HOWTO: Ubuntu Multimedia

[aledin]

I think it's a big mistake for Ubuntu not to include mplayer in their repository. Come on, that's the best player for Linux and it's even in the repository... I like ubuntu very much but this annoys me. If there's some special package for Ubuntu for mplayer, can someone give me some links. Or some other way of installing it, but not by source. I hate whis brute force installing, although I can do it, it's not the preferred way.
Thanks

mplayer package (mplayer-custom) is in the multiverse repository of Ubuntu.

[j_baer]

I'm struggling with the Firefox Quicktime. I installed MPlayer as outlined and tested. If I hit a movie trailer page the link is still looking for the Quicktime plugin.

I installed mozplugger but I have no idea how to use it.

Any help is appreciated ....

[lean]

I get this when trying to use marillat (unstable main)

apt-get install mplayer-586
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mplayer-586: Depends: libartsc0 (>= 1.3.0) but 1.2.3-1 is to be installed
Depends: libggi2 (>= 1:2.0.5) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libungif4g (>= 4.1.3) but 4.1.0b1-6 is to be installed

[j_baer]

All,

The HOWTO worked great. I did not do the mozillia plug but the web pages work fine through the file association process.

Linux really needs a media program like MPlayer and this should be included as part of the base install if at all possible.

Good job everyone ...

[Juneau]

Thanks to everyone for that guide! Finally got my favourite media player on Ubuntu!

[leeech]

aren't there any ready made .deb file for mplayer and mplayer-plugin

going through all those compiling is not fun...

reason, if i were to implement to my clients... i can't be going to all their PCs compiling 1 by 1...

[uggeli]

Sorry for maybe stupid guestions, but I'm newbie so..

If mplayer-custom is in the multiverse repository of Ubuntu so what does that custom version contains (how it's costomized) and should I still do rest of steps which are on 1st message of this thread or are they ready in that customized version?

Ps. I haven't installed ubuntu yet (haven't receive CDs I ordered yet..) but just wanted to ask this allready so I can start install mplayer immediately I got ubuntu installed.

Thanks for possible answers.

Edit: some typos

[gamehack]

@uggeli

Yes, you can after adding the multiverse repository. But there's a slight problem... it will only install the console version

Cheers,
gamehack

[uggeli]

@gamehack

Hmm I can do rest of steps mentioned in 1st post after installing mplayer from multiverse if I got it right from you message, but do I have to do those steps or are those allready "built-in" in that "custom(ized)" version of mplayer? That word "custom" misleads me. So is that "custom" version still normal (expect no gui ) mplayer?

Well maybe it's afterall easiest to just ask that does things still go like in 1st post in this thread or do I have to get mplayer (with gui) from somewhere else or what? I understood that there was some problems getting mplayer from those sources which are mentioned in 1st post, or did I misunderstood something? Howabout those other stuff (codecs etc.)?

Sorry for asking again these but as newbie I littlebit scare to try unless I'm 100% sure that things are still going the way I try to. Well I promise not to ask anymore until I got my ubuntu cd and got it installed.

[j_baer]

Having trouble compiling mplayerplug-in

My are my steps ...

1) apt-get libgtk2.0-dev & libgtk2.0-dbg (may be optional!) - ok

2) download gecko-sdk-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.6.tar.gz to ~/"username"/download - ok

3) unpacked gecko-sdk-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.6.tar.gz to ~/"username"/download - ok

- this created a folder gecko-sdk in ~/"username"/download of source files

4) download mplayerplug-in-2.70.tar.gz to ~/"username"/download - ok

5) unpacked mplayerplug-in-2.70.tar.gz to ~/"username"/download - ok

- this created a folder mplayerplug-in in ~/"username"/download of source files

6) changed to ~/"username"/download/mplayerplug-in directory - ok

7) configure ./configure --with-gecko-sdk=/home/"username"/download/gecko-sdk - ok

8) compile and link by "make" - failed

Questions:

Do any of the above commands need to be run as sudo?

Did the configure command really execute successfully?

Do I need to move the files from gecko-sdk to somewhere else?

Thanks ...