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If you have Ubuntu, and you can't play 99% of the videos and music, try this: Download the VLC player with the Package Manager (I assume you know how to do that) and install the player with all libraries which the Linux will ask you to install (everything is ~10MB). When the player is installed, you'll have a lot of new codecs, mp3, divx, xvid, rm (I didn't try this one), mpg and so on. You can play videos & music with the VLC player, but also with other players.

I saw that a lot of users on the forum use Ubuntu, and this might help someone...

Enjoy

---Automatix---

WOW Thanks! been looking this for ages! now i can watch divx videos on my ubuntulaptop! Thank You

Installing VLC also installs come codecs

w32codecs for your *cough* wmv files.
http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/12/04/ ... or-ubuntu/

edit: after I put this on I still can't play wmv files.
The final solution that I did was to get Kaffeine and it works solidly.

This is definetly going to be helpful, Ubuntu rocks.

Thanks guys.

I personally prefer mPlayer

Yeah, MPlayer above all.

I wouldn't recommend using Automatix at all though.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Ubuntu doesn't include those codecs by default because they're not free. This makes you more aware of the issues of non-free codecs by forcing you to manually download them but I'm afraid that makes it a little difficult for rank newbies to get their stuff playing. In the interest of practicality I'd say just put 'em on the disc.

cheers

MPlayer is definitely the best way to go. Find a good guide, and get all the codecs you need installed.
I can play just about anything I download at it and it will play. You need to play X264 files? Compile the version in their SVN!

For anyone that wants to play DivX or XviD on a slower computer (IE: Pentium II 400 mhz), you can easily do this by compiling MPlayer yourself. Find a decent guide as to how to accomplish this, and you will build yourself the best media player ever. It's a decent half hours work (or more if it's your first time), but WELL worth it. Compiling makes a world of difference in the CPU intensiveness of MPlayer.

Hehe well, it's good to start reading how things work from the beginning. Playing vids and music, seems to be always the main problem for a new user with linux. About Ubuntu, you should try first reading some basic stuff explained in the 'ubuntu desktop guide', you're automaticly redirected to that once you open the firefox for the first time.

Everything is explained in an easy style, and it's so helpful.
I also recommend you to install the w32codecs ... good luck.


https://help.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/desktopguide/C/codecs.html -> Codecs.


https://help.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/desktopguide/C/index.html -> Ubuntu desktop guide[/list]