Xine won't play xvid avi files on new machine

Fri Mar 24 12:22:03 UTC 2006

On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 09:15 +0900, Dave M G wrote:
> Ubuntu Users,

> VLC player can play the files, which only deepens the mystery for me. 
> Why can VLC player handle the avi files that Xine can't. Totem also 
> balks at xvid encoded files.

You'll need the libxine-extracodecs package from the multiverse.

> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> --
> Dave M G
> 
-- 
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
GPG: http://www.suppressingfire.org/~burner/gpg.key.txt [0x4C9DA1D0]
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 191 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20060324/3c2509f1/attachment.sig>