Ubuntu is such a neat, user friendly and pleasant flavor of linux operating system. The ubuntu team has made sure that you are able to use it as a complete desktop. Ever wondered why ubuntu does not come with the codecs and players which support playing all kinds of multimedia that would want to? Specially when multimedia is such a integral part of a desktop system. The answer to that question is a lot of multimedia comes in a proprietary or “non free” formats and Ubuntu is committed to include only libre software by default. Examples of non-free formats would be mp3, wma, wmv, mpeg-4 and so on. More over, licensing policies vary from country to country, which makes it difficult to add all these packages in the global Ubuntu distro.
Good news is, Ubuntu can still play your favorite proprietary media formats provided you install additional software such as vlc, gxine, mplayer etc. To achieve this, you’ll need to install ubuntu-restricted-extras<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats>and add Medibuntu <http://medibuntu.org/> repository and install the necessary packages. Initcron Labs has automated these steps with the shell script and made your life easy . Read more at and download the script from http://www.initcron.org/ubuntu/multimedia/ultimate-ubuntu-setup-kit Thanks GS
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