DivX

[farueulogy]

I am a big fan of DivX on my windows partition as it means I can play virtually any media type with no problems or searching for codecs.

Basically I'd like to install the same thing on the Mandriva one (gnome) install I have here.

I have found this website:
http://www.divx-digest.com/software/...dec_linux.html
downloaded the .tar.gz archive and extracted it. I have then tried to run the "install.sh" but it seems to have no effect at all.

I figured it would help totem movie player play the sound on my .mp4 files.

I am being dumb?


Also - has anyone managed to get real one player to work on Linux? specifically gnome and mandriva?

[tech_man]

Just install VLC.

[farueulogy]

VLC looks like a nice alternative.

To install the latest VLC packages, add the following sources for your Mandrake version (you can use Easy urpmi for that):

* contrib from the core distribution;
* plf (Penguin Liberation Front) from the external add-ons.

Then install the required packages with urpmi:

# urpmi libdvdplay0 wxvlc vlc-plugin-a52 vlc-plugin-ogg vlc-plugin-mad libmatroska0

You might also try to install libdvdcss2:

# urpmi libdvdcss2

I am a total noob and have no idea what that means.