AVIFILE... compile tip...

[Jerry McBride]

I decided to upgrade my installed avifile (video player) and ran into a small
hitch. Target platform is COL 3.1.1. During ./configure I found I was missing a
decoder named: xvid After visiting the xvid homepage with a tarball... I was
unable to compile it. The version of nasm that ships with col 3.1.1 is a bit out
of date now and as such not able to accept multiple input files on the
commandline. Grabbing the most recent nasm version off of sourceforge fixed that
problem and xvid compiled cleanly using the Makefile.linuxx86 makefile.

I now have an up to date Avifile from which I use Aviplay to watch all those
neat *.avi's I get off the inet. Be sure, this recent version of aviplay is as
smooth as silk, even on an old k6-2 450 laptop...

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