[gentoo-amd64] How to run a divx file?

[gentoo-amd64] How to run a divx file?

[Paul Stear]

Hi all,
I have a divx video file but can't seem to get it to run, the players 
state :-
The content of this media file is blocked. It seems like you are not using 
the right media player to play this file.
You should visit http://divxmovienow.com.
Does this mean that gentoo has no player that can run divx files?

Thanks for any help
Paul
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to run a divx file?

[Mark Haney]

Paul Stear wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a divx video file but can't seem to get it to run, the players 
> state :-
> The content of this media file is blocked. It seems like you are not using 
> the right media player to play this file.
> You should visit http://divxmovienow.com.
> Does this mean that gentoo has no player that can run divx files?
> 
> Thanks for any help
> Paul

I run divx videos all the time, even encode them in gentoo.  I don't 
think that's the problem.  Is it possibly a DRM issue with this 
particular video?


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Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to run a divx file?

[Paul Stear]

On Thursday 22 May 2008, Mark Haney wrote:
> Paul Stear wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I have a divx video file but can't seem to get it to run, the players
> > state :-
> > The content of this media file is blocked. It seems like you are not
> > using the right media player to play this file.
> > You should visit http://divxmovienow.com.
> > Does this mean that gentoo has no player that can run divx files?

<snip>
It seems that I have my facts wrong the file extension is HDV.XviD.avi  --  
Can I play this on gentoo?
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to run a divx file?

[Mark Haney]

Paul Stear wrote:
> On Thursday 22 May 2008, Mark Haney wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> It seems that I have my facts wrong the file extension is HDV.XviD.avi  --  
> Can I play this on gentoo?
> Paul

xvid (IIRC) is the open source DIVX implementation inside an AVI 
wrapper.  You should be able to play that video without any trouble, 
except for the DRM stuff that seems to be requiring you to download a 
specific movie player (presumably loaded up with such fantastic features 
as spyware and viruses).  I've seen this before and I suggest you just 
delete that file and find one NOT DRM enabled as this one is.



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Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to run a divx file?

[Beso]

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2008/5/22 Paul Stear <gentoo@appjaws.plus.com>:

> On Thursday 22 May 2008, Mark Haney wrote:
> > Paul Stear wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > I have a divx video file but can't seem to get it to run, the players
> > > state :-
> > > The content of this media file is blocked. It seems like you are not
> > > using the right media player to play this file.
> > > You should visit http://divxmovienow.com.
> > > Does this mean that gentoo has no player that can run divx files?
>
> <snip>
> It seems that I have my facts wrong the file extension is HDV.XviD.avi  --
> Can I play this on gentoo?
> Paul
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it seems that i've been beaten by mark on the drm issue. anyway, with the
right codec, ie:

- x264
- libvorbis
- libtheora
- win32codecs
- ffmpeg
- xine-lib
- kaffeine

you'll be able to play all the files that aren't drm protected. here are the
use flags that i use and they work, usually. i use paludis and i've
generated the package description with it. what the lines mean are:

* name of the package
   overlay from which i've picked it (first is gentoo then the other
overlays)
   installed shows the version istalled
   Description:   descripts the package
   Homepage:   tells the website of the project
   Relevant use flags:  (aaaaaaaa) (-bbbbb) mean that aaaaa is enabled while
bbbbb is disabled
  source repository tells what overlay have i picked the installed version
  installed time; installed using; license are aditional informations on the
packages.

anyway just pick these packages, even from gentoo main repository, use my
use flags, install them in the order upside, and then if the video isn't drm
protected then it will work.

* media-libs/x264
    gentoo:                  0.0.20070924 0.0.20080301 0.0.20080406 {:0}
    installed:               9999* {:0}
    berkano:                 9999 {:0}
    Description:             A free library for encoding H264/AVC video
streams
    Homepage:                http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html
    Relevant USE flags:      (X) (-debug) (-gtk) (-mp4) (threads)
    License:                 GPL-2
    Installed time:          Sat May 17 11:17:30 2008
    Source repository:       berkano
    Installed using:         paludis-0.26.1

* media-libs/libvorbis
    gentoo:                  (1.1.2-r1)U (1.2.0)U (1.2.0-r1)U {:0}
    berkano:                 1.2.0 1.2.0-r1 {:0}
    flameeyes-overlay:       1.2.0 {:0}
    soor:                    1.2.0 {:0}
    installed:               1.2.0-r1* {:0}
    Description:             the Ogg Vorbis sound file format library
    Homepage:                http://xiph.org/vorbis
    Relevant USE flags:      (aotuv) (-doc)
    License:                 BSD
    Installed time:          Sun May 18 11:08:53 2008
    Source repository:       berkano
    Installed using:         paludis-0.26.1

* media-libs/libtheora
    gentoo:                  (1.0_alpha6-r1)KU (1.0_beta2-r1)U
(1.0_beta3-r1)U {:0}
    installed:               1.0_beta2-r1* {:0}
    flameeyes-overlay:       1.0_beta2-r1 {:0}
    Description:             The Theora Video Compression Codec
    Homepage:                http://www.theora.org
    Relevant USE flags:      (-doc) (encode) (-examples)
    License:                 BSD
    Installed time:          Sat Apr 19 14:57:34 2008
    Source repository:       flameeyes-overlay
    Installed using:         paludis-0.26.0_alpha14

