xvid support?

[romeo_8693]

isnt xvid an opensource project?then y dont linux distro's come bundled with its support like ogg and vorbis?

[freebird]

xvid is well supported.ffmpeg is the pkg u want to install for better support for these knida codecs.gstreamer-plugins are also available.make sure xvidtune,libxvidcore installed.make sure have mplayer,VLC player,xine etc installed.even totem-xine is nice.i am answering by looking on a debian/ubuntu machine.

[romeo_8693]

dude i think u misunderstood me....my question was y it doesnt come bundled with it(pre installed)?

[freebird]

afaik many distros do support xvid out of the box-just look around Ubuntu sure does..

[kalpik]

^^ Are you sure? I really dont think Ubuntu supports xvid by default..

[freebird]

^^ i suppose as with feisty

[kalpik]

Hmm.. AFAIK, even fiesty does not support xvid out of the box.. If a user attempt to play a file whose codec is not installed, fiesty prompts the user to download it

[desertwind]

The reason for no out of the box support for Xvid is because some features of Xvid are covered by software patents. Xvid 1.x will be completely under GPL and hopefully supported out of the box by all distros.

[romeo_8693]

thanx desertwind...hope it does!!!

[hellknight]

Originally Posted by romeo_8693

isnt xvid an opensource project?then y dont linux distro's come bundled with its support like ogg and vorbis?

ya, its right! xvid x.264 etc are open source projects. They should be bundeled with every linux distro, and if mandriva can give us full multimedia support then why can't other distros?? I mean to say that how does mandriva give us full multimedia support and other distros can't?

[romeo_8693]

mandriva must be paying licensing fee's...