anyone familiar with Mandriva’s /usr tree?

Where the heck did they hide the folder for installing additional codecs?

they did NOT use the common /usr/lib/codec or /usr/local/lib/codec.

It’s [b]STUPIDITY[/b] like this that stops commercial software companies from even concidering supporting Linux.

Until EVERY distro uses the same folder structure it is making it far harder for a commercial software house to have their products run on all distros than it should be.