Brilliant multimedia in ubuntu guide

[larryfroot]

Hi, I came across this in the ubuntu forum, and thought it too good a thing to keep to myself. There are tutorials, and there are Tutorials. This one is perhaps the best, most comprehensive and accessible tutorials I have come across. There are also trouble shooting instructions after each mini-tutorial within the main tutorial as a whole:

[all variants] Comprehensive Multimedia & Video Howto - Ubuntu Forums

Well worth a visit, I'd say.

[jmadero]

just a heads up that for multimedia the easiest method by far is:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

this gives you almost all codecs that you'd ever need and installs flash stuff as well

[reed9]

Doesn't the author of that guide post on this forum?

[jmadero]

I don't know, was too much for me to read. I just figured if it was about multimedia I've been using Linux for years and for the past couple years with Ubuntu it's been as easy as this for all my multimedia needs:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras vlc amarok

[larryfroot]

I was pretty well sorted by installing the ubuntu-restricted-extras as well. However the author of the guide picks up where that leaves off, covering more ambitious aspects of setting up and working with multimedia apps that rip DVD convert formats, edit video etc. There are also a few handy little tweaks here and there. One of the nice things about the guide is that the troubleshooting tips if the series of steps he talks about don't do the job are clear and educational as well.

[alpha-X-geek]

Doesn't the author of that guide post on this forum?

Yeah, I joined here when the Debian forums went down.

[alpha-X-geek]

By the way, I don't include the restricted-extras metapackage in part 1 because I prefer to show every individual package that's going to be installed, plus the fact the meta-package installed OpenJDK instead of Sun Java in one version of Ubuntu for 32-bit users. The howto is mainly for multimedia junkies and for those having multimedia-related issues. Oh, and thanks for the endorsement larryfroot.

[jmadero]

definitely I like the post a lot, just for the newbies who might look at it and think "I need to read all that to get my dvd's playing" I wanted to clarify that one command can do almost everything a new user would want, but the extra stuff is cool. Thanks for the post!

[alpha-X-geek]

definitely I like the post a lot, just for the newbies who might look at it and think "I need to read all that to get my dvd's playing" I wanted to clarify that one command can do almost everything a new user would want, but the extra stuff is cool. Thanks for the post!

Yeah, it does look much bigger than it really is and for most penple the restricted-extras should be all they need. Some newbies install various packages that conflict with each other before they discover the restricted-extras metapackage, so that's where my howto and ramblings come in. Cheers.