[MPlayer-users] xvid and Divx5 in the same mplayer?

[Corey Hickey]

Brian Hall wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> I built libavcode as described in codecs.html. Xvid-encoded files play
> fine with libavcodec/ffmpeg, and so do most divx4 (a couple segfault,
> but that is a different problem).
> 
> However, I cannot get libavcodec to decode _any_ Divx5 files (tcprobe -i
> reveals they are encoded with the "DX50" codec).
> 

Are you certain that libavcodec is being used? Please post the _entire_
output of mplayer when you try to play such a file.

-Corey