the avi/windows codecs avifile.sourceforge.net (binaries.zip) codec.win32_path:/usr/lib/win32 the same url for divx to make divx load before the other divx guy divx4_priority:6 to point to exact divx location codec.divx4_libdivxdecore:/usr/local/divx4linux-20020418/libdivxdecore.so for more divx read the divx README the CSS stuff http://www.geocities.com/captain_css http://dvd.sf.net the xine home xine.sourceforge.net it even comes with a howto configure of xine-lib needed aalib pkg-config SDL libsdl1.2-dev libao2 libcurl2-ssl vorbis-tools libogg libogg-dev #need to buld xvid xvid - www.xvid.org the new gogo like nasm needed to compile this probable cause it comes with sse2 extensions export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/xvid/lib ./configure --with-xvid-prefix=/usr/local/xvid --prefix=/usr/local/xine --with-w32-path=/usr/lib/win32 make make install ui untaring xine-ui export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/xine/lib:/usr/local/xvid/lib export LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/local/xine/lib export XINE_CONFIG=/usr/local/xine/bin/xine-config ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/xine (problems with -lposix4 DirectFB support ?) make make-install link binaries from /usr/local/bin -> and you are done :-)