Hello All,
I was with Krish when he mentioned that he had successfully got multimedia playback in Ubuntu, by adding some repositories manually in the apt sources list and downloading extra packages.
When I got back, a google search revealed this page below and that finally did it.
http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/2663/how-to_get_full
This explains everything in a simple and straightforward way. As I use Kubuntu, in the line
'sudo apt-get install totem-xine totem-xine-firefox-plugin libxine-extracodecs flashplugin-nonfree msttcorefonts sun-java5-plugin skype banshee streamtuner xmms realplay f-spot'
The 'totem-xine totem-xine-firefox-plugin' entries were removed as they are for Gnome and apt throws errors.
The important package is libxine-extracodecs.
I am now able to play VCDs with sound. My DVD freezes at the introductory text itself but that could be due to bad media or my DVD writer is country locked. Anyway now I am quite happy with the progress and hope others who were tearing their hair over multimedia in Debian based distros will find some relief from the link above.
Rony wrote:
I am now able to play VCDs with sound. My DVD freezes at the introductory text itself but that could be due to bad media or my DVD writer is country locked.
I dug out my collection and found 3 dvds that were earlier kept aside as they were not for this region. All of them play properly on my Kubuntu 6.10 now. So everything's fine now.
--- Rony wrote:
I am now able to play VCDs with sound. My DVD
freezes at the
introductory text itself but that could be due to
bad media or my DVD
writer is country locked.
I dug out my collection and found 3 dvds that were earlier kept aside as they were not for this region. All of them play properly on my Kubuntu 6.10 now. So everything's fine now.
I did the updates in my laptop too and now it is able to play VCDs and DVDs properly. Now my laptop Acer 2428 is 100% Linux ready.
And a minor correction. It was not google but www.ask.com that showed up the link http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/2663/how-to_get_full
Ask.com is now my default search engine as I find it to be more accurate.
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