* media-libs/win32codecs
    gentoo:                  20071007-r2 {:0}
    installed:               20071007-r2* {:0}
    Description:             Win32 binary codecs for video and audio
playback support
    Homepage:                http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
    Relevant USE flags:      (real)
    License:                 as-is
    Installed time:          Wed Nov  7 20:16:08 2007
    Source repository:       gentoo
    Installed using:         paludis-0.24.6

* media-video/ffmpeg
    gentoo:                  0.4.9_p20070616 0.4.9_p20070616-r1
0.4.9_p20070616-r2 0.4.9_p20080206 0.4.9_p20080326 {:0}
    aeskulap:                (9999)K (20089999)K {:0}
    flameeyes-overlay:       (9999)K {:0}
    berkano:                 20079999-r2 20089999 {:0}
    installed:               20089999* {:0}
    Description:             Complete solution to record, convert and stream
audio and video (source from SVN)
    Homepage:                http://ffmpeg.org/
    Relevant USE flags:      (a52) (aac) (-altivec) (amrnb) (amrwb) (-debug)
(-doc) (hardcoded-tables) (ieee1394) (imlib) (-ipv6) (mmx) (mp3) (network)
(-oss) (-sdl) (swscaler) (-test) (theora) (threads) (truetype) (-v4l)
(vorbis) (x264) (xvid) (zlib)
    License:                 GPL-2
    Installed time:          Sat May 17 11:25:52 2008
    Source repository:       berkano
    Installed using:         paludis-0.26.1

* media-libs/xine-lib
    gentoo:                  1.1.8 1.1.11.1 1.1.12 {:1}
    aeskulap:                1.1.9.1-r1 1.1.10 1.1.10.1-r1 {:1}
    installed:               1.1.12* {:1}
    flameeyes-overlay:       (1.2.9999)K (1.2.9999.1)K {:1}
    Description:             Core libraries for Xine movie player
    Homepage:                http://xine.sourceforge.net
    Relevant USE flags:      (X) (a52) (aac) (aalib) (alsa) (-altivec)
(-arts) (-debug) (-directfb) (dts) (dvd) (-dxr3) (-esd) (-fbcon) (flac)
(-gnome) (-gtk) (imagemagick) (ipv6) (-jack) (libcaca) (mad) (mmap) (mng)
(modplug) (musepack) (nls) (opengl) (-oss) (-pulseaudio) (real) (samba)
(-sdl) (speex) (theora) (truetype) (v4l) (vcd) (-vidix) (vorbis) (wavpack)
(-win32codecs) (xcb) (-xinerama) (xv) (xvmc)
    License:                 GPL-2
    Installed time:          Fri May  9 10:31:36 2008
    Source repository:       gentoo
    Installed using:         paludis-0.26.1

* media-video/kaffeine
    gentoo:                  0.8.5 0.8.5-r1 0.8.5-r2 0.8.6 {:0}
    installed:               0.8.6* {:0}
    Description:             Media player for KDE using xine and gstreamer
backends.
    Homepage:                http://kaffeine.sourceforge.net/
    Relevant USE flags:      (-arts) (-debug) (-dvb) (-elibc_FreeBSD)
(encode) (-gstreamer) (vorbis) (xcb) (-xinerama)
    License:                 GPL-2
    Installed time:          Tue May 13 19:12:51 2008
    Source repository:       gentoo
    Installed using:         paludis-0.26.1


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Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to run a divx file?

[Paul Stear]

On Thursday 22 May 2008, Beso wrote:
> 2008/5/22 Paul Stear <gentoo@appjaws.plus.com>:
> > On Thursday 22 May 2008, Mark Haney wrote:
> > > Paul Stear wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > I have a divx video file but can't seem to get it to run, the
> > > > players state :-
> > > > The content of this media file is blocked. It seems like you are
> > > > not using the right media player to play this file.
> > > > You should visit http://divxmovienow.com.
> > > > Does this mean that gentoo has no player that can run divx files?
> >
> > <snip>
> > It seems that I have my facts wrong the file extension is
> > HDV.XviD.avi  -- Can I play this on gentoo?
<snip>
> it seems that i've been beaten by mark on the drm issue. anyway, with
> the right codec, ie:
>
> - x264
> - libvorbis
> - libtheora
> - win32codecs
> - ffmpeg
> - xine-lib
> - kaffeine
>
> you'll be able to play all the files that aren't drm protected. here
> are the use flags that i use and they work, usually. 
<snip>
Thanks for the info, I'll be checking my use flags and the list above.
Paul

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to run a divx file?

[Beso]

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2008/5/22 Paul Stear <gentoo@appjaws.plus.com>:

> Hi all,
> I have a divx video file but can't seem to get it to run, the players
> state :-
> The content of this media file is blocked. It seems like you are not using
> the right media player to play this file.
> You should visit http://divxmovienow.com.
> Does this mean that gentoo has no player that can run divx files?
>
> Thanks for any help
> Paul
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i think that this file is viable only with mediaplayer, because of the drm
bunch of sh** included in it.


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