<div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 6:50 PM, POWERS, ZACK <<a href="mailto:zpowers@umflint.edu">zpowers@umflint.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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. <div class="Ih2E3d"> -----Original Message----- From: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com</a> on behalf of Gary Kirkpatrick </div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">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 <<a href="mailto:zpowers@umflint.edu">zpowers@umflint.edu</a>> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com</a> 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 <<a href="mailto:pegngary@gmail.com">pegngary@gmail.com</a>> > wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Karl Larsen <<a href="mailto:k5di@zianet.com">k5di@zianet.com</a>> 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 > >> > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI > >> Linux User > >> #450462 <a href="http://counter.li.org" target="_blank">http://counter.li.org</a>. > >> PGP 4208 4D6E 595F 22B9 FF1C ECB6 4A3C 2C54 FE23 53A7 > >> > >> > >> -- > >> ubuntu-users mailing list > >> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > >> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> > >> > > > > 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 <a href="http://xvid.org" target="_blank">xvid.org</a>. 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. > > -- > ubuntu-users mailing list > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> > > I have every single g-streamer installed. </div></div> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>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. </div>