Hello All,
I was with Krish when he mentioned that he had successfully got
multimedia playback in Ubuntu, by adding some repositories manually in
the apt sources list and downloading extra packages.
When I got back, a google search revealed this page below and that
finally did it.
http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/2663/how-to_get_full
This explains everything in a simple and straightforward way. As I use
Kubuntu, in the line
'sudo apt-get install totem-xine totem-xine-firefox-plugin
libxine-extracodecs flashplugin-nonfree msttcorefonts sun-java5-plugin
skype banshee streamtuner xmms realplay f-spot'
The 'totem-xine totem-xine-firefox-plugin' entries were removed as they
are for Gnome and apt throws errors.
The important package is libxine-extracodecs.
I am now able to play VCDs with sound. My DVD freezes at the
introductory text itself but that could be due to bad media or my DVD
writer is country locked. Anyway now I am quite happy with the progress
and hope others who were tearing their hair over multimedia in Debian
based distros will find some relief from the link above.
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Regards,
Rony.
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