llbbl Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 The best program that I have found that produces the smallest files sizes of the highest quality available to the most number of operating systems is XviD/DivX. WMV you can play back on OSX, but it sucks and is buggy. There is probably nothing written to open WMV in Linux because that be promoting the use of a propetary MS standard file size, which I don't think is going to happen. Quicktime with Mpeg4 produces pretty good quality, but file sizes are bigger. You can't playback DivX/XviD AVI's in Quicktime so OSX users have to find another program. There is the player from DivX they can download free for personal use. So they have options at least. My question is how do you install XviD drivers on Linux so you can play encoded files that were created in windows? Here you can get binaries for XviD. http://www.koepi.org/xvid.shtml Here you can get the source for XviD, but I don't remember seeing a ./configure #make && make install script in there or maybe I just am missing it. http://www.xvid.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seth Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 I have libxvid available in the Ubuntu repositories. What distro do you use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichi Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 There is probably nothing written to open WMV in Linux because that be promoting the use of a propetary MS standard file size, which I don't think is going to happen. Actually there's something: the win32codecs package. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaNcom Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 In fact, Linux opens almost every media file and codec ever developed. MPlayer for example includes support for Quicktime (including QT7), Real (audio and video, all versions), DivX, xvid, 3ivx, h264, Snow, Theora, WMA (all versions), WMV (all versions), ASF, PSP video... And it also supports streaming and streamripping for pretty much any format and protocol. For a complete list (only the stable codecs, some more are in CVS), see: http://mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llbbl Posted June 9, 2005 Author Share Posted June 9, 2005 Hey that is awesome. I didn't know about MPlayer! Thanks for the posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deanobear Posted June 9, 2005 Share Posted June 9, 2005 the win32-codec pack is great, plays wmw files better than the original... I think it has to do with linux's rendering of graphics, much nicer than Xtremely Painful et al. Mplayer is great too, it has a mozilla-plugin (for firefox et al), that plays wmv's in situ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaNcom Posted June 9, 2005 Share Posted June 9, 2005 MPlayer had support for QT7 files even before QT7 was officialy released... Cool, isn't it? :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrA Posted June 9, 2005 Share Posted June 9, 2005 MPlayer had support for QT7 files even before QT7 was officialy released... Cool, isn't it? :-) 586039417[/snapback] And I can play 720p h264 files with no loss of frames, whereas with QT7, I'd be screwed (my computer isn't that great). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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