problems watching videos in xubuntu 13.04

[zuzubunny]

My husband set up xubuntu for me several years ago, and I have never been able to view my videos. Now we want to switch to a different Linux system. Any recommendations for someone who wants to edit home movies, photographs and some writing. Also want to be able to download music off of cds in a form that will work on cd players (not wave format). Any suggestions?

[DaveLembke]

Curious as to what you are running for hardware specs?

Depending on what you have for hardware there may be limitations to distros etc.


Most people I know using xubuntu are running it because they are running older Pentium III generation and early Pentium 4 generation systems that have memory limitations to max supported RAM. And xubuntu is a lighter weight distro than that of the ubuntu os to work better with systems with lesser RAM and CPU processing power.