can any one help me with my problem coz any time i want to run a video file ( mpg,mpeg , mov .....) a message appers and tell me that i dont have the blugins to run such file !!!!

so what can i do to fix this prob and i'm a bigginer in linux so if ther is a simple way to do it ill be thankfull

Hi,

Could you please fill in the 'Distribution: ' box in your profile to help us determine how to help you?

You will need a package called 'w32codecs', which you will most probably be able to get from your distro's extra repositories via the package manager. Also download a video player (like MPlayer, Xine, VNC, Totem etc) to play the files - although I assume you already have one.

If w32codecs isn't in your distro's repositories, download the package called 'essential codecs' from here. Let me know if you need to use this method, as I'll explain what you need to do with the file..

Cheers,

-jk