Guide to getting mp3 and video working

[Frank Siegert]

,---- Subs wrote:
| Just installed Kubuntu. From looking at the FAQ on the website I thought it
| would be easy to get video or at least mp3 support working by installing a
| couple of packages. Alas no it's not. No doubt this has been asked a
| million times before but for Kubuntu 6.10 what do I need to do to
|
| * Get mp3 support in Amarok and in general across the desktop?
| * What do I need to do in order to play back the avi's I taken with my
| camera on my holidays?
| * What do we I need to do to be able to playback the DVDs I rent from the
| video store?

I thought, all of this is explained in the Kubuntu Desktop Guide 
  https://help.ubuntu.com/6.10/kubuntu/desktopguide/C/index.html
or at least on pages, it links to?

If not, there is also the Restricted Formats page, which should answer your 
questions:

  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats


| I'd be happy to produce a guide and stick it up on the Kubuntu FAQ if
| someone could tell me how to do these things. Is it not time that a quick
| link was provided on the desktop which would install all these dependancies
| at the click of a user button?

Maybe you just need to link to one of the above.

-- 
Frank