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- polymorphist, on 10/12/2007, -5/+40"let's test your theory...
UBUNTU"
It doesn't work that way...you have to make up a story that contains the word. - schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+32I cannot believe that a single command has received 10 diggs in under 2 hours. It might be a case of [if title contains substring "Ubuntu" then digg].
- Tyr7BE, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17"I believe your priorities are a bit backwards."
Am I to understand that he should be watching a green line and worrying about porn? - lordsandwich, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19Windows "straight outa the ***** box" doesn't even have DVD codecs, kiddo.
- Aelbric, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Or you could just wait 4 weeks until Feisty (Ubuntu 7) goes Gold. It installs all the codecs on demand when you fire up a new media file. Pretty slick
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17The only way anyone on digg could be unaware of ubuntu not having these drivers, would be if they had a memory retention span of less than 24 hours. That's about how often we're reminded.
Can the Ubuntu users please install these codecs then stfu and get on with life? - strabes, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13I use ubuntu and I buried this is as spam because it is. He basically copied the command from the Community Ubuntu Documentation page on Restricted Formats: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats
Would have been better to use that url in the story.
It's also inaccurate. Ubuntu ships with codecs for all non-proprietary formats. They're giving in though. In feisty you can just install 1 package (ubuntu-restricted-extras) to get all of this stuff. - zofo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11VLC player should be installed on EVERY OS... There's hardly anything it doesnt manage to chew out...
- ryanmm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11someone make a topic that just says "Ubuntu" and links to the ubuntu homepage...it'll be a big hit
...posted using ubuntu :) - aburd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Installing Ubuntu is much easier than adding repositories. In fact, most people understand the concept of installing. They don't understand the concept of repositories.
- leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Whoops, schestowitz I saw ubuntu in your comment and accidentally gave you a thumbs up...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5http://digg.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_3
- humperdeath, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8I installed UBUNTU just yesterday (now dual boot w/XP) It was fast and easy. Thanks to DIGG for making me aware of this product and how great it is. After the OS is installed you can select software you want to install, and you can choose a vast number of apps to view/ listen/ edit/ copy CD/DVD/ MP3/ NES games etc. Pick as many as you want, then the ALL download and install AT ONCE only one reboot after all are done. You can walk away for about 30 minutes and come back, IT IS DONE! This was only yesterday, but it was so easy, I cant believe it. Especially after reinstalling windows like every 6 to 9 months, this was a snap. So, Thanks to Digg, I found an excellent alternative to Windows.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Codecs? Bah.. I just use MPlayer for all my video viewing needs. It plays everything natively, it's ultra CPU efficient, full of effects and options (but no GUI, you have to read the man to learn how to use them), and excelent keyboard+OSD control.
- skymt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The best part: MPlayer completely ignores DVD menus. Pop in a DVD, run MPlayer, and it goes straight to the movie! No ads, no piracy warnings, and no unskippable, overblown animated menus. It's like playing a pirated movie, only legal! I'd pay an extra $50 for a physical DVD player that could do that.
Oh, and there is an optional GUI, if you like that sort of thing. - solarpowered, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Why not just get VLC?
- rotten777, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Not very helpful if you don't have the correct repositories setup.
Buried. Spam and lame. - sngx1275, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Thats funny. Windows Media Center Edition will NOT play tv without you installing a 3rd party mpeg2 decoder (WinDVD, PowerDVD, ect).
Edit: Damn, lordsandwich beat me by just a sec. - shaolinpunks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5neat o
I had used automatix so will check this out next time - GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5It doesn't have MP3 encoding until you update WMP. That is not 'out of the box'. WMP 9 did not come with MP3 encoding, that's a reality. WMP 10 did but isn't on the XP install discs for even SP2.
I've got my facts right, I've had to nanny hundreds of people through fresh XP installs bitching about why their MP3s have broken. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7I wish I could get rid of that damn green line in quicktime videos!
my pron doesnt look so good tinted blue with a green line on top - outoforder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3BLOG SPAM. terrible post (and yes, I use Ubuntu).
- democracysucks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4This is (in my opinion) one of the things that sets Ubuntu apart from other distros, such as the wonderful Fedora. Ubuntu is moving forward, even in adding simple things like this meta package. Too many other distros are standing perfectly still, doing little more than updating packages and the kernel for their next release.
- bobothn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5@bias
for most items it does work strait out of the box. The people in ubuntu want to keep the actual distro completely open source. so they don't add codecs no major distro does. what is unique about ubuntu is they are constituently trying to make it easier to use in the newest release you can ether install the codec when you start playing (it warns you codec is not installed and 3 clicks from their it installs it on your system. or just install the ubuntu restricted extras package. with every codec you could want and a bunch of other stuff. - b05q, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I WANT MY 64-BIT FLASH9/WMV9 DRIVERS!!!!!!!
- b05q, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2try the instructions here: ubuntuguide.org (for mp3 and 99% of common stuff)
also, in the future, use synaptic package manager(or apt-get in the terminal) , it will handle the dependencies etc. easybuntu (mentioned at ubuntuguide.org) is a script that grabs all usual codecs and some other stuff in one swoop.
i first used ubuntu 5.10 - about 2 years ago. the current, 6.10 is soooooooo much better, you ought to give it a shot. wireless works out of the box, iPod hooks up out of the box, nVidia/beryl with ease, etc.
if you want a distro that hooks up all the proprietary stuff at install you might try http://www.sabayonlinux.org/ . A couple of my less geeky friends swear by it.
