[Gllug] DivX avi playback

[Tom Gilbert]

* Jonathan Harker (jon at jonathanharker.co.uk) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am a numpty. I just thought I'd make that clear in case anyone thought 
> otherwise and might be surprised by the following question.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.

Go install avifile: http://avifile.sourceforge.net/

It comes with the windows avi codecs and cunningly wraps them to work in
linux. I watch a lot of divx movies that way with no problems.
Player-wise, it comes with aviplay, which is cool, or there's mplayer,
which is cooler. It's fast and does a decent fullscreen.

For debian users, add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main
and then apt-get install mplayer.

Tom.
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