Avifile for DEBIAN
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 * Unofficial Debian packages which might be useful for many users could
   be found here: http://marillat.free.fr/

 * Debian binary distribution COULD NOT contain any binary encoder for MP3
   encoding - Thompson is charging each distributor of such thing
   $25000 per year - I doubt anyone would donate money to Debian project
   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 project 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 project could be found here:  http://lame.sourceforge.net/
     
 * We also could not distribute binary codecs (Windows DLLs) - these
   are useful for playing most of .avi/.asf streams 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! It is also used for OpenDivX decoding and more types
   are folowing in (h263, mjpeg,...)

 * Very fast OpenDivX plugin is now also part of this package - but you
   will need to download DivX4linux package for yourself and install
   it localy - in the 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-20011010.tgz
 
 * Currently you could not easily select which plugin you actually want
   to use - this will be hopefully resolved later...
   (see the homepage how to select plugin right now)
   You can drag & move codec with mouse in Config/Decoder window.

 * according to this http://www.netbsd.org/Letters/20010803-dolby.html
   we might get into serious problems if would be distributing AC3 decoder
   so ffmpeg AC3 decoder is disabled for mainstream release until
   some solution is found

 * Debian package are now split in such a way that user might install
   only those codecs he really needs (so if you do not want to install
   extra vorbis libraries you don't have to)

Zdenek Kabelac <kabi@debian.org>