this is awesome.

you should be nicer to the thread starter
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i had problems too... someone tell him he can just take his windows *dll files and put them in /usr/lib/win32

i have a list
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you guys are just mean :P

in mandrake all you need to do is type in

urpmi xine
or
urpmi mplayer
in konsole

now tell me, is typing in 2 words or using a windows .exe easier?
you need to set up urpmi by doing going here: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ again VERY simple to set it up

if you dont know what a console is, click on kmenu, system, terminals, konsole (assuming ur using kde, which u prbbly are as a newbie) that is a console, similar to dos prompt in windows

now check out this link for installing programs in linux:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=203939

if you need to install something, and dont wanna use urpmi or compile, you need the rpm package
to find an rpm for mplayer, assuming you are using mandrake
search "mplayer rpm mandrake" in google
and look for either rpmfind.net or rpm.pbone.net both these sites have the rpm packages

eh, i had a big rant here, but decided to delete it, as soylentgreen said, ill "be nicer to the thread starter."

it's all about whilling to learn
 

I'm using kalango linux at home, a derivative of knoppix, it has all that I want...but when I tried to watch a divx movie with mplayer it didn't show the subtitles, no matter what I changed in player settings!
but that doesn't make me feel sad or frustrated because, as in Windows, yeah, that's right, it's all a matter of having the right codecs... so now I'm searching for the right ones!
you see, I use Windows ever since (I started my learning process in computers with DOS, then Windows 3.1 and then all the rest) and for me one OS is not better than the other (at least at this time!).
I just see these as alternatives to each other and now I'm learning how to use linux OS the same way I had to learn how to use Windows

so, let's look for the solutions instead of just giving up

Thanks a lot everyone!

I was very miserable.
I am working hard now to get this up and running.

thanks

In case it hasn't become clear up to now: Go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/. Reading the installation manual will give you an idea of what to do to install various video codecs (divx, wmv, avi). This will largely work with xine also, which comes with SuSE, but you'd do yourself a favour if you used SuSE 9.2 instead of 8.1, you'll have kaffeine then which is like Windows Media Player, but better of course :-). Mplayer is worth a try too, but you may have to compile it and may run into problems with the gui (although I haven't tried this since SuSE 9.0, being content with the console interface). The gui issues have been discussed here at lenght, so the search enginge will help you out in case.

To play encrypted DVD you'll have to install libdecss. Just ask google of the whereabouts.

Note: Under many jurisdictions, using libdecss is illegal, as there comes no license from the proprietors with it.

Try Debian Sarge. Installer is a bit tough -- but by no means unfriendly.

Once you get it up and running, downloading and installing software is a breeze. So much that you'll hate Windows after that.

Just add Debian repositories after running apt-setup and you're done. For a GUI package manager, run synaptic and see for yourself. Dependencies are automatically resolved. Just right click on any package you want and choose to install it. That's it! You're done. Click on apply changes and download and install them automatically.

Installing a package is just a mouse-click away. You can also search for packages on the repository using the search feature either by package name and/or description.

Just give it a try. You'll be convinced.

In the list of packages you should install it should be smbfs instead of smbsf. Thanks for the guide I'm trying those mplayer packages now to see if it'll fix some problems I have with encoded (says divx but apparently it's not movies)

Well, if you are really interested than you can take the time to learn it. I can do all of the things on linux that I ever did on Windows, and 10 times better. Besides, you don't have to compile anything, just find a RPM repository, like FreshRPMs.net, ad it to yum.conf, and it will do all of the work for you.