I am not 100% sure, but I believe that xine-lib can use an installed xvid, but it does not seem to be in the set of noted use flag dependencies in the ebuild. (I did get video after I rebuild xine and its libs, post xvid installation.) if I am wrong, then I think it would be a good suggestion to put together an ebuild that does allow xine to play xvid files. regards, /iaw
xine uses ffmpeg, not xvid.