[KLUG Members] Xine & Win32 libs

[Greg Mason]

using the support for win32 codecs simply enables you to use a DLL file 
for a codec from the legacy proprietary operating system from Redmond. 
with a default install, you can just plop these codecs in 
/usr/lib/win32, and it should be able to use that codec.

I've only tried it with the Divx 5.0 codec for windows. in theory, it 
should work for pretty much any win32 codec.

I'm running Xine on SuSE 8.0, with precompiled binaries. (i was feeling 
lazy at the time)

-Greg

Dennis wrote:

>Dennis wrote:
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>>Adam Williams wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>>It reminds me to ask a question I've been wondering about for awhile -
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>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>>Does this mean one could hi-jack the Sorenson codec from a windows
>>>partition?  Or am I missing something?
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>>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:
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>>http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/w32codec-0.50-1.i386.rpm
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>This will get you there without a download dialog.
>http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/
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