Playing AVI files in fake Windows

[nikolai.hlubek at mailbox.tu-dresden.de]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:18:45AM +0100, Blandford, Simon [BSS Audio UK] wrote:
> From: "Blandford, Simon [BSS Audio UK]" <Simon.Blandford at bss.co.uk>
> To: "'wine-users at winehq.com'" <wine-users at winehq.com>
> Subject: Playing AVI files in fake Windows
> 
> Reading the documentation I can see that MCI AVI dll is not implemented
> except as stubs. Is there any way to play AVI files without installing
> Windows, say by installing Media Player?
>  
> Regards,
> Simon B.

Ok. 
This may be the mailing list for wine but if you just want to watch avi-Clips
under Linux, you should try mplayer. 
http://thot.banki.hu/esp-team/MPlayer.html 
It works with all recent codecs, especially DivX. 
Regards, 
Nikolai.

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