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This really does work
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by nd (nd@kracked.com) on Sunday June 18, @01:53PM EDT
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After seeing this on Gnotices yesterday, I
grabbed it and gave it a try.
It really does work great...
just be sure to strictly follow the directions on the page (X in
32-bit color mode will NOT work right).
If you get
segfaults, try the SDL rendering method - OpenGL seems to crash for
me.
The video works great on this Athlon 750, but I hear the
audio gets out of sync if you have a lower end machine (audio is
decoded in realtime, so if the video lags it gets progressively out
of sync).
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beos v linux gets a bit
hotter (Score:1)
by head_the_mongoose (havefun@thefunhouse.fun) on Sunday June 18,
@01:54PM EDT (#2)
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i personally prefer beOS for multimedia but
linux seems to be moving closer and closer to being a real
alternative to both windows and be's limited system.
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Doctor, if they take away my head surely I'll die?"
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Sock it to them!
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by acidrain (Everything is melting!) on Sunday June 18,
@01:58PM EDT (#5)
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I have a vision of running everything that I can
in windows on my linux box as if it were native. And waching
microsoft sit on it's hands and cry. While this may seem far off
right now (wine) with all the atention that linux gets these days...
Anyway, kudos to the hacker.
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Why DivX? (Score:0)
by
Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 18, @01:59PM EDT (#6)
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DivX is the dumbest idea I've heard of in a long
time. Why bother with it?
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Some questions
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by TheTick21
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sorry for my ignorance but I have a few
questions and /. is a good place to get answers =)
Isn't
Divx not a real standard format? or is it? if it isn't then we're
happy about support for a non-standard format? Isn't Mpeg4 not
officially released yet? Don't get me wrong Divx is awesome (never
thought I'd say that hehe) and I'm very happy to see it go to Linux.
Although they do have the codec functioning now on linux
(thats good) hmmm well I would really appreciate some answers =)
thanks
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- Its
a rip of m$'s "mpeg4" codec by Anonymous Coward Sunday June 18, @02:08PM EDT
- Re:Some
questions by hSb.Melvin (Score:2) Sunday June 18, @02:20PM EDT
Re:Some
questions (Score:4, Interesting)
by FigWig on
Sunday June 18, @03:07PM EDT (#75)
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Divx is just an implementation of
mpeg4, a low-bitrate compression that is intended for
streaming video over low-bandwith lines like 56k6 modems.
mpeg1 and 2 are still better, but also a lot bigge
Dude, you are just so wrong! DivX is a hack of MS
MPEG-4 candidate code. It has been changed to allow it to
be used in AVI files (MS only wants you to use it in ASF
due to copy protection stuff) and adds in the Fraunhofer
mp3 encode for audio. I believe it is VBR. This hack was
possible because the MS code was available under an NDA
and 'escaped'. DivX (and MPEG-4 in general) whup MPEG-1,2
ass! A standard VCD is 1374 kbits/sec, fits about an hour
of 352x240 video on a CD, and looks terrible. MPEG-1 caps
out there while MPEG-2 can do higher resolution/bitrates,
but still aint great. MPEG-4 can easily fit about 45
minutes of 640x480 (resolution I sometimes use with TV
captures) on a CD. Check out some DivX trailers and
you'll see what I mean.
A lot of people claim DivX
is better than a DVD (MPEG-2), which is true. Just don't
expect to see than when you are stuffing the same video on
one or two CDs instead of a DVD. It still looks great
though.
One other thing, this increased compression
is traded off with greater processing power to decompress.
You could do MPEG-1 with a pentium 133 or something, but I
wouldn't suggest MPEG-4 without at least a pentium 450 or
equivalent.
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- Bullshit
by Anonymous Coward Sunday June 18, @11:48PM EDT
- Re:Some
questions by mindstrm (Score:2) Sunday June 18, @07:08PM EDT
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segfault (Score:0)
by
Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 18, @02:00PM EDT (#9)
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this version just segfaults for me when I try to
play any file, even regular mpegs.. the previous version used to
work
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- Re:segfault
by groomed (Score:1) Sunday
June 18, @10:50PM EDT
- Re:segfault
by pli (Score:1) Monday June
19, @07:05AM EDT
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yes this does work.
