Mark, there&#39;s no need to buy a new car just because your current one has a puncture (thanks, Rad)  :-) .  Follow the instructions below;<br><br><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpUbuntu">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpUbuntu</a><br>
<br>You&#39;re interested in the Multimedia Codecs.  The command in the terminal is ;<br>sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras<br><br>Or try VLC;<br>sudo apt-get install vlc<br><br>Asante<br>Erick<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Mark Mwangi <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mwangy@gmail.com">mwangy@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi skunks,<br><br>Ave just installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my system but am kind of dissapointed at its support for different media formats. . . <br>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?<br clear="all">
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<br>-- <br>Regards,<br><br>Mark Mwangi<br><br><a href="http://mwangy.wordpress.com" target="_blank">http://mwangy.wordpress.com</a><br> sent Using Windows 7 Beta<br><br><br>
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