vlc can't play XviD avi files

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

When I play whatever XviD avi files with vlc, I get:

 [00000542] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc 
`XVID'.
 VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.

I tried all the following 3 versions of vlc, 0.8.6.e-2.3+lenny1, 
0.8.6.h-1, and 0.8.6.h-4, but the symptom is the same as above.

$ apt-cache policy vlc
vlc:
  Installed: 0.8.6.h-4
  Candidate: 0.8.6.h-4
  Version table:
 *** 0.8.6.h-4 0
         50 http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca unstable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.8.6.h-1 0
        300 http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca lenny/main Packages
     0.8.6.e-2.3+lenny1 0
        300 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages

Does it happens to you as well? From the following url,
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=35843
it seems to be a build problem...

Please help. Thanks.

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