[MPlayer-users] Old OpenDivX codecs

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 05:04:26AM +0200, Malte Horst Arthur Skoruppa wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> it seems I'm unable to login to the CVS server from Project Mayo.
> 
> If I try, I get an error message ("cvs [login aborted]: connect to 
> cvs.projectmayo.com(66.77.127.90):2401 failed: Connection timed out"). I 
> suppose their CVS server is down :-(
> 
> So, I had a look at the Project Mayo homepage and I saw that there are CVS 
> snapshots in the form of zip files (decore50src.zip and encore50src.zip), but 
> unfortunately it seems they're only for Windows. I'm using Linux, though :-(
> 
> Does anyone know an alternative source? Or can anybody how have them send them 
> to me? I'd be very grateful :-)
> 
> By the way, are those libraries necessary if I already have divx4linux? 
> Section "2.2.1.1 DivX4/DivX5" from 
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/en/codecs.html was not really clear about this. 
> First it says "The new generation of this codec is called DivX4 and can even 
> decode movies made with the infamous DivX codec!", and a while later it tells 
> "Get the CVS version of the OLD OpenDivx core library like this:", as though 
> it didn't matter you just installed the "new generation of this codec".
> Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I'm fairly new to MPlayer ;-)

None of the projectmayo/divx.com files are useful for anything. Just
install mplayer with libavcodec (and optionally xvid if you believe
it's better for some reason) and you'll be able to decode and encode
all "divx-type" (mpeg4) files.

Rich