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* Ffmpeg plugin is able to decompress DivX and many other formats
without the need off Windows codecs!
Also it's currently by far the FASTEST decoder I know!!
* Unofficial Debian packages which might be useful for many users could
be found here - use this apt line:
deb http://mirror.home-dn.net/debian-multimedia unstable main
deb-src http://mirror.home-dn.net/debian-multimedia unstable main
Should contain Win32 codecs and other various packages which
users might find very usable
* Debian binary distribution COULD NOT contain any binary encoder for MP3
encoding - Thompson is charging each distributor of such thing
$25000 per year - I doubt anyone would donate money to Debian project
for such purpose so do not expect this will change anytime soon :)
* But on the other hand from 2001/07/11 we have new plugin - libmp3lamebin
So if you will compile Lame project for yourself and install the binary
library libmp3lame.so into /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib you could use
mp3 encoding capability of avirecompress tool.
Lame project could be found here: http://lame.sourceforge.net/
* We also could not distribute binary codecs (Windows DLLs) - these
are useful for playing most of .avi/.asf streams you will find.
Most probably you will need to download them from the Internet
so look at the following links for them:
http://avifile.sourceforge.net
http://mplayerhq.hu
* Fast OpenDivX plugin is now also part of this package - but you
will need to download DivX4linux package for yourself and install
it localy - in the future we may provide package for this library.
This is URL for version which has been used to build to plugin:
http://avifile.sourceforge.net/divx4linux-20020418.tgz
* Also separate instalation of Xvid plugin is necessary
Again - I suggest Christian Marillat's site
Please NOTE: You need to install latest Xvid 1.0 library which
has different API, if you want to use older version, separate
compilation is needed.
* Currently you could not easily select which plugin you actually want
to use - this will be hopefully resolved later...
(see the homepage how to select plugin right now)
You can drag & move codec with the mouse in Config/Decoder window
though it's kind of hard work...
* According to this http://www.netbsd.org/Letters/20010803-dolby.html
there could be potentially some problems with AC3 decoding routines.
* Debian packages are now split in such a way that user might install
only those codecs he really needs (so if you do not want to install
extra vorbis libraries you don't have to)
Zdenek Kabelac <kabi@debian.org>
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