Some of his points are correct, and others are off. And for the most part it doesn't help when legitimate download sites have it available and list it as freeware, so how is the general public going to know it's illegal to download and use it.
I'd personally like to find something different and may try out that ffdshow because I'm actually tired of KLMPC with all the stuff it installs. And for the fact that installing anything from official sources like DivX (whom have a rather slick looking player), or Apple QuickTime will result into one big jumbled mess forcing uninstallations and reinstallations, and for the fact it's updated far too often.
My favourite play anything player is Mplayer. Plays just about anything, including .mov files.
MPlayer:
The above link includes a simple GUI frontend.
MPlayer Features:
My favourite play anything player is Mplayer. Plays just about anything, including .mov files.
Does it allow you to use DivX Web Player without the DivX Codec installed?
Does it allow you to use DivX Web Player without the DivX Codec installed?
According to the features page, DivX 4/5/6 are covered, as is Xvid and AVI.
Whenever I play any DivX movies in it, including part downloaded files, they load so quickly I'm reasonably sure that the DivX codec hasn't had time to be accessed, and the DivX icon doesn't appear in the system tray, so it's probably playing them with it's built in codecs.
Can't be more definitive than that, without uninstalling my DivX codec.
EDIT: Damn, I've just realised I've answered a question you didn't ask. ![:wacko:]()
To the question you did ask, I've no idea, yet.
To your DivX question. After removing the DivX codec, Yes.
I'll send you more details.
smplayer is the best frontend for mplayer i've found. developed in qt for cross platform(few probs w/ mac currently, fixes soon), very actively developed. Intends to be a complete frontend for mplayer, version "3" will feature transcoding via mencoder also.
I use this mplayer release, plus w32codecs.
Always use the unstable releases.
MPlayer doesn't work for me. Too complicated and I don't exactly like stand-alone stuff.
"ERROR!, location not found". ![:D]()
I like that.
Thanks, and Dennis, I got MPlayer to work! It plays everything! Pretty amazing! ![^_^]()
Ok, I'm a little bit too excited now... Getting everything the way I wanted took some time though. MPlayer is well worth the download.