MPlayer codec update with Ubuntu Linux

Tested on Ubuntu Linux 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon. (2007-10-22)
Tested on Ubuntu Linux 6.06 Dapper Drake.


Installation method 1 | recommended (adds the Medibuntu repository, W32Codecs)

Copy and paste the following commands to your terminal.

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list && wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install w32codecs

Installation method 2 (MPlayer Website, W32Codecs)

Copy and paste the following command to your terminal.

wget http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20071007.tar.bz2 && tar -xjf essential-*.tar.bz2 && sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/win32 && sudo cp essential-*/* /usr/lib/win32