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by yannz on Sunday June 18, @02:02PM EDT (#10)
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Yes, really, it does work, with some thinkering.
correct colors, the sound a bit sparkeling, and NO sync.. but it's
beta, and i've only got a pII 300 and a weak ATI card. just follow
the instructions given on the xmps page, and it should
work.
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- Heh
by Anonymous Coward Sunday June 18, @05:34PM EDT
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What's the point?
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by Segfault 11 on Sunday June 18, @02:04PM EDT
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| Is this a different Divx than the one Circuit CIty and a few other
companies were pushing? Divx is dead, my friends.
If it is, there can only be a handful of those discs in the first
place -- if people were stupid enough to "buy" Divx in the first
place, they would still be in business...
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Ahem.. Linux? (Score:1,
Flamebait)
by JamesKPolk (multivac @ fcmail.com) on Sunday June 18,
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Is this linux, or just x86 linux? Oh, it's only
x86 linux? I thought so.
I hate it when slashdot's acts as
platform-ignorant as the mainstream press.
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WMA under Linux? (Score:3,
Insightful)
by GoRK
(g-o-r-k@w-h-i-d.n-e-t) on Sunday June
18, @02:09PM EDT (#16)
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If this can be done for a video codec, then can
someone please do this for WMA audio and Windows Media's streaming?
Microsoft is maybe never going to release WMP for Linux and the
number of content providers using this format is increasing every
day (namely to the restrictive licensing that Real networks imposes
on their software)
This really is a relevant issue. Please
don't moderate this down just because it has Microsoft smeared all
over it. I (frankly) find it quite amazing the support that you all
are giving Microsoft's (broken) MPEG4 stuff!
~GoRK
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DivX and MPEG-4 resource
page (Score:5, Informative)
by Oscarfish (webmaster@spamoscarfish.com) on Sunday June 18,
@02:09PM EDT (#19)
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| http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/support/mpeg4.html
This is an excellent resource for more information about the DivX
codec as well as MPEG-4 compression in general. Now, if only FlasK could be ported to
Linux...we'd be made in the shade.
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Woah (Score:0)
by
Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 18, @02:11PM EDT (#21)
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After years of seeing poor quality mpegs on
computers, I am totally amazed at this high quality DivX
video.
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damn. too late. (Score:5,
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by Bad_CRC on Sunday June 18, @02:14PM EDT (#22)
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| crap, I REALLY wanted to try this, and it's
already slashdotted with only 10 replies.
People should remember that this DIVX isn't the same DivX as the
stupid dvd pay-to-play clone thing, it's just a video codec.
since DIVX and ASF are supposedly based off the same mpeg4 codec,
is there a chance somebody can also hack the .asf format to play on
linux? Microsoft has boasted that .asf is based on open Mpeg4
technology, therefore it should, in theory, be possible to hack out
a decoder for linux.
One of the main things I find lacking in Linux compared to doze
is video support. I have a lot of asf and divx files I really want
to play, and I haven't been able to get media player to even run in
wine, so native support for these would be a HUGE milestone (from my
perspective) in no longer needing to rely on windows for video.
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Mirror Please?
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by CaptainDrewle
(slashdot@spam.sux.andrewetter.c0m) on
Sunday June 18, @02:15PM EDT (#23)
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Can someone post a US mirror?
Thanks..
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Some problems with it:
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by iCEBaLM (icebalm@[NOSPAM]bigfoot.com) on Sunday June 18,
@02:22PM EDT (#30)
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I've tried it, and I've had some problems, the
Audio seems to be fine, however the video is quite strange, it shows
2 instances of the video side by side with a really strange and
slightly different color pallete on each one, I'm thinking if the
two were converged it might display properly? Weird.
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How legal is this?
