On Monday 18 December 2006 5:21 am, Courtney Thomas wrote: > Are there Linux substitutes and if yes, how compatible are they ? > You want mplayer. It plays most everything I have tried. http://www.mplayerhq.hu Some other good players are: xine and ogle for dvd's http://xinehq.de/ http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ Dan