On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Cristian Paslaru wrote:
> > Is DivX;) really at all usable yet?
> Yes, you can try:
> ftp://crys.dntis.ro/pub/linux/redhat/6.X/RPMS/i386/avifile-0.6.3-1.6x.i386.rpm
> Its a snapshot from CVS on 2001-04-19, not a release version.
> Work very well for me.
We have a problem here. I was _not_ talking about those 'use win32 binary
dlls to play movies in closed formats' things (that's exactly what avifile
does, and a few more players). Original DivX, Indeo, Windows Media,
QuickTime, Real Video, whatever. Hell will freeze before we'll see support
for these formats in Red Hat distro.
On the other hand, OpenDivX is the only free video codec I know that can
compete with the latest generation of closed proprietary codecs (Windows
Media 7 and 8, Sorensen 3 (QT 5), etc). There's also Ogg Tarkin, the video
successor of Ogg Vorbis, but it's in preliminary stages of design.
So, the questions that bug me are:
Is OpenDivX usable? Is it free enough? Is it compatible with the original
DivX encoded movies? Can it be included into the distro?
--
Alexander
Homepage: http://www.sensi.org/~ak/
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