Install multimedia codecs in Ubuntu 7.10 - Overclock.net

endo · 10-25-07

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First thing you have to do is to navigate in the Gnome panel to "System -> Administration -> Software Sources" and enable all the additional repositories namely main (which should already be enabled), universe, restricted and multiverse. Truth be told, you need select only the multiverse repository but while you are at it, you might as well enable the rest of them too.

Once you have done that, navigate to your video or audio file and try playing it in Totem which is the default multimedia player for GNOME. When you open the media file in totem, it will notify you that it can't find the necessary codecs to play the file and will offer to search for and download the necessary files. It will then start downloading the missing pieces and install them. That is it. You have finished installing the codecs necessary to play your multimedia file.

Enable all additional repositories

Totem asks you whether it should search for the necessary codecs to play the media.

It provides a list of packages which contain the required files

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Alternately, if you do not want to go through the above process (though I wonder why), you can also install all the multimedia codecs by firing up a terminal and running the apt-get command as follows :

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$ sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

hope this helps you guys out.

uberlinux · 10-25-07

Or, as a simpler way:

1. Enable all additional repos under System-->Administration-->Software Sources
2. In Synaptic, install ubuntu-restricted-extras [System-->Administration-->Synaptic]

endo · 10-25-07

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Originally Posted by uberlinux

Or, as a simpler way:

1. Enable all additional repos under System-->Administration-->Software Sources
2. In Synaptic, install ubuntu-restricted-extras [System-->Administration-->Synaptic]

kool good addition.

reset3x · 10-25-07

Medibuntu

endo · 10-25-07

sweet

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