Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:30:43 +0200 From: Anders Nordby <anders@FreeBSD.org> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Divx , avifile, mpeg4ip - all a pitfall somehow Message-ID: <20030411103043.GA86878@totem.fix.no> In-Reply-To: <200304111026.h3BAQbV08963@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <200304111026.h3BAQbV08963@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Hi, You want mplayer. I have no problems playing divx with it. (Actually, I am making some divx films myself with a DV camcorder, Kino and mjpegtools. Hopefully one day, there's also some GUI like Kino I can use for editing the movies in FreeBSD...) On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:26:37PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > I received an AVI file with a Jazz recording and thought, to not > boot my notebook into Windows ME or 2k this time but fire up > one of the FreeBSD video tools . > > Had I only booted into Windows, I would not be sitting here > and write these lines :-) > > The odyssey started: > > locate divx (the file was using the divx codec) > aha, /usr/ports/multimedia. > > compiled divex > ah, it's only a library. > > Hmm, what player ? googled a bit. > > Time passes .. > > lets compile mpeg4ip > > Phew, look ma, SDL, gnome, gtk, yay. > > what's the binary, what's the binary, hell? > > ah, gmp4player > > fire up, open file. > > allright.avi > > Open error: /home/kuku/allright cannot be opened. > > Hmm. not saying why but probably doesn't like divx format. > > Lets try avifile. Port fails to build. > fetch: avifile-0.7.18-20021107.tgz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) > >> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this > >> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/avifile. > > Maybe my fault because ports my tree might be newer than FreeBSD > version - didn't have time to sync that. > > sigh. > > I tried to cvs checkout avfile from sourcefourge, autogen, configure, > cpu_flush.TPlo -fPIC -DPIC -o cpu_flush.lo > In file included from cpu_flush.c:7: > libdha.h:19: stdint.h: No such file or directory > In file included from cpu_flush.c:8: > kernelhelper/dhahelper.h:11: linux/ioctl.h: No such file or directory > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/home/kuku/avifile/drivers/libdha. > *** Error code 1 > > 12:30, time for lunch > > ---- > To make it short: roadmap to play a divx .AVI file under FreeBSD? > > > -- > Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies@rwth-aachen.de > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Anders.
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