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Favourite .AVI player in Ubuntu?

I'm using MPlayer Movie Player right now, and it's sucking ass for me. It's probably my fault, but it's choppy when in anything but "normal" so fullscreen is out of the question. Also, everything I'm browsing the internet and scroll, refresh, change tabs, whatever, it skips.

Am I missing a codec?
 
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I don't normally have problems with mplayer. vlc should work too.

I get a distorted screen with VLC. I guess I could play with the configuration; at least it doesn't chop.

Thanks!

EDIT: Flawless! :heart:
 
For Mplayer.. It's worth it to get it work IMO. I use totem alot, but it's nice to have.

Try running it from the command line. Maybe try a different video 'driver' for it.

Go
mplayer -vo help

To see what video output options are aviable. aa or caca is interesting from the virtual console. I get good luck with xv or sdl drivers.

The controls make sense.. f for full screen, left arrow, right arrow, p or spacebar for pause. That sort of thing.
 
mplayer -vo aa filename.avi

Try aa first, the caca is much more cpu intensive if your running it from a xterm.
 
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