Playing an AVI movie with MJPG

[Robert Bushman]

Have you tried the DivX player?
http://www.divx.com/divx/linux/

I think DivX uses .avi as their extension.

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Victor Odhner wrote:

> My daughter just sent us a little video clip from
> their digital camera.  I can't find any way to
> play it.  It is in .AVI format and needs an MJPG codec.
> I may have to download a shareware codec to view this
> movie.
>
> I looked around in Red Hat 7.3 and tried two video
> players.  One has no "File"-type menu as far as
> I can determine; and the other does nothing when I
> select the .AVI file in question.  Since I'm not
> into multimedia, the learning curve is a killer.
>
> In the Win98 world, WMP said it was downloading but
> then did not show me any video.  Real Player said no
> plugin was available.  My daughter said it worked on
> both for her -- I'm guessing that she did some sort of
> install from a CD that came with the camera and got
> the codec on her PC that way.
>
> I do have a software firewall installed on
> Windows, but I poked holes for Windows Media Player
> and Real Player for the duration of my experiments.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Vic
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