[MPlayer-users] broken xvid support?

[Michal Seliga]

> Message: 1
> From: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>
> To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] broken xvid support?
> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:06:43 +0200
> Reply-To: mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu
> 
> Hi
> 
> On Thursday 17 October 2002 14:20, Michal Seliga wrote:
> > I have problems with playing of one (an only one I have) xvid video.... I
> > don't have xvid libs installed on my machine, I use ffmpeg decoders only
> > sound works and all other videos (divx, div3, dx50) work well
> >
> > Should I send complete bugreport or ffmpeg's XVID support is not complete
> ffmpeg's XVID support is complete
> 
> > and I will  only waste your time? (note, that file is instead of XVID
> > detected as DIV4) 
> replace DIV4 by XVID in the file header with a hex-editor, if that doesnt help 
> than upload it
> 
> whoever created that file was appearently a bit stupid ...
> 
> [...]
> 
> Michael
> 
   There was already 'vidsXVID' in the header, and it didn't worked.
   Cannot this be used for codec detection?
   But when I replaced 'DIV4' with 'XVID' it started to work so it doesn't matter now, thanks for help