There is always vlc for movie files, it has played everything i have thown at it Jason Reynolds wrote: >I have had linux running on my laptop for a few months now. I have has Suse >9.1 Professional, Mandrake 10.0 and now Gentoo. It seems that I always get >myself into situations where I need to use a windows box to do something. An >example is playing movie files that just don't seem to play, or visiting >websites with a funny commercial on them. It always seems to be an effort. >There are a few other people I know that are running Linux, and everyone had >some minor problem playing a file. > >Am I the only one that has this problem? I really, really want to kiss Windows >goodbye as much as I can, but it's hard when I keep having to use it as a >crutch. It's also difficult to defent the "I don't use linux, because I don't >want to use a hobby os" when I'm doing all this work to get things that just >work in windows to function. > >Any tips or tricks or websites I may be missing. I just want Gentoo and KDE to >do everything my heart desires. I really love using Linux and don't want to >have to give it up again so I can be really productive again. > >Jason Reynolds > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org >Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list