[MPlayer-users] new codec? or renamed one?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:36:34AM +0000, Damian Gatabria wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi. 
> 
> uhmm.. recently i have received a small 
> birthday greeting in the form of a small
> video file. 
> 
> Apparently, the new way in which these
> are made by windoze (hello DMCA and all that crap)
> is a new one: the actual file was an .exe.
> 
> (tried on a windoze box, the .exe launched
> WMP and played the video in question......
> after doing who knows what to that machine... god
> i hate MS.)

I would recommend running a good virus scanner, or better yet
formatting and reinstalling. Running a "birthday greeting" .exe sounds
like a great way to get trojaned.

BTW, add X263 to the list of fourcc's for the "ffh263" codec in
codecs.conf and it should play fine.

Rich