Pra fazer a última versão do Ubuntu (atualmente o 9.4 jaunty), tocar vídeos no formato avi e mesmo tocar discos DVD s.
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Opened Vlc from applications, went to tools:preferenc es:video and set the output to x11. working now also set gstreamer to "no Xv" from terminal (gstreamer- properties)
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