[MPlayer-users] newbie question about DivX 5.03

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 09:54:20AM +0200, David wrote:
> Hi!
> I read in mplayer home site under MPLAYER FEATURES that DivX is supported:
> 
> 	most important video codecs:
> 	...
> 	MPEG4 in all variants including DivX ;-), OpenDivX (DivX4), DivX 5.02, XviD
> 	...
> 
> But it looks like DivX 5.03 isn't still supported.
> 
> In fact I got a DivX 5.03 video and it begins to play but stops after a few 
> minutes. I can restart and jump the place where it stopped firstly, but it 
> crashes again later.
> 
> My question:
> How can I enable DivX 5.03 working in mplayer?
> In general, how can one install any codec? Is there a standard way to do that?
> TIA
> 
> Regards
> 
> PS I'm using mplayer 0.92
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

There's your problem. Upgrade to a modern version.

Rich