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I haven't used MainActor for more than a year. Back then it didn't support any codecs that allowed good compression in realtime so it was rather useless for recording up to some hours of video. To encode with Xvid you need to download and install Xvid for linux (just google for it). If you want to setup something like a digital video recorder you might want to try out : http://dvr.sourceforge.net/html/main.html good luck

I usually use avirecord (part of the avifile package) for recording. Since I have a fairly fast CPU I can directly record to XVid. You can use all (or most) codecs avifile supports for recording, too. For cutting parts of the begiining or ending of an avifile you can use avirecompress (also avilfile). These tools are rather minimalistic but they work.

I think SuSE simply didn't compile mplayer (nor xine) with support for win32 dll's. Dunno why. I recompiled both myself and it works.

Since kmplayer is only a frontend for mplayer I suggest to get the mplayer sources and recompile it with all the codecs. This is what I did and now it works like a charm for me (haven't managed to make it play *.ogg files though). You'll have to put it in /usr/ instead of /usr/local/ to overwrite the version shipped with the distro. That's how I did it, maybe you find a more elegant solution.