Mike Leone on 5 Aug 2006 22:47:09 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] video players


Gabriel Farrell wrote:
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.

Doesn't automatically work with the videos I'm trying to watch; doesn't have the right codec.



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