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Trouble playing videos
AVI movie files aren't playing well in Ubuntu. I get audio but the screen stays black, there's no picture. i downloaded VLC player and mplayer and neither of them work. Same thing: Black screen with audio.
Is there a codec pack out there that I should download or something?
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Have you installed the restricted extras?
Ultimate Coffee Grinder
VLC comes with its own dependencies. Sounds more like a faulty AVI file than a codec problem. Right-click on one of your problem AVIs > Properties > Audio/Video tab. What codecs (if any) are showing under Video and Audio?
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Every file and even other video playing programs do the same thing so i think it has something to do with the systemOriginally Posted by coffeecat
I attached a picture of the properties window.
Ubuntu Mate @ll the Time
Try this then, install mplayer-nogui and play your videos from terminal.
Playing video from terminal:Code:sudo aptitude -y install mplayer-nogui
Almost all the video's can play here.None of the video's failed for me.Code:mplayer /path/to/your/video/file
Ultimate Coffee Grinder
Hmm. Xvid and mp3 shouldn't be a problem. When I said that VLC came with its own dependencies I was sure that it didn't need the restricted-extras stuff, but try installing the package ubuntu-restricted-extras (if you haven't already) just in case.
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Installed them, but still nothing...
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Have you tried the one which i told you in my last post.
Gee! These Aren't Roasted!
Yeah I tried and got this error:
mplayer: relocation error: mplayer: symbol rgb24toyv12, version LIBSWSCALE_0 not defined in file libswscale.so.0 with link time reference
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I've rarely had problems with AVI, particularly if the files are encoded with XviD.
Might I suggest trying the version of mplayer that is maintained by the developer of the excellent smplayer GUI? Follow the instructions on this page to add the repository. (Launchpad seems rather slow at the moment, so be patient.)
Otherwise you might try compiling your own copy of mplayer to see if that will do the trick. See
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1542240
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...6&postcount=10
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