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by TummyX on Sunday June 18, @02:25PM EDT (#34)
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I haven't been able to get to the site, but if
it uses the windows codec, isn't there like some kind of legal issue
involved?
Anyone want to tell me how fast this is? e.g. does
it play fullscreen/scretched etc with decent speed like the windows
media player?
Cause I think it's funny how windows can like
play full screen or scaled MPEG with 20% CPU time while linux uses
100% CPU playing a postage stamp sized MPEG.
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only one question
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by mcc
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@02:26PM EDT (#35)
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ugh.. in my opinion, anything that allows this
unholy format to become entrenched even further only hurts us all in
the end, because if we do not allow it to sink quietly and naturally
into the night it will torment us for years with its presence. But i
shouldn't have just said that, becuase i fear i will start a
flamewar. Ah well.
however, my question is: since DivX
is, in some bastardised way, related to MPEG-4, once the real
MPEG-4 is finalised will it be possible to adapt the XMPS code as a
base for an MPEG-4 codec? Seems like if this is the case, then
the time spent developing the DivX codec will have been very very
useful. I can't access the page; what liscence is it released under?
GPL or LGPL i assume? [go lgpl!]
<font size=-2>note:
i'm sorry if i've offended anyone who thinks that DivX is a very
useful and effective format for pirating movies or whatever. if
you've gotten good use out of the codec, i'm happy for you. i just
myself have no use for the thing and think you'd be better off
reverse-engineering .doc or trying to apply political pressure on
apple/sorensen to let xanim NDA or something. </font>
[and now watch as slashdot, in its typical fashion, responds
to everything in this post _except_ the one thing i _want_ responded
to..]
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A plea (Score:2)
by
Bad_CRC on Sunday June 18, @02:27PM EDT (#36)
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| anyone who has this file, please mirror it
somewhere if possible.
Why doesn't freshmeat mirror it's files?
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- Re:A
plea by Anonymous Coward Sunday June 18,
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- Re:A
plea by Anonymous Coward Sunday June 18,
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- Re:A
plea by Anonymous Coward Sunday June 18,
@03:46PM EDT
- Re:A
plea by _dewman_ (Score:1) Sunday June 18, @05:59PM EDT
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Obligatory licensing
thread (Score:2, Insightful)
by victim on Sunday June 18,
@02:29PM EDT (#39)
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XMPS is a piece of GPL'd software which requires
a non-GPLd library in order to function. This will inevitably
inspire comparison to the KDE/Qt issues. Here are the key
differences to head off the pointless name calling and bickering.
The key difference here is that the authors of XMPS clearly
intended it to be used with this particular non-GPL library and that
is believed by some (heresay says RMS himself) to create an implicit
license.
I small minority of the KDE code was written
without any intention that it would be linked to Qt. (e.g.
kghostscript which derives a work from the GPLd ghostscript code)
The implicit license fuzziness can be avoided by adding a
line to the copyright to be GPL plus it is allowed to be linked to
the particular windows DLL.
And just to headoff the next
logical subthread, that depends what the definition of `link'
is, consider the spectrum...
- source code included in main compile
- source code compiled and objects linked in
- object library linked
- shared library linked
- library accessed through CORBA/DCOM/RPC
- library accessed through fork/exec/pipe
The
GPL says...
For an executable work, complete source code means all
the source code for all modules it contains, plus any
associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to
control compilation and installation of the executable. However,
as a special exception, the source code distributed need not
include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or
binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so
on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless
that component itself accompanies the
executable.
Over the years that definition of
`modules' and `components' has wandered around in the spectrum of
source, libraries, shared libraries, and ORBs. There is not
currently a consensus and you will find reasonable and knowledgable
people that differ on whether a DLL linked at runtime is a module or
component of a program.
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Can I get a Witnes^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
Mirror? (Score:1)
by icepick (myers@nospam.fil.org) on Sunday June 18, @02:34PM
EDT (#47)
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Can someone who got this before they were /.'ed
please put up a mirror?
