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Movie player does not work with new install 12.04

Asked by bccynic

Had 12.04 on my old computerand movie player worked fine. Have new computer, (Dell XPS 8500 Win7). Had to install on a completely separate disk, which I prefer, but Movie player says it needs plug-ins searches, finds them then can't install, first messages said needs python v 2.7, which I found after installing Synaptic, and installed it still no go. Downloaded VLC whcih does work. How can I make Mpovie Player work?

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said : 		#1

Open a terminal (CTRL+ALT+T) and apply this command please

$ sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install -y ubuntu-restricted-extras

Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Also run:

sudo -E wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update

As well as:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install libdvdread4; sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh; sudo apt-get upgrade

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#3

Please try running these commands:

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/`lsb_release -cs`.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get -q update

sudo apt-get --yes -q --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring

sudo apt-get -q update

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted*

sudo apt-get install mplayer vlc

sudo apt-get install w32codecs libdvdcss2

sudo apt-get install w64codecs libdvdcss2

Run the previous line if you are using the 64-bit version of Ubuntu.

Then try viewing the file using vlc or mplayer.

Source: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/216873

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