playing XviD files

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 6:58 PM, andy baxter <
andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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I have both gxine and libxine1-ffmpeg installed already.
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