James Richard Tyrer wrote: > Orthaide wrote: > > IIUC, AVI is just a container format -- it can use various codecs. > Playing some formats is dependent on actual MS-Windows DLLs (and other > files) which were probably not included in the distro. These should be > installed in $PREFIX/lib/codecs/ [PREFIX is probably '/usr']. My > directory has 133 files in it. > > If you don't have these, they can be downloaded from: > > ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20071007.tar.bz2 > ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20071007.tar.bz2 > > depending on whether you want just the common ones or everything. > > There is information here: > > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html > > Hello James, Thanks, I'll definitely check this out tomorrow. I must add that the problem isn't just avi's, but also mpg's and wmv's. Same with a regular dvd movie/disk. Blue screen and audio. Still, your suggestion is a good one and I'll take a look tomorrow after work. Thanks, Darryl ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.