Enabling Multimedia in Feisty (HOW-TO)

[Adamant1988]

Video/audio codec, flash, mp3, dvd playback, and win32 Codec install for Feisty Fawn for beginners. If your a new user, copy and paste commands into the terminal, should be relatively easy from that point forward.

For mp3, etc.
Open up Add/Remove programs from your Application bar.

Go to Sound&Video and Find and Check all of the packages below (easily done by searching for gstreamer)

• "GStreamer ffmpeg video plugin"
• "GStreamer extra plugins"
• "GStreamer plugins for aac, xvid, mpeg2, faad"
• "GStreamer plugins for mms, wavpack, quicktime, musepack"

Then go to Other subsection of Add/Remove and find

• "Ubuntu restricted extras"

For Flash support

While under the "Other" section enable

• "Macromedia Flash plugin"

For DVD Playback and Win32 Codecs

Edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list using either of the following commands in a terminal:

$gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

to open it in the GUI text editor

or

$sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list

to open it in the Vim command line text editor

Add the following lines to add the Medibuntu repository to the file:

[quote]## Medibuntu - Ubuntu 7.04 "feisty fawn"
## Please report any bug on https://launchpad.net/products/medibuntu/+bugs
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ feisty free non-free

Import the gpg key for the Medibuntu repository to ensure that the packages are installed without warnings/errors regarding trust:
To do this, run the following command from the terminal:

wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Now update the local list of packages to get the list of packages from the newly added Medibuntu repository:

In a terminal execute the following command:

sudo apt-get update

Now you can install libdvdcss2 and w32codecs using the following command:

sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2 w32codecs

Medibuntu doc page