<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.12.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 22:39 +0000, Jason Liquorish wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Farran Lee wrote: > hi all > just upgraded, now basic video formats like .avi won't play :( help > please :) > thanks > > =================================== > Farran Lee > I'm only 16 :P > Hi Farran, Installing the 'ubuntu-restricted-extras' package should fix video playback problems for proprietary formats. If you also want to play restricted formats like .wmv then you can enable the medibuntu repository and install the 'w32codecs' package. Instructions to add the medibuntu repository can be found at <A HREF="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu#Adding%20the%20Repositories">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu#Adding%20the%20Repositories</A> Hope that helps you out. -- Jason Liquorish <<A HREF="mailto:jason@dropshock.com">jason@dropshock.com</A>> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> thanks... I had actually already done that in the last release - there just seemed to be something weird going on. Several things had changed and weren't right, but today it's all fine... strange! Thanks anyway <IMG SRC="cid:1225749976.3245.4.camel@localhost" ALIGN="middle" ALT=":D" BORDER="0"> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> =============================== Farran Lee I'm only 16 <IMG SRC="cid:1225749976.3245.5.camel@localhost" ALIGN="bottom" ALT=":-P" BORDER="0"> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>