MoviX is a small bootable version of Linux, similar to Knoppix. MoviX only occupies about 8-20 megabytes of space of the CD/DVD leaving the rest for video files. The video is played by a program call MPlayer, a popular open source movie player. eMoviX supports all the video formats the MPlayer does; this includes DivX, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV and RealVideo, among others. Subtitles are also supported. MoviX will boot on computers that support x86 and has at least 36 megabytes of RAM.

MoviX ISO Creator. For all of you Windows users willing to use this cool tool to play your media files, here is a brief explanation on how to go about creating a MoviX CD. First, download the MoviXISOCreator package from the this site. Also, download the MoviX source files from the official MoviX site if they do not come bundled along with the MoviXISOCreator program (or vice versa). Double-click the installer EXEcutable to begin the installation process. After the installation is complete, fire up the program from the desktop (if you checked this option when installing). Now click on the MoviX/eMoviX/MoviX2 tab depending on which flavour of MoviX you have downloaded and installed. As illustrated in Figure 6, specify the directo- ries where the particular components of the package are located. For filling in these fields, the following information will be found useful:

• The SRC Directory: This is where the main source code goes. The name of the directory will be src by default no matter where you have installed the source code.
• Directory with BOOT MESSAGES: This is the boot- messages directory and has the same initial path as the src folder.
• Directory with CODECS: This directory is the one where the CODECS are located. By default, this directory will be src/mplayer/codecs. Extra CODECS can be integrated into the installation after downloading them from the official MoviX download page. These freshly downloaded CODECS are to be directly copied into this directory without extracting their contents.
• Directory with FONTS: This is where the fonts for displaying text are located. Usually, the path is src/ mplayer/mplayer-fonts.
• Directory with KEYBOARDS (i18-n): This folder stores the various keyboard maps. The default path is keyboard-i18n, which has the same initial path as src and boot-messages.
• Destination Directory: Specifies a location where the ISO images will be stored.
• Name of the ISO Image file: Specifies a file name for the ISO image file.
• mkisofs: This entry is filled in by default by the program itself. It contains attributes and arguments to be passed to mkisofs while creating the ISO image file.

Once all of the above settings are in place, simply drag and drop your media files. Now, click on the Start button in the right-hand-bottom corner of the MoviXISOCreator window. This will trigger mkisofs with the settings that you specified. Once the creation of the ISO image is complete, burn the image onto a CD using your favourite CD authoring program like Nero Burning ROM. Reboot the computer to see MoviX in action!

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