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hi
i've just installed divx for linux and xine... but i still can't play any avi movies. everytime i double clicked to play a divx movie...the message "Nautilus don't have a viewer capable to view this file bla bla bla " will appear... so my question is how to run xine and divx?
andysimmons
08-20-2003, 11:54 PM
Download the divx codec from http://www.divx.com
yup...i've downloaded and install them before i install xine... but still can't play any avi & divx movies... btw how to run Xine?
mdwatts
08-21-2003, 12:44 PM
Originally posted by Imin
btw how to run Xine?
All of that is covered in the Xine documentation (how-to's & faq's etc.) on the main Xine site ( http://xinehq.de/ ) and they could have something on divx.
Were the divx libraries installed into the default library path or something like /usr/local/lib? If the latter, you need to add that path to /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig (both as root).
Ryochan7
08-21-2003, 12:50 PM
Originally posted by Imin
hi
i've just installed divx for linux and xine... but i still can't play any avi movies. everytime i double clicked to play a divx movie...the message "Nautilus don't have a viewer capable to view this file bla bla bla " will appear... so my question is how to run xine and divx?
That might not be a xine problem, but a nautilus problem. Did you configure nautilus to actually open the files with xine or did you assume that since you have xine installed that nautilus would recognize that and automatically use it?
As for opening xine, the executable is located at /usr/local/bin/xine. I'm going to assume since you haven't even used the program on its own and haven't bothered to even do a 'locate xine' or 'whereis xine' that xine is not the problem here at all, but user error. The Xine Lib package already has practically all the codecs you need, including divx, to view practically any type of media file.
Try opening xine and then try to open the file in question and you should see that everything is A OK.