Multimedia :: DivX on an old laptop.

I'm curently in the process of doing a DSL hd install and am wondering how I can get DivX movies to play on it after it is done. It is a Sony Vaio PCG-F250. With an Intel Celeron 333MHz CPU and 32MB or RAM. I know it's fast enough to play DivX movies, it used to do it for the very short time I had Windows Me on it. But I'm now trying to find it for DSL.

I can't use apt-get because the laptop isn't connected to the internet (and probably won't be unless I call my ISP). So is there a codec pack or something that I can download and burn to a Cd and then move to my laptop?

Also I use vlc as my main video player on my windows box. Is it safe to assume that it is also good to use on Linux?

[edit] this is my first foray into tux's neck of the woods. So if you could help me out with any shell commands that would be needed, that'd be awesome.

install XFree86.dsl and mplayer.dsl (Xfree86 version)

vlc is very good and also available in the synaptic download menu.

But I agree with jls.

Mplayer is your best player for DSL. There is a nice extension for it available in the myDSL respository.

With 32MB of ram, you probably should create a swap partition or a DOS swapfile for additional virtual memory.

Mplayer is nice because it works well in situations where the RAM is limited. It works fine on my XBOX running X-DSL and 64MB of RAM.

Quote (cbagger01 @ July 14 2005,22:56)

I have a 400MB swap partition.

But none of that matters right now since I can't get DSL to do a HD install on my machine: http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=6881

original here.