Heck! I was expecting some power consumption improvements, but still 4 hours XP vs. 2 hours Gusty.
Trying to make this post useful, follow these lines:
And remember: the more you misspell these three lines the longer upgrade will be! Be aware of grammar mistakes, folks!
Trying to keep the quality of the video, I’ve noticed a growing popularity of Matroska codec pack for anime releases. Most of the video players do not support mkv format from the box, however you can download VLC player which can do it.
Otherwise, for not creating a mess in your “video & sound” category, it’d be easier just to apt-get few extra packages needed for playing most of anime movies:
So you can easily run your matroska files on MPlayer or Movie Player. For VLC compilation of Matroska codecs, you can check out a full installation guide. However, the quality of playing the videos on VLC in Windows platform was better then in VLC under Linux.
Maybe, someone can advice some other solutions except writting own video drivers? 
That is the question. Logically, a big community should have more useful information for the users, a good support. For example, Ubuntu community which expands daily. Now you can find all the answers concerning this fashionable distributive of Linux without googling much,just entering Ubuntuforums and Ubuntuguide.
However, will this growing interest of Nix systems lead the community for good, and Linux systems will expand the market, or Nix spirit will drown in everyday users’ questions and Windows switchers?
I haven’t thought that it’s going to be such a headache to find some good software for Video and Audio Editing on Linux platform! At this type of software fields, you realize how much work should be done in future for Unices to reach Mac/Win multimedia platforms.
Win/Mac haters can take a deep breath, because there are no good alternatives for:
However, I’ve managed to find the combination of Kinovd and Cinelerra. The last one appeared to be a nice video editor, even though some minor bugs arise (which were solved right away with Cinelerra helper). Here are some Ubuntu repositories for Cinelerra editor.
Enjoy editing!