[MEncoder-users] Installing xvid support

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 14 April 2009 at 21:36, karl-heinz-1950 at web.de wrote:
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: "Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski" <dominik at rangers.eu.org>
> > Gesendet: 14.04.09 20:02:01
> > An: mencoder-users at mplayerhq.hu
> > Betreff: Re: [MEncoder-users] Installing xvid support
> 
> > On Tuesday, 14 April 2009 at 19:49, karl-heinz-1950 at web.de wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Though mencoder page doesn't recommend the stable version I have installed
> > > the stable xvid 1.2.1 for Suse (from packman repo).
> > 
> > You need xvidcore-devel package as well, if you want to compile anything
> > with Xvid support.
> 
> Thanks, Problem solved. Maybe it is worth to add this to the web page.

I don't think MPlayer's HTML documentation is the proper place for
general information on how to compile software on various Linux distributions.

Your distribution documentation should tell you that you need -devel
packages in order to compile stuff.

Regards,
R.

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