XGL and the future of X Windows

Behdad Esfahbod behdad-26n5VD7DAF2Tm46uYYfjYg at public.gmane.org
Sat Feb 18 21:05:05 UTC 2006


On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, James Knott wrote:

> >>>> Thought some of you might be interested in this video:
> >>>> http://www.freedesktop.org/~davidr/xgl-demo1.xvid.avi (60 MB)
>
> Well, I'm running SUSE 10.  I don't generally get involved with
> multimedia stuff, as that's not an area I'm interested in.  It won't
> play on SUSE 10 and it won't play on XP with WMP 10 and latest updates,
> so I guess they don't want anyone to play it.  I've got better ways of
> wasting my time, than messing with a video that doesn't want to play and
> they don't even mention anywhere that I can see, what's required to play
> it.  Even WMP has no idea what codec is required.

All you need is the XviD codec, which is Free Software:

  http://www.xvid.org/

And that's right in the URL I believe.

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