not able to play.avi files.

[sukarn001]

Hi,

I am wondering if anybody can help me in playing .avi file in RHEL6(64 bit), movie player or Dragon player? i tried downloading vlc but due of dependencies in RHE6(64bit) unable to install it. I also tried playing my .avi files in mplayer it asked me to download techsmith camtasia plugin which i installed, but no good the video display is now flickering, earlier there was only sound.

Can anybody suggest any other player?
thank you in advance.

[Rubberman]

What repositories do you have installed? I run Scientific Linux 6 (clone of RHEL 6) and VLC has been happily installed on my system for a year now! On my system, it is in the atrpms repository. In any case, avi files are simply wrappers for other video formats, such as mpeg4, etc. I haven't had any problems running any of them with either VLC or Kaffeine. Have you tried Kaffeine? What codecs do you have installed?

[Rubberman]

FWIW, there are times when repositories conflict with each other and you can't install some package because of that. I have found that by disabling the conflicting repository, either via editing the appropriate /etc/yum.repos.d/repository.repo file, or by using the --disablerepo=repository-id-or-glob option to yum, you can often install packages that otherwise won't.

[sukarn001]

Hi,


Thank you, i don't think it was repo case, however i downloaded kaffeine and now its working good,

Once again thank you a lot for suggestion.

[Rubberman]

Hi,


Thank you, i don't think it was repo case, however i downloaded kaffeine and now its working good,

Once again thank you a lot for suggestion.

Glad to help! Once upon a time (and occasionally still), I was in your position. Just pay it back by helping others up the "Linux ramp"!