playing XviD files

[James Takac]

Hi Andy

On Saturday 02 August 2008 16:40:53 andy baxter wrote:
> James Takac wrote:
> > Hi Andy
> >
> > On Saturday 02 August 2008 15:30:28 andy baxter wrote:
> >> Mark Williams wrote:
> >>
> >> 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
>
> It's OK, I know what the problem is. The previous poster (mark)
> suggested that I try 'file HDViD.Eng.XviD'. But there isn't such a file
> on my system - it was the op (gary) who was talking about that file (or
> file extension probably), not me, and I think mark mixed us up in his
> reply. I expected that command to return an error, but tried the command
> anyway and posted the result so mark could see it for himself.
>
> Thanks anyway to mark for pointing out that the 'file' command is useful
> in finding out whether a file is really DivX or XviD, which I hadn't
> thought of.
>
> andy



If you go into the synaptic package manager and search for xvid which packages 
show as installed?

James