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What commands do i use for AVI video and DVD video?

Asked by kevin nichols

Does anyone have the commands needeed to install codecs for avi and dvd video? This would help if you could please tell me. Thankyou for your time.

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Tim Potter (musikgoat) said : 		#1

Kevin,

The meta-package that contains those codecs is "ubuntu-restricted-extras".

The command would be, sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras.

Note this disclaimer: Installing this package will pull in support for MP3 playback and decoding, support for various other audio formats (gstreamer plugins), Microsoft fonts, Java runtime environment, Flash plugin, LAME (to create compressed audio files), and DVD playback.

Please note that this does not install libdvdcss2, and will not let you play encrypted DVDs. For more information, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs.

Please also note that packages from multiverse are restricted by copyright or legal issues in some countries. See http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/licensing for more information.

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Best Wyatt Smith (wyatt-smith) said : 		#2

Please read this page and note the disclaimer
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

It tells how to enable Medibuntu repository and install the following codecs

libdvdcss2
w32codecs
ppc-codecs

Also I would consider install VLC Player, it is available in multiverse for hardy and intrepid and the universe for earlier versions of Ubuntu,

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kevin nichols (kenichols29) said : 		#3

Thanks Wyatt Smith, that solved my question.