divx4

[Net Llama!]

Yea, the MPlayer dox are not bad at all.  They're a cocky bunch, but 
hey, if you reverse engineered half the codecs that they did, you'd be a 
bit full of yourself too.

ALthough, in compelte honesty, MPLayer sux for DVDs.  It can play them 
just fine, but that's all it can do.  Forget menu navigation, 
screenshots, and all the other nifty bits that xine _can_ do with DVDs. 
  That's why i recommend xine for DVDs, its significantly better for them.

On 01/06/03 17:52, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> The web site mentions that it has DVD capabilities in it - and tells you what you need to to encrypted!  A nice change from xine.
> 
> On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 20:41:49 -0500
> "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb at charter.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hmm, I'll look at Mplayer then.  I understand almost all of the stuff we use is done by people like us in our spare time but it seems the docs or at least a decent overview of what a package does and what you need is lacking on most things out there - even some of the "professional" ones!
>> 
>> Docs are NOT optional! <G>.
>> 
>> On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 17:31:46 -0800
>> "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > You're right about xine.  That's why i only recommend it for playing 
>> > DVD's cause just bout everything else is this hazy mist.  I'd suggest 
>> > going with MPlayer for playing everything but DVDs. It has far better 
>> > performance, and supports alot more movie formats than Xine.
>> > 
>> > On 01/06/03 17:20, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>> > > Okay, thanks.  That's what I get for assuming!  I'm getting ready to merge xine on my Gentoo and wanted to find out what I really needed (I installed xine on a WS 3.1 and remember having to sort through all the mess to find out what was what-  but that was a while ago).  After reading the xine docs and websites I went to your SxS on xine.  The xine project isn't the best at really telling you what does what and what you need to do what you want!
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > > On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 17:09:36 -0800
>> > > "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
>> > > 
>> > >> On 01/06/03 17:00, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>> > >> > What is divx4 used for - I assume it's some kind of format for DVDs?
>> > >> 
>> > >> Actually it has nothing to do with DVDs.  Its for DIVX formatted movies 
>> > >> (AVI's mostly).

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