VLC: Unrecognized file format

When trying to play an avi file in VLC, I get an error saying "Unrecognized file format." I downloaded and wine'd GSpot, and it says that the file is encoded in dvsd format (DVC/DV Video). It also mentions that it's DV Type 1 AVI and it;s using OpenDML (AVI v2.0). I have everything that comes to mind installed as far as codecs go, but it still can't recognize it.
Any ideas?

Here's what I get
FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --prefix=/usr --enable-gpl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libogg --enable-libvorbis --enable-pp --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-liba52 --enable-xvid --enable-libdts --enable-x264 --enable-libtheora --disable-libamr-nb --enable-pp --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-x11grab
libavutil version: 49.4.0
libavcodec version: 51.40.4
libavformat version: 51.12.1
built on Jul 6 2007 19:12:00, gcc: 4.2.1 20070704 (prerelease)
Input #0, avi, from 'video.avi':
Duration: 00:03:39.9, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 30307 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: dvvideo, yuv411p, 720x480, 28771 kb/s, 29.97 fps(r)
Stream #0.1: Audio: pcm_s16le, 48000 Hz, stereo, 1536 kb/s
Must supply at least one output file

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