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not able to play media files and download any plugins

Asked by Sahil Prashar

I am playing media including audio and video files. It then shows me that i can not play the file as it does not have necessary plug-ins installed. But when i try to download them most of the files it failed to download. Please solve my problem.

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Sahil Prashar

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Marc Stewart (marc.stewart) said : 		#1

There are two things you can try, and I suggest you try both.
1) Install the extra codecs.
2) Install VLC. It's far less likely to get stuck for a codec.

Open a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and type:
sudo apt-get install vlc
sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install app-install-data-medibuntu apport-hooks-medibuntu ubuntu-restricted-extras

That's six lines—the second is quite long.

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