I finally installed all the codecs for Ubuntu Linux. Now everything
plays on anything. It was easy enough, just a matter of getting the
information. First I had to edit the sources.list file under sudo. Then
remove the quotes in the file to allow ubuntu update to browse all
available applications, software and drivers. Then I had to type:

"sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-gl
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse
libxine-extracodecs w32codecs"

This then proceeded to download and install the codecs I needed.

OK Next it's installing some decent CD/DVD burning software.

I'm slowly but surely becoming a full time Linux user. Wohay so long
and thanks for all the fish Mr Gates. :-)

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