Turning my ubuntu notebook into a “media box”

While listening to The Linux Action Show I wondered how Bryan and Chris described the multimedia facilities of their linux systems … watching literally every video file that came across.

So I watched at help.ubuntu.com (yes, my notebook runs ubuntu ;-)) and found the solution. Just install some packages!

sudo apt-get install mozilla-helix-player helix-player
sudo apt-get install mozilla-mplayer
sudo apt-get install libxine-extracodecs \ 
  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base \
  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good \ 
  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad  \ 
  gstreamer0.10-pitfdll
sudo apt-get install w32codecs
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Huge thanks to the ubuntu documentation team. I din’t expect such valuable information in an official source of information.