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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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November 2nd, 2006 at 12:24 pm
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.
November 2nd, 2006 at 9:50 pm
I love VLC on Linux or Windows. Seems fast enough in most cases.
November 28th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
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
January 3rd, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Ayman Ebrahim Al-eskafi
new user for linux
April 28th, 2007 at 9:51 am
bien
April 28th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
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.
May 14th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
its a nice info i used it and got the player installed….
it works very fine
June 20th, 2007 at 12:43 am
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
June 28th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
How can I obtain VLC Media Player for Ubunto if the machine running Linux dosn’t have internet access?
February 19th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
THX,,, for the Solution,,
:)
WokeY
February 20th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
it is a good systerm
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:59 pm
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!