Couldn't load driver for avivideo

Ove Kaaven ovehk at ping.uio.no
Sun Jun 3 22:13:29 CDT 2001


On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Simon Blandford wrote:

> I have an old win16 application which needs to play AVI files but I get errors like "couldn't load driver for avivideo". I looked at the howto at
> http://www.la-sorciere.de/Wine-HOWTO/ch-multimedia.html and did the following...
> 1) Added the lines
> 
> [option]
> mci=CDAUDIO:SEQUENCER:WAVEAUDIO:AVIVIDEO:MPEGVIDEO
> 
> at the end of wine.conf,

Do you mean ~/.wine/config? Or are you using a really old wine version? If
not, that format is wrong... .wine/config requires quoting and such:

[options]
"mci" = "..."

(it should also be options, not option)





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