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unable to play dosbox videos on linux (ubuntu), sound only

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First post, by TurboFreak

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Hi,
i recently installed DOSBox on Ubuntu (hardy) and captured some videos but i can't watch them, only the sound is playing.
(Same problem on my Desktop and Laptop PC)
Though, i was able to watch them on Windows, so they were captured correctly.
In the Windows version of DOSBox there's a Readme file to the ZMBV-Codec reading:

To play the recorded movie, you need a movie player which can handle the
ZMBV codec. MS Windows users can find this codec in the start menu entry of
DOSBox. Users of Linux and other OSes should look for a movie player that
uses the ffmpeg libary (you may need to update or ask your distribution to
upgrade).

So i looked for a player which supports ffmpeg.
On this page http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg (it's German) i found, that VLC does.
But trying to play the videos with VLC fails, too.

I also tried installing ffmpeg like described here: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/FFmpeg

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install libavformat-dev
sudo apt-get install libavcodec-dev

(Don't even know exactly which package i need. Tried these three.)

But the videos won't play.
Can anyone help me, please?

Reply 1 of 4, by MiniMax

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I believe you need at least version 0.9 of VLC for this to work. See this thread:

video playback absent, but sound okay

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Reply 2 of 4, by TurboFreak

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Thanks!
It worked for my Laptop.
From this page http://nightlies.videolan.org/ i added the line for Ubuntu Hardy i386 to my sources.list file.
And then issued these commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc

The video playback is now working there, if a bit buggy (VLC needs a few seconds till an image appears and from time to time it's quite distorded).

But i was not able to get a newer version of VLC for my desktop PC (Ubuntu Hardy, AMD64).
There were only repositories for Debian Sid AMD64 and Ubuntu Hardy I386.
I tried to add each of those at one time to the sources.list file and issued the commands but it kept saying, that the newest version is currently installed.

Is there any way to get some 0.9 version of VLC for Ubuntu Hardy AMD64?
And maybe some way to get rid of the buggyness?
Or is there another player that may work?

Reply 4 of 4, by TurboFreak

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OK, i learned that MPlayer can play the videos, too.
Problem solved.

Though, i noticed that the videos are not displayed correctly, not only in MPlayer and not only on Linux.
Made a new topic for this: captured videos displayed incorrectly

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