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Guess I was not too far
off. (Score:1)
by Lac on Sunday June 18, @02:36PM EDT (#49)
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As I have already said, I think this is amazing, and I really
approve of what those people are doing. This enpowers users of free
system, me included. But I did post
a related Slashdot criticism yesterday in the KDE-licencing
flamewar here. I was raising the issue of double standards. That
criticism was largely ignored, but I feel strangely validated,
now.
"[XMPS] is a GPLed app which uses a proprietary library. The
licence makes no explicit exceptions. Sound familiar? Now read the
Gnotices. See anyone complaining? I don't. Everyone looks
thrilled. Somehow, I'm not surprised. Slashdot posters would react
the same if the news got here. This is a Gtk+ app, after
all."
As I say, not too far off...
"But of course, anyone writing GPLed code and linking it against
Qt is a GPL-badmouthing, uptight, arrogant, crack-smoking, gay
devil-worshipper. [...] When I see how such troll posts about KDE
consistently get moderated up to +5 Intersting, I start looking for
the button which allows me to moderate *all* of Slashdot
down."
Hmmm... A double standard, maybe? Now tell me I was
wrong.
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DivX (Score:0)
by
Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 18, @02:39PM EDT (#52)
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Correct me if I am wrong but, isn't Divx a DVD
that one rents and never returns? And the technology that flopped
big time?
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- Re:DivX
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Why did they name it DVIX?
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by tie_guy_matt on Sunday June 18, @02:47PM EDT
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We would have avoided half of the posts to this
story that say stuff like,
"DVD rulls DivX sucks!"
Is there a reason why they chose the name DIVX? Maybe they
should call it Matt instead :)
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You people are behind
times (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 18,
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Hah!
There has been a whole new movement
around
DIVX ;-) on Windows for half a year now,
because the
low-motion codec is really
superb for stripping down DVDs to one
or
two CDs with 128kBit/s mp3 m/s stereo.
What few
people realize is that this will kick
MPEG-1 out of the pirate
movie distribution
scene in the not-so-distant future. Say hello
to 640x480@25 fps instead of lousy 320x288.
Of course
you need a P2-400+ to really enjoy in
in Windows, and probably
double that to account
for your slow X11 and emulation and all
that on
your Linux machine.
Let's see if mp3 is a lesson
to companies who
add VISION to the sound.
mcice
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- Absolutely
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Uhm (Score:1)
by
alehmann on Sunday June 18, @03:21PM EDT (#85)
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This is only using the DLL from Windows to
decode the video. I shudder at the thought that there may be one day
when to use free software with proprietary file fomats you would
need non-free libraries from the manufacturers.
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mirror (Score:1,
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by dapozza- on Sunday June 18, @03:21PM EDT (#86)
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I have uploaded it for the people who don't have
the file yet: http://www.adp-group.com/xmps-0.1.1beta.tar.gz have
phun
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what's the deal with
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by fudboy (steerpike00@evilemail.com) on Sunday June 18,
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what's the deal with timothy lately, anyway?
he's posted like 50 stories in the last 3 days. As a result, my brilliant
posts go without proper attention from the moderators. Is his
job on the line? Is he on crack or a new brand of coffee? what
gives? please slow down!!!
:)Fudboy
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Stuff to try it!
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by merou on Sunday June 18, @03:30PM EDT (#90)
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You can download good quality movie trailers on
this.... It's
"malgré tout" a bit slow on my dual-celeron500 system... i guess
we'll have to wait some more :)
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clarificationi (Score:2,
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by pavelc
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on Sunday June 18, @04:07PM EDT (#102)
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I looked at the code and found that XMPS is
using WINE's PE loader in order to use the Windows DLL file. That
is, the author has ripped a part of WINE that loads Windows
executables. As far as I know, WINE runs on almost every x86 Unix,
including FreeBSD and Solaris, thus the title which says "DivX under
Linux" is not quite correct.
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Why bother- DIVX is dead?
