Xine player: can't play movies requiring DivX5 codecs

Indigo1 · 10-30-2004, 10:48 AM

Hi everybody,

I'm new to Linux (SuSE 9.1 Professional) but mostly really like it.

Anyway, all the players (Kaffeine, Xine, ..) can't play movies because they require a DivX5 codec. Codec 4 is installed and I did google for it rather extensively, even wrote DivX (of course, they didn't reply except for an auto reply) No luck!

Can anybody please tell me where I can find and download the required DivX5 codec? BTW, in Knoppix 3.4 Xine did work just fine. Is there a way to copy the codec from Knoppix into SuSE? If yes, where on the Knoppix CD is the codec located?

Thanks so much!!

John

koyi · 10-30-2004, 04:59 PM

I am not so familiar with Xine, perhaps you can give mplayer a try. You may like it

I remember I was once happy abut Xine but when I found out about mplayer I was even happier.

Hope this helps.

Indigo1 · 11-04-2004, 08:35 AM

Hi Koyi,

Domo arigato for your post and please excuse this very late reply. Besides these codec bugs I seem to have a bunch of gremlins that don't want me to install various software. Even a friend, who's real good around PCs, has been stumped so far. In case he's able to fix the software installation bugs I'll certainly try the media player.

Thanks again!

John
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I am not so familiar with Xine, perhaps you can give mplayer a try. You may like it I remember I was once happy abut Xine but when I found out about mplayer I was even happier.

Hope this helps. I am too lazy to fail.