playing XviD files

[POWERS, ZACK]

Gary,
Are you sure this file is a XviD file not DivX?

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com on behalf of Gary
Kirkpatrick
Sent: Fri 8/1/2008 7:02 PM
To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
Subject: Re: playing XviD files
 
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 6:50 PM, POWERS, ZACK <zpowers at umflint.edu>
wrote:

> Gary,
> Installing every single gstreamer codec may cause conflicts.
However,
> you can try downloading the mplayer package? After doing so open a
> terminal and type "mplayer <pathtoxvidfile> and paste the contents
of
> the terminal here if it doesn't play.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com on behalf of Gary
> Kirkpatrick
> Sent: Fri 8/1/2008 6:47 PM
> To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
> Subject: Re: playing XviD files
>
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 6:40 PM, POWERS, ZACK <zpowers at umflint.edu>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > -----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.
> >
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> > I have every single g-streamer installed.
>
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> I have mplayer installed.  I get an error message - "it looks as if
your
player does not suppport this type of file"  It then gives a url where
you
can buy a windows product.

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