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by Signa1
l1 (signal11@mediaone.net?Subject=Slashdot
comment) on Sunday June 18, @04:09PM EDT (#105)
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Circuit City and Best Buy pulled the plug on
this technology over a year ago. Why are the kernel maintainers even
bothering with this dead-end technology?
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moderation +4 Funny)
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The reaon linux isn't so
popular (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 18,
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| sure, bigtime geeks who can write assembly code
faster than they can figure out how to talk to another human can
install programs on linux, but mere mortals can't do it.
I can't get this stupid program installed, to run it, you need to
download 4 other programs, make sure you have the right version, get
the source code, configure them, compile them, then compile this
program, move the files to other directories, edit your path...
I know there are plenty of people who don't want normal people to
ever use linux. I guess this will keep it that way.
/rant off, and another newbie goes back to windows.
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Its ok, but...
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by HiyaPower on Sunday June 18, @04:21PM EDT (#115)
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My problem is that Divx is a crib on MPEG-4 with
the usual M$ intention of letting other folks do the work and we
will make the money. For all of that, though if it could be
hacked/reverse-engineered/etc into something more reasonable for
general use, it has some promise. Severe lack of encoders (hey what
else only for M$ platorms), but the ones there are seem to run a lot
faster than my favorite of Sorenson for Quicktime. A couple of nice
links for divx are 405 the
movie which is a interesting effort by a couple of guys, here for Wintel encoders and here for a sort of general purpose
site.
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There seems to be some
confusion.. (Score:1)
by MoOsEb0y (mooseboy@vqf.com) on Sunday June 18, @04:27PM EDT
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Ok, I have been seeing numerous posts on here
stating "Why are you using that old dead technology??". Well, I
shall now clear the confusion. The Divx that they are thinking of is
the now-defunct rentable DVD technology sponsored by Circuit City.
DivX ;-) mentioned in here is a hacked version of the M$ MPEG-4
codec so that it can be put in .AVI files and thus in virtually any
program. It performs quite well at breaking down DVDs into files,
packaged along with lower bitrate MP3 (112-128k) that usually fit on
a single CD.
Thank you very much for the time,
MoOsEb0y
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Mirror
at:http://www.warande.uu.nl/~jverelst/xmps/ (Score:1)
by
Wizard of OS (jverelst@freemail.nl) on Sunday June 18, @05:30PM
EDT (#144)
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Because the site is /.-ed (and I knew this link
2 days ago) I created a mirror. I don't know if my provider likes
the website /.-ed, but we'll see about that later :)
The link
is: http://www.warande.uu.nl/~jverelst/xmps/
Have fun!!
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working DivX ;-)'s
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by .pentai. (vc@777h.org) on Sunday June 18, @05:42PM EDT (#155)
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Ok, I'll admit, I just like the fact that the
codec's real name is "DivX ;-)" smiley face included. That being
said, I got it working easily (though you MUST MUST MUST be in
16bpp).
For testing DivX's I just went to
http://divx.ctw.cc/ and checked out their Trailers section. All the
trailers I tried worked great.
Only problems I noticed where
that sometimes after playing one DivX, if you try to play another it
would sometimes be messed up...quitting and restarting xmps worked
though.
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skined vs. GTK interface
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by HomerJ
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@06:22PM EDT (#171)
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Just a quick comment:
Use the skined
interface. I tried the gtk one, and it was nothing but problems. No
fullscreen, aobut a 50/50 chance the movie would even load, horrible
sync, etc.
Changed to the skined interface, and it was like
night and day. Can do fullscreen, the sync problems went away, and
it was interesting to see The Matrix trailer playing full screen
thought my V3 3k's TV out =)
So when you try this, use the
skined interface =)
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Are there any kind souls in Linux
Land? (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 18,
@06:34PM EDT (#177)
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| Myself and a few others here do not have the
experience or ability to get this program up and running.
I know the slashdot crowd is legendary for it's intolerance of
newbies, but if there is anyone here who could get this source to
compile, and release an x86 binary, it would be extremely
appreciated.
probably futile, but I thought I'd ask.
please.
