[praka123]

am getting confused by ur "colorful" questions .format it or ask one by one. let other members try to answer.will try to reply first 2

1.do u use esd also?make ur audio to esd if it doesnot play.with garbled video,i can think of only one thing,bugs!esp in ur xorg-video-intel driver.try X11 and see whether it is garbled or not.also with wmv i too felt frames dropping/hanging.
also did i mention that u have to choose in xine-ui config as "master of the universe" and try checking Xvideo is available.same with gxine config too.
also garbled video sounds like video is not playing
another thing is do u have 2D/3D DRI working?
try in a terminal "glxinfo |grep render"

2.did u enabled postprocessing in mplayer>preferenceS>misc tab?I dont know which value shud be there.try it.same to xine also.also make deinterlacing default.

3.ur config is more than enough for running ubuntu with Gnome and vanilla compiz effects installed.if possible make ur swap atleast 500MB.

4.Kde distros like suse or kubuntu will be more resource hungry,but u can use with ur config.but i recommend Ubuntu or Xubuntu(Xfce)

5.sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install alien -will solve.for doubts read "man alien"

6.icons can be changed in menu System>preferences>Appearance or "themes" in feisty.u can manually add icon set by dragging to customize theme dialog.and "customize" option allows all these changes.also themes are resting in /usr/share/themes dir.go to ur theme and edit as needed if u want(not recommended)

7.u can rollup windows by going to system>preferences>window>titlebar>rollup -for windows rolling up.
for middle click button,in linux it is used for pasting selected portions,auto scrolling is not set default.if u need autoscroll only in firefox browser go to its edit>preferences>advanced>autoscroll option.

8.had u installed w32codecs?then,it shud work

9.which i dont experiance here.may be some extension can help u

10.u can reinstall using synaptic manager which is in ur System>admin menu.
use it.also ur downloaded packages are backed in /var/cache/apt/archives/ dir.
u can do from terminal as "sudo apt-get install --reinstall packagename"
or u can install using "sudo dpkg -i urlocal package"

11.xmms uses gtk1.2 which is obsolete.the workaround is to edit ur ~/.gtkrc-1.2 some files(oops!forgot,but i think i have explained in tipsntricks sticky) .I recommend u remove all gtk1.2 apps out of ur box.use gtk2 based winamp clone beep-media-player(bmp) which got all plugins ready.else use audacious.

12.i had bad experiance with istanbul session recorder.i recommend 'gtk-recordmydesktop' BTW,u can press once in the red/green radio button shown on gnome-top panel when istanbul is launched for recording the session.(but not sure about its reliability!)

13.u have to mount the iso as loop ie,like sudo mount -t iso9660 -o loop /user/dvd.iso /mnt/ .then u have to edit grub of ur current ubuntu to launch the mounted installer to trigger.I forgot the steps.but one of our members wrote a guide on this:
http://www.foresightlinux.org/forum/topic/1/4/
http://www.instantfundas.com/2007/08...ctly-from.html
also google and search ubuntuforums for precise steps.

14.am not much into multimedia,but searching in synaptic will show u lot of gui softwares like devede,avidemux,transcode etc.and mencoder is one of the best.but it needs terminal usage.

15.that i dont know i am zero in gaming.

16.install mozilla-mplayer,mozplugger etc for that.even totem-gstreamer browser plugin is there!also install latest flash9 beta from http://labs.adobe.com

If u have too much queries,why dont u try IRC? in freenode lot of Linux/ubuntu rooms are there.try!yes,the client is xchat-gnome.
I think it is exhaustive to reply to each as essay,so bear with it