playing XviD files

[Mark Haney]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
>> Is it possible to play Xvid files in unbuntu?
>>
>> I tried vlc, totem and real player to no avail.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>   
>     According to Google Xvid is a new mp3 type of file compression 
> software. No time to look further but it is open source so the codex 
> should be free and easy to get. You need to install it before VLC can work.
> 
> Karl
> 
> 

Karl, Xvid is /not/ a new mp3 type of compression, it's a video codec 
that is (maybe) reverse engineered from DIVX.  (Xvid is DVIX backwards 
for the ones not paying attention.  It's a pretty common codec and can 
be played with virtually any media player with th right codecs 
installed.  I don't know where you picked that up on google, but as my 
mother always said 'don't believe everything you read.'

I don't know what Ubuntu package has the XVID codec so I can't help you 
there, but I view Xvid media in KDE all the time with Kmplayer.



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