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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 08:40:56PM -0700, Brian Hall wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> How can I enable xvid and Divx5 support in the same version of mplayer?
> I prefer xvid most of the time, but I have some AVIs that require Divx
> version 5, which xvid doesn't support.
> 
> I have built both mplayer and xvid from the latest CVS.

Arrg, sounds like you didn't read the readme and didn't install
libavcodec!! If you have lavc, there's no point in xvid or divx5 for
decoding. They're just slow and buggy. XVID might be useful for
encoding, but divx5 is just junk (especially the linux ver).

Rich