Comprehensive Multimedia & Video Howto

[brucewagner]

What's the difference between:

ubuntu-restricted-extras

....and medibuntu?

[tiggsy]

I have to say a big thanks for this howto. I keep it on my subscribed threads list, and every time I do a major upgrade I come back, and it all works again. Brilliant!

[Gentex]

Another voice in the chorus of thanks for this write-up. I had been trying (off and on) for a few months to get DVD playback working on my ubuntu machines until finding this thread. Within 15-20 minutes, I had my new machine all set up and playing DVDs with no problems. Thank you so much for your time and effort.

Gentex

[Frudo]

This tutorial deserve a big thumbs up!

i have followed a couple of steps for the known flash problem. I was able to watch and listen flash pages with a manual control. lately i started using compiz , installed and performed lots of updates, This is a dell vostro , ubuntu karmic 64 bit, i realized i can no longer control flash say youtube, is a big fat pause. can be controlled by keyboard, space and arrows. I have purged the Mozilla codec (swfdec) by snaptics, then reinstalled flash and updated as for the tutorial. Still the same , i cant control sound or full screen nor skip.
Can i ask for some brains ?

[Frudo]

After much more reading again , i was able to get it back to normal . Its strange that didnt work first time. As suggested , completely viped the flash, reinstalled again with the command provided. restarted , checked swf.. once more , performed updates by update manager. restarted , flash is back to my control , i donno what i missed last time , but any way , thanks alot for he tutorial again.
Frudo

[Warprunner]

A VERY VERY nice piece of work and I can't thank you enough. I trashed my installation and am rebuilding things. This saved me COUNTLESS hours! Thank you!
Warprunner

[ubunlove]

This thread is exactly what i have been looking for. Thanks a lot for this. I believe my ubuntu skills will improve after i finish reading this guide. Keep up the good work.

[Laxman_prodigy]

wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update
OK
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the list directory


On entering that command, it pops up like this. What am I doing wrong here?

[Laxman_prodigy]

Why is it not able to install? It installed partly and when I ran it again it says this:

sudo apt-get remove gnash gnash-common libflashsupport mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla && sudo apt-get install alsa-oss faac faad flashplugin-nonfree gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse ia32-libs ia32-sun-java6-bin icedtea6-plugin libmp3lame0 non-free-codecs openjdk-6-jre unrar
[sudo] password for laxman:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package gnash is not installed, so not removed
Package gnash-common is not installed, so not removed
Package libflashsupport is not installed, so not removed
Package mozilla-plugin-gnash is not installed, so not removed
Package swfdec-mozilla is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
alsa-oss is already the newest version.
faac is already the newest version.
faad is already the newest version.
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg is already the newest version.
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad is already the newest version.
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse is already the newest version.
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly is already the newest version.
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse is already the newest version.
libmp3lame0 is already the newest version.
libmp3lame0 set to manually installed.
The following extra packages will be installed:
ca-certificates-java cabextract flashplugin-installer gsfonts-x11
icedtea-6-jre-cacao java-common lib32asound2 lib32bz2-1.0 lib32gcc1
lib32ncurses5 lib32nss-mdns lib32stdc++6 lib32v4l-0 lib32z1
libaccess-bridge-java libaccess-bridge-java-jni libamrnb3 libamrwb3
libc6-i386 libjline-java nspluginwrapper openjdk-6-jre-headless
openjdk-6-jre-lib rhino sun-java6-jre ttf-liberation
ttf-mscorefonts-installer tzdata-java ubuntu-restricted-extras w64codecs
Suggested packages:
xulrunner-1.9 konqueror-nsplugins msttcorefonts ttf-bitstream-vera
ttf-dejavu ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs equivs lib32asound2-plugins
libjline-java-doc sun-java6-fonts ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-sazanami-gothic
ttf-kochi-mincho ttf-sazanami-mincho ttf-telugu-fonts ttf-oriya-fonts
ttf-kannada-fonts ttf-bengali-fonts rhino-doc sun-java6-plugin
ia32-sun-java6-plugin ttf-arphic-uming mplayer
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ca-certificates-java cabextract flashplugin-installer flashplugin-nonfree
gsfonts-x11 ia32-libs ia32-sun-java6-bin icedtea-6-jre-cacao icedtea6-plugin
java-common lib32asound2 lib32bz2-1.0 lib32gcc1 lib32ncurses5 lib32nss-mdns
lib32stdc++6 lib32v4l-0 lib32z1 libaccess-bridge-java
libaccess-bridge-java-jni libamrnb3 libamrwb3 libc6-i386 libjline-java
non-free-codecs nspluginwrapper openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless
openjdk-6-jre-lib rhino sun-java6-jre ttf-liberation
ttf-mscorefonts-installer tzdata-java ubuntu-restricted-extras unrar
w64codecs
0 upgraded, 37 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.1MB/103MB of archives.
After this operation, 341MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Err http://in.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main libc6-i386 2.10.1-0ubuntu16
Connection failed
Err http://in.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/multiverse sun-java6-jre 6-15-1
500 Internal Server Error
Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...tu16_amd64.deb Connection failed
Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...6-15-1_all.deb 500 Internal Server Error
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

[AldenIsZen]

What software sources to you have enabled?