ok first up dont tell me to use the search, i have tried that for 3 days now both here and google to be honest i have been scared to post this as im guessing it must of been covered, but i cant find it

ok i love my n800

but when i tried to play a video i got crystal sound and a slide show

mplayer (found after searching a while) fixed that and i can play any video on my device perfectly

however there are times im laying in bed unable to sleep and i want to load up a comedy, the default media player lets me do this but im treated to a slide show

mplayer lets me browse to the file but when i select it, it does nothing

what am i missing? there must be a better way then copying the file to my card then playing

if it makes a difference the fileserver is a opensuse 10.2 fileserver using samba for the network shares no passwords required

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and the n800 is running os200(i believe thats the most recent)