Playing an AVI movie with MJPG

Dan Lund wrote:
> Yeah, I use Gentoo and it automatically puts the
> stuff in when you emerge xine (and xine-ui, and
> xine-lib) to play avi, mpeg, divx, whathaveyou.

I'm just working with xine as it was installed
with Red Hat 7.3.

Can Gentoo be used on top of a Red Hat 7.3
installation? Does it cause an essential change,
or does it just provide the porting tools?

> xine.sourceforge.net should have everything for it.
> I do know that there is a plugin though.

The site says that MJPG is handled natively.
But then, what is the plugin that was missing?

I will try downloading all the stuff they pointed to,
and see if I get lucky.

I don't know much about my AGP video card.
The xine document seems to imply that I will
need Xv to run AVIs properly. Elsewhere it says
that it should work with a broad range of stuff,
so that'll be the last thing I mess with.

On the Windows side I downloaded a time-limited
codec that lets me view an MJPG AVI file using
Windows Media Player, but RealPlayer doesn't
find it. This codec will turn to a pumpkin
within a few weeks.

Vic