Is anyone having issue viewing avi's/mpg's with Kubuntu Jaunty?

[Orthaide]

James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Orthaide wrote:
>   
> IIUC, AVI is just a container format -- it can use various codecs. 
> Playing some formats is dependent on actual MS-Windows DLLs (and other 
> files) which were probably not included in the distro.  These should be 
> installed in $PREFIX/lib/codecs/ [PREFIX is probably '/usr'].  My 
> directory has 133 files in it.
>
> If you don't have these, they can be downloaded from:
>
> ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20071007.tar.bz2
> ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20071007.tar.bz2
>
> depending on whether you want just the common ones or everything.
>
> There is information here:
>
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html
>
>   
Hello James,

Thanks, I'll definitely check this out tomorrow. I must add that the 
problem isn't just avi's, but also mpg's and wmv's. Same with a regular 
dvd movie/disk. Blue screen and audio.

Still, your suggestion is a good one and I'll take a look tomorrow after 
work.

Thanks,
Darryl
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