Thursday, March 12, 2009

A CCCP like install for Ubuntu

I happen to have a wide array of video formats that I regularly use. For Windows, I have CCCP that does the job. But I need something for Ubuntu.

I happened to run across this one way around it. Given that it installs a HUGE amount of data (~250MB) but you can then pretty much play anything after that.

Fire up Synaptic Package Manager (under System --> Administration) and search for "ubuntu-restricted-extras".

I can now play my various files (and change audio and subs).

Also, I prefer to use Mplayer Movie Player (you can get it from Add/Remove under Applications).

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