linux fresher...

[EmsieG]

hey there
im totaly new to linux and have got a few movies i want to watch on my eee pc whilst im travelling. all my movie files are avi, some have divx codec, but only the sound wil play through my smplayer - how do i get the movies to work?? can anyone hep me? ive tried to download divx but this doesnt seem to work, wil i need to convert my files to mpeg or is there another way to get the films to run on the current system???

Please if anyone can help id really appreciate it as this is getting very frustrating xxxx

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Install VLC Player through Package Manager. It supports most of media formats.

[jmadero]

You can also install ubuntu-restricted-extras if you are using Ubuntu but vlc is the best video player that I've used to date

if you want ubuntu-restricted-extras

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

that will install most of the codecs that you'll use, including flash

[reed9]

You can also install ubuntu-restricted-extras if you are using Ubuntu but vlc is the best video player that I've used to date

if you want ubuntu-restricted-extras

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

that will install most of the codecs that you'll use, including flash

The eee pc uses Xandros, not Ubuntu, by default... It's based on Debian, so enabling the debian media repositories could be useful to get some non-free multimedia packages. Xandros Wiki / Supported And Unsupported Source Repositories for Xandros