Or, you could try Mandriva Linux, I use is often at work and at home and it has all the codecs to play most common movie and music formats. You can get the 2008 PowerPack DVD at <a href="http://my.co.ke/pub/isos/">http://my.co.ke/pub/isos/</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Mark Blois <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:markdb@google.com">markdb@google.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 Mark,<div><br></div><div>You may also want to consider installing automatix on top of Ubuntu, a package which will let you install many other useful and popular tools/codecs afterwards.</div><div><br></div><div>Should be as simple as: sudo apt-get install automatix</div>

<div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div>Mark<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/7 Phares Kariuki <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:pkariuki@gmail.com" target="_blank">pkariuki@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><div><div></div>
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Linux Mint comes with all the Codecs. There is a codec pack you can install for linux though, probably simpler than downloading mint, reinstalling? Mint is based on Ubuntu. I have 6, Felicia, if you need a copy.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">

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On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Mark Mwangi <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mwangy@gmail.com" target="_blank">mwangy@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

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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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