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Re: [SLE] mencoder dvds ripped won't play in windows
  • From: H du Plooy <hansdp-lists@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 10:05:28 +0200
  • Message-id: <1133942728.17878.10.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 08:04 +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am just curious, what codecs do I need to play back dvds ripped with
> mencoder, and where do I get them..

lavc is DivX compatible - I think xvid can be used to playback DivX
content too, but I haven't tried it.

If you want to get a whole bunch of codecs all at once, google for the
"Nimo Cocec Pack"

> I assume there is something fishy with the way I rip the dvd, it does
> play fine in kaffiene.
kaffiene uses xine-lib for playback.

If you drop to a command line and play the file with mplayer, you can
see what codecs are identified by mplayer.

Hans


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