Re: Playing AVI files

On Saturday 25 September 2004 10:48, Pieter Hulshoff wrote:
> On Saturday 25 September 2004 11:21, Edward F. Howson wrote:
> > I have some holiday avi files which were recorded on a friend's
> > camcorder. He used an MS app to transfer them to the PC.  I find that on
> > my linux system I'm not able to view them. Running the file command on
> > one of them I get:
> >
> > "uvs040331-002-33.AVI: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 720 x 576, 25.00
> > fps"
> >
> > Does anyone know of a program that I can use to view (convert) them?  I
> > normally use xine but it complains about not having the codec.  I don't
> > remember now but I think that I get the same result from mplayer.
> >
> > Any help or advice would be much appreciated.
>
> Did you install your xine/mplayer from Packman? It should have come with
> the needed codecs then. I use mplayer for viewing of just about any media
> file, and haven't encountered any problems sofar. mencoder could use used
> to convert them, but then you'd still need to be able to play them with
> mplayer in the first place.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pieter Hulshoff

I've just installed the packman version.  It complains as follows:
"There is no demuxer plugin available to handle . . .  Usually this means that 
the file format was not recognized"

Any thoughts on how to get it to play?

Thanks