Hey guys,

need some help here if you can, my problem is with my video codecs, I don't know why but, I cannot see any avi videos with vlc I can just hear the sound of them but, the odd part is that with totem I can see them perfectly. Can any one explain me what I am doing wrong? I got Debian Lenny Stable with Xfce4 Desktop enviroment. I tried to install ubuntu restricted extras and also I tried to install the following codecs:

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-gl gstreamer0.10-pitfdll libxine-main1 libxine-extracodecs libquicktime0 libdvdread3


But, the problem is that the codecs named bad and ugly apt cannot find.I got installed divx and xvid codec and also w32codecs.

What I am missing here?

Cheers!!

As I see, you installed gstreamer and libxine plugins but vlc does not use the gstreamer library but totem does. Maybe you should update vlc.

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You might want to install "videoinfo" which can tell you which codec is being used by a video. The extension only tells you the type of container. The video stream in an avi file could use the divx codec or one of the wmv codecs.

This site has many of the codecs you may need if you download and install the essential codec tarball.

The win32 codecs might be in /usr/lib/win32 or in /usr/lib/codecs.

However, I ran VLC and then looked at which files were open with lsof and found that VLC uses codecs in /usr/lib/vlc/codec/. So I think that if you want to view this video in VLC, you may need to use a version of VLC that supplies these codecs. You might try the vlc home page.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-debian.html

Ubuntu-restricted-extras is not available for Debian. Also, appellations like multiverse are also Ubuntu specific.

For Debian, make sure you enable the contrib and non-free sections in /etc/apt/sources.list

Also, enable the debian multimedia repository.

These are the gstreamer packages available in Debian's official repos.
http://packages.debian.org/search?ke...le&section=all

There are some gstreamer plugins in the multimedia repo as well, that Debian won't distribute because of licensing.

If you need help with your sources.list, you can use this online generator.
http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/

You were right mate, thank you very much!! I just update vlc to 1.0.1 Goldeneye and works perfectly, cheers mate!!