Media Codecs?

I just purchased my Aspire one yesterday, and I am most impressed with it, however, I am unable to play all of my AVI, XVID and DIVX video files as the application says that it does not have the correct codecs. I am a complete Linux/Linpus newbie and this is the first time I have ever used this OS, so, I am a bit confused about the terminology "repos", "yum", "rpm" etc :?:
I have however, done the right click menu hack.

Please could someone enlighten me as to how I can install the relevant codecs to make my videos work?

 

same problem here. better go on windows, where I can do almost everything?? :roll:

 

I am beginning to think the same thing....107 views so far and only one response. The whole linpus environment is completely alien to me and installing apps is a pain

 

I even used the admin function "add software" and tried to install some codecs, but the routines stopped because they could't resolve all dependencies...
So i think I'm not going to be stupid and maintain two different platforms in my home office

 

Update mplayer as shown here:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=383&p=10080&hilit=update+mplayer#p10080

or

Install VLC
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=167&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=vlc#p1073

 

first method ended with errors, second was good. Thanks!
if i would have knows how to copy text from the terminal I would have sent the errors :roll:

 

As Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V have a special meaning under terminal, you have to use Ctrl-Shift-C and Ctrl-Shift-V to copy/paste text from or into terminal.