trying to play avi files on SuSE 8.1
I'm having problems with SuSE 8.1 when it comes to playing avi files. I have installed avifile and mplayer. I also installed some sort of qtavi something or other (most likely not necessary) When I click on the avi I see a window briefly flicker and die while the sound plays perfectly in the background. I had the same problem using xine under SuSE 8.0. Mpegs play perfectly. What am I doing wrong?
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When you say 'When I click on the avi file...', what file browser are you using, and what program are you using to watch the file?
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I'm currently using konqueror with the default application set to mplayer.
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Thank you. It sounds like you may have a problem with your codecs. Could you open a console and run mplayer (with the same options as you've specified in your konqueror file-associations thing) on a file, and post any erros, or anything that looks out of the ordinary, here? Cheers.
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Well, I had figured that it would be a problem with my codecs, as my mpegs were playing just fine. I don't like to think of myself as a complete linux newbie, but judging from the bulk of my questions one would wonder. I ran mplayer in command line, and saw that it told me to try and update my user codec.conf file, which I did. Still no luck.
With a little digging around I reallized that the win32 codec rpm I was using left the codecs with root only permisions. I gave broad user permissions to the codecs and problem solved. As I said before thanks for all of the help that everybody so kindly shares here. This has got to be the best site of it's kind. I have been using linux off and on for 4 years, and steadily for the past year. I only found this site 3 months ago and have found it to be an invaluable asset. Anybody who's helped me and finds themselves around Stuttgart Germany has earned themselves a free beer :-) Thanks |
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