[MPlayer-users] divx errors

[Johannes Feigl]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 01:07:22AM -0500, raz wrote:
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> I'm using mplayer 0.60 in freebsd 4.5, and I tried playing some divx movies, 
> and this error pops up, maybe someone can point me in the right direction to 
> fix it..
> 
> Detected video codec: [divx] drv:2 prio:0 (DivX ;-) (MS MPEG-4 v3))
> Support for win32 codecs disabled, or unavailable on non-x86 platforms!
> FATAL: Couldn't initialize video codec :(

did you RTFM???

use ffmpegs libavcodec and use -vc ffdivx.

mfg johannes