can't play avi file

[taharka]

Ric,

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:40 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:29 -0500, taharka wrote:
> > How do,
> > 
> > On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:09 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 23:31 -0800, Darlene Wallach wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > It is a video of a session of a course on Haskell, a functional
> > > > programming language, at a German University.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm very disappointed I can't play the videos on my computer. I
> > > > was looking forward to watching the videos to learn more about
> > > > Haskell. Someone who has watched some of the videos recommends
> > > > them highly.
> > > 
> > > Just for grins I tried other packages like Xine, Mplayer, VLC,
> > > Kaboodle... nothing worked. Have you managed to get it working? I didn't
> > > dnload it, I just tried to stream it in Firefox. Ric
> > 
> > Worked for me using Firefox 2.0 on FC3 using the Mplayer plugin. Also,
> > downloaded the file, burned it onto CDRW & it plays in Mplayer.
> 
> Crap. No... just saying crap as in exasperation, not to you!! That is
> one of the downsides of a complete install. There is some lib file
> somewhere that will decipher that thing and I'm clearly missing it. I
> hate when that happens. Evidently Darlene is missing it as well. Got a
> clue? Ric

No clue at all :-( Mplayer/plug in versions maybe? You could download the
file, run it through Mplayer via the cli & see what errors it spits out. Note,
if using wget to download this file, you'll be SOL. wget doesn't seem to like the
() characters in the file name/path :-(