As a matter of fact, mplayer plays this kind of avi files in kubuntu karmic koala:
jca...@hermes:~$ mplayer capture002.avi MPlayer SVN-r29237-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing capture002.avi. AVI file format detected. AVI: ODML: Building ODML index (1 superindexchunks). AVI_NI: No video stream found. libavformat file format detected. [lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0 [lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1 [lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 2 VIDEO: [dvsd] 720x576 0bpp 25.000 fps 28800.0 kbps (3515.6 kbyte/s) open: No such file or directory [MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid open: No such file or directory [MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid [VO_TDFXFB] Can't open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory. [VO_3DFX] Unable to open /dev/3dfx. ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Unsupported PixelFormat -1 Selected video codec: [ffdv] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg DV) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder AUDIO: 32000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 1024.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 128000->128000) Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM) ========================================================================== [pulse] working around probably broken pause functionality, see http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/440 AO: [pulse] 32000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 2) Movie-Aspect is 1.82:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [xv] 720x576 => 1048x576 Planar YV12 A: 5.0 V: 5.0 A-V: 0.040 ct: -0.002 0/ 0 22% 8% 56.9% 39 0 Exiting... (Quit) So I think you can close this bug because current version of mplayer in karmic koala plays DV avi files OK (sound and image work perfectly). ** Bug watch added: PulseAudio sound server #440 http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/440 -- mplayer unable to play DV avi files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240348 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs