Install Mplayer and Multimedia Codecs (libdvdcss2,w32codecs,w64codecs) in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)
Posted by admin on April 27th, 2008 
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Install Mplayer in Ubuntu Hardy Heron
You need to add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list file or you need to make sure you have enabled Universe and multiverse repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list file
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Make sure you have the following two lines save and exit your file
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy universe multiverse
Now you need to run the following command to update the source list
sudo apt-get update
Install mplayer using the following command
sudo apt-get install mplayer
if you want to open mplayer just type
gmplayer
or
You can Open from Applications—>Sound&Video—> Mplayer Movie Player
Install libdvdcss2 and w32 video codecs in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)
Support for WMV, RealMedia and other formats has been bundled into the w32codecs package. This package is not available from the Ubuntu repositories due to licensing and legal restrictions.
For Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Users run the following command
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
Then, add the GPG Key using the following commands
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring
sudo apt-get update
For i386 Users install Codecs using the following command
sudo apt-get install w32codecs libdvdcss2
For amd64 Users install Codecs using the following command
sudo apt-get install w64codecs libdvdcss2
Using above download locations you can install most of the mutimedia codecs for ubuntu.
Mplayer Plugin for Firefox
If you want to install Mplayer with plug-in for Mozilla Firefox run the following command
sudo apt-get install mozilla-mplayer
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April 28th, 2008 at 6:46 am
Seems to install fine, but when I try and play streams from the BBC Radio Player I get very loud distorted sound. Any ideas?
April 30th, 2008 at 9:46 am
I get weird sounds when listening to BBC player too, using helix plugin. Have seen other people with the same problem, don’t think anyone’s fixed it yet.
April 30th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Update:
Got BBC Plyer working by the following:
sudo apt-get remove –purge totem-mozilla
sudo apt-get install mozilla-mplayer
then installing codecs as above:
sudo apt-get install w32codecs libdvdcss2
May 18th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
I haven’t been able to get BBC listen again files to play at all.
I’m running Hardy Heron and am using Firefox. I double click on the usual ‘listen again’ button and a box appears giving me the option of opening the .ram file with any of my media players. I choose one, click ok and then nothing at all happens.
I’ve done all the medibuntu malarkey in the terminal and installed the ubdates, but still nothing. Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong?
May 23rd, 2008 at 6:13 am
thanks for the info i probably would nver have known about medibuntu and other software it offers acroread and google earth if it wasnt for you thanks!!!!
June 4th, 2008 at 1:33 am
Bibliophile: .ram is a proprietary RealPlayer format. I don’t know if it exists for linux or not? But realplayer is the only software that will open it, at least, that’s what I’ve found.