[HLUG] Videos - unable to view.

[David Shorthouse]

OK if you want the files to play on your windows box goto
ftp://linux:group@kungfu.dyndns.org/Apps&Games/Windows%20Codecs/ACEMCP593PRO
.EXE this has most of the codec required.
If you do want it to run on your linux box I would recommend having a look
at "http://www.divx-digest.com/software/divxcodec_linux.html"
Also on the xine site http://www.xinehq.de/ This is a player.

If you click on the downloads on the menu on the left & follow the
destructions.
I recommend installing the lastest stable xine-lib then install all files
required importantly "win32 codecs" Once you install the codec it should
play most things.

Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Broadbent [mailto:m.broadbent at signal.QinetiQ.com]
Sent: 01 August 2005 10:05 AM
To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
Subject: Re: [HLUG] Videos - unable to view.


Julian Robbins wrote:

> Noel McG wrote:
>
>> Hello Dave,
>>
>> This is the first file,    go-open-episode-01.mp4
>>
>>
> Firstly, mp4 is the successor to mp3 by the look of it.

mp3 is an audio format not a video format (its offical title is MPEG1
Layer 3 audio) whereas, mp4 is MPEG-4 as identified below (which is
audio and video).

Thanks
Mark

> MPEG-4 was defined by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), the
> working group within the International Organization for
> Standardization (ISO) that specified the widely adopted, Emmy
> Award-winning standards known as MPEG-1 and MPEG-2. Hundreds of
> researchers around the world contributed to MPEG-4, which was
> finalized in 1998 and became an international standard in 2000.
>
> Mplayer is one of the best Linux video/audio players and does claim to
> support .mp04 ie
>