Upgrade to Edgy causes much laptop grief: sound and video format hell.

[tchize]

En l'instant précis du 02/07/07 12:49, Michael T. Richter s'exprimait en
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> This leaves me with my final problem.  I have a lot of AVIs encoded in,
> it turns out, DivX5 format.  I've downloaded all the gstreamer packages
>   
mmm gstreamer? why not xine? If am not wrong, edgy eft use xine not
gstreamer, by default, no?
Also, vlc comes with a few deconding libraries that other video reader
use (i had that problem under dapper, installing vls installed also all
required codecs)
If am not wrong, for decoding divx, xine uses ffmpeg decoder.
> from main,restricted,universe,multiverse and I've downloaded the Win32
> codecs and have them installed.  Not a single one of my video
> applications can read the files, however.  This despite the fact that I
> was watching those very same files under Dapper only two or three nights
> ago.  Which of the codec packages did I miss and where would I go
> looking for it/them?  (I did a google on "DivX 5 Ubuntu" and on "Xvid
> codec Ubuntu" but got nothing heartening.  A lot of "we do not support
> this"-style messages or pointers to codecs I already have installed.
> And I know that this was supported not all that long ago given that I,
> as I said, used to watch these movies.)
>
> So I'm stuck here with two outstanding questions:
> 1. How do I get ALSA to look in the right place, or to name the USB card
> properly?
>   
You'll have to lookl at alsa doc, you can give a specific number to each
sound device. It's very used when you have an usb webcam coming with a
integrated microphone. Depending on where the usb cam is plugged or not
at startup, the device 0 is the cam or the integrated peripheral.
a good doc on /etc/asound.conf is here
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/asoundrc.php
> 2. How do I get my DivX5-encoded movies working under Ubuntu?
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