Kino not able to play / open avi video clip

[Robin Laing]

Kenny Gow wrote:
> Parameshwara Bhat wrote:
> 
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I wanted to edit a video clip from my camera in avi format.It is 
>> played  well by totem/xine/kplayer/kaffeine. But I cannot load it in 
>> kino which  'failed to load it'. My version of kino is 0.7.6 from livna.
>>
>> I find there is no update available at livna site.But,freshrpms has 
>> got  0.8 version.When I downloaded and tried to install it has an 
>> unmet  dependency in libavutils.so which according rpmfind.net is 
>> provided by  ffmpeg 0.4.9 from freshrpms.The version of ffmpeg from 
>> livna that I have  doesn't provide this file,instead it provides 
>> libavcodec.
>>
>> Now,I wonder if that's the reason why kino is not able to load avi 
>> file,it  searches for libavutils.but what's provided is libavcodec.I 
>> cannot confirm  it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Parameshwara Bhat
>>
> kino primarily supports the DV format, not avi. Does your camera
> record DV video or something else?
> 
> Now, the latest 0.8 version of kino does have the new ability to
> import other video formats by converting to DV format. This can
> take a long time.
> 
> I have kino 0.8.0 installed from source code and it works pretty
> well for DV capture, edit, and export.
> 
> Another application you might try is avidemux which is designed
> for editing avi files.
> 
> --Kenny
> 

Avidemux may work for you.  Available from Dries.