Video sans reboot!!

Since I installed Linux on my machine after coming to Mumbai, I have failed to get a movie player installed on Linux. Earlier, I had an antiquated Fedora Core 1 installation, so I could get neither the rpm nor build it from the source. So, only for videos, I would have to agonizingly reboot to Windows. I persisted that with that Core 1 installation the whole of the last semester. Recently, I switched to Fedora Core 5, assuming that it should be a smooth affair to get mplayer running on this installation. However, it seems that Core 5 has a problem with the package manager UI, so again I seemed to be destined to use Windows. I didn't realize that I could build from the sources for a week, before I finally did that ( and luckily got codec packs from the mplayer website ). So now I have a running mplayer installation. The best thing about that is that I don't have to reboot for watching short documentaries from Discovery, Nat Geo that I have discovered on the net. Now I can watch history from the History Channel and the wonderful engineering feats on Discovery and much more. :).