playing XviD files

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 6:40 PM, POWERS, ZACK <zpowers at umflint.edu> wrote:

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> Kirkpatrick
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> Subject: Re: playing XviD files
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> 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.
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> I have every single g-streamer installed.
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