Love and Hate Relationship with Windows

[NoOp]

On 03/07/2010 02:36 PM, 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.

Perhaps these will help:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultimediaApplications
https://help.ubuntu.com/community
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CommonQuestions
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Applications