divx4

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Yup, that's what I felt.  I did Xine a year or so ago without help - what a mess.  I've been in both Mplayer and Xine mailing lists and Mplayer is more "professional" it seems.

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:40:48 -0500
Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:

> You got that right.  They are much better at telling you why they dropped
> support for DeCSS than how their software works.  I did an install with
> much headaches and dropped it because it never worked well...  Then I read
> Llama's SxS and had a lot more confidence and built the RPM's for COLW. 
> Only then did I feel comfortable saying that my system was just too slow
> :)
> 
> I like Xine, but they are still a ways off from being stable.  It works
> well if you hit play and let the movie play.  If you like to FF and REV a
> couple times, forget it.  I have yet to try MPlayer...
> 
> 
> On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 20:20:12 -0500
> "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb at charter.net> 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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