I would like to be able to play some .avi and some .rm (or .ram) files. When I open the file with the command 'gmplayer xxxx.avi' then the sound is totally static. I know that this indicates a codec ...

I was trying to play the new (KICK ASS!!) Matrix trailer to play in mplayer and I get audio but no sound. It says it can't use the codec. When I try to compile and manually enable it, it won't finish ...