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I have a couple of videos I made with my cellphone camera, and I want to watch them on my computer.

Searching "linux 3gp", I discovered why under Kubuntu Hardy 8.04 I can watch the videos using kaffeine, xine and VLC whilst i can't hear anything.

Looks like I'm missing the AMR codecs.
"No biggie, I can get them installed ..." is what I thought.

Now, looks like that there are two ways to get the AMR codecs under ubuntu:
you can manually install the codecs under the xine engine.

So far, I've been using Gentoo linux for a very long time. And it still is my fav distro.

On a few computers, I've been using (K)Ubuntu for practical reasons. It is undeniable that Gentoo does not perfom very well on old HW: you have to compile everything from the scratch, it can take a day on a pentium III.
Also, Gentoo requires that you actually know of what you're doing, both when you install the system and when you perform a update. No worries, everything is very well documented. And you learn a lot on how-it-works behind your WM.