[MPlayer-users] Creating mplayer on FC5 x64 w/ divx

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 02 September 2006 at 16:59, brian walter wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm trying to build mplayer with divx support on Fedora Core 5 x64, and am
> not having any luck finding a divx install that works.  The x64 divx4linxu
> package I found, generates an incompatible error when I try to run
> configure.

I never knew there was a 64bit DivX release for Linux.

> Anyone have suggestions?

Yes, ditch DivX in favour of the open MPEG-4 codecs like FFmpeg's mpeg4 or
XviD. You don't need DivX codec to play DivX videos.

Regards,
R.

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