Xine and Kaffeine do not play DivX / XviD files in F7

[Karl Larsen]

Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 August 2007 16:50:14 Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> After I upgraded to F7, Xine and Kaffeine no longer play divx and xdiv
>> video files. I hear the audio, but the screen remains black. MPlayer
>> and KPlayer (which is based on mplayer) play the same files
>> correctly. Also, when I was running FC6, I used to play these videos
>> using Xine / Kaffeine.
>>     
>
> Hi again,
>
> I found the following bugzilla (from previous posting to the fedora-list). 
> http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1489
>
> I did 'xine --verbose movie.avi' and just basically tracked down the 
> dependencies that xine needed. I found that by installing the following, xine 
> is able to play all of my movie that I tried. Kaffeine also works now (since 
> it just basically depends on xine).
>
> yum install vlc vlc-devel libmad libmad-devel madplay libmp4v2 gsm directfb
>
> I have Livna repository installed, and some of those packages are from Livna 
> (and they will also get more dependencies).
>
> Hope that helps.
> RDB
>
>   
Exactly. All the other software is dead in the water. VLC is the ONLY 
thing that plays mp3 and DVD movies and anything else with no problems.



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