AVI and gxine

[Craig Lanning]

On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 15:41 -0700, JD wrote:
> On 10/07/2010 01:02 PN, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
> >       Hello,
> >
> >    I wanted to watch a video in AVI format. Since xine supposedly can
> > play AVI, I installed gxine from the Fedora repository. When I tried
> > to play the AVI movie, I get the message:
> >
> >    "Error loading library: msvidc32.dll"
> >
> >    Besides being surprised that a required library is missing, I find
> > the name odd for a Linux library. What is going on? Thanks!
> >
> >       Take care
> >       Oliver
> >
> 
> I used to download the necessary codecs directly from  http://xinehq.de
> but that site seems to be dead. I cannot get any response from it.
> xinehq.com is some other advertising web site.
> Then there is a sourceforge site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xine
> but it has no links to download codecs.
> 
> I wonder if xine development/support has reached an EOL ?
> Will it re-incarnate soon at a dedicated site?

Try http://www.xine-project.org/