don't get me wrong, I'm a linux devotee but I'd wager a dollar or two
that it's something simple you haven't done in windose to get it running
in there. What codecs do you have installed. What codec was the avi
encoded with? What codec does your media player default to when you try
and view (I had some probs with viewing xvids with bsplayer, a fine
player if ever there was one, and all that needed to be changed was the
default decoding codec)? M$ might be fascist pigs but the not-so-legit
dvd-ripping community is HEAPS bigger in 'dose than in Linux, and if you
can watch something in linux then sure as ... you can watch it in 'dose.
Anton
ps. I wouldn't bother with mplayer in 'dose, bsplayer is fairly
magnificent, unless you just can't stand guis or non-open source
apps...(not sure that it's not anyway...)
The other alternative is to install an appropriate media player on the 'doze
partition. MPlayer claims to installable using cygwin.