cant play videos on new gentoo install

[jailbirdsetfree]

i have a ton of avi's on an old windows partition and have emerged media players examples--are binkplayer and kmplayer i am using konquorer and am new to the linux world i have to keep fighting myself from going back to windows because i cant make anything work

[Juan Pablo]

First, I don't know how you figured how to install Gentoo being a Linux newbie, how?

Install an easier distro. With Gentoo you will have to deal with tons of options.
Which distro?

[jailbirdsetfree]

a friend installed it 4 me and when i try to play and avi it shows an error at the bottom says player gst not running

[eraker]

You might consider switching to a distro that will have a much smaller learning curve. You will eventually be pretty adept if you learn to get stuff working with gentoo, but you will probably be very frustrated in the process. Since your friend installed it, he knows what's been configured and compiled and in what order, and he might have an idea how to get media functionality. For instance, sometimes you have to recompile stuff after installing other stuff (depending on Use flags, etc.). One thing to try, run the command from a terminal "mplayer" or "kmplayer", and try to read the errors that show up.

Again, you might consider going with an easier to configure distro.

[jailbirdsetfree]

is there a program to resize my linux partition so that i dont have to delete this distro also what do you suggest as far as an easyer distro

[Juan Pablo]

Yes, use GParted. You can use a live cd http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php