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Acer A150ab Netbook cant watch videos

Hi Please can you help just got the above netbook it has Linux not windows, it wont play videos, have put one on a memory stick but cannot get it to work have also tried playing a divx file but this wont work either - please can anyone help

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  • Conor_3
    Conor_3 Posts: 6,944 Forumite
    You need to install the codecs. How you do it depends on what linux distro is being used but somewhere there should be a software manager. The Acer uses a customised version of Linpus Linux and I have no experience with that so not sure whether it uses Synaptic or not.
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