Install Mplayer and Multimedia Codecs (libdvdcss2,w32codecs,w64codecs) on ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric)
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Install Mplayer in Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric)
You have to make sure you have enabled universe,multiverse repositories
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
or
Click on the following link
Install w32 video codecs and libdvdcss2 in Ubuntu 11.10
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.To play encrypted DVDs, the libdvdcss2 package is essential.
The following command adds Medibuntu's repository to Ubuntu. It also adds Medibuntu's GPG key to your keyring, which is needed to authenticate the Medibuntu packages.
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get -q update
sudo apt-get --yes -q --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring
sudo apt-get -q update
You may also wish to add the following packages. The first will cause many apps from the Medibuntu repository to appear in Ubuntu Software Center (Ubuntu 9.10+) or Add/Remove Applications (versions prior to 9.10). The second will allow users to generate crash reports against Medibuntu packages and submit them to the Medibuntu bugtracker.
sudo apt-get --yes install app-install-data-medibuntu apport-hooks-medibuntu
Please note you may have to use --force-yes instead of --yes in order for this command to succeed.
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
or click on the following link
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You could also use BleedingEdge and install the same codecs with a few clicks.
sourceforge.net/projects/bleedingedge
Actually the only reason to use this repo is if your soundcard doesn’t work and you need the alsa-firmware.
If you need codecs, just install ubuntu-restricted-extras which is in the repos. I don’t see anything else you might need from this outdated repo.
sudo apt-get install mozilla-mplayer
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package mozilla-mplayer
Thank you so much. I couldn’t get the instruction from mplayerhq.hu to work. This is gold. Much appreciated.
Installing CODECs from ubuntu-restricted-extras didn’t work for me.
Code:
$ sudo apt-cache policy w32codecs
was showing that the w32codecs were still not installed
Sweet! You can also use Movie Player once these codecs are installed.
Doesn’t work.
Mencoder gives an error saying that the tags are not linked. I believe everyone running amd64 is having the same problem, judging from the searchers on google.
relocation error: /usr/lib/libffms2.so.2: symbol ff_codec_bmp_tags, version LIBAVFORMAT_53 not defined in file libavformat.so.53
Great!
Thank you
Doing a TV show. Need codecs working to export video to mpeg2 or avi format from OpenShot video editor, not just to PLaY videos…It’s not working for me