XVID and Edgy...still

[Florian Diesch]

"Michael T. Richter" <ttmrichter at gmail.com> wrote:

> As I've posted twice or thrice before, I've got a video problem under Edgy. 
> Files -- MPEG4-encoded -- that worked fine under Dapper (after installing every
> codec available to mankind) have stopped working under Edgy (after installing
> every codec available to mankind).  First the problem was that none of the
> video apps (VLC wasn't tested at this time) worked, with Totem(Gstreamer) and
> Xine both complaining about the files being encoded in DivX5 format which they
> didn't know how to manage.  After doing a lot of digging I found a DivX6 codec,
> installed it and tried again.  Now Totem(Gstreamer) and Xine both complain that
> the same files are in XviD format -- which they both purport don't know how to
> manage.  Mplayer, too fails with far more cryptic error reports that boil down
> to "can't figure out the codec".

It would be much more helpful if you'd post the exact error message.

> Now here's the problem: Xvid support *IS* installed:
>
> $ aptitude search xvid
> p   avifile-xvid-plugin             - XviD video encoding plugin for
> libavifile
> p   gstreamer0.8-xvid               - XVID encoder plugin for GStreamer        

You need to install this for GStreamer



   Florian
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