mplayer
This is a discussion about mplayer in the Linux Software category; I recently found out that the mplayer that comes with large distos like SuSE or Mandrake or what ever don't come with any codec like xvid or divx and so on. my question is this is it best to simply install the codecs myself or to uninstall the player and then reinstall it with the needed codecs.
I recently found out [the hard way] that the mplayer [and xine as well] that comes with large distos like SuSE or Mandrake or what ever don't come with any codec like xvid or divx and so on. my question is this
is it best to simply install the codecs myself or to uninstall the player and then reinstall it with the needed codecs
is it best to simply install the codecs myself or to uninstall the player and then reinstall it with the needed codecs
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I've always just built xine from source and it seems to play divx just fine.
You can install divx afterwards no problem
download http://www.divx.com/divx/linux/
Code:
download http://www.divx.com/divx/linux/
Code:
tar -zxvf divx4linux-std-20030428.tar.gzThen cd into the dirrectory and execute install.sh as root.
How do I execute it? Linux gives me a file not found error.
As root:
cd divx4linux
or whatever the direcctory's name is
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh
cd divx4linux
or whatever the direcctory's name is
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh
I just found out in suse 9.0 there is no mplayer. Can you use the one from suse 8.2?
