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lumiwa

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Registered: 2005-12-26

Posts: 712

divx

Hi!

I have a problem to play divx. I use KDE, mplayer, mplayer-plugins but on
http://stage6.divx.com/ doesn't work and all the time ask me if I want to download a plugin. I use KDE and Konqueror or Firefox.  I check in /etc/mplayer-plugin.conf but there are no options to enable divx.

Thanks in advance.

Noneus

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Registered: 2006-09-26

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Re: divx

I can play it. I have mplayer-svn though. And I'm on 64Bit where you can't use the windows dlls. (They sometimes conflict with native codecs or something like that.)

[root@lukasa ~]# pacman -Q mplayer-svn
mplayer-svn 23851-1

http://noneus.de/misc/divx6.jpg

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: divx

For Firefox: open up anything that uses MPlayer to play. When the player window is up, right click on the video, and select Configure. Check the line that says enable Divx. Enjoy.

I don't know how to do this with Konqueror and KMPlayer. Maybe someone does?

Last edited by skottish (2007-07-24 23:54:13)

lumiwa

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Registered: 2005-12-26

Posts: 712

Re: divx

I can play it. I have mplayer-svn though. And I'm on 64Bit where you can't use the windows dlls. (They sometimes conflict with native codecs or something like that.)

[root@lukasa ~]# pacman -Q mplayer-svn
mplayer-svn 23851-1

http://noneus.de/misc/divx6.jpg

I install mplayer-svn from unstable and Firefox works now but the version is older than version from extra...

skottish

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Re: divx

The user's settings for the MPlayerplug-in are in /home/.mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf. Mine looks like this:

cachesize=512
cache-percent=25
dload-dir=/home/skottish
showtime=1
enable-wmp=1
enable-qt=1
enable-rm=1
enable-gmp=1
enable-dvx=1
enable-mpeg=1
enable-mp3=1
enable-midi=0
enable-pls=1
enable-ogg=1
enable-smil=1
enable-helix=1
nomediacache=0
nopauseonhide=0
rtsp-use-tcp=0
rtsp-use-http=0

Divx works for me.

Last edited by skottish (2007-07-25 01:46:54)

lumiwa

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Registered: 2005-12-26

Posts: 712

Re: divx

It works for me in Firefox but doesn't with Konqueror. I did ask on linuxquestions.or and got one answer:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions … ost2838612

Is it problem with Arch (KDE) maybe?

skottish

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Re: divx

This is ugly. It doesn't work right. But it's more of a solution than the default KDE behavior.

Open up 'File Associations' from the 'KDE Components' entry in 'Control Center'. Select 'Add'. Select the video group. Enter "divx" for the name. In the 'General' tab and under 'File Patterns' add "*.divx". Under description enter "DivX Media Format". Then under 'Application Preference Order' add 'KMPlayer'. Go to the 'Embedding' tab, leave 'Left Click Action' as the defaults. Under 'Service Preference Order' add 'Embedded MPlayer for KDE (kmplayer_part). And last, remove the file:

/home/USER/.kde/share/mimelnk/application/octet-stream.desktop

What do you get for all the work? A working video that's not really anywhere near where it's supposed to be.

Half way there!

Last edited by skottish (2007-07-28 23:28:55)

lumiwa

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Registered: 2005-12-26

Posts: 712

Re: divx

Thank you very much...