[MPlayer-DOCS] codecs.xml and the DivX stuff

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 07 June 2006 at 12:48, Christian Korff wrote:
> I'm currently translating the rest of codecs.xml into German.
> And right now I'm working on the small OpenDivX core libarary
> compilation guide that's in codecs.xml.
> It refers to ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/divx-mf/Makefile
> but the divx-mf directory was deleted.
> Since Project Mayo is dead this makes sence for me. We've got two
> possiblities: Either to edit codecs.xml so that there's no reference
> to it or we could remove the whole OpenDivX / Project Mayo stuff out.
> 
> I think we should remove the whole OpenDivX/Project Mayo stuff and
> update the section about DivX. There's a 6.1.1 release of DivX for
> Linux.
> http://community.divx.com/labs/viewEntry.php?id=94&cid=1
> Maybe we can write something about this. (I didn't tried it yet and I
> don't have the time to do so at the moment.)
> And while I'm writing about the closed source DivX. I'm not sure if
> the old DivX version for Linux is still aviable on divx.com. If it's
> still aviable it's very well hidden.
> We should check this.

Meanwhile, I may try and see if I can hack decoding support for this
new divx4linux 6.1.1. Encoding support is problematic, because it only
has C++ API.

Regards,
R.

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