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. -- Christian
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