Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>Erez Boym wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm trying to view DivX files on my Linux box
>>(Mandrake 8.0, KDE 2.1.1, Nuaton 1.0.1).
>>
>
>Try mplayer, instead. plays a lot more files, though it won't play VCD's.
>
>Geoff.
>
Yes, but it took me half a morning to compile it. Every single plugin
has to be downloaded seperately, and the places you needed to D/L things
from were scattered all over the manual. A nice concentrated location
saying "D/L this this this this this this this this this and this, and
then compile and install mplayer" would have shortened my installation
time of mplayer considerably.
It is very impressive in terms of file formats it supports (it supports
some of the QuickTime formats!!!). It even plays DVDs (the reason I
installed it to begin with). One problem with it is that it requires
access to the real time clock in order to keep the picture and sound
synchronized, and that means SUID it. I would like to use this
opertunity to solicit responses from you guys - did any of you have any
trouble with it?
Then again, it may be that the reason it won't play VCDs for some of you
is because you have not found all the possible plugins in the manual,
and have not installed the right one. Not that I have any VCDs to check
my install of it.....
Shachar
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