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From: Peter Ruskin <Peter.Ruskin@dsl.pipex.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] divx4linux
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 11:33:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511201133.11005.Peter.Ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c001995e0511192052i5e655442ma8d6cca99c4ae468@mail.gmail.com>

On Sunday 20 November 2005 04:52, James Colby wrote:
> List Members -
>
> I have another question.  I can't seem to find the divx4linux
> package anymore.  I am trying to install it and emerge can't find
> it.  It also does not appear to be available as a use flag for
> mplayer any more. Did the package change names, or am I just
> really tired and missing something here?
>
On Sunday 30 October 2005 18:58, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote (on 
gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org):
> Okay another package that we're shortening life's.
> Why that? Well divx4linux is masked since 21 october, enough time
> to know that is going to be removed. It's also broken for recent
> x86 architectures, and it's x86 only.
>
> All the useflags divx4linux are going to fade away, so you'll
> probably want to do an emerge --newuse world to make sure that
> the packages get updated.

On Sunday 30 October 2005 21:09, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> Steady on Diego - what replaces divx4linux then?
ffmpeg and xvid are enough to decode and encode divx files.

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Peter
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-20 11:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-20  4:52 [gentoo-user] divx4linux James Colby
2005-11-20  5:30 ` Willie Wong
2005-11-20 11:33 ` Peter Ruskin [this message]
2005-11-20 11:36 ` Alexander Skwar
2005-11-20 21:10   ` Nick Rout
2005-11-20 21:54     ` James Colby
2005-11-20 23:07       ` Nick Rout

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