Comments on: Install Mplayer and Multimedia Codecs (libdvdcss2,w32codecs) in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

By: linda

linda — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:42:39 +0000

is ther a way of loadind media codecs if you have no internet.like cut and paste or dowload and run?

By: matt

matt — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:57:41 +0000

And I have done it. go to this site: http://debian-multimedia.org/. it’s all there.

By: matt

matt — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:25:13 +0000

And for debian etch? How do I do this? This is the last thing I have to do to be done configuring. love the site.

By: laxman narayanan

laxman narayanan — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:02:44 +0000

good work by the ubuntu producers….
i like it very much.
but installing the softwares are so difficult….

By: Eldon Koyle

Eldon Koyle — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:49:45 +0000

You need to replace ‘feisty’ with the proper name. You are running dapper or something earlier.

By: Navdeep Mahajan

Navdeep Mahajan — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:36:56 +0000

Hi,

On tryigng to get Win 32 codecs i am getting the following error:

root@xyz:/etc/apt# sudo apt-get install w32codecs libdvdcss2
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libdvdcss2: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1) but 2.3.6-0ubuntu20.5 is to be installed
w32codecs: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1) but 2.3.6-0ubuntu20.5 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

How to correct the same?

By: stanley82

stanley82 — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:15:27 +0000

Now you need to copy the key using the following command

wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Hi, it cam back and said gnh file not found. My work round download the medibuntu-key to desktop then open a terminal cd to desktop and sudo apt-key add and that did it.

2nd hick cbc.ca use only wmv files and fire fox tries to play em in totem.

Firefox/edit/preferences content manage and I can see open wmv open with widow stuff but a lot of things open with flash and Real and that’s ok. A few thins are listed as open with mplayerplug-in 3.31. I could change the win stuff if only I could find where it is. I guess it is not the .so or .xpt stuff in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins?

At last I feel I am getting close to having the CBC news over firefox on an AMD64 Feisty.

Any help most welcome. Regards Ian.

By: lailoken

lailoken — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:31:51 +0000

@#7 sudo apt-get install w64codecs libdvdcss2

for those of us using x64 versions of ubuntu

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:07:00 +0000

I followed the instructions but I get this message:
Package w32codecs is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package w32codecs has no installation candidate

By: Adewale Afolabi

Adewale Afolabi — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:33:56 +0000

This article has been very useful. What most of my friends wants first is to be able to play their music. I use christmas edition of ubuntu and really all the codecs came preinstalled, so this article is just what i need

By: Melofelo

Melofelo — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:49:56 +0000

Thanks!
I love the thought of going with an OS that is free, not only free of charge, but free of MS.
However, I am not comfortable with command line entry. I will have to get used to it if I want to run Ubuntu, but your instructions here are better than anything I was able to find on Ubuntu’s website.

By: bisu

bisu — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:32:29 +0000

i dont have an internet connection on my ubuntu machine …
please help me with the codecs intallation …. is there any way to download then install it .?

By: Pad

Pad — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:59:33 +0000

THx for the help. I am anewbie(kinda…have been using ubuntu for under an year now). your tutorial really helped a lot.
THx.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:06:44 +0000

Thanks, great guide!

By: niyam

niyam — Sat, 19 May 2007 17:01:44 +0000

i used

01. main menu > add/remove, clicked on ‘preferences’ and enabled the first four options which include restricted and multiverse. as also the ‘third party’ tab and enabled the medibuntu sources. then closed the preferences.

02. then clicked on ‘sound and video’, scrolled down and enabled all the gstream plug ins, that include mp3, mpeg, divx, etc.

03. using the built-in Totem media player, can play any media file. using amarok, can play all music files in a nice, organized manner.

by doing the above steps, just to get it to play with mplayer, would i ‘break’ or ‘disintegrate’ my installation so maybe it wouldn’t work with totem either?

can’t i just point mplayer to the installed codecs lying on my hard disk?

btw, i installed vlc, and it worked straight outofthebox too.

tia

niyam