Video annoyances after Jaunty install

[Nate]

Alan,

You could also try using VLC.  It's a great media player and has all the
codecs built in.  It also has a mozilla plugin for watching videos online.
For Flash, you'll still need the Adobe plugin, though.

If you want to get everything working in one swipe, and don't care much
about the legality of doing so (US patent/copyright issues), you can install
the ubuntu-restricted-extras package.  It also installs Microsoft fonts
(also of questionable legality) and some other stuff.  Another option would
be to pay Canonical for the Fluendo codecs, which get you legal codecs for
watching pretty much everything, including DVD's.

Nate

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:44 PM, John Alan Hastings <jah1066 at aol.com> wrote:

> I have just upgraded my sons Dell Inspiron 1420 to Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty).
>  It is an old machine, one of the early Dell Ubuntu preloads and came
> with Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty).  I installed a brand new 500GB hard drive and
> archived the old.  The only problems are that videos pretty much do not
> work.  In the past I have fiddled around and gotten my machines so that
> I seem to be able to do everything I want to do; I can watch videos in
> news clips, I can watch movies.
>
> The problem is that I am not sure what I did.  I seem to have installed
> a lot of gstreamer modules, and also xine.  I think they are competing,
> rather like gnome and KDE.  They are all there, but I am not sure that
> they are all in use.  There is also Adobe Flash player and DeCSS.
> Everything I know about this issue is getting rather long in the tooth.
>
> What is the best route here?  What is the best current practice?  What
> are other people doing?  Is there a recommended procedure?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan
>
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