Divx , avifile, mpeg4ip - all a pitfall somehow

[Anders Nordby]

Hi,

You want mplayer. I have no problems playing divx with it.

(Actually, I am making some divx films myself with a DV camcorder, Kino
and mjpegtools.  Hopefully one day, there's also some GUI like Kino I
can use for editing the movies in FreeBSD...)

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:26:37PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> 
> I received an AVI file with a Jazz recording and thought, to not
> boot my notebook into Windows ME or 2k this time but fire up
> one of the FreeBSD video tools .
> 
> Had I only booted into Windows, I would not be sitting here
> and write these lines :-)
> 
> The odyssey started:
> 
> locate divx (the file was using the divx codec)
> aha, /usr/ports/multimedia. 
> 
> compiled divex
> ah, it's only a library.
> 
> Hmm, what player ? googled a bit.
> 
> Time passes ..
> 
> lets compile mpeg4ip
> 
> Phew, look ma, SDL, gnome, gtk,  yay.
> 
> what's the binary, what's the binary, hell?
> 
> ah, gmp4player
> 
> fire up, open file. 
> 
> allright.avi
> 
> Open error: /home/kuku/allright cannot be opened.
> 
> Hmm. not saying why but probably doesn't like divx format.
> 
> Lets try avifile. Port fails to build. 
> fetch: avifile-0.7.18-20021107.tgz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> >> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
> >> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/avifile.
> 
> Maybe my fault because ports my tree might be newer than FreeBSD
> version - didn't have time to sync that.
> 
> sigh.
> 
> I tried to cvs checkout avfile from sourcefourge, autogen, configure,
> cpu_flush.TPlo  -fPIC -DPIC -o cpu_flush.lo
> In file included from cpu_flush.c:7:
> libdha.h:19: stdint.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from cpu_flush.c:8:
> kernelhelper/dhahelper.h:11: linux/ioctl.h: No such file or directory
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/home/kuku/avifile/drivers/libdha.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> 12:30, time for lunch
> 
> ----
> To make it short: roadmap to play a divx .AVI file under FreeBSD?
> 
> 
> --
> Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies at rwth-aachen.de
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-- 
Anders.