VLC (under linux) - sound but no video

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Hi all

This is the first time I am troubled by this issue…
I have installed Debian on my laptop and I am using Xfce. Until now I was using Xubuntu and never had this issue.

I installed VLC but when I try to play an AVI file, I get sound but no video. I tried the default output, X11, XVideo and open GL but to no avail. When I click on the Video menu and go to Video Track, I get two options ‘Disable’ and Track 1. ‘Disable’ is selected by default (WTF???) and when I select Track one, it simply goes back to Disabled.

MPlayer seems to play the files fine so I am really puzzled… I would use MPlayer but I really do prefer VLC…

Any help is much appreciated! :cool:

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Maybe VLC is missing the appropriate video codecs. You could try to install the open source Xvid codec, if the AVI file contains DivX or Xvid video…

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Hi

I had anything and everything from the repos which had Xvid and Divx installed but to no avail… As, per usual, I started getting wireless outages and the system started playing up, I gave up and solved the issue by re-installing Xubuntu. :doh:

All back to normal now… sweeeet… :cool: