Play DIVX videos with the VLC media player

Ok point taken but this thread is still ridiculous.

 

Slight change of direction here! I have VLC 0.8.6 installed and running with no problems thanks to the many posters :lol: But now I'm trying to update to VLC 0.9.4. I downloaded the rpms from VLC direct but haven't been able to solve all the dependencies ( :x ) and am now going round in a dependency loop. Any help would be great. cheers.

 

french method by b@ndix to install vlc 0.9...

http://www.aspire-one.net/forum/viewtop ... 4377#p4377

 

Much obliged, worked like a charm Sorry i couldn't find it

 

sry that i have to interrupt all the successes here with my vlc problem. I did not download the vlc player via the links metnioned above but downloaded it from acer's website. they made the installation quite simple. however, the player they distribute seems to be very simple, too.

i could not play ANY .avi files or anything similar. i then tried the links above to install vlc again...however my system then told me that the same version does already exist.

i then tried to delete vlc by looking at the live-update history (as explained by acer)...problem here: internal error occurred and the window closed. it does that from now on as it seems...

can anyone please help me? i simply want to watch some avi files...i would even be happy if anyone could tell me where to get the right codec for vlc and how to install it...

thanks very much guys!!!

(yes i already posted the exact same text in a different forum...but i didnt get a reply there)

 

it says transfer failed

 

i've tried all this but firefox 3 still wants the mplayer plugin!? Please help!

 

Hmm ... what's wrong?

I did:
su -

then
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
output was:

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -ivh [url]http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm[/url]
Retrieving [url]http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm[/url]
warning: /var/tmp/rpm-xfer.6ITDi4: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID a109b1ec
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:livna-release          ########################################### [100%]

then after
yum install vlc
got this:

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# yum install vlc
fedora                    100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00     
livna                     100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00     
primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 4.3 kB    00:00     
updates                   100% |=========================| 2.6 kB    00:00     
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package vlc available.
Nothing to do

Aparently VLC didnt install ... what did I do wrong?

 

The contents of Livna have moved to RPM Fusion. If you issue*

Code:

sudo yum install rpmfusion-free-release rpmfusion-nonfree-release

and then try to install VLC again it should work.

Also read:
Byebye Livna, hello Fusion !
Installing VLC & Mplayer

And a mod should really put this info in the first post


* This command only works for people that already added the Livna repositories. Look in the byebye Livna link to see what to type if you did not.

 

I am completely new to Linus, and have tried following the instructions on page one of this thread to no avail. I'm sure I'm missing a step. Is there an 'idiot-proof' step-by-step guide that can be *viewed* - either using screenshots or You Tube.

I've tried looking on you Tube, but with no luck. Like everyone else, all I want to do is view a few videos - so the simpler, the better!

Thanks.

PS Followed GrimReaper's instructions on another thread, and it now works - fingers crossed. Thanks.

 

hi
i install vlc but i have no sound when playing movies..volume and speakers ar eok..
i read about a version 0.9.2 of vlc but i dont find it on rpm repository..how i can do ?

 

You're not kidding. Total linux noob here and it's just taken me more than an hour to find this little gem that allows me to finally install VLC :?

 

Alright guys and girls, ive been through all the pages in this post but cant find my problem specified. Ive installed VLC player on my acer aspire 1 but when trying to play my video files i only get sound and no video. Im new to Linux and any (easily worded) solutions or tips would be greatly appreciated. Cheers

 

To quote:

"In case you only get audio, but no video when playing a movie file, try disabling the compositing feature."

 

Thanks for the prompt reply grim, could you go into more detail with your post though please. I dont know what or how that is done? is that something i do within VLC? Apologies for this, just really wanna get my videos working

 

up

 

Yeah my problem is not that i have no sound, i get sound but no video.

 

HI
Im new to linux and the A1. Im having trouble installing vlc. Its says its already installed and says nothing to do. Below is a copy of the terminal screen. I hope you experts can understand it. In package manager i can find livna-vlc on a sear
ch but i dont know how to get it installed.

[root@localhost user]# rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
Retrieving http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
warning: /var/tmp/rpm-xfer.k0PQ9f: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID a109b1ec
Preparing... (1########################################### [100%]
package livna-release-8-1 is already installed
[root@localhost user]# yum install vlc
livna 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 2.6 kB 00:00
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package vlc available.
Nothing to do
[root@localhost user]# yum install python-vlc mozilla-vlc
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package python-vlc available.
No package mozilla-vlc available.
Nothing to do

Thanks for your help

 

Read a few posts up, specifically the thing about Livna being replaced by rpm fusion.

 

Thanks Grim Squeaker, vlc works great and was easy to install. I have been trying for a couple of weeks but i had missed that post. Thanks again.

While i have your attention, is there any way i can use VLC to play YouTube flash video? I watch a lot of British TV on youtube but my A1 Linpus cant play full screen youtube. The video freezes and stutters only on youtube and only on full screen. I havent been able to find a fix but somebody has said to use VLC, But how?

Cheers
kev