playing XviD files

[James Takac]

Hi Andy


On Saturday 02 August 2008 15:30:28 andy baxter wrote:
> Mark Williams wrote:
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> > andy baxter wrote:
> >> Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 7:24 PM, POWERS, ZACK <zpowers at umflint.edu
> >>> <mailto:zpowers at umflint.edu>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>     Gary,
> >>>     Are you sure this file is a XviD file not DivX?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Yes, I am sure.  Copied from the file name:   HDViD.Eng.XviD
> >>
> >> I have a downloaded file which says DivX in the filename, but when
> >> played in gxine it reports it as Xvid, so maybe you should try to check
> >> this another way somehow.
> >>
> >> andy
> >
> > What does 'file HDViD.Eng.XviD' give you?
> >
> > Mark
>
> You may have mixed me up with the OP? But here goes...
>
> andy at ubuntu:~$ file HDViD.Eng.XviD
> HDViD.Eng.XviD: ERROR: cannot open `HDViD.Eng.XviD' (No such file or
> directory)
>
> If I run 'file' on the actual file I have, it gives this:
>
> andy at ubuntu:/media/ANDYS-DRIVE/videos$ file Fargo\ \ tt0116282\ \[Eng\]\
> 1996\ \[NoPassWord\]\ DVD\ .DivX
> Fargo  tt0116282 [Eng] 1996 [NoPassWord] DVD .DivX: RIFF (little-endian)
> data, AVI, 720 x 540, 29.97 fps, video: XviD, audio: MPEG-1 Layer 3
> (stereo, 44100 Hz)
>
>
> andy



It seems the program you're trying to open the file with can't find the file 
going by the error you get. Which program are you using and how are you 
trying to open the file?

James