Gabriel Farrell on 4 Aug 2006 12:20:04 -0000


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[PLUG] video players


On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:53:48PM -0400, Mike Leone wrote:
> I figured that since I had kubuntu going, I'd try and watch some AVI 
> files across my LAN. Nope; no DivX codec. No binary that I could find 
> (well, nothing official). Installed the w32codecs package, which is 
> supposed to contain it; still won't play. (and not sure if I chose the 
> right debian-multimedia.org repository, since mplayer installation 
> complained of many broken packages, when I thought I'd install that 
> (which should play anything under Linux).

You might want to try VLC for video under linux, it's quite good.  I
use totem, which is a gstreamer/xine front end for gnome, and can play
pretty much anything (once I installed the w32codecs).

gabe
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