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aha

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Registered: 2004-10-17

Posts: 15

How to install vendor supplied Windows DivX codec on Arch?

Hello,

I bought a new MPEG4 camcorder. I assumed it would be standard MPEG4 playable on my ARCH desktop. Little did I know that the camcorder vendor provides a modified DivXPro codec for Windows only!

In the codec there is a DLL (Umm, I think, DivX.dll, I am not sure though) and a couple of .ax files (I think these are DivX filters or something like that). I tried to put these files in /usr/lib/win32 directory but no improvement.

Can somebody please suggest me a method of installing this codec in Arch so that I don't have to goto Window for watching (and transcode) my home videos?

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~ Aha ~

BartL

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2005-06-21

Posts: 29

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Re: How to install vendor supplied Windows DivX codec on Arch?

*maybe* Mplayer can use the dll, in which case you can convert the video with mencoder to a more Linux-friendly codec.