playing XviD files

[andy baxter]

James Takac wrote:
> 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
>
>   
Doing:

root at ubuntu:/etc/security# dpkg -l '*xvid*' | cat

(which is easier to paste here) gives:

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
+++-==========================================-==================================================-============================================
un  libxvidcore                                
<none>                                             (no description 
available)
ii  libxvidcore4                               
2:1.1.2-0.1ubuntu3                                 High quality ISO 
MPEG4 codec library
ii  xvid4conf                                  
1.12-0.1                                           creates XviD 
configuration files
un  xvidtune                                   
<none>                                             (no description 
available)

which indicates that libxvidcore4 and xvid4conf are installed.