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authordiego <diego@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2003-01-13 13:43:48 +0000
committerdiego <diego@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2003-01-13 13:43:48 +0000
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DivX CVS instructions as provided by Alex Kloss <alex@22-music.com>.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@8945 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2
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@@ -56,21 +56,8 @@
movies made with the infamous DivX codec! In addition it is much faster than
the native Win32 DivX DLLs but slower than libavcodec. Hence its usage as a
decoder is <B>DISCOURAGED</B>. However, it is useful for encoding. One
- disadvantage of this codec is that it is currently closed source.</P>
-
-<P>The codec can be downloaded from one of the following URLs:</P>
-
-<P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<A HREF="http://avifile.sourceforge.net">http://avifile.sourceforge.net</A><BR>
- &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<A HREF="http://divx.com">http://divx.com</A></P>
-
-<P>Unpack it, and run <CODE>./install.sh</CODE> as root.</P>
-
-<P><B>Note:</B> Do <B>not</B> forget adding <CODE>/usr/local/lib</CODE> to your
- <CODE>/etc/ld.so.conf</CODE> and running <CODE>ldconfig</CODE>!</P>
-
-<P>MPlayer autodetects DivX4/DivX5 if it is properly installed, just
- compile as usual. If it does not detect it, you did not install or configure
- it correctly.</P>
+ disadvantage of this codec is that it is not available under an Open Source
+ license.</P>
<P>DivX4Linux works in two modes:</P>
@@ -94,6 +81,48 @@
<P><B>Note:</B> If your <CODE>-vo</CODE> driver supports direct rendering, then
<CODE>-vc divx4</CODE> may be faster or even the fastest solution.</P>
+<P>The codec can be downloaded from
+ <A HREF="http://avifile.sourceforge.net">avifile</A>.
+ Unpack it, run <CODE>./install.sh</CODE> as root and do not forget adding
+ <CODE>/usr/local/lib</CODE> to your <CODE>/etc/ld.so.conf</CODE> and running
+ <CODE>ldconfig</CODE>.</P>
+
+<P>Get the CVS version of the core library like this:</P>
+
+<OL>
+ <LI><CODE>cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.projectmayo.com:/cvsroot login</CODE></LI>
+ <LI><CODE>cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.projectmayo.com:/cvsroot co divxcore</CODE></LI>
+ <LI>This core library is split into a decore and encore library that have to
+ be compiled separately. For the decore Library, simply type
+ <PRE>
+ cd divxcore/decore/build/linux
+ make
+ cp libdivxdecore.so /usr/local/lib
+ ln -s /usr/local/lib/libdivxdecore.so /usr/local/lib/libdivxdecore.so.0
+ cp ../../src/decore.h /usr/local/include
+ </PRE>
+ </LI>
+ <LI>Alas, for the encore library there is no Linux Makefile available, and the
+ MMX optimized code only works on Windows. You can still compile it, though,
+ by using this
+ <A HREF="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/divx-mf/Makefile">Makefile</A>.
+ <PRE>
+ cd ../../../encore/build
+ mkdir linux
+ cd linux
+ cp path/Makefile .
+ make
+ cp libdivxencore.so /usr/local/lib
+ ln -s /usr/local/lib/libdivxdecore.so /usr/local/lib/libdivxdecore.so.0
+ cp ../../src/encore.h /usr/local/include
+ </PRE>
+ </LI>
+</OL>
+
+<P>MPlayer autodetects DivX4/DivX5 if it is properly installed, just
+ compile as usual. If it does not detect it, you did not install or configure
+ it correctly.</P>
+
<H4><A NAME="libavcodec">2.2.1.2 FFmpeg DivX/libavcodec</A></H4>