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how to play divx with vlc ?

J.Bakshi [j.bakshi at icmail.net]


Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:21:56 +0530

Dear all,

Is not vlc has divx support ?

I am runnig debian lenny. The installed vlc is 0.8.6.h-4+lenny2

But when I open an .avi file having divx format the progress bar of vlc only proceds with out any sound or video. Has any one faced the same problem ? Is there any fix for this problem ?

One more thing. The sound output for mp3 files are very very low in vlc.

Thanks


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Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]


Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:40:33 +0000

2009/1/14 J.Bakshi <j.bakshi@icmail.net>:

> Dear all,
>
> Is not vlc has divx support ?
>
> I am runnig debian lenny. The installed vlc is
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>  0.8.6.h-4+lenny2
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> But when I open an .avi file having divx format the progress bar of vlc only
> proceds with out any sound or video. Has any one faced the same problem ?
> Is there any fix for this problem ?
>

Use View->Messages to see what the problem is. You can also use View->Stream and Media Info to find out more about the file (i.e., check that it really is DivX).


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Deividson Okopnik [deivid.okop at gmail.com]


Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:00:10 -0300

> 2009/1/14 J.Bakshi <j.bakshi@icmail.net>:
> Dear all,
>
> Is not vlc has divx support ?
>
> I am runnig debian lenny. The installed vlc is
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>  0.8.6.h-4+lenny2
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> But when I open an .avi file having divx format the progress bar of vlc only
> proceds with out any sound or video. Has any one faced the same problem ?
> Is there any fix for this problem ?
>

VLC always played DivX out of the box for me (mp3 too) - try removing then installing it again to check if it fixes the problem - if you where on Ubuntu I would suggest installing the "ubuntu-restricted-extras" package too, but im not sure how that is handled on Debian


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