I have a video file. In fact it is .avi file.
What is the player suitable for it?
I tried to open it using the RealPlayer.
The message was the following:
The player does not have the capabilities to play back this content.

How do I open this file?
Nowadays I am running open SUSE 10.2 version.

RealPlayer 10.0.8.805 (gold) [This is the RealPlayer I have.]

You can try with kaffeine, a media player installed by default in opensuse. Check the installed players under applications --> multimedia --> video player. In alternative you can try mplayer, which is reported to play almost any video format. Or VLC.
The avi extension is very common but it can hide a lot of different video formats: you can get some preliminar information by issuing

Thanks Colucix for the reply.
The program kaffeine works. I see the moving cursor. However, the screen is blank.
Why is that?


Niss@linux-3vxw:~/Desktop> file cam-ps.avi
cam-ps.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 640 x 272, 25.00 fps, video: XviD, audio: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (stereo, 44100 Hz)
Niss@linux-3vxw:~/Desktop>

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I tried with Totem Movie Player.
I got the following error message.

You don't have a decoder installed to handle this file.
You might need to install necessary files.
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Your help is appreciated. I know Totem works very well. I had it when working with Mandriva.

In both cases I think your system misses some codec. First of all you can check if w32codec-all is installed:
You may also be intersted in reading this sticky post regarding multimedia capabilities in suse 10.2.

MPlayer works here ...

Thanks Colucix for taking time to reply me again.
It is not installed.

Niss@linux-3vxw:~> rpm -q w32codec-all
package w32codec-all is not installed
Niss@linux-3vxw:~>

Niss@linux-3vxw:~> su root
Password:
linux-3vxw:/home/Niss # rpm -q w32codec-all
package w32codec-all is not installed
linux-3vxw:/home/Niss #

How do I install the missing one?

Bruce Hill
Do you run open SUSE or Slackware?

Gins, here is a good guide to setting up your multimedia in Suse 10.2 http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=509097

The threads mentioned by Colucix and Larry are fine.

There are some problems with their servers. I must try again tomorrow. It seems those servers are in Germany. Sometimes servers have problems or too many people are trying to penetrate onto the servers.

However, I will try later.

Kaffeine uses (among others) the xine engine as backend. But for some formats you need to install some proprietary codecs that most system do not install by default. w32codec-all (as the name suggests) is one of them.
I have installed w32codec-all by enabling packman repository and then from the YAST software management. Be sure also to install (or verify if it's installed) libxine1. And eventually uninstall xine-lib (as the suggested thread explains). Cheers

Edit: you may also check this article, it was been helpful for me when I did install OpenSuSE 10.2.

Thanks Colucix for taking time to reply me again.
There is another thread running about my slow computer.
After installing a new 500GB new hard drive, my computer is running 100% slow.

I must solve that problem too. I fixed another drive to run Fedora, Free BSD, Ubuntu, etc.