DivX for linux 1

[Oxymoron]

hi, I'm a bit of a newbie so sorry to u guru's.
I want to watch .avi movies on my mandrake distro, I use divX to do this on my windoze partition and d/led it for linux.
I ungzipped it, then untarred it, so left with folder.
ran the install.sh file by doing: sh install.sh
So it should be installed now, however I can't run .avi movies still, and I cant find anywhere in menus or directories where it's listed....
Where should it be (what folder? /usr/bin??), have i installed it correctly?

any suggestions or comments are extremely welcome!!!!!
thankyou all!
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[krale]

I'ts a bugger to know which on ewill do it "right", but there are a few ways. I prefer mplayer (

http://www.mplayerhq.hu)

to watch all my media.

Go to that site, get 2 packages. The first will be the Win32 Codecs pack. The second is the mplayer .tar.gz file. Take the Codecs pack and copy the files to /usr/lib/win32 . You'll have to create the directory first. Secondly is to compile mplayer. Decompress the .tar.gz file to /tmp (so the archive is /tmp/mplayer-version ). Now go to console and go to that direcory under the console. Do

./configure # Make sure to read the output of what the mplayer setup sees. It has to compile in Win32 support.
make
(now under root) make install

This should have mplayer set up under /usr/local/bin . Now, you can call a file like this:

mplayer movie.asf -fs -zoom -vo svga
That plays the movie.asf at fullscreen, with scaling, and at the console. There's a bunch of video output drivers to use.. However, I use -vo x11 for beautiful XWindows support.

If you're not going to change your settings for movieplaying, it's best to configure the file in {home}/.mplayer/config

my config file's here below:
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# Write your default config options here!
vo = x11
#fs = yes
zoom = yes

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This video player can play AVI's, Mpg's, ASF's, WMV's, RM's, QT (some), VIVO's, DVD's, SVCD's, and all audio codes along with those. It also comes with mencoder. The neat thing about this tool is "Whatever you can view in mplayer, you can encode to!". It can also be used to view video capture equipment like capture cards or webcams.

Essentially, for all the juicy bits of information, check out "man mplayer". It's the full manual.

 

[jrjuiliano]

For some reason I could never get mplayer to work on Mandrake. however, I was able to get Xine to work pretty well. It just couldn't do some of the codecs that mplayer could do, like .asf files.

At any rate, it might be better now with mplayer, assuming you are running GCC 3.2 or 2.95 J.R. Juiliano
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