Standalone XviD Player Software?

[easy2Bcheesy]

I'm looking to add XviD playback to a series of CD-ROMs I'm intending to produce. The thing is, obviously the user might not have XviD installed on their machine, and to be honest, I don't want to have my code install anything on any one's PC.

That being the case, is there player software out there that will playback XviD, that doesn't require installing on the PC and can be run off the CD-ROM?

Thanks for any help.

[Sharktooth]

If you can boot from CD there are a couple of players (based on linux) that will play your Xvids without installing any software:

http://www.geexbox.org/en/index.html

http://movix.sourceforge.net/ <--- look for eMovix

[easy2Bcheesy]

Originally posted by Sharktooth
If you can boot from CD there are a couple of players (based on linux) that will play your Xvids without installing any software:

http://www.geexbox.org/en/index.html

http://movix.sourceforge.net/ <--- look for eMovix

Alas not... it's got to be a program running under Windows.

[celtic_druid]

mplayer compiled with cpu runtime detection should do the job. I guess just put mplayer.exe -fs xvid.avi in the autorun.inf

If it is more than just video, like say you are embeding video into something then I guess things are a little more complicated.

VLC would also work as would I guess Media Player Classic with xvid.ax directly loaded.

[bourtzovlakas]

Check this out... http://www.dvd.stuff.gr/hwmaker

[easy2Bcheesy]

Media Player Classic really is a very cute piece of software. And it looks like it is just what I need as it's a straightforward executable. So how would I get it to load in the appropriate codec and then the movie? I can't find documentation on how its command line works.

[celtic_druid]

mplayerc.exe /?
Should pop up all the info that you need. As well as xvid.ax I guess you need xvidcore.dll, an older standalone decoder or to wait/create a new one.

[bourtzovlakas]

@easy2Bcheesy
Have you read the tutorial,included in the installer?
I think the procedure is really straightforward...
Nevertheless,if you have more questions,contact the developer of the program.I am sure,he'll help you with any issue you may have...

[MaximRecoil]

This is interesting. Making an XviD avi file autorun from the CD using MPC is easy enough (on a machine that already has XviD installed). If anyone knows how to get XviD loaded in the process I would like to know about it as well.

[pixolex]

[autorun]
OPEN=".\Media Player Classic\mplayerc.exe" .\Movie\*.mkv /filter /play /fullscreen /close

I use this but i never used the filter(AX file) becouse it didn't work :(

[celtic_druid]

Possible that xvid.ax won't find xvidcore.dll, a standalone decoder version should work though.

[DeeGee]

How about VLC (http://www.videolan.org/)? It has all the needed codecs built-in.

[nexx]

VLC is great, but a bit big (unless you want to shave off some plugins).

MPlayer is around 2.6mb if you upx the .exe
No GUI but if you really want this one is rather good: http://mplayerc.uw.hu/