On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:10 PM, $reehari <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Dnyanraj Mali <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> hi, >> >> I downloaded a movie tried to play it but it says i need to use Windows >> media player. >> >> i am using ubuntu 9.04, movie file is .avi >> >> i tried to upgrade vlc but its fully upgraded. >> >> can anybody suggest me some solution? >> >> One more question, if i upgrade to ubuntu 9.10 online, then i will need >> more disc space for root partition. is there any solution to reduce disk >> space by deleting some unwanted files? >> >> last time i upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04 & some extra space was needed. >> > > vlc player must play avi files without any additional plugins .
Wrong. AVI is just a container format. It doesn't specify the video codec. An avi file can have video content encoded in divx, xvid, h.264 and many more formats. > but if it > doesn't play u can install gstreamer-ffmpeg package and play avi and many > more proprietery formats in totem movie player . u may also install smplayer If the file indeed contains WMV video content then you can not play that reliably even in totem with help of gstreamer-ffmpeg nor in smplayer. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
