Love and Hate Relationship with Windows

[MirJafar Ali]

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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