Sunday, August 8, 2010

Mplayer, non-free-codecs, and libdvdcss2, and more codecs for Chromium

Since they days I used to use Mac, I have thought the default setting of mplayer shows better video quality than that of VLC. But I normally use both of them in case that one of them can't play a video. VLC is easy to install, just find it in Ubuntu Software Center or in Synaptics. I thought maybe I would go for only with VLC this time, but I wanted SMplayer's better UI, so I decided to install mplayer again since I deleted it.

I also wanted to install more codecs for such as wmv, ra, and etc. So I installed "non-free-codecs", then I installed for encrypted DVD playback, installed "libdvdcss2". These are in medibuntu repository, so make sure to add medibuntu repository before trying to install them.

Mmm, yes, SMPlayer's UI pleases me more than that of VLC.
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I like Last.fm, for their big song data and being free to listen to songs. Right after I installed Chromium, a web browser on which Google Chrome is based, I installed Last.fm music player extension. But it didn't play songs, not even on a Last.fm page, so I thought there must be missing codecs. I installed "chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra" and all work fine.

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