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Multi-media content

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Am new to Ubuntu/Linux. Have become frustrated at the problems of viewing audio/video clips in websites. Is there a simple way of ensuring that all formats will play? Am using Firefox. Thanks.

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Dr Small (drsmall) said : 		#1

It depends upon what video / audio player you have, as to what browser plugins you will need.
You can search for them in Add / Remove

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Mark (mark-osborne1) said : 		#2

Dr Small. I have RealPlayer10 which doesn't work with .mov files, which I think are Apple QT files. Have also installed MPlayer and Totem-Mozilla package.

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Luky Winarto (luckyborneo) said : 		#3

Try this:
$ sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-* mozilla-plugin-vlc totem-gstreamer-firefox-plugin mozilla-mplayer

This mean, it will insatll VLC, which the great multimedia player I ever used. It can play many multimedia. Try VLC, you will love it.

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Mark (mark-osborne1) said : 		#4

Luky. Thanks for this! I installed VLC from Applications --> Add/Remove, and was able to play .mov files with no problems.

As I'm new to Ubuntu/Linux, out of interest, after opening a Terminal, did you mean input the above as one line? i.e.

 $ sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-* mozilla-plugin-vlc totem-gstreamer-firefox-plugin mozilla-mplayer

What exactly would this command do? Just interested in learning more!

Can you get audio on this website? http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do

Thanks

Mark

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Best Luky Winarto (luckyborneo) said : 		#5

That command means to install the package VLC, plugins VLC, plugins for Mozilla Firefox. I used that command from terminal. If you interesting for more information, open your terminal then type:
$ man apt-get

There will be a lot of information about apt-get command.
I did not get the audio from this site:
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do

Is it really there's audio on that site?

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Mark (mark-osborne1) said : 		#6

Thanks Luky Winarto, that solved my question.