DivX in linux.
 

Does anyone know where can ALL the libraries needed to watch a DivX movie in Linux? I keep downloading movie watching programs and I keep being asked for libraries that I do not have. WHICH and WHERE are all theese libraries?

1) get http://mplayerhq.hu

2) you *might* want to divx4linux codecs from rpmfind.net, but step one should really be all you need.

Yes, downloaded that. Just that it might need some libraries I do not have. (I am using the Internet elswhere and I will have to get home to test it). Does it not require some libraries that are not present in a RedHat8 installation?

mplayer brings most of it's own libraries with it, as it personalises them to suit it's needs. i'm sure you won't need more than those two...

redhat can't distribute any divx packages as it infiringes the licensing laws afaik

Yes, figured RedHat couldn't distribute DivX utils. But it's a bit annoying that it does not have MP3.

Re: DivX in linux.
 

Which libraries is it asking for?

Distros seem to have a problem with putting codecs on their cd's.In that case it's the win32 codecs - redhat doesn't even include mp3 decoding anymore.
THEY SURE AS HELL DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH ADVERTISING THAT MULTIMEDIA -whatever that is - WORKS OUT OF THE BOX.

the mp3 codec for xmms on redhat 8.0 can be downloaded here
http://staff.xmms.org/priv/redhat8/x....7-13.i386.rpm

I think the libraries were somehing like SDL. I've now found SDL MPEG Player Library (SMPEG) which I hope will work. Downloading now... testing later.

you don't need sdl at all, it's listed as a dependency for completeness, but you would be advised not to use it anyway, just force the rpm install with "--nodeps" if that is the only one missing.

SOLVED IT
 

I finally managed to solve the problem with Mplayer. It required LibPNG and zdlib to work. I still can't install the GUI, though, because it cannot find libPNG which I installed (to make it install even WIHTOUT the GUI). Keyboard should do for know.

You need the libpng-dev files too,check if you have those installed.

I believe mplayer comes with a script that will copy all the relevant win32 codecs which it can find in your MS-Windows install.

You will also find packages on the internet which contain all the win32 codecs you will ever need (certainly all the ones which xine can use, this is what I have).

If it is just DivX you want they you may want to download the Playa from DivX.com (they do a Linux version), it is still alpha but it works okay for me, it is the only player under Linux which supports divx5 (AFAIK).

that's not ture, mplayer has supported ALL divx formats for a long time now.

Hmmm... DivX.com - let me just take a look there!

nah, don't bother, all you want it at the mplayer site.

The divx.com player is lousy.It didn't even work right on M$ the last time I checked (bout a year ago).With linux it does nice crashing,too.Get anything but this.

xine and divx
 

Can you add the divx codec to xine? If so please tell me how or where to find the answer! I have installed the codec and xine works fine for vcd and other formats but I can't find the info on how to add codec's:(

*cough* http://mplayerhq.hu *cough*

divx, persay is dead http://www.xvid.org , but if you insist on hanging with the win32 crowd isuggest downloading the win32 binary codec pack from mplayer's home bage, its in the download section under win32 binary codecs, next put those files within the bz2 ball into a happy littledirectory called /usr/lib/win32/ and now you will be able to be one and a half with anyone running windoze.

Thanks to everyone!
 

Mplayer worked just fine exept that it tends to crash when I go to full screen mode. I was just wanting to run Divx in xine so as not to have 2 apps! Is DIVX really dead? Thats all that I know how to use when i back up my DVD's to VCD. I presently use windows to do this, but I'm trying to get rid of microsuck all together! Do you know of a better way with linux? If you do please share it ;) . I'm a :newbie: but I'm learning fast and having fun with linux! I'm changing to linux on my network and killing off each windows box one at a time. Thanks to your help I may soon be able to tell microsuck to dry up and blow away!!

you can play anything just fine ni mplayer. as for the fullscreen thing. no idea, try using a different video output (e.g. -vo xv, -vo x11, -vo sdl) mplayer is a vpretty stable program for most people, if it's a genuine bug then tell them.

try out transcode and a nice frontend for it called dvd::rip to "backup" your DVDs
you can find these and almost all apps for linux at http://www.freshmeat.net

AHEM.... the only dvd "backup" gui legally* allowed to be mentioned here is MINE! http://acidrip.sf.net

* ok, not techincally true......

HA.
dont you go and smuther choice here :rolleyes:
your app is nice but so is dvd::rip,

foda p33pol

Still confused!
 

Back to mplayer! Kind of wierd and I'm not sure what to think. Mplayer works perfectly on KDE desktop and from command line. It only crashes in the gnome gui when going to fs. I can be in the gnome desktop and pull up a terminal and type mplayer -vo x11 -fs and have no problem at all. I don't want to just cry bug! I have looked at the man pages and I'm still not sure how to debug this. I'm thinking a gnome problem rather than an mplayer problem. I'm still very new to linux so:confused: . I'm at a loss. I'm happy with running mplayer in the KDE desktop, but now I'm curious!:Pengy:
Thanks to all for helping! This forum has been a big help!:)

any error messages? you should be using a better video output like xv instead of x11 if possible...

hey whats the key to make mplayer go in full screen?

"f"

mplayer error messages
 

This is in 3 different screens! You can view them here.

i'd follow the instructions then

k that will take me a while:(. like I said I'm new but I'll work my way through it. Thanks for the reply:).