viewing AVI files...

[John (EBo) David]

Codie William Masters wrote:
> 
> Actually the best Movie player I've ever used for Linux is MPlayer.
>         http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
> 
>         The latest release can play DiVX, MPEG-1\2, Quicktime (some, and many
> file formats including everything Windows Media can. But you might want
> to grab the CVS for the most features. Latest CVS compiled fine for me.

I downloaded and have been playing with several trying to get them to
work including xine and mplayer...

at the moment I'm stumped with getting mplayer by the following:

...
VIDEO:  [IV50]  320x240  24bpp  30.00 fps  475.7 kbps (58.1 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:3  fourcc:0x30355649  size:320x240  fps:30.00  ftime:=0.0333
Detected audio codec: [pcm] drv:2 (Uncompressed PCM)
AUDIO: srate=11025  chans=1  bps=1  sfmt=0x8  ratio: 11025->11025
Detected video codec: [indeo5] drv:2 prio:0 (Intel Indeo 5)
Requested video codec family [indeo5] (vfm=2) not available (enable it
at compile time!)
FATAL: Couldn't initialize video codec :(

Reading the FAQ I find that for my Matrox 400 vidio card I need to make
and load a kernal mod specific to my card...  While doing that it
complained about a kernal version mismatch (because I am running SMP and
the current source tree is for the non SMP version)...

I'll have to put this down for a few days to finish up some work but it
is something I would really like to have up and running so give me a few
days to a week and I'll plow back in.

As a further note.  I have built probably a dozen or so different
kernals, but when I went to recompile RH's source tree (unmodified no
less) the kernal panics in the middle of the boot sequence...  That is
still one of the things on my todo-list as I really want to clean up the
stock kernal.

  EBo --