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The Perfect Example.
(Score:2, Insightful)
by Drestin on Sunday June 18, @07:29PM EDT
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I love it - what screen shot is provided? The
Matrix. Um... gee, just how did they get that Matrix DVD image into
DivX format? A little DeCSS help perhaps?
DeCSS + DivX is
exactly what the MPAA has been talking about. You can rip a DVD into
a very nice quality movie that can fit onto a CD and is easily
downloaded from usenet after it's been RARed.
I wonder if
there is anyone out there who still thinks DeCSS wasn't built for
the strict purpose of ripping DVDs, just as Divx's only purpose is
to make the ripped files smaller while retaining decent quality...
ya know (wink wink) for all those legit movies you are copying (the
ones YOU personally have the copyright to because you cannot even
copy a DVD you own).
Of course, by the time the linux Divx
playback is working, we'll be running mpeg-4 proper.
alt.binaries.movies is the largest usenet group by a nice margin -
and nothing but Divx encoded, DeCSS ripped DVDs. I think the MPAA
will have no problem proving it's case...
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32 bpp support ?
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by Salsaman
(gabriel@DIE.SPAMMERS.DIE.pixle.demon.co.uk) on
Sunday June 18, @08:02PM EDT (#193)
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| Does anybody happen to know if 32 bit colour
support is in the works ? Or is this a limitation of the Windoze dll
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Technical Question.
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by be-fan on Sunday June 18, @09:54PM EDT (#204)
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It's pretty cool that they thunk to the Windows
DLL, but one question (actuall a compound question.)
What
exactly IS thunking and how does it work? I know that Win95 thunks
to the Win16 code, but I don't know what process is
involved.
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Yay! It Works! (mostly..)
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by Mike Hicks
(hick0088@tc.umn.edu) on Monday June 19,
@12:41AM EDT (#222)
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Hey, that's pretty cool. Definitely one of the
good things that has come about because of Windows compatibility
research and work. Of course, I'll be a lot happier once the driver
gets re-written in portable source code.
It works, although
the framerate was quite slow for me (using the SDL output on XF86
3.3.6). I just compiled glx.so, so I'll have to try it again with
the OpenGL output. Sound was way out of sync, but it may again be
because of SDL. If not, I'll just blame my CPU speed (375
MHz)
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Ski-U-Mah!
Stop the MPAA
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Using Win DLL's to avoid
License/Patent Problems? (Score:1)
by ewieling on Monday
June 19, @01:34AM EDT (#231)
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Is there any reason that someone could not build
something similar to DeCSS using a Windows DLL for the actual CSS
stuff? It would not be cross hardware platform, but it would at
least be something.
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smpeg 0.40 is out!
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by rana on Monday June 19, @01:37AM EDT (#232)
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I noticed the XMPS page last updated 6/13
and the latest version of XMPS is linked against smpeg 0.10, but
since then smpeg 0.40 was released. You need SDL 1.1.3 to compile.
The "gtv" application that comes with smpeg is simple, but works
well on all the mpeg-1 I've thrown at it, such as the Matrix South
Park Trailer. Hats off to the developer(s) at Loki for their fine
contributions to free software!
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Can someone rev eng the DLL
? (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19,
@07:16AM EDT (#245)
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Can someone rev eng the DLL ? It feels wrong to
have to use a ms DLL for this, it is hard to rev. eng. to get DivX
for Linux without it ?
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This Works? (+ some
links) (Score:1)
by 1skywalker1 (stokesHATESSPAM@dexis.net) on Monday June 19,
@09:41AM EDT (#249)
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Can we get a few more posts on which files have
actually been viewed with this? I've got everything compiled
correctly but all I get is a seg fault when I try to load a DivX. I
tried to sign up to the mailing list but got no response (anyone
else out there have any luck with that?).
I've been messing
with video since the vivo format was the best thing out there and
every single time I see a DivX I am blown away with the incredible
quality. The ONLY reason I reboot to winblows is to watch DivX's and
I've been hoping for a video player for linux for a LONG
time...
