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Install Banshee 2.4 on Ubuntu 12.04/11.10 Oneiric Ocelot/Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal/Linux Mint

Banshee music player

Banshee 2.4 is the culmination of six months' work by 35 developers, 38 translators and dozens of bug reporters and testers. It is a stable release, the successor to Banshee 2.0.
Play your audios and videos. Keep up with your podcasts and Internet radio. Discover new music and podcasts. Keep your portable device loaded with good stuff.

To install/upgrade open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
Here is the Homepage of Banshee.
Install VLC 2.0 on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot/Linux Mint

VLC media player (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG, DivX/Xvid, Ogg, and many more) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. However in recent years it has also become a extremely powerful server to stream live and on demand video in several formats to our network and the Internet.


To install VLC on Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:





Here is the site of VLC. That's it
Install Mplayer and Multimedia Codecs (libdvdcss2,w32codecs,w64codecs) on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot/Linux Mint

MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation). It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV and even H.264 movies.
Mplayer Linux

Install Mplayer on Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Alt+F2 and type: gnome-terminal -or- Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:




Install w32 video codecs and libdvdcss2 in Ubuntu 11.10
Support for WMV, RealMedia and other formats has been bundled into the w32codecs package. This package is not available from the Ubuntu repositories due to licensing and legal restrictions.To play encrypted DVDs, the libdvdcss2 package is essential.

The following command adds Medibuntu’s repository to Ubuntu. It also adds Medibuntu’s GPG key to your keyring, which is needed to authenticate the Medibuntu packages.








You may also wish to add the following packages. The first will cause many apps from the Medibuntu repository to appear in Ubuntu Software Center (Ubuntu 9.10+) or Add/Remove Applications (versions prior to 9.10). The second will allow users to generate crash reports against Medibuntu packages and submit them to the Medibuntu bugtracker.



Please note you may have to use --force-yes instead of --yes in order for this command to succeed.
For i386 Users install Codecs using the following command



For amd64 Users install Codecs using the following command



Using above download locations you can install most of the mutimedia codecs for ubuntu.

Mplayer Plugin for Firefox
If you want to install Mplayer with plug-in for Mozilla Firefox run the following command



That's it, Enjoy