Can not play avi, mkv or any video files in Mint 13

[pacman257]

I just upgraded to Mint 13 Mate from Mint 11 Gnome with a clean install and when I try to play an avi file, I get sound but no video. Online videos play just fine and it doesn't matter what player I use. My primary choice is VLC. I have all the extra codecs installed but still no luck. Any help would be appreciated.

Update: I booted up with a live cd version of Moon OS ver. 4 last night on a whim and had no problems watching avi files.

[pacman257]

Yesterday I tried using a live cd of Mint 12 and Mint 11. I could play videos on 11 but nothing on 12 or 13. My solution was obvious. I uninstalled 13 and went back to 11. Life is good again. I guess the Mate desktop just doesn't work properly on this system.

[squeezy]

Is your version of Mint 13 one that doesn't include the multimedia codecs by default?

[pacman257]

No, it's the full DVD, I even went so far as to reinstall the extra codes no avail.

[pacman257]

On a whim this morning, I downloaded Mint 13 XFCE to see if that would solve the problem. No dice. What happened to all the versions after 11 that would cause this? Could it simply be a hardware compatibility issue?

[pacman257]

Ok, still playing around with this using different versions and found out that Pinguy 10.10 plays all my videos. Pinguy 12.04 does not. Is it something in an updated version of the kernel?

[mank_in]

Maybe related with Graphic card /audio :

you can post an output of :

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inxi -F

[pacman257]

System: Host paul-Dimension-2400 Kernel 2.6.38-8-generic i686 (32 bit) Distro Linux Mint 11 Katya
CPU: Single core Intel Pentium 4 (-UP-) cache 512 KB flags (sse sse2) bmips 5049.76 clocked at 2524.883 MHz
Graphics: Card Intel 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device X.Org 1.10.1 Res: 1024x768@0.0hz
GLX Renderer Software Rasterizer GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.10.2 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio: Card Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller driver Intel ICH at ports ee00 edc0 BusID: 00:1f.5
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.23
Network:
Disks: HDD Total Size: 1154.0GB (45.5% used) 1: /dev/sda WDC_WD1600JB 33.8GB
2: /dev/sdb WDC_WD1200JB 120.0GB 3: USB /dev/sdc WD10EACS 1000.2GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 30G used: 8.8G (31%) fs: ext4 ID:swap-1 size: 1.33GB used: 0.15GB (12%) fs: swap
Info: Processes 146 Uptime 3 days Memory 630.8/1245.4MB Runlevel 2 Client Shell inxi 1.4.23

[mank_in]

I don't know what is wrong.
I tested i845G with LM12 and didn't have problem play any video files.
In LM 12 GLX renderer for intel 845 is Mesa DRI
Maybe you can try don't use Hardware acceleration in media player.
VLC >tool>preferences>video , turn off accelerated video output (overlay)