Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote: > On 5/27/06, Christian Biere <christianbiere%gmx.de@localhost> wrote: > >Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > >> >Hmm, are you sure? I always thought xvid and divx were different > >> >codecs, although very similar ones. If xvidcore is indeed > >> >divx-compatible... that'd be great. > >As far as I recall, XviD is actually a superset of DivX. It's > >all MPEG-4 anyway but DivX implements less of it. > But... mplayer uses win32-codecs and there you have the divx binary > plugin, isn't it? Yes, there are those win32-codecs. That's why I said MPlayer is the first choice for Unix systems on x86. That trick doesn't help at all on PPC etc. However, I only have a DivX 5 encoded file here and MPlayer uses ffmpeg (not the win32 codecs) to play it. -- Christian
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