On Saturday 15 December 2001 05:47 pm, Steffen Evers wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 02:05, nate wrote: > > <quote who="Dragos"> > > > > > xine barks about library divxc32.dll !? > > > plaympeg doesn't do anything, and if I try to apt-get smpeg-xmms, > > > it's saying that it has unmet dependencies depends: libsdl1.2 but > > > it's not instalable; should I upgrade to unstable? > > > > i wouldnt reccomend it..but i would never run unstable so.. > > > > i play(and encode) divx in testing a lot(i don't upgrade > > testing a lot, maybe once every 2 months). go to > > avifile.sourceforge.net and get avifile. it supports > > opendivx too(what i encode in). > > You can get the avifile packages from unstable and install them manually > or simply get them with apt-get (what I do): > > - add unstable methods to /etc/apt/sources.list > - set your /etc/apt/preferences like this: > Package: * > Pin: release a=stable > Pin-Priority: 900 > > Package: * > Pin: release o=unstable > Pin-Priority: -10 > > - apt-get update > - apt-get install avifile-player libavifile0.6 > - comment out added methods for unstable in sources.list > - apt-get update (last two, so you do not update all your packages by > dselect) > > However, then you still need the codecs files ... > > This works great for me! > > Bye, Steffen thank you all. I took avifile source and compiled it. I was eager for something like that after all that apt-get's... it works. and I'll compile install mplayer too.
thanks again, dragos