[Gllug] DivX avi playback

[Dan Kolb]

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On Monday 21 Jan 2002 23:56 pm, Jonathan Harker wrote:

> After downloading and installing several tars and rpms of various so-called
> video players, and having none of them actually work (or even compile) I
> wondered if anyone here might know of a smashing video playback thing. Dare
> I venture to suggest an xmms equivalent of video? Dare I mention Media
> Player? My esteemed brother (Hi) actually got Ogle working fine, and it
> plays DVDs fine, but what I'm trying to do is play DivX avi files.

There is. It's called 'xmps'. I haven't used it for a long time - I normally 
use Xine or Aviplay, but I've got an old copy on my website that worked for 
me, if you want to give it a go. Look at 
http://compsoc.net/~dankolb/xmps-bin/ 

What was the problem compiling/installing anyway? (You do realise that you 
need some Windows DLLs for playing to occur, although that shouldn't really 
matter when installing or compiling)

BTW, for anyone in the know: Since I upgraded aviplay to 0.60 (can't remember 
what from), some DivXes refuse to play, and bomb out X completely (killed 
with SIG-11). Xine works fine on these. Does anyone know why? (I personally 
prefer Aviplay because a) the UI of Xine sucks, and b) Aviplay can change 
audio/video sync, and I don't think Xine can do it).

> Just a passing whim/idea I had; I thought it might save reinventing
> multicellular organisms and waiting around 500 million years for something
> to evolve that could finally come up with a wheel, only to find it was
> squarish and much more useful as something to hit its opponents with.

A wheel designed by a committee, perhaps? (Patents pending, and don't anyone 
*dare* to try and find out how we came up with a square wheel idea ;-)

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