Chris G wote:
I seem to have broken something on my system, I'm sure AVI files *used* to play OK.
When I try opening them with either mplayer or with totem they just show me the first frame and that's it. [...]
Any ideas what might be wrong anyone?
"An AVI file may carry audio/visual data inside the chunks in virtually any compression scheme, including Full Frame (Uncompressed), Intel Real Time (Indeo), Cinepak, Motion JPEG, Editable MPEG, VDOWave, ClearVideo / RealVideo, QPEG, and MPEG-4 Video." says http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Video_Interleave
So it depends whether you have the right codecs for those AVI files. Maybe you uninstalled some codecs somehow? Without more info, I don't think anyone else will be able to tell. Maybe useful: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
Hope that helps,