Still can't get AVI's to play...
Past Post: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/video-player-not-working
I have totem, ffmpeg and vlc installed. But, I still got no video coming from either. Sound works... I'm using the spanky new taranis 4.0.1 image.
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Maybe it has something to do with your video card drivers? What card and drivers do you have? It's just a wild guess, but maybe, if you have some experimental drivers, you should try the vesa driver for video playback (you'd lose all 3D acceleration with that however).
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It might have to do with this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=165215
AVI is a patent-encumbered codec, so like DVD decryption, it isn't in the default installation.
AVI is not a codec but a container (that can contain any codec). And, anyway, Trisquel includes, by default, any popular codec even if it is supposedly covered by many patents (most large software are...). Of course codecs such as Theora, VP8 or Dirac and the containers such as Ogg, WebM or Matroska are to be preferred because they officially aim at being patent-free, hence the greater assurance to be able to read your video in the future.
Have you tried converting this video to, e.g., Ogg Theora? OggConvert (in Trisquel's repository) makes this operation easy. I actually believe it would not change anything but (1) anyway it is good (as I stated earlier) and (2) you will be certain it is a video issue.
Thanks for the responses!! I got it figured out... See the link below for info.