Try an app called VLC. Its no an OS issue. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> Reply-to: Skunkworks forum <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> To: skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke Subject: [Skunkworks] Ubuntu 8.10 Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 13:51:53 +0100 Hi skunks, Ave just installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my system but am kind of dissapointed at its support for different media formats. . . Thought ad be able to play most if not all of the movies and music types that I have. . .had to download them. . . .anyone have an alternative linux based OS that I can try out. . . . Am trying to go opensource . .lakini needing to download all the codecs is a hustle. . . any help? -- Regards, Mark Mwangi http://mwangy.wordpress.com sent Using Windows 7 Beta _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks Other services @ http://my.co.ke