I'll start off, this is my first post, and I'm a Linux n00b. Right now I have EVERYTHING working great in my Mint Cassandra box, except I'm having trouble playing videos online that use DivX Stage6.
I thought Mplayer was supposed to play videos that use divx codecs, but I guess not. Anyway, much help would be appreciated, I'm sure it's an easy fix, but I'll say it again, I've only been using Linux for about 48 hours.
My current distro is Cassandra.
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by robinhoody on Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:20 am
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by Boo on Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:31 am
check out this post :
http://linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... ivx&t=1161
mplayer will need a little config.
and check that divx is checked.
http://linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... ivx&t=1161
mplayer will need a little config.
and check that divx is checked.
Now where was i going? Oh yes, crazy!
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by robinhoody on Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:10 am
Boo wrote:check out this post :
http://linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... ivx&t=1161
mplayer will need a little config.
and check that divx is checked.
Thanks for the help and quick response.
Divx was checked, but I followed the rest of the directions in the link. However, for some reason, it still won't work.
Here is a screen shot of the particular problem I'm having:
http://i12.tinypic.com/6cfddvn.png
It says the plugin is unknown... I am so confused.
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by Sorensei on Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:11 am
Hi,
Have you tried to see what the plugin is called? I've seen a number of sites streaming Divx using a "divx plugin" (it's a .exe, so of course it's not gonna work in Linux).
I haven't checked whether the mplayer option works in that case, but should you find a workaround this one, I'm interested...
Have you tried to see what the plugin is called? I've seen a number of sites streaming Divx using a "divx plugin" (it's a .exe, so of course it's not gonna work in Linux).
I haven't checked whether the mplayer option works in that case, but should you find a workaround this one, I'm interested...
I don't have a solution, but I do admire the problem.
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by nick on Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:08 am
Hi
Works O.K. on my box, I think? your link is http://tv-links.co.uk/show.do/2/143
Under divx, search in Synaptic. I have installed:
ffmpeg
gstreamer-ffmpeg
libavcodec
libvlc
mencoder
mplayer
transcode
vlc
vlc-nox
mozilla-mplayer
Also works in Konqueroror with kmplayer installed
Nick
Works O.K. on my box, I think? your link is http://tv-links.co.uk/show.do/2/143
Under divx, search in Synaptic. I have installed:
ffmpeg
gstreamer-ffmpeg
libavcodec
libvlc
mencoder
mplayer
transcode
vlc
vlc-nox
mozilla-mplayer
Also works in Konqueroror with kmplayer installed
Nick
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by nick on Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:25 pm
Hi
I am running Bianca if you are having problem with Cassandra and Divx, this is a Feisty bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/112055
Firefox does not recognize that the mplayer plugin provides divx support in a standard installation of ubuntu feisty. Using about:config in firefox does not show the divx plugin even though divx support is provided in
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-dvx.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt
Fix:
Moving these two files to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/ solves the problem.
Nick
I am running Bianca if you are having problem with Cassandra and Divx, this is a Feisty bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/112055
Firefox does not recognize that the mplayer plugin provides divx support in a standard installation of ubuntu feisty. Using about:config in firefox does not show the divx plugin even though divx support is provided in
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-dvx.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt
Fix:
Moving these two files to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/ solves the problem.
Nick
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