DivX or other codecs for linux ??

[boran]

does anyone know if there is something like divX (5 or earlier versions) or any other of its derivate codec's (Xvid, etc..)
and would they be able to run decently on a PII 300 with 128 MB mem ??
thanks in advance

 

[Moonbender]

Arr. I got DivX to work on Debian just a few days ago, but it was all a bit weird, even though apt-get helped a lot. Basically, install xine. I think it does DivX out of the box, so you'd be set. There's also mplayer, which is supposed to be better than xine, but I was too dumb to get it to work (I'm very new to Linux). There's also avifile which seems to be a library, like an actual codec, that plays a range of source files. I don't know that fits in or if it's a mandatory install, but since it was a matter of a simple apt-get install avifile-something, I did it just to be sure.