No MP3 playback or AVI playback

[Michael R. Head]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 18:02 +0900, Dave M G wrote:
> Ubuntu Users,
> 
> I'm Using Dapper Drake.
> 
> I dutifully followed the instructions on this web site:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats#head-a57167a3ce442dc52d9b05e46a14503330d4e970
> 
> ... and yet still, Amarok will not play back MP3s, and Xine will not 
> play back almost any AVI files.
> 
> With Amarok, it just glides through the list of songs without playing 
> any, or returning any errors.

Dunno about amarok, I don't use KDE, but...

> With Xine, it complains that it can not play anything encoded with an 
> Xvid codec.

for xvid and some other codecs, xine requires the  libxine-extracodecs
package. It's in the multiverse.

mike

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> Dave M G
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