John L Meyer wrote:

In short, what is the easiest way to accomplish this task?

kaffeine xine mplayer Kaffeine is a KDE front end of the xine engine. Get the codecs from packman. Mplayer is the most powerful, but for ordinary avi-viewing the other two are also good enough. Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com