lost my ability to play .avi's

schwim · #1 9th April 2007, 04:06 AM

Hi there guys,

Last night, I installed some scripts, and noticed during the install that as dependencies, it upgraded my xine and a couple other things.

This morning, I attempted to play an .avi, and it told me that it could not load the codec, so I went to S-F's site, and followed the instructions for adding the codecs again, but I still can't view .avi's. On some I get errors that it can't load the codec, on others, it just asks if I'd like to start playback anyway.

I also tried viewing the files in RealPlay, but it won't play there either.

Where do I begin troubleshooting this?

thanks,
json

#2 9th April 2007, 04:09 AM

If you are using Freshrpms/Dries from SF's instructions then install:

xine-lib-moles

Edit: From Livna that would be:

xine-lib-extras-nonfree

Wayne

schwim · #3 9th April 2007, 04:15 AM

Hi there wayne,

Thanks very much for your reply sir. My trusty yum states that it's already installed. I am using the livna repository.

thanks,
json

#4 9th April 2007, 04:20 AM

Umm, velly stlange!

There's also xine-lib-extras in.... er.... extras, but I don't know what that does...

This is what I have (I'm using fresh/dries)

totem-xine.i386 2.16.4-1.lvn6 installed
xine.i386 0.99.4-10.lvn6 installed
xine-lib.i386 1.1.4-3.fc6 installed
xine-lib-extras.i386 1.1.4-3.fc6 installed
xine-lib-moles.i386 1.1.4-1.fc6 installed
xine-skins.noarch 1.10-2.fc6.rf installed

Wayne

schwim · #5 9th April 2007, 04:32 AM

Here's what I've got:

xine-0.99.4-8.lvn5
xine-lib-1.1.2-17.fc5
xine-lib-extras-nonfree-1.1.2-5.lvn5

I'm on FC5.

Yumex shows that all three packages were updated on April 8th.

Anything I might usually need to do when it's updated to get my ability to play fun files back again?

thanks,
json

#6 9th April 2007, 04:42 AM

Have you got all the other codecs?

http://www.geocities.jp/rondonko/fc6notes.html#Codecs

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rele...061022.tar.bz2

(The install is exactly the same for FC5)

Wayne

schwim · #7 9th April 2007, 04:45 AM

Hi there sir,

I wasn't aware of your tut, so I followed SF's tut here, and installed the 20061022 pack in both locations dictated in the tut.

thanks,
json

#8 9th April 2007, 04:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by schwim

Hi there sir,

I wasn't aware of your tut, so I followed SF's tut here, and installed the 20061022 pack in both locations dictated in the tut.

thanks,
json

My king tut is the same as SF's but the software versions have been brought up to date

Big question is.... does it now work?

Wayne

#9 9th April 2007, 04:53 AM

Another thing I notice is you haven't replaced Totem with totem-xine. Totem relies on the gstreamer plugins (until you replace it) In that case you'll also need to do:

yum install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly

Wayne

schwim · #10 9th April 2007, 04:59 AM

I have gstreamer-plugins-ugly installed already. yumex doesn't list a gstreamer-plugins-bad...

To clarify, it is still not working. I did the codec tut at the beginning of my self-help evolution

thanks,
json

#11 9th April 2007, 05:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by schwim

I have gstreamer-plugins-ugly installed already. yumex doesn't list a gstreamer-plugins-bad...

To clarify, it is still not working. I did the codec tut at the beginning of my self-help evolution

thanks,
json

Try replacing totem with totem-xine from Livna and it will use the xine-libs you've installed. It'll take Rhythmbox with it but as shown in the tut can be restored. If all else fails:

yum install vlc

Wayne

Seve · #12 9th April 2007, 05:16 AM

Hello:
Just a thought ?
Check your settings in xine under decoder and make sure it is pointing to the path that you have the codecs installed in.

Seve

#13 9th April 2007, 05:19 AM

Ahh, yes. SF's guide lists two places for the codecs but I've seen posts in the past that say they should go in three locations:

/usr/local/lib/codecs/
/usr/lib/win32
/usr/lib/codecs/

I think it was mentioned that you could link them but forget the details. In fact, in my update to SF's guide I started listing the 3 locations just to be sure!

Wayne

schwim · #14 9th April 2007, 05:35 AM

gentlemen, that did it! /usr/lib/codecs is what setup listed, and when I changed it to /usr/local/lib/codecs and restarted, I got my video back!

Yay, me!

Thanks so much guys. I'm a happy camper now

thanks,
json

#15 9th April 2007, 05:37 AM

I also have all this:

gstreamer.i386 0.10.10-2.fc6 installed
gstreamer-ffmpeg.i386 0.10.2-1.fc6.rf installed
gstreamer-plugins-bad.i386 0.10.3-3.fc6 installed
gstreamer-plugins-base.i386 0.10.10-1.fc6 installed
gstreamer-plugins-good.i386 0.10.4-3.fc6 installed
gstreamer-plugins-ugly.i386 0.10.5-1.fc6.rf installed

Wayne