Re: [Kaffeine-user] win32 codecs installed - wmv and quicktime not playing

[Benjamin <bn...@gm...>]

> 	There is something very wrong here. If there is one thing that xine 
> should be able to do "out of the box", without any binary codecs, it's 
> play DivX videos, any variety.
> 
> 	SuSE might be a really paranoid distribution that distributes media 
> players that are crippled to the point of uselessness. I recommend 
> downloading the source for various modules and building them yourself:
> 
> * download and compile libdvdcss (cracks DVD encryption)
> * download and compile xine-lib
> * download and compile latest Kaffeine distribution
> 
> Since you already have the binary codecs installed, this should set you 
> up for playing any kind of media out there.

I do not know if Novell is really paranoid. It could simply be that I did
something wrong during the installation of SuSE. Because the first time one
launches Kaffeine, a box comes up saying very clearly "download and install
libdvdcss and mplayer's essential codecs package". So I guess if it was
foreseen that divx would not work "out of the box", they would have precised
that I should download the "all" package instead of the "essential". I would
be interested to know whether other people had the same problem.

Regards,

Benjamin

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