Make Ubuntu 7.10 Media ready

This is a beginner tutorial on how to get your Ubuntu 7.10 media ready, and able to play video. Ubuntu does not ship with certain restricted and typically windows format codecs installed. This tutorial will show you how to install these, get flash videos working in firefox (for youtube) and help you install a few additional (better) players.

Install Mplayer and multimedia codecs

Ok first we will install Mplayer, a video player, and multimedia codecs required to watch restricted format video.

1. Make sure you have added the extra repositories, if you haven’t please look here: http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Gutsy#How_to_add_extra_repositories
2. Open terminal and type “sudo apt-get install mplayer”
3. Type “sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list”
4. Then type “wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add –“
5. Then “sudo apt-get update”
6. Lastly, type “sudo apt-get install w32codecs libdvdcss2”
7. You now have Mplayer installed and can watch restricted format video

Install flash player and Mplayer plug-ins for Firefox

1. Open terminal and type “sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree”
2. Then type “sudo apt-get install mozilla-mplayer”
3. You now have video support inside firefox, and can watch Youtube videos

Install other Players

This will install other audio and video players

1. To install Amarok in terminal type “sudo apt-get install amarok”
2. To install VLC media player type “sudo apt-get install vlc”
3. To install Banshee music player type “sudo apt-get install banshee”
4. Now you have some great multimedia players installed