AVI 's in Totem

[John Wendel]

Norm wrote:
> I have run across a bit of a problem with Totem and running some 
> avi's.  Some run properly with no problem. Others give the following 
> error
> "Totem could not play 'file:///file name'.
> You do not have a decoder installed to handle this file.  You might 
> need to install the necessary plugins."
> As others can run this file  I assume the file itself is okay.
>
>
Install mplayer. Run it from the command line, "mplayer file.avi", it 
will tell you what codec you need to install.

Regards,

John