can play quicktime and windows media player videos

[James Takac]

On Friday 05 October 2007 08:09:18 Alan Alba wrote:
> Hi im new to Ubuntu and i would like to be able to watch videos on the
> internet from apple and Microsoft, i have been looking at various ways
> to do this but have not being successful in achieving to play this
> formats. pleas help.

Hi Alan

The easiest way (and I know there'll be those to warn against it) is to use 
automatix to setup the codecs

James