Genete: thanks for your time. I'd love to use Synfig, but haven't suceeded in getting it running (on Ubuntu 6.06.) Anyway, I'm assuming you're saying Synfig can't pull in straight AVIs either.

But thanks for the mplayer tip.

At the moment, whenever I import a video (AVI or MOV) I just see a broken image icon. Is importing movies even possible under Linux, and if so, how do I do it? If it's not possible, can anyone recommend a good 2D animation program that can? (preferably open source. I'm not sure whether Synfig's reac...