can't play avi file

[taharka]

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 22:25 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> taharka wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:40 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> [...]
> >> 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
> > 
> > No clue at all :-( Mplayer/plug in versions maybe?
> 
> Or missing codecs?  ATrpms has a package for the codecs (w32codec).

Possibly. However, the same file refuses to play in Mplayer with exact
same codecs on suse 10.0 :-(

> > Note, if using wget to download this file, you'll be SOL. wget
> > doesn't seem to like the () characters in the file name/path :-(
> 
> It's bash that will complain if you pass the url on the command line
> without quoting or otherwise escaping the parens.  This works for me:
> 
> wget "http://videoarch1.s-inf.de/FP.2005-SS-Giesl.(COt).HD_Videoaufzeichnung/2005-SS-FP.V01.2005-04-12.HDV_low.avi"

OK, thanks for the tip. Will use this next time ;-)

taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.