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Cotton

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From: Cornwall, UK

Registered: 2004-09-17

Posts: 568

avi using xmms

Is there a way of getting avi files to play video using xmms?

I've installed the xmms-mplayer but it only gives distorted sound.

Mplayer plays the avi file without any probs.

Kern

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From: UK

Registered: 2005-02-09

Posts: 464

Re: avi using xmms

Google reveals

http://freshmeat.net/projects/avi-xmms/

http://www.xmms.org/plugins.php?category=input

good luck

EDIT:
duuuuuuuh
after trying both of those myself, and failing miserably....tried

pacman -S xmms-mplayer
then ran a sample avi file on xmms and it works ok, but sound, alas, i havent set up sound yet
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let me know if u have any luck with the 2 plugins, i will try again tomorrow, tiredness is setting in.

shadowhand

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From: MN, USA

Registered: 2004-02-19

Posts: 1,142

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Re: avi using xmms

pacman -S xmms-mplayer

It's what you need.

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phrakture

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Registered: 2003-10-29

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Re: avi using xmms

I've installed the xmms-mplayer but it only gives distorted sound.

distorted sound may be due to many things... is the file corrupted (does it play good in, say, xine?)? does sound work normally in plain-old mplayer?

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Cotton

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From: Cornwall, UK

Registered: 2004-09-17

Posts: 568

Re: avi using xmms

distorted sound may be due to many things... is the file corrupted (does it play good in, say, xine?)? does sound work normally in plain-old mplayer?

I meant to say that it skips quickly through the sound with occassional intelligible speech being heard.  No video window opens.
The file plays properly in xine and mplayer, so its not corrupted.

dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

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Re: avi using xmms

distorted sound may be due to many things... is the file corrupted (does it play good in, say, xine?)? does sound work normally in plain-old mplayer?

I meant to say that it skips quickly through the sound with occassional intelligible speech being heard.  No video window opens.
The file plays properly in xine and mplayer, so its not corrupted.

depends on what file this is (codex, format, ...), try renaming it to *.mpg and then importing it to xmms ... the trouble with xmms-mplayer is that it is not able to open all files and it lets xmms decide if it is audio or a format xmms-mplayer plugin is needed (e.g. file.mp4 i even cannot open in xmms only because xmms decides that mp4 is no format xmms can read)

no guarantee that this renaming works

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