Playing an AVI movie with MJPG

[George Toft]

1.  mplayer

2.  Crossover with Windows Media Player.

I use #1 exclusively.  I know people who do #2.

George


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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