playing XviD files

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Gary Kirkpatrick <pegngary at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
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>> Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
>> > Is it possible to play Xvid files in unbuntu?
>> >
>> > I tried vlc, totem and real player to no avail.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
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>>     According to Google Xvid is a new mp3 type of file compression
>> software. No time to look further but it is open source so the codex
>> should be free and easy to get. You need to install it before VLC can
>> work.
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>> Karl
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> I've tried to find a download without success.  Let me know if you find
> one.  No success using synaptic- there seems to be something there but you
> can't install it, I get an error message when I try.
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> Gary
>


I found xvid.org.  The debian page makes no sense to me, the SUSE makes more
sense but not sure if download xvid SUSE is the proper thing to do.
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