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This is a follow-​up to the art­icle Mul­ti­me­dia sup­port in Ubuntu Linux 6.06 on how to add exten­ded mul­ti­me­dia sup­port to the Ubuntu Linux distribution.

The new ver­sion of Ubuntu Linux, 7.04, has a new func­tion­al­ity to help add mul­ti­me­dia sup­port in a seam­less way; when you try to play a media file that requires a new codec, you will be asked to install it at that time. The new func­tion­al­ity was made avail­able thanks to the work on the gstreamer mul­ti­me­dia lib­rary (bug #161922 - script to provide plugin install­a­tion info), and work with the Ubuntu dis­tri­bu­tion. It is import­ant to note that the new ver­sion of Fedora Linux 7 has a sim­ilar mech­an­ism of auto­matic mul­ti­me­dia sup­port installation.

In Ubuntu 6.10, start System/Administration/Synaptic Pack­age Man­ager. Under Settings/Repositories, select the uni­verse and mul­ti­verse repos­it­or­ies. Click ok, then Reload to update your pack­age cache.

Sub­sequently, click on Search and type in

gstreamer-0.10

You will get quite a few res­ults; you can install pack­ages found apart from those which names end with -dev (devel­op­ment pack­ages, not nor­mally required) and -dbg (debug pack­ages, not nor­mally required).

Finally, the w32codecs pack­age (do a new search for this) adds sup­port to other binary codecs that no native Linux soft­ware exists yet.

Tags: general, multimedia, planetellak, ubuntu //