[KLUG Members] Xine & Win32 libs

[Dennis]

Adam Williams wrote:
> 
> I'm in the process of re-installing Xine after my move to RH8.0.  Can't
> find any packages so I'm installing this one from source.
> 
> It reminds me to ask a question I've been wondering about for awhile -
> 
> The Xine ./configure sports the "--with-w32-path=path    Location of
> WIN32 libraries" option.  And the Xine website claims it can use Win32
> codec libraries.
> 
> What does this actually mean?  Had anyone used it?  It is played like a
> big deal but the documentation on this point is pretty shaky.  Several
> other video players (lamp) claim to support the same thing.
> 
> Does this mean one could hi-jack the Sorenson codec from a windows
> partition?  Or am I missing something?
> 

I don't remember when or where but I did read about the w32codec and I
did install and make it work. But that was on a different install. I
cannot find the docs right now but the w32codec is here:

http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/w32codec-0.50-1.i386.rpm
-- 
Dennis