing dist. get it here: http://www.mplayerhq.hu cheers, matt On Sat, 2001-12-15 at 06:37, Dragos wrote: On Saturday 15 December 2001 12:05 pm, 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). nate ok, thanks, I'll try that. I guess I'll have to download divx4linux too... dragos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
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
Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
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
Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 December 2001 3:24 pm, Matt wrote: Use mplayer. It's the best video player for linux .. but it's not in the debian testing dist. get it here: http://www.mplayerhq.hu I got it, configured and compiled it and tried to run it to play a dvd disk. It complained about a missing codecs file - but I haven't seen such a file mentioned anywhere in the documentation. Anyone any ideas. - -- Alan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD4DBQE8G/xq1mf3M5ZDr2kRAljlAJdI1J14Y58klmALHMGiRPiRFmIAAJ9MKRtK i6tQ65JRW+gzhGH3oTdLgw== =Cesj -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
On Saturday 15 December 2001 08:44 pm, Alan Chandler wrote: On Saturday 15 December 2001 3:24 pm, Matt wrote: Use mplayer. It's the best video player for linux .. but it's not in the debian testing dist. get it here: http://www.mplayerhq.hu I got it, configured and compiled it and tried to run it to play a dvd disk. It complained about a missing codecs file - but I haven't seen such a file mentioned anywhere in the documentation. Anyone any ideas. There's a separate downloadable *zip file with codecs on the web site. Alec
Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
quote who=Alan Chandler -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 December 2001 3:24 pm, Matt wrote: Use mplayer. It's the best video player for linux .. but it's not It complained about a missing codecs file - but I haven't seen such a file mentioned anywhere in the documentation. Anyone any ideas. while im not sure about mplayer(havent used it), avifile has the codecs available on their site. a lot of players use avifile's code/libraries so its possible it uses the same files .. nate