Please let me know if anyone out there has
had/overcome problems trying to get this to work.
Thanks
;-)
Links:
DivX ;) Home
Page
Good DivX FAQ
Great DivX Site (with a
post today about *nix DivX!)
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The skinny on "DiVX ;-)"
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by [Dilbert]
(bwm3 AT po DOT cwru DOT edu) on Monday
June 19, @01:14PM EDT (#255)
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| Ok, as one of the d00dz who has been around DiVX
;-) for a while, i feel obligated to drop some info here. My IRCnick
(EFNet) is BcKSpacE, i hang in #DiVX from time to time, moreso when
it's college time.
- The FULL, proper name is "DiVX ;-)" (with those cases and the
smiley
- the author is (supposedly) Spanish, not french
- DiVX ;-) sprung from a hack of the M$ MPEG4 video codec, the
same one that's used in ASFs. The codec needed to be hacked to be
use-able with AVI video (non streaming).
- audio for DiVX ;-) is typically MP3 audio, however there has
also been a hack of the WMA audio codec that will encode into
AVIs. HOWEVER, there is an interesting issue with these hacked
codecs on some systems. The hacked VIDEO codec uses the DiVX ;-)
decoder codec. any AUDIO encoded with the (very alpha) hacked WMA
codec is DEcoded with the BUILTIN windows WMA decoders. On some
systems, this creates some really funky errors, depending on the
version of DirectX media that's installed.
- the definitive HOWTO on CREATING your own, GOOD QUALITY DiVX
rip can be found at the FM4
(Free MPEG4) site. I wrote the original howto after reading
some texts on it written by FM4. the pics are almost all mine...
and MSNBC actually took one of them, stuck my hostname (From
school) on the picture and posted it on MSNBC.com - without my
permission. any lawyer geeks know how i can get back at them?
Oh, and DiVX ;-) looks almost as good and sounds almost as good
as a DVD... and if you have a fat pipe, it's easy to get and free...
blows VCD/MPEG1 out of the water too. =)
BcKSpacE AKA [Dilbert]
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Why DivX is a hoax
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by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19, @06:24PM EDT (#260)
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Before we all give props to the boys behind
DivX, it time to peel back the hype - we've all been duped. DivX is
a marketing hoax. 1. They didn't hack M$ MPEG codec. All they did
was hack the codec wrapper to change the associated file type and
the exposed properties on the DLL. The codec is pure, 100%
M$-MPEG-4. 2. They locked motion/iframe/sharpness settings so
generally you get less features than you get with Windoze Media.
Less for more folks... 3. Question anyone who says .ASF vs. .AVI.
People who say DivX uses .AVI rather than .ASF because "ASF is tied
to security" or "ASF is a streaming-only format" obviously know
nothing about this industry. It's just a file extension people. It
was supposed to be a generally accepted file format that Real and M$
would support. Real just never got around to using it. The codec
looks for a file extension. By changing the file extension, DivX
hoaxed more people into thinking they had developed something
different or better. 4. There's no boost in quality over Windoze
Media. Anyone with an inkling of encoding skill could make better
looking video with Windoze Media Tools you can download from M$ site
today. So there you have it folks... DivX or whatever they're
calling it this week is just a marketing ploy to boost the
reputations of some marginal hackers. As much as I hate to admit
it...
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Alternate DivX;-) for Linux
project (Score:1)
by psergiu (or.xennoc@ienetrap.uigres) on Tuesday June 20,
@02:47PM EDT (#265)
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... beginning at linux.divx.st.
Programmers - go
there - you're needed !
+++ATH0
NO CARRIER
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Re:Why? (Score:1)
by nd (nd@kracked.com) on Sunday June 18, @02:09PM EDT
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read above... the DivX codec is not related to
the dead Circuit City stuff.
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Re:Why? (Score:1)
by
cronio on Sunday June 18, @02:33PM EDT (#43)
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This isn't the DVD-rental shit. This is a video
codec based on MPEG-4.
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