On 07-Sep-98 Gevaerts Frank wrote:
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> On Mon, 7 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> On 07-Sep-98 Bogdan Taru wrote:
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>> > Hi all,
>> > Does anyone know if there is an *.avi player for Linux,
>> > and
>> > if so, where
>> > could I find it???
>> >
>> > Thanks & Have fun,
>> > bogdan
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>> Xanim is the only option I'm aware of for playing .avi files.
>> It also handles .mov and .mpg. However, I've found it only
>> handles about 1/3 of the .avi's that I have. The rest it
>> just gives me an "unrecognized format" message. On others
>> it plays the video without sound.
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> There are some (popular) codecs that xanim doesn't support out
> of the box, but you can get them by linking in a binary
> module (they are a proprietary format). You should be able to
> get more info on the website
There are three proprietary codecs that you can get for XAnim,
but that's not the problem.
This is from the XAnim home page:
"Please note that most formats can support a number of different
compression/encoding styles. Since new techniques are being
discovered, new ones are still being added. So while XAnim
supports the AVI Format, it doesn't yet support all the various
video and audio codecs that can be used inside an
AVI file."
As I said originally, some won't play and some will play without
sound. I recently upgraded XAnim, and it seems to me that newest
version does a better job, but I really didn't keep track of
which ones didn't play under the old version. There's a complete
list of which formats are supported on the web page.
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