can't play avi file

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:29 -0500, taharka wrote:
> How do,
> 
> On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:09 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 23:31 -0800, Darlene Wallach wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > It is a video of a session of a course on Haskell, a functional
> > > programming language, at a German University.
> > > 
> > > I'm very disappointed I can't play the videos on my computer. I
> > > was looking forward to watching the videos to learn more about
> > > Haskell. Someone who has watched some of the videos recommends
> > > them highly.
> > 
> > Just for grins I tried other packages like Xine, Mplayer, VLC,
> > Kaboodle... nothing worked. Have you managed to get it working? I didn't
> > dnload it, I just tried to stream it in Firefox. Ric
> 
> Worked for me using Firefox 2.0 on FC3 using the Mplayer plugin. Also,
> downloaded the file, burned it onto CDRW & it plays in Mplayer.

Crap. No... just saying crap as in exasperation, not to you!! That is
one of the downsides of a complete install. There is some lib file
somewhere that will decipher that thing and I'm clearly missing it. I
hate when that happens. Evidently Darlene is missing it as well. Got a
clue? Ric