Play DVD and MP3 in Ubuntu
Yeah I know, you’ve been told how beautiful and how sexy Ubuntu OS is but you we’re disappointed to see that most media format’s cant be played in Ubuntu. That’s right, I myself got the same frustrations. Lucky for me that Mint was there to ease some of my setbacks. But for those who wants to stay with Ubuntu and have all the multimedia support enabled then just follow these four (4) easy steps.
What we need?
Medibuntu - a 3rd party repository that I say supports multimedia applications in Ubuntu.
How to Play DVD and MP3 in Ubuntu?
Open the ‘Terminal‘ and type one of this command that corresponds your distribution:
Ubuntu 6.06 “Dapper Drake”:
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/dapper.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.listUbuntu 6.10 “Edgy Eft”:
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/edgy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.listUbuntu 7.04 “Feisty Fawn”:
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/feisty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.listUbuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon”:
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
Then, add the GPG Key: (GPG - Free and open source software for digital signs and encrypted messages)
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update
Now to have a DVD playback support, type this in the ‘Terminal‘
sudo aptitude install libdvdcss2
For audio codecs:
sudo aptitude install w32codecs
For regional code of DVD drives:
sudo apt-get install regionset
For more information about this article, you can visit the Ubuntu documentation. Hope this one helps!
Disclaimer:
Patent and copyright laws operate differently depending on which country you are in. Please obtain legal advice if you are unsure whether a particular patent or restriction applies to a media format you wish to use in your country.
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I like what you are trying to do for linux (ubuntu) newbies. Just a footnote to this article:
In order to be able to play dvd’s, you will need to install one more package, which seems to handle the regional stuff that dvd’s are made with. The package is called regionset. Install it with:
sudo apt-get install regionset
Now you can really watch all your favorite dvd’s!