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I've never told mplayer which codec to use it detects which one to use on my system
so im not sure whats gone wrong

i open up mplayer and say play this file... and it wont play them from Nemesis I dont care about ZGI I can watch them in any DVD player.

ill check on my nemesis cd i cant remeber as im more interested in zgi but get back to you on that

i checked on my nemesis cds and all the videos play using MPlayer (they are Truemotion v1 as well) but i still havent got round to encoding them into some other codec

have you installed all the MPlayer packages?
btw do you have he dvd or cd version

I have both versions but the videos are the same thing. How did you play them with MPlayer?

which mdk10 have you installed dvd or cd?

with mplayer i just set mplayer to appear on the open with menu when you right click on the file. then when i open the files using the open with menu mplayer always detects the codec to use. but you might not have installed all the codec packages or if you have the cd version not all the packages maybe available. try downloading them from the mplayer web site.

To play something with mplayer, it's just "mplayer " Really complicated.

that complicated as you are using the command line version try getting the gui version much easier

the DVD version of MDK? lol um no I have the 3disc download version I wouldnt pay for linux as its simply fun to play with. I will try mplayer tonight and see if it works, if it does... :-} will be sweet!

I was being sarcastic, the command-line version is simple. I can't get the GUI to work, and since what I have works and is easy to understand, I don't really care.

using the bash prompt is difficult?!?!? thats all I use when I use linux the GUI is too friggin slow lol.

i use gui and command line as some tasks are quicker using gui and others command line
but the gui shouldnt be slow anymore if you use kernel 2.6.3 and kde 3.2

Don't use KDE, major resource hog. Use a lightweight window-manager like fluxbox and do all your work in a terminal. Easy.

So can you get it to work from a terminal?

i use kde because i dont do anything in linux that need much resources and i prefer the interface and feel of it (ive tried most windows-managers and gui but i like kde the most)

an i havent tested opening the zork avi's using terminal yet but i wont be able to as i just deleted my linux installation

I found a program that allows you to watch all the Truemotion v1 videos from both ZGI and Nemesis for windows its called TMPlayer search for it on google you'll find it easily its all in japanese but is fairly easy to figure out how to use it doesnt allow decoding but then if you want that you need to ask DuckCo for their dcoder that needs a licience