XVID and Edgy...still

Michael R. Head burner at suppressingfire.org
Mon Feb 19 00:34:59 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 12:03 +0800, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> 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         
> v   libxvidcore                     -                                           
> v   libxvidcore-dev                 -                                           
> i   libxvidcore4                    - High quality ISO MPEG4 codec library      
> p   libxvidcore4-dev                - High quality ISO MPEG4 codec library -- de
> id  xvid4conf                       - creates XviD configuration files          
> i   xvidtune                        - X client - xvidtune                       

You might need the gstreamer0.10 libraries in these packages:
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg

Also, for xine, you might need
libxine-extracodecs
libxine1-ffmpeg

mike

> $ aptitude show libxvidcore4
> Package: libxvidcore4
> State: installed
> Automatically installed: no
> Version: 2:1.1.0-final-0.1ubuntu1
> Priority: optional
> Section: multiverse/libs
> Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Media Team <motumedia at tauware.de>
> Uncompressed Size: 725k
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4-1)
> Provides: libxvidcore
> Description: High quality ISO MPEG4 codec library
> XviD is a high quality/performance ISO MPEG4 codec.
> 
> Now I'm not completely stuck.  VLC plays these files like a pro.
> Unfortunately I'm just really not happy with VLC's controls nor look.
> So I'd like to get these MPEG-4 AVIs working for Totem and/or Xine.
> 
> What's the next step?
-- 
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
http://www.suppressingfire.org/~burner/
http://suppressingfire.livejournal.com
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