Problems playing .avi files

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On 04/24/2009 09:21 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 10:22 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> On 04/23/2009 10:17 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>> -
>>>
>>> I am still on F9 and I am having problems playing .avi files.
>>> Can someone offer some suggestions?
>>> vlc can't recognize the format, other programs say the codecs are
>>> missing. So what can I do?
>> .avi is a packaging format for media files, so it can contain streams
>> that require an assortment of different codecs. You don't say what
>> codecs are missing.
>>
>> poc
>>
> Not all programs say the codec is missing. Mplayer reports audio codec
> 0x56444152 is missing.
> vlc and gnome media player seem to run something but you don't see of
> hear anything.
> xine and Movie player can't recognise the format.
>
> vlc is specifically supposed to work on .avi files , so I am msytified.

Take a look at 
http://fedoraguide.info/index.php?title=Main_Page#Multimedia_Applications

poc