Media Player?

[Wirekittin the Nefarious]

I'm very new to Linux and everything, so please bear with me.

I'm running SimplyMepis, and I am having some trouble with playing avi files.
I know at least it is because it is windows media.

What I suppose I am asking is...
What is a good media player I can use that will support most of the media file formats?

Pleasethanks.

[Dapper Dan]

I always use Mplayer... just does the job for me though there are others like Xine. But if you want it:

sudo apt-get update

Then:

sudo apt-get install mplayer

To get the codecs:

sudo apt-get install w32codecs

...but you might have to add some repos to your sources to get the codecs. I'm not sure though since I usually just download and install them from the mplayer site.