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November 2, 2006

Install VLC Media Player in Ubuntu

by @ 10:26 am. Filed under Other Linux

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The VLC media player is an open source media player, distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is a highly portable multimedia player that supports many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs and various streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various different formats.


It is one of the most platform-independent players available, with versions for Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, BSD, Windows CE, and Solaris.

Install VLC Media player in Ubuntu

You need to make sure that you have a “universe” mirror in your /etc/apt/sources.list

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-esd

This will complete the installation

If you want to open VLC You need to go to Applications—>Sound&Video—>VLC Media Player

Once it open you should see the following screen

VLC Media Player Version Details

VLC Media Player Skins 2 interface

VLC Media Player Skins

If you want to download VLC Media Player Skins check here

Install VLC Plugin for Mozilla Firefox

sudo apt-get install mozilla-plugin-vlc

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12 Responses to “Install VLC Media Player in Ubuntu”

  1. Aleksandersen Says:

    I prefer the MPlayer media player. It preforms better in a lot of cases and it does not use as much resources as VLC tends to do from time to time.

    There is no play list in MPlayer, but that can be folder managed.

  2. Colin Says:

    I love VLC on Linux or Windows. Seems fast enough in most cases.

  3. Jeansk Says:

    Thanks a lot.
    Used this document and it worked fine for me. I am just struggling now with my sound card that does not seem to be working. No sound is associated to the movie I am reading.
    Regards,

    JSK

  4. Ayman Says:

    Ayman Ebrahim Al-eskafi
    new user for linux

  5. mouna Says:

    bien

  6. DML Says:

    I have found the player to be wonderful, but the skins are giving me trouble. The player itself was an instant fix to several issues I had with my media files when I finally left the wondoze environment behind.

  7. simran Says:

    its a nice info i used it and got the player installed….

    it works very fine

  8. dang3r Says:

    There are two types of skin files: vlt files and zip files. It is advised to use vlt files, because they can be used directly by VLC, without any need to unzip the skin files.Well with that said either did not work for me.The current version is correct of vlc player.. windows xp home edition could not be the problem LOL

  9. George Maness Says:

    How can I obtain VLC Media Player for Ubunto if the machine running Linux dosn’t have internet access?

  10. Yudha DeLonge Says:

    THX,,, for the Solution,,

    :)

    WokeY

  11. roland Says:

    it is a good systerm

  12. Kevin Crossey Says:

    I’m a newbe to Ubuntu and I would like to download a video player. I would like to “Install VLC Media Player in Ubuntu” BUT I’m not online and will only pick-up software thro’ public access/internet cafe Windows PCs.
    Can I find somewhere to download the player (with install details)? No your site send me round in circles!

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