I've just got this or something similar. After the recent problems with KDE, see bug #585751, dragonplayer has stopped playing some avi files. At first I blamed the recent updates to KDE but a quick investigation has shown that xine also will not play the files, failing with the error message that the xvid codec is not found and as dragonplayer is using xine as a backend it's not surprising that it can't play the file either so maybe it's nothing to do with the KDE upgrade. I am certain that dragonplayer was working a couple of days ago.
Xine does give an option of proceeding anyway, when this is chosen the audio plays fine but there is no video. I did an experiment using mencoder to record from my webcam, something like: $ mencoder -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -o movie.avi tv:// and xine will not play this either. I didn't have time to try different video codecs but I did find a video file that it would play, this was mpeg2 encoded (I think). Fortunately mplayer works fine with all the video files that xine won't play. -- Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
