Movies in Ubuntu
The Ubuntu Saga continues. Today we look at getting the fiddly bits of playing multimedia files to work.
There are some neat packages in the plf (see yesterdays article), but still some of the movies I hoped to play haven’t worked. Let’s take a look at how to get them to.
- libavifile-0.7c102
- w32codecs
- gstreamer0.8-alsa
- gstreamer0.8-multiverse
- gstreamer0.8-misc
- gstreamer0.8-mad
- avifile-divx-plugin
- avifile-win32-plugin
- avifile-xvid-plugin
- avifile-mad-plugin
- avifile-mjpeg-plugin
- avifile-vorbis-plugin
- avifile-utils
- realplay
- lame
- lame-extras
- libxine1
- xine-ui
In order to get these to install using ‘apt-get’ I had to add some additional distributions to my sources.
My ubuntu sources line looks like:
deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted universe multiverse
(You can see the entire file here)
After you update your sources, make sure you run:
apt-get udpate
I prefer xine as a player, add to that the atitvout package (for ATI card users anyway, using a ATI Mobility M7 on a Dell Latitude notebook) and switch-to-tv works perfectly.
October 19th, 2006 at 1:10 am
heyas all.
my 40 gig drive is going to good use now. I have installed UBUNTU and have ordered KUBUNTU.
I dont know how to install the driver for my ati radeon 9600xt.
Actually i dont know if i am meant to be downloading and installing XFREE86 or the XORG version of the driver. I am downloading them both but i dont know how to do anything in Linux really.
I dont know where I am meant to set up my modem or set up a net account. (no INETWIZ.EXE)
So yeah, can someone help me out with getting my ATI driver installed?
and does anyone know of a good long PDF file i can read and wrap my brain around.
I’m still a Windows user, but I want to use Linux as much as possible.
Thanks.