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From: Peter Ruskin <Peter.Ruskin@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] divx4linux
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 11:45:45
Message-Id: 200511201133.11005.Peter.Ruskin@dsl.pipex.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] divx4linux by James Colby
1 On Sunday 20 November 2005 04:52, James Colby wrote:
2 > List Members -
3 >
4 > I have another question. I can't seem to find the divx4linux
5 > package anymore. I am trying to install it and emerge can't find
6 > it. It also does not appear to be available as a use flag for
7 > mplayer any more. Did the package change names, or am I just
8 > really tired and missing something here?
9 >
10 On Sunday 30 October 2005 18:58, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote (on
11 gentoo-dev@l.g.o):
12 > Okay another package that we're shortening life's.
13 > Why that? Well divx4linux is masked since 21 october, enough time
14 > to know that is going to be removed. It's also broken for recent
15 > x86 architectures, and it's x86 only.
16 >
17 > All the useflags divx4linux are going to fade away, so you'll
18 > probably want to do an emerge --newuse world to make sure that
19 > the packages get updated.
20
21 On Sunday 30 October 2005 21:09, Peter Ruskin wrote:
22 > Steady on Diego - what replaces divx4linux then?
23 ffmpeg and xvid are enough to decode and encode divx files.
24
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