Dave,

Again, thanks in advance for your help. I've been able to figure out a bunch of new things from your post.

Question -

what do you mean by this line...

' apt-get install mplayer-686 w32codecs '

and this line

Install mplayer--qt6dlls.tar.bz2, mplayer--qtextras.tar.bz2

Are these instructions to be typed into the shell? Sorry, I'm really new at Linux.