> > >... and player? What player do you mean? There are probably about 15 >different player for Linux for DivX films, and I can't seem to find any >reference to divxPlayer anywhere? > Sorry, I thought I had been clear on this but I guess not. The player I'm speaking of is the "The Playa," referred to in filenames as divxPlayer. You can find it on the official DivX website http://www.divx.com This is also where I got the codec for Linux from.
>Sounds like the film you are trying to open is not in actual fact a DivX >film. I'm guessing that this is another file to the one you opened when >testing the "player"? If it is the same one, then my guess is that the >"player" is very buggy. > > As far as the file goes, I did not open the player and the file in the same command. When I tested it, I opened the player and then clicked the button to open a file, and chose the divx movie I wanted to view. At that point it worked just fine. When I went to actually WATCH a movie in it however, I opened the player, just like before, and was not able to click any buttons to open any movie, as it closed almost immediately after. Frankly, I know how to tell the difference between file formats, and I know how to compile just fine, but I like the official DivX player from divx.com. It ought to work, it HAS worked, and I know for a fact it works as one of my friends installed it on his Gentoo installation with no problems. My question really concerns the error message. I know the problem lies in there. There are two files in /usr/local/bin, one is called, simply, divxPlayer. The contents are as follows: #!/bin/sh BINDIR=/usr/local/bin DIVX_SKIN_DIR=/usr/local/divxPlayer/Skins; export DIVX_SKIN_DIR /usr/local/bin/divxPlayer.bin $@ I believe the problem may lie somewhere in this script file. There is also a divxPlayer.bin in /usr/local/bin. If anyone would like to see that I can send it but I don't want to mail an attachement to the whole list. Thanks for your help! Brian
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