Love and Hate Relationship with Windows

[Scott Hayes]

I have used VLC for a long time and it works great. Often a movie would
not work correctly in one software but it would work perfectly with VLC.
Give it a try.

Scott

On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 16:36 -0600, MirJafar Ali wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am a great fan of Linux ( or Unix ) from the beginning and I use
> Windows very rarely, but it seems that
> love and hate relationships persists because many times, windows
> software runs quite smoothly and
> Linux don't and then I have to switch to Windows.
> 
> Yesterday I was trying to play DVD using mplayer which I presume is
> highly respectable piece of software
> but somehow I couldn't play some movies ( the great Casablanca for
> example ) with it and then I switch
> to Window on the same machine, and we enjoyed the great movie. With
> mplayer, we got too much noise,
> voice out of sync etc, blank screen quite often.
> 
> Can someone tell, if I need to do configure something which will give
> a good quality movie ( at least equal
> to MediaPlayer ) with the Ubuntu 9.04/9.10 ?
> 
> thanks.
> 
> Mir
> 
> 
> 




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