Comments on: How to make all video/audio files work on an Ubuntu Breezy system

By: Richmond Mathewson

Richmond Mathewson — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 02:05:51 +0000

There are laws that should be kept (murder), and laws that may be broken – I run a school teaching EFL in Bulgaria and regualarly ‘chop’ segments out of DVDs I legally own and present them to my students as movie clips on my Pentium 3′s that rin on Ubuntu 5.10 – I never lose any sleep over it!

By: XP PIR8

XP PIR8 — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:45:17 +0000

I can’t find the gstreamer-0.8-plugins-mul

package. I found the other packages though, still no xvid and very little divx support. Everyone says Linux is the bomb, and I must admit UBUNTU is pretty cool, considering this is day 2 for me. at the moment I find my self switching my kvm over to my xp box quite often.

By: Thibault

Thibault — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:21:29 +0000

Thanks for the tips (step 1+2) to get a large list of codecs, synaptics wasn’t really helpful enough to tell me which packages i should get.
Bye :-)

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Fri, 06 Jan 2006 01:09:09 +0000

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By: Jerome Lacoste

Jerome Lacoste — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 09:26:07 +0000

Step 3 should read:

apt-get install libdvdread3
/usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh

Works on most Debian derivative (I would guess).

By: Kevin DeKorte

Kevin DeKorte — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:46:35 +0000

Have you tried mplayerplug-in?

http://mplayerplug-in.sf.net

It allows you to watch media in the browser.

By: nanomu

nanomu — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 06:53:22 +0000

thanks for the tips (most of which I’ve already followed). While on the subject of media types, what about codecs for realmedia files? I was able to play those on my old hoary system, but now not. Never been able to get realaudio for linux to work, either..

I’ve had really good luck with mplayer, and it’s handy keyboard controls.

By: JanC

JanC — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:46:44 +0000

CSS was not designed to protect against copying (and has never prevented copying either), it was designed to keep people from viewing DVDs sold in other regions of the world. They want you to pay a license in every region that you want to buy/rent DVDs…