can't play avi file

[Darlene Wallach]

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.
> 
> taharka
> 
> Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
> 

taharka,

This is what /sbin/lspci -v reports for my system:
# lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 GMCH [Graphics 
Memory Controller Hub] (rev 03)
         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0

00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 CGC 
[Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
         Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 4332
         Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
         Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
         Memory at ffa80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
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.
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01:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 06)
         Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 4332
         Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 3
         I/O ports at df00 [size=64]
         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
.
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.

What kind of graphics card do you have? Could that be my problem?

Thank you,

Darlene