On Wed 04 Dec, Ben Buxton bloviated thus:

> Mplayer is a better one for movies IMHO. It does virtually
> all Codecs (sorenson's a pain still), *and* can encode
> them too. It supports hardware accellerated video, 
> meaning I can play a 700x400 full fram divx with
> negligible CPU load. Together with fb, tvout and
> lirc support, you can do proper armchair divx watching.

Sorenson is now, apparently, supported.  There's a HOWTO linked from
the home page, though it's a bit of a pain.

> Under debian unstable, you can install it easily.

Though it's probably better to compile your own.  The compile process
is very easy (particularly for Debian users: debian/rules binary) once
you've got all the dependencies.

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