On 5/27/06, Christian Biere <christianbiere@gmx.de> wrote:
> Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> > >> Can't the "xvidcore" package be used instead? I think xvid and divx are
> > >> supposed to be compatible (or am I mistaken?) and I did report some
> > >> patches to make sure it would (again) compile on non-i386 machines.
> > >
> > >Hmm, are you sure?  I always thought xvid and divx were different
> > >codecs, although very similar ones.  If xvidcore is indeed
> > >divx-compatible... that'd be great.
>
> > Doesn't say if its compatible with DivX or not.
>
> As far as I recall, XviD is actually a superset of DivX. It's
> all MPEG-4 anyway but DivX implements less of it. The website
> of XviD mentions "Improved compliancy with DivX profiles" in
> the release messages. I have yet to come across a video file
> that cannot be played with MPlayer. DRM dirt doesn't count.

But... mplayer uses win32-codecs and there you have the divx binary
plugin, isn't it?  Sorry, cannot check it now myself (I'm not
completly sure about any of both).

If that is indeed true (that XviD supports DivX videos, which it seems
to be), I certainly should spend more time to make totem work with
~any media format!

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