XviD-1.0.0-rc4

Introduction to XviD

XviD is a MPEG-4 compliant video CODEC.

Package information

XviD dependencies

Optional

NASM-0.98.38

Installation of XviD

Install XviD by running the following commands:

cd build/generic &&
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make  &&
make install &&
ln -sf libxvidcore.so.4.0 /usr/lib/libxvidcore.so.4 &&
ln -sf libxvidcore.so.4 /usr/lib/libxvidcore.so

Command explanations

ln -s libxvidcore.so.4 /usr/lib/libxvidcore.so: This command makes applications linked against .so in fact linked to .so.MAJOR. This ensures better binary compatibility as XviD developers take care not changing the MAJOR number until there is an incompatible ABI change.

Contents

The XviD core package contains the libxvidcore library.

Description

libxvidcore

libxvidcore provides functions to encode and decode most MPEG-4 video data.