[MPlayer-users] avi file question

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 04 August 2004 at 02:04, rcooley wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 08:50:11 +0000
> antoine <melser.anton at neuf.fr> wrote:
> 
> > Get the nimo codec pack. It has pretty much everything you could ever
> > want.
> 
> Doesn't sound good.  It comes with Divx Pro, which means it comes with
> spyware.

Exactly. Use ffdshow instead of Divx.

> The rest seems to be things everyone should have already... MP2, MP3,
> etc. And there's no reason to have every different version of Divx
> installed at once.  Pointless waste of space.

All too true.

> The only good codecs in that are Divx, AC3 and Vorbis, which are quite
> easy to get elsewhere, without spyware.

AC3 is decoded by free ac3filter and ogg vorbis should be equally easy
to find.

R.

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