Re: [xine-user] DivX ;-) 5.0 support?

[tom <twi...@tr...>]

Derrik Pates wrote:

> I snagged the DivX ;-) 5.0 version of the Star Wars Ep. 2 trailer, andd
> tried to play it with Xine. Xine seems to be trying, it claims to
> understand the video and audio codecs used, but then complains about the
> AVI format:
>
> xine: using input plugin >file< for this MRL (/mnt/ep2_clone_war_p640.avi).
> demux_avi: 4334 frames
> xine: using demuxer plugin >AVI< for this MRL.
> demux_avi: video format = DIVX, audio format = 0x55
> demux_avi: audio type MPEG layer 2/3 (wFormatTag 0x55)
> metronom: video stream start...
> metronom: waiting for audio to start...
> metronom: audio stream start...
> metronom: audio stream start...done
> demux_avi: unknown avi format DX50
> xine_play: demuxer failed to start
>
> Does this mean that DivX 5.0 uses a modified AVI file format? Or is the
> actual video encoding different? If the former, does anyone know what
> tweaks need to be made? If the latter, will ProjectMayo/OpenDivX ever
> support v5? It still only supports v4, and according the projectmayo.com
> hasn't been updated in some time now.

Hello Derrik,

If you go to
http://avifile.sourceforge.net/download.htm
They have DivX5 for download. I have not looked at it yet but I thought
you might want to.

Thomas W

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