I can't seem to play flv files

[emes85]

this helped thanks, just an FYI I had some problems when installing the long list of libraries (libvxp1) which I had but sudo wasn't picking up on it, I just unistalled and reinstalled it which seemed to resolve it.

Thanks everybody I really appreaciate the help.

Just a quick question does anybody know why I had this problem in the first place? it seemed to work on LMDE but not ubuntu 13.04.

Thanks again.

[Perfect Storm]

this helped thanks, just an FYI I had some problems when installing the long list of libraries (libvxp1) which I had but sudo wasn't picking up on it, I just unistalled and reinstalled it which seemed to resolve it.

Thanks everybody I really appreaciate the help.

Just a quick question does anybody know why I had this problem in the first place? it seemed to work on LMDE but not ubuntu 13.04.

Thanks again.

Properly different versions of x,y,z packages is my guess.

[andrew.46]

Just a sidenote in this thread:

If you build vlc according to this guide it will play your video
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1398119

Change of address to:

Howto: Compile the development version of vlc under the latest Ubuntu release
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2141949

and this is for experimenting with perhaps rather than replacing the release version of vlc.

or mplayer
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1542240
If you use gnome-mplayer or smplayer as a front end to mplayer, change the mplayer preference to point to the compiled version (say in /home/username/bin)

and this one has moved off-Forum:

Howto: Build the svn MPlayer under the latest release version of Ubuntu
http://www.andrews-corner.org/mplayer.html

Hopefully no more moves now

[monkeybrain2012]

Just a quick question does anybody know why I had this problem in the first place? it seemed to work on LMDE but not ubuntu 13.04.

Thanks again.

Just a guess, it works in Debian unstable as well, but in Debian I installed ffmpeg from Debian-Multimedia rather than the official repository. DM offers the original ffmpeg instead of avcon and it seems that avcon is not able to play these files somehow. I am not sure what version of Debian is LMDE (unstable, testing?) based on, so maybe it gets ffmpeg from the same source.