playing XviD files

[James Takac]

Hi Andy

On Saturday 02 August 2008 14:46:19 andy baxter wrote:
> Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 7:24 PM, POWERS, ZACK <zpowers at umflint.edu
> > <mailto:zpowers at umflint.edu>> wrote:
> >
> >     Gary,
> >     Are you sure this file is a XviD file not DivX?
> >
> >
> > Yes, I am sure.  Copied from the file name:   HDViD.Eng.XviD
>
> I have a downloaded file which says DivX in the filename, but when
> played in gxine it reports it as Xvid, so maybe you should try to check
> this another way somehow.
>
> andy



If you can play one you can play the other with these two codecs as they're 
functionally the same for a video player. There's a reason why one codec name 
is the other reversed ;)

James