can't play avi file

Wed Nov 29 17:30:17 UTC 2006

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 10:45:42AM -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 13:49 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> > Where did you get that mplayer and what distro are you using it on?
> > This is not FC6, FC5 or FC4, it could be FC3 or RHEL4.
> > 
> > FWIW using ATrpms' packages the file plays OK on FC5 and FC6.
> 
> I'm running a fresh install of FC6, using codecs from the mplayer site
> and all the suggestions from Finley's site. Would you post what ATrpms
> packages I should try? I've already dnloaded the 15 meg codecs rpm from
> there. I'm running an Nvidia card with 256megs of video memory, on an
> AMD64 3200+ with 2 gigs of memory, so I think I have enough horsepower. 
> Any suggestions would really be appreciated. Ric

Well, the packages needed for installing mplayer on a minimal
ATrpms/FC6 according to apt are

Glide3 Glide3-libGL SDL aalib arts atk audiofile audit-libs-python
cairo cdparanoia-libs cups-libs cyrus-sasl-lib directfb esound
fontconfig freetype fribidi giflib glib2 gnutls gpm gtk2
hicolor-icon-theme lame lcms libICE libSM libX11 libXau libXcursor
libXdmcp libXext libXfixes libXft libXi libXinerama libXrandr
libXrender libXv libXvMC libXxf86dga libXxf86vm libasound2
libdirect-0.9_25 libdv libdvdnav4 libfaac0 libfusion-0.9_25 libgcrypt
libgcrypt11 libgpg-error libjpeg liblzo1 libmad0 libmng libogg libpng
libselinux-python libsemanage libtheora libtiff libvorbis libxvidcore4
lirc-lib mplayer-fonts openldap pango policycoreutils qt samba-common
util-linux xorg-x11-filesystem
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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