DivX for Linux?

[ZiaTioN]

I have read conflicting things about this. I have read it is possible to play divx under a Linux platform and even downloaded and installed the divxforlinux codec. However I use xine and the xine website states that it can play DivX but when I load a DivX file it errors saying it has no plugin capable of decoding the stream?

I also read that xine may only support up to DivX4 and has no support for DivX5 yet but then I also read that this was untrue. Does anyone have any experience playing DivX5 or any DivX for that matter in xine?

[Copperhead]

I play Divx movies in both Xine and Mplayer all of the time. You just need the codecs. Add this to /etc/apt/sources.list (if you are running FC 3):

http://apt.sw.be fedora/3/en/i386/dag pkglist

$ apt-get update
$ apt-cache search divx4linux

Install anything you want.

[ZiaTioN]

Is there some sort of settting that needs to be enabled then? I have installed the divx4linux codec already and still xine will not play divx

Edit:
Well I just did an apt-get upgrade on xine and it appears the new version of xine comes supporting divx by default. I read somewhere that most distros do not include a version of xine that supports divx for legal reasons so once installed you have to do an upgrade on xine to get the valid version.

Althought I do nightly updates and it had not been updated yet but I ran my update script just now and it showed xine as one of the upgraded packages. So I then launched xine and opened my divx file and what do you know, I have video!

[Calum]

it may be a version nnumbers thing (what do people think? am i blithering?) if the versions numbers are the same between the installed and proposed packages, they may still be differently compiled versions of the same software.

i find that if you stick all the codecs in /usr/lib/win32 then both xine and mplayer will find them fine... although i remember this not happening in the past right enough.