Still cant play avi in Ubuntu

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kittysacattack

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I have tried to make vlc and mplayer work, but cannot. In addition to the players, does anyone know what codecs, or settings I may have to have. Each player does the same thing, i get vertical lines, scrambled, but the audio works fine.
 
I think K-Lite has a utility included that tells you what codec various AVIs use. You could probably download that (assuming you still have Windows on a machine :P) and find what codec the video is using. It's then a matter of finding the codec for Linux, if it's even supported.
 
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

Bookmark it - it's a gold mine of info for everything-media within Ubuntu.

Edit: The best way to cover everything is to find your Version on the above-linked page and follow the basic steps for enabling all the Repositories. After that, scroll down to the bottom and select the specific areas (audio, DVD, etc.) via the links. Make sure you add the Mediabuntu Repo's, too - I think the link for it is somewhere on the DVD page.
 
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