playing XviD files

[POWERS, ZACK]

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Sent: Fri 8/1/2008 6:40 PM
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Subject: RE: playing XviD files
 

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com on behalf of Gary
Kirkpatrick
Sent: Fri 8/1/2008 6:27 PM
To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
Subject: Re: playing XviD files
 
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Gary Kirkpatrick <pegngary at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>
>> Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
>> > Is it possible to play Xvid files in unbuntu?
>> >
>> > I tried vlc, totem and real player to no avail.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> >
>>     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.
>>
>> 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.
>
> 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.


>Hi,
>Media file compressed with the XviD codecs follow the MPEG4 standard.
They can be played back using the libvxvidcore4 package. However it is
better >to intall this package with the gstreamer codecs library. I am
not exactly sure which gstreamer package contains XviD library as a
dependency but I >think it is the gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg package.

I'm sorry but the actual package is the
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse package. I apologize for the
confusion. Be aware depending on you local laws, installing this
package may be illegal.
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