I'm a relative newbie at using Linux for entertainment. To someome starting from scratch, Linux applications are NOT "user friendly". I __am__ able to use 'totem' to watch DVDs on SuSE 10 (both sound and video play as they should). But I *cannot* use 'xine' - it says it does not have enough (xine-specific) plugins. [Also, I have no memory of WHAT the various 'xine' buttons are used for.] My complaint -- I don't know if I have the PATIENCE to search for xine documentation, then make sense of it. [With age I'm starting to forget things which once were easier to remember - why now clutter up my memory with the details of infrequently-used applications? ] To tell me I lack (unknown to me) xine plugins is UNINFORMATIVE at best. Tell me __which__ plugins I need for a particular DVD, and __where__ to get them. It WOULD be friendlier to NOT have to search online (when *all* I'm interested in is __watching__ a DVD)! mikus