Tutorial: Install Codec Multimedia in Ubuntu

Saturday, August 3, 2013

When finished installing Ubuntu, we usually can not play the multimedia files before install the multimedia codecs, both for video and audio. 

We can install it online or offline. The easy way is to install VLC and Media Player (mplayer) in ubuntu, because by installing the application, we are also required to install multimedia codecs both.


To install VLC, use this command line:
sudo apt-get install vlc mplayer

In addition to installing the two applications, you should also install other packages, such as:
sudo apt-get install libxine1-ffmpeg gxine mencoder mpeg2dec vorbis-tools id3v2 mpg321 mpg123 libflac++6 ffmpeg libmp4v2-0 totem-mozilla icedax tagtool easytag id3tool lame nautilus-script-audio-convert libmad0 libjpeg-progs libquicktime1 flac faac faad sox ffmpeg2theora libmpeg2-4 uudeview flac libmpeg3-1 mpeg3-utils mpegdemux liba52-0.7.4-dev

install Gstreamer which is a framework that is used for streaming media applications in a way:
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 gstreamer0.10-gnonlin gstreamer0.10-pitfdll gstreamer0.10-sdl gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-schroedinger gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse totem-gstreamer

and also need to install the multimedia codecs:
sudo apt-get install gstreamer-dbus-media-service gstreamer-tools ubuntu-restricted-extras

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