Hi,

On Tuesday 10 June 2003 23:46, Gurpal S. Bhachu wrote:
> (sorry if this mail is long)

Don't mind ;-)

> I am using avfile/avicap versions:
>
> libavifile0.7-0.7.29-1mdk
> gstreamer-avi-0.6.0-3mdk
> avifile-player-0.7.29-1mdk
> avifile-samples-0.7.29-1mdk
>
> under Linux Mandrake 9.1

Try the packages from http://plf.zarb.org , they're for Mandrake

These packages worked very fine for me - although I'm using Suse :-)

> I can watch TV using avicap no problem. I guess it uses some kind of xawtv
> setting (?).

Avicap uses the xawtv channel settings.

> I managed to record using MJPEG codec and audio but the file was very
> large. My problem now is that it can't pick up other codecs such as DivX
> etc. I have put binariesxxxx.zip in /usr/lib/win32, but avicap only shows

For Divx/Xvid, you don't need these windows binaries.

DivX and Xvid are linux-native.

> about 5 defaut codecs (yu12, yu2, OS MJPG, RGB, etc). Do you think this is
> because Mandrake compiled it not to look at /usr/lib/win32 for more codecs?

Probably they're not compiled for use with xvid/divx?

Try the link above, they're 'experts' for multimedia packages

> My directory listing of /usr/lib/avifile0.7/ is:

Divx and xvid plugins are missing there - get other packages.

> I never ran kv4lsetup because I can watch TV in every other program without
> any problem such as xawtv. Why do I need to run this? Other AVI files play

You need kv4lsetup to correctly setup the grabber device.

If you installed avifile from rpms, then you're using it - avicap calls that 
when it starts up.


Tell me if it worked with the other rpm packages



Alex

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