Divx , avifile, mpeg4ip - all a pitfall somehow

[Andrew Sparrow]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:30:43PM +0200, Anders Nordby wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> You want mplayer. I have no problems playing divx with it.

Yup. I've encountered files that would'nt play with earlier version,
but they're generally kind of wacky anyway, and they're also getting
fewer all the time - mplayer even plays Sorenson QT now.

It just gets better and better.

> (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...)

Uhhh, take a look at mjpeg (not tried it yet) and avidemux (which
hasn't yet migrated from 'graphics' to 'multimedia'), both are in
-ports.

I found that 'avidemux' gets kind of unhappy unless you give it
raw video/audio, then it seems to work OK. I just used 'mencode -oac
pcm -ovc raw' to get files it'll work with.

HTH.

Cheers,

AS

> 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.
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