Few video producers ever would have guessed that the term codec would become a household term, but with so many codecs on the market, average computer users have little choice but to be painfully ...

Which video player/codec pack do you recommend? I just grabbed VLC and Mplayer, and VLC worked better, while Mplayer crashed on some divX. How does one relate windoze codec packs to codecs in Linux?

As my colleague Sam Varghese has written, after nearly two weeks of flawless operation, my first Ubuntu Linux installation unexpectedly became unstable, crashed and was unable to be booted. Puzzled ...