[Gllug] DivX on SUSE 8.1 Personal Edition

[Simon Stewart]

On Sunday, Jan 5, 2003, at 03:09 Europe/London, Stig Brautaset wrote:

> On Jan 05 2003, Simon wrote:
>> because the version of mplayer that ships with SUSE doesn't play back
>> DivXs (you can see where this is going, can't you?) His argument, and 
>> I
>
> I may be wrong, but you may need some modified win32 dll's to play
> recent divxs with mplayer. It may be the case that SuSE don't want/can
> distribute those.

You could well be right, but they could at least ship the ones from 
project mayo, or at least make it _really_ obvious how to go about 
getting the win32 DLLs (perhaps having a module that displays a dialog 
informing the user how to go about it?) I'd not expect this from 
Debian, but that's because Debian doesn't position itself as a user 
friendly linux distro, while Suse does.

For now, I'm prompting from the wings as he (patiently) works his way 
through getting his system up and running. :)

Cheers,

Simon


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