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When i playing avi no picture.


[root@x66x17x85 jarek]# vlc -vvv
VLC media player 0.8.6 Janus
starting VLC root wrapper... using UID 0 (root)
***************************************
* Running VLC as root is discouraged. *
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It is potentially dangerous, and might not even work properly.
[00000001] main private debug: checking builtin modules
[00000001] main private debug: checking plugin modules
[00000001] main private debug: loading plugins cache file /root/.vlc/cache/plugi
ns-04041e.dat
[00000001] main private warning: could not open plugins cache file /root/.vlc/ca
che/plugins-04041e.dat for reading
[00000001] main private debug: recursively browsing `modules'
[00000001] main private debug: recursively browsing `/usr/lib/vlc'
[00000001] main private warning: cannot load module `/usr/lib/vlc/codec/libquick
time_plugin.so' (/usr/lib/vlc/codec/libquicktime_plugin.so: undefined symbol: Ne
wHandleClear)
[00000001] main private warning: cannot load module `/usr/lib/vlc/codec/libffmpe
g_plugin.so' (/usr/lib/libavformat.so.51: undefined symbol: av_opt_set_defaults)
[00000001] main private warning: cannot load module `/usr/lib/vlc/stream_out/lib
stream_out_switcher_plugin.so' (/usr/lib/libavformat.so.51: undefined symbol: av
_opt_set_defaults)
[00000001] main private debug: recursively browsing `plugins'
[00000001] main private debug: module bank initialized, found 225 modules
[00000001] main private debug: opening config file /root/.vlc/vlcrc
[00000001] main private warning: config file /root/.vlc/vlcrc does not exist yet
[00000001] main private debug: CPU has capabilities 486 586 MMX 3DNow! MMXEXT SS E SSE2 FPU
[00000001] main private debug: looking for memcpy module: 4 candidates
[00000001] main private debug: using memcpy module "memcpymmxext"
[00000281] main playlist debug: waiting for thread completion
[00000281] main playlist debug: thread 3030313888 (playlist) created at priority 0 (playlist/playlist.c:184)
[00000282] main private debug: waiting for thread completion
[00000282] main private debug: thread 3021921184 (preparser) created at priority 0 (playlist/playlist.c:210)
[00000283] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 1 candidate
[00000283] main interface debug: using interface module "hotkeys"
[00000283] main interface debug: thread 3013528480 (interface) created at priori ty 0 (interface/interface.c:231)
[00000284] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 1 candidate
[00000284] main interface debug: using interface module "screensaver"
[00000284] main interface debug: thread 3005135776 (interface) created at priori ty 0 (interface/interface.c:231)
[00000285] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 5 candidates
[00000285] main interface debug: using interface module "wxwidgets"
[00000285] main interface debug: thread 2996743072 (manager) created at priority 0 (interface/interface.c:216)

Cokecs are installed in system.
Please help me.

[root@x66x17x85 ffmpeg-0.4.9-pre1]# ls
berrno.h COPYING ffmpeg.c libavcodec/ README
Changelog CREDITS ffplay.c libavformat/ tests/
cmdutils.c cygwin_inttypes.h ffserver.c Makefile vhook/
cmdutils.h doc/ ffserver.h output_example.c xvmc_render.h
configure* ffinstall.nsi INSTALL qt-faststart.c
[root@x66x17x85 ffmpeg-0.4.9-pre1]# ./configure
Install prefix /usr/local
Source path /home/jarek/Pobieranie/ffmpeg-0.4.9-pre1
C compiler gcc
make make
CPU x86 (generic)
Big Endian no
inttypes.h yes
broken inttypes.h no
MMX enabled yes
Vector Builtins yes
gprof enabled no
zlib enabled no
mp3lame enabled no
vorbis enabled no
faad enabled no
faadbin enabled no
faac enabled no
a52 support no
a52 dlopened no
pp support no
debug symbols yes
optimize yes
shared pp no
Video hooking yes
SDL support no
risky / patent encumbered codecs yes
Imlib2 support no
freetype support no
Sun medialib support no
pthreads support no
AMR-NB float support no
AMR-NB fixed support no
AMR-WB float support no
License: LGPL
Creating config.mak and config.h
[root@x66x17x85 ffmpeg-0.4.9-pre1]# make
make -C libavcodec all
make[1]: Wejście do katalogu `/home/jarek/Pobieranie/ffmpeg-0.4.9-pre1/libavcode c'
gcc -O3 -g -Wall -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -I.. -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SO URCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -c -o common.o common.c
In file included from avcodec.h:14,
from common.c:28:
common.h:67: error: array type has incomplete element type
common.h:71: error: array type has incomplete element type
make[1]: *** [common.o] Błąd 1
make[1]: Opuszczenie katalogu `/home/jarek/Pobieranie/ffmpeg-0.4.9-pre1/libavcod ec'
make: *** [lib] Błąd 2
[root@x66x17x85 ffmpeg-0.4.9-pre1]# make install
make -C libavcodec all
make[1]: Wejście do katalogu `/home/jarek/Pobieranie/ffmpeg-0.4.9-pre1/libavcodec'
gcc -O3 -g -Wall -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -I.. -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -c -o common.o common.c
In file included from avcodec.h:14,
from common.c:28:
common.h:67: error: array type has incomplete element type
common.h:71: error: array type has incomplete element type

what is this?

First, you are missing some required ffmpeg components (most particularly post-processing --enable-gpl --enable-pp). Second, it looks like your compiler is buggy or your ffmpeg version is crappy.