playing XviD files

[andy baxter]

Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> Is it possible to play Xvid files in unbuntu?
>
> I tried vlc, totem and real player to no avail.
>
> Thanks
Have you tried gxine? I can play a divx / xvid file ok with this. My 
list of installed, xine-related, plugins is pasted below (with 
irrelevant xinerama entries snipped manually). You probably just need to 
install gxine and libxine1-ffmpeg.

root at ubuntu:/local/base.tikvanet.org# dpkg -l '*xine*' | grep -v '<none>'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                       
Version                                            Description
+++-==========================================-==================================================-============================================
ii  amarok-xine                                
2:1.4.9.1-0ubuntu3                                 xine engine for the 
Amarok audio player
ii  gxine                                      
0.5.901-1ubuntu2                                   the xine video 
player, GTK+/Gnome user inter
ii  libxine1                                   
1.1.11.1-1ubuntu3                                  the xine video/media 
player library, meta-pa
ii  libxine1-bin                               
1.1.11.1-1ubuntu3                                  the xine video/media 
player library, binary
ii  libxine1-console                           
1.1.11.1-1ubuntu3                                  
libaa/libcaca/framebuffer/directfb related p
ii  libxine1-ffmpeg                            
1.1.11.1-1ubuntu3                                  MPEG-related plugins 
for libxine1
ii  libxine1-misc-plugins                      
1.1.11.1-1ubuntu3                                  Input, audio output 
and post plugins for lib
ii  libxine1-plugins                           
1.1.11.1-1ubuntu3                                  the xine video/media 
player library, meta pa
ii  libxine1-x                                 
1.1.11.1-1ubuntu3                                  X desktop video 
output plugins for libxine1