  Avifile for DEBIAN
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 * Debian binary distribution COULDN'T contain any binary codec for MP3
   encoding - Thompson is charging each distributor of such thing
   $25000 per year - I doubt anyone would donate money to Debian for such 
   purpose so do not expect this will change anytime soon :)

 * But on the other hand from 2001/07/11 we have new plugin - libmp3lamebin
   So if you will compile Lame for yourself and install the binary library
   libmp3lame.so into /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib you could use mp3 encoding
   capability of avirecompress tool. 
     Lame sources:  http://lame.sourceforge.net/
     
 * We could not distribute binary codecs (Windows DLLs) as well - these
   are useful for playing most of .avi files you will find. 
   Most probably you will need to download them from the Internet
   so look at the following links for them:
     http://avifile.sourceforge.net, 
     http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/homepage/dload.html

 * Ffmpeg plugin should be able to decompress DivX movie without the need off
   windows codecs! Its also used for OpenDivX decoding and more types
   are flowing in (AC3, mjpeg,...)

 * Very fast OpenDivX plugin is now also part of this package - but you
   will need to download Divx3linux package for yourself and install
   it somewhere - in future we may provide package for this library.
   This is URL for version which has been used to build to plugin:
   http://avifile.sourceforge.net/divx4linux-20010807.tgz
 
 * Currently you could not easily select which plugin you actually want
   to use - this will be hopefully resolved soon...
   (see the homepage how to select plugin right now)

Zdenek Kabelac <kabi@debian.org>
