[mythtv-users] --enable-libxvid ?

[Paul B. Henson]

On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 05:04:52PM -0500, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> > I don't plan to ever encode xvid, although if I happen to have a video
> > file that uses xvid I'd like to be able to play it. Am I correct in my
> > interpretation that if I *don't* configure with --enable-libxvid, I'll
> > be able to do so? Or is --enable-libxvid required for the internal
> > player to be able to play xvid encoded videos?
> 
> It is required for mythffmpeg to be able to encode to the xvid format. 
> If you have no intention to encode to xvid externally using that binary, 
> then it is not necessary.

Cool, thanks much for the clarification.