VLC media player

[proggy]

The cross-platform open-source multimedia framework, player and server
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac ...) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. See the full features list.
It can also be used as a media converter or a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on networks.
http://www.videolan.org/mirror-geo.php?file=vlc/1.0.0/win32/vlc-1.0.0-win32.exe for Windows
For Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty
Open Synaptic (System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager). In Settings -> Repositories, make sure you have a "multiverse" repository activated.

Search for vlc and install it. You should also install vlc-plugin-esd, mozilla-plugin-vlc (and libdvdcss2).

Command line way
You need to check that a "multiverse" mirror is listed in your /etc/apt/sources.list.

% sudo apt-get update
% sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-esd mozilla-plugin-vlc

[BristolUK]

I just babelfished all that in Korean. It made as much sense to me in that language as in English. 


I couldn't see English to Simplespeak.

[proggy]

Huh???

[BristolUK]

Huh???

I'm not techie minded. I was making a joke about not finding a language that I could understand. No offence intended. :angel:

[proggy]

I'm not techie minded. I was making a joke about not finding a language that I could understand. No offence intended. :angel:

I wasn`t offended ,i just couldn`t figure out what Korea had to do with anything  :P

[BristolUK]

Oh I have used it....I just don't understand stuff like this.....

...cross-platform open-source multimedia framework...
...MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac ...various streaming protocols...to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 ...
Open Synaptic (System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager). In Settings -> Repositories, make sure you have a "multiverse" repository activated....check that a "multiverse" mirror is listed in your /etc/apt/sources.list. % sudo apt-get update % sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-esd mozilla-plugin-vlc

 

 

[proggy]

Oh I have used it....I just don't understand stuff like this.....

 

 

well if you`d use Ubuntu Linux you`d know what most of what that means but if you don`t its not necessary

[BristolUK]

Luckily I have a wife who does techie.