Ubuntu - Video - Install multimedia codecs

TODO: Check this is still working…

Codecs, is an important element when we are talking about playing and watching multimedia files.

Download the codecs source from here which is from the mplayer team.

Extract the downloaded archive.

tar -xvjf all-20061022.tar.bz2

Make 2 directories if they are not already exist.

mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs
mkdir /usr/lib/win32

Copy the content of the extracted directory to the newly created directory:

cp all-20061022/* /usr/local/lib/codecs
cp all-20061022/* /usr/lib/win32

Change the permission of the directories to 755

chmod 755 /usr/local/lib/codecs
chmod 755 /usr/lib/win32

Test it by playing any video with your favorite media player.

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