Unable to play .AVI files.

[jmtjet2]

I'm unable to play short .AVI clips taken with my digital camera. Do I need a special codec or program? If so, were do I find it? Thanks.

SuSE 9.0

[Icarus]

What are you trying to play them with?

For codecs check out http://mplayerhq.hu in their download section, they have quite a few codecs available that should work with any player

[jmtjet2]

When I click on them the default player opens-Kaffeine 0.3.2, using KDE 3.1.4. I get audio, but no video. Thanks for the reply.

[speaks_1337]

check the CD's packages, i am sure they must have at least xine which comes with the codecs. Then it is just a matter of opening the movies with xine.

[jmtjet2]

yes, I have xine installed on the system-but I'm unable to get it to run.How would I go about getting it to run?

[mdwatts]

Though I haven't tried playing avi files, I do have the avifile package installed.

rpm -ql avifile


/usr/bin/avibench
/usr/bin/avicat
/usr/bin/avifile-config
/usr/bin/avimake
/usr/bin/avirec
/usr/bin/avitype
/usr/include/avifile-0.7
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/Locker.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/StreamInfo.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/VideoDPMS.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/audiodecoder.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/audioencoder.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/avifile.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/aviplay.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/avm_args.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/avm_cpuinfo.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/avm_creators.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/avm_default.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/avm_except.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/avm_fourcc.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/avm_locker.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/avm_output.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/avm_stl.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/configfile.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/cpuinfo.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/creators.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/default.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/except.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/formats.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/fourcc.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/image.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/infotypes.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/playerwidget.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/renderer.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/subtitle.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/utils.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/version.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/videodecoder.h
/usr/include/avifile-0.7/videoencoder.h
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/audiodec.la
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/audiodec.so
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/ffmpeg.la
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/ffmpeg.so
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/mad_audiodec.la
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/mad_audiodec.so
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/mjpeg.la
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/mjpeg.so
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/mp3lame_audioenc.la
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/mp3lame_audioenc.so
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/mp3lamebin_audioenc.la
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/mp3lamebin_audioenc.so
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/mpeg_audiodec.la
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/mpeg_audiodec.so
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/vidix
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/vidix/libgenfb.la
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/vidix/libgenfb.so
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/vidix/libmach64.la
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/vidix/libmach64.so
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/vidix/libmga.la
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/vidix/libmga.so
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/vidix/libmga_crtc2.la
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/vidix/libmga_crtc2.so
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/vidix/libpm3.la
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/vidix/libpm3.so
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/vidix/libradeon.la
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/vidix/libradeon.so
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/vidix/librage128.la
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/vidix/librage128.so
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/vorbis_audio.la
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/vorbis_audio.so
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/win32.la
/usr/lib/avifile-0.7/win32.so
/usr/lib/libaviplay-0.7.so.0
/usr/lib/libaviplay-0.7.so.0.0.38
/usr/lib/libaviplay.la
/usr/lib/libaviplay.so
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/avifile.pc
/usr/lib/win32
/usr/share/aclocal/avifile.m4
/usr/share/doc/packages/avifile
/usr/share/doc/packages/avifile/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/packages/avifile/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/packages/avifile/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/packages/avifile/EXCEPTIONS
/usr/share/doc/packages/avifile/KNOWN_BUGS
/usr/share/doc/packages/avifile/LICENSING
/usr/share/doc/packages/avifile/README
/usr/share/doc/packages/avifile/README-DEVEL
/usr/share/doc/packages/avifile/README.SuSE
/usr/share/doc/packages/avifile/TODO
/usr/share/doc/packages/avifile/VIDEO-PERFORMANCE
/usr/share/doc/packages/avifile/WARNINGS
/usr/share/man/man1/avibench.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/avicap.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/avicat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/avifile-config.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/avimake.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/aviplay.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/avirec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/avirecompress.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/avitype.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/kv4lsetup.1.gz