[MPlayer-users] silly question: where to get divx4?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:37:36PM -0500, John Harrold wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]

> howdy.
> 
> i'm looking to reencode some stuff into divx4. i'm running redhat 7.3 and
> i believe i've installed the rpms located here:
> http://mirrors.sctpc.com/dominik/linux/pkgs/mplayer/
> 
> i've installed 
>  o mplayer-common
>  o mplayer
>  o all of the linux and win32 codecs
>  o mencoder
> 
> anyway. if someone could point me to a place where i could download a
> package or tarball i would be most appreciative.

The answer is, don't. Use libavcodec to encode mpeg4, which is the
same format "divx" uses; they just call it "divx" to sound elite.

Rich