On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 03:34:02AM +0300, Staffan Thomen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 07:18:48PM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Emre Yildirim wrote:
> > 
> > : > These are both ancient MPEG-1 (as used on Video-CD) players, they
> > : > don't even play MPEG-2 streams (as used on Video-DVD)
> > 
> > : Oh, that's weird....I can watch DivX movies with mpegtv though.
> > 
> > To clarify:  "DivX ;-)" and the obsolescent DVD-console competitor "DIVX"
> > are not the same beast.  The former is a compression method that uses
> > MPEG-4; the latter is a good idea executed badly <g>.
> 
>  About that, has anyone heard of a player yet that does not use windows dll
>  files?
>  It's kind of annoying to have to use the laptop (with an ESS soundcard that
>  there is no driver for yet) instead of the SGI with 20" screen.
As far as I know (I read it on mplayer's homepage) mplayer should work on non-i386
if you use another codec than the one based on windows dlls.

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