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On 10/08/2010 12:01 PM, JD wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 15:41 -0700, JD wrote:
>> On 10/07/2010 01:02 PN, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I wanted to watch a video in AVI format. Since xine supposedly can
>>> play AVI, I installed gxine from the Fedora repository. When I tried
>>> to play the AVI movie, I get the message:
>>>
>>> "Error loading library: msvidc32.dll"
>>>
>>> Besides being surprised that a required library is missing, I find
>>> the name odd for a Linux library. What is going on? Thanks!
>>>
>>> Take care
>>> Oliver
>> I used to download the necessary codecs directly from
http://xinehq.de
>> but that site seems to be dead. I cannot get any response from it.
>>
xinehq.com is some other advertising web site.
>> Then there is a sourceforge site:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xine
>> but it has no links to download codecs.
>>
>> I wonder if xine development/support has reached an EOL ?
>> Will it re-incarnate soon at a dedicated site?
> Try
http://www.xine-project.org/
Aha! Thanx!
Getting back to the OP's original problem of not being able to play an
avi file, I just played an vi file with gxine with no problems.
But then I am not sure what format of video was inside the avi file,
since avi can be a container of different formats.
My only familiarity is that most of the avi files I played contained
mpeg4 format videos.
So, I wanted to say to Oliver these are the *xine* packages I have
installed on my system:
gxine.i686 0.5.905-3.fc13 @fedora
xine-lib.i686 1.1.18.1-1.fc13
@anaconda-InstallationRepo-201005130056.i386
xine-lib-devel.i686 1.1.18.1-1.fc13 @fedora
xine-lib-extras.i686 1.1.18.1-1.fc13 @fedora
xine-lib-extras-freeworld.i686 1.1.18.1-1.fc13 @rpmfusion-free
xine-plugin.i686 1.0.2-3.fc12 @fedora/12
xine-ui.i686 0.99.6-4.fc13 @updates
xine-ui-skins 0.99.6-4.fc13 @updates
xine also depends on many codec libraries in order to play all
the various formats. MS formats are proprietary, and so require
dll's.
One place to get them from is
ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/olea.org/paquetes-rpm/win32-codecs-1.8-1.i386.rpm
as far as I am aware (I use xine extensively) xine does NOT use the above
mentioned codecs. Perhaps you are thinking of mplayer, which does. Xine has
native codec players, available as the package xine-lib-extras-freeworld, which
is available at
rpmfusion.org
note that if you are playing dvd's, you will likely also need the libdvdcss
package to deal with region locked dvd's (not necessary for files extracted, or
encoded from the dvd).
http://rpmfusion.org/FAQ#head-ad193f146afb4c556137f9009c5bfaabba21d74c
All the best,
- -Greg
Unfortunately, I do not know if any of the fedora repos package
them.
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