Hi, Check whether your file is opening on VLC player, what is the extension of file you are trying to open?
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html Regards Gejo On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:38 PM, gingerjoos <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:55 PM, habeeb z <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I learned a lesson from this. I cannot make people long-term linux > > users just showing them linux gui with compiz fusion and all, i have > > to transfer the knowledge and give support. I always feel sorry coz i > > could not do that. > > > > My point is, if we are committed to spread Linux and philosophy of > > Free Software and want to encourage people to use Linux, we have to be > > more supportive when people with limited or no knowledge of Linux come > > up with questions. this support is to be given in the area where they > > are interested. if a new user asks me "my linux box plays videos with > > low quality. then what is the advantage of using linux over windows?" > > i should not answer him "but your license allows you to modify and > > redistribute your linux" or something in that level. > > > > sorry for this long mail and please correct me if i am at the wrong end. > > -- > > habib > > well said. By discouraging "noobz" we're being selfish, aren't we? :) > Don't we want to share this gift with everyone? Isn't that one of the > fundamental ideas of free software? If we want to share properly, we > should stop being rude towards "noobz". I doubt if anyone here was > born with the entire Linux kernel code imprinted in his/her brain. > Everyone was a newbie once. > > Anirudh > > -- > Orbis Non Sufficit > > _______________________________________________ > Mailinglist mailing list > [email protected] > http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > -- Best Regards Gejo Paul
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