Getting Xvid to work with MEncoder

[pdavis68]

I'm running FC 3. Yesterday I installed MPlayer and MEncoder using the instructions from this page:

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mplayer-fedora.shtml

Everything seemed to work fine except that the Xvid codec doesn't seem to be available. I downloaded and installed the XVid codec as referenced in section 2.3 of the page.

The xvid package is in an RPM and I installed it using rpm -i. The specific rpm is: xvidcore-1.0.3-1.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm

I tried re-installing it and it says it's already installed.

Yet when I go to the "configure" stage, prior to "make", Xvid has a "no" next to it. And if I do "mencoder -ovc help" it lists other codecs but of course, not xvid.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Pete

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I'm running FC 3. Yesterday I installed MPlayer and MEncoder using the instructions from this page:

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mplayer-fedora.shtml

Everything seemed to work fine except that the Xvid codec doesn't seem to be available. I downloaded and installed the XVid codec as referenced in section 2.3 of the page.

The xvid package is in an RPM and I installed it using rpm -i. The specific rpm is: xvidcore-1.0.3-1.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm

I tried re-installing it and it says it's already installed.

Yet when I go to the "configure" stage, prior to "make", Xvid has a "no" next to it. And if I do "mencoder -ovc help" it lists other codecs but of course, not xvid.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Pete

You need devel package, beacuse they contain files needed for compilation. On that page you have xvidcore-devel-1.0.2-2.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm , install that and you should be set.

Hth, Milan

[pdavis68]

Thanks, I think that did it. I reran configure and it saw it and I'm rebuilding now. Thanks a bunch.

Pete