Some more information on my situation. My PC is dual boot so I saved the
movie
files to a jump disk and rebooted to the Vista windows side. I had to load
Quick Time
and was able to play the movies and they played just fine. That to me says
it isn't
really a problem with my processor.
I am using what ever is default in Ubuntu 10.04 which is I think Rhythm. I
did some
searching and found a site which lists a lot about 10.04 release. There are
listed some
video editing applications so I think I will try a couple of them. On one
which was listed
was a statement about one to be default in furture releases of Ubuntu, so I
will play with
it and some of the other ones too.