Les wrote:
> I have some files labeled ".AVI" note the caps.
That shouldn't matter. I'd be very surprised if it did anyway.
> Turns out these are Divx files. I haven't gotten them to play yet,
> but when I carefully followed the SF instructions, and got the video
> decoders installed properly I got the error message telling me that
> these are DivX files. So now I just need to get the right ceral box
> with the magic DivX decoder ring and I should be all set.
I'm not intimately familiar with Stanton's instructions (perusing them
in the past seemed like it made more work than needed to me) nor am I
any sort of expert on video encodings... But I have been able to
place .avi files that used the divx codec via mplayer and totem.
I couldn't tell you whether the magic decoder ring was part of the
w32codec package from ATrpms (which provides a convenient rpm of all
the codecs available at the mplayer homepage, including several divx*
ones) or if it is due to the xvidcore package I have from Livna which
is a "Free reimplementation of the OpenDivX video codec" according to
the package summary.
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