[ p.s. as a web programmer, you ought to learn what a kernel is, even if you never have to compile one, or develop one, it will help you out] - kingace, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3What does that have to do with multimedia codecs? Ubuntu Studio is going to be a derivation of Ubuntu for graphics/multimedia editing and producing, not listening to media files in restricted formats...
- 0siris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Theres no real difference. I have done it both ways, and the results are the same with automatix2 and faster
- schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have just noticed that the cited blog had modified the item and tidied up things a little bit. When I wrote my comment there was just a really large command, rather than a neat table. Just to put things in perspective...
- seuaniu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Lets see about that. On Edgy:
1. Click System ---> Administration ---> Software Sources
2. Enter Password
3. Check the 3 boxes for extra repositories
4. Click "Close" - bigtomrodney, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4If you had that level of knowledge you wouldn't need this link more like. This isn't a very helpful article. It's not nearly as easy for a new user as just pointing them at http://gettautomatix.com
I'm really confused as to why this is on the front page. - alpinestarless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2and Why not mplayer instead..... ?!??!
- ziadoz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Why do people keep spouting the crap about Windows XP getting slower and crappy after 6 months? The only people who believe that are zealots and ill-informed morons. A good free anti virus, spyware and firewall program will keep your system secure; and a defrag and registry clean once in a while wouldn't go amiss. Sure Ubuntu is much easier to maintain, but don't blame Microsoft for that fact you don't understand how to maintain your own computer.
- sanguinemoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No, ***** for brains. He's saying that its less of nuisance to get the codecs in Linux, not that he can't.
- SwellGuy007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Okay, maybe I will get flamed for pondering this n00b question, but here goes ....
The last time I tried Linux (Ubuntu - 8 or 9 months ago) I could not install a suitable MP3 player because I got all these dependency messages/errors. I could not do it because the incorrect version of GLIB was installed. Could not install GLIB because no proper C Compiler was installed. After reading some stuff about C Compilers I got discouraged and ran away. I parked my Linux Box under my desk and have not turned it on since. I normally use Windows and can do anything I want with it (Uber User) but have been wanting to switch to Linux for a while as I feel it suits my work style better than Windows.
Is this MP3 playback problem resolved with this distro or will I still waste several hours of my time trying to play an MP3 file in Linux? I see people commenting on encoding MP3, but I just want simple playback without involving compiling some Kernal (whoever that is). I can play on my XP box, but I would prefer to work on a Linux box (web programmer).
If you have something to contribute ... help make me a convert :) - kerrle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Yeah, because XP can play realplayer, divx, and quicktime movies right out of the box, right?
- jake3988, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Windows does not come with DIVX support or anything like that by default. With linux, I click two boxes, and I have support.
On windows, I had to search the internet downloading 3 different codec packs until I found one that finally worked. Took almost an hour.
On linux? 45 seconds.
Oh, and the article is down. - sleepwalkers, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4You're watching porn and you're worried about a green line at the top?
I believe your priorities are a bit backwards. - seuaniu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Another thing about vlc:
Boot into windows if you have it. find a 720x480 mpeg2 file (dvd resolution). Right-click on the taskbar and open up the task manager, and set it to that cpu graph tab. Now, play your movie in Windows Media Player (assuming that it has the codec installed, if not, go get it). Watch that graph. Now, shut down WMP and open up the same file in VLC. Look at that graph again. Not only does VLC play just about everything under the sun, it does it at about 1/4 the cpu usage as wmp does.
Edit: I should note that this is pretty much anecdotal, coming from a toshiba laptop with a 2.4 P4, 1GB RAM, and Nvidia graphics with 64MB on-board memory (not shared). - SwellGuy007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thanks for the tip. I do know what a Kernal is ... I was being a smart ass :)
- mercurysquad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1digg down, wrong reply.
- sanguinemoon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5No, it does not. People bitch of Linux and multimedia, somehow forgetting that Windows doesn't come with all the codecs out of the box either.
- se1zure, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Why should one have to open up the terminal to set it up play mp3s?
ubuntu users make no sense. They say it's easy... but then they give you 500 page guids to do everything.
I tried ubuntu, TOok me 3 days to get my video card PARTIALLY working (x1950 pro), and then after installing BERYL, it still didn't work 100%, is super glitchy, and won't let me change themes... - bobcrotch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You don't have to buy any other software for windows at all. All you need to use windows is a brain, don't open emails with attachments from people you don't know. Keep your box updated to avoid worms and don't click ads and download shady applications that are laced with trojans.
It's really pretty simple but people still seem to mess it up every time. - sanguinemoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1". It's not nearly as easy for a new user as just pointing them at http://gettautomatix.com "
Then having to help them when automatix causes their updates to foul up :p Teach new users the right way, which is extremely trivial anyway. - seuaniu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'll agree that the default vlc interface sucks, but it sucks less than, say, gmplayer default imho. As far as performance goes, there is quite a difference (for me at least) between windows and linux, especially when dealing with wmvs. The display just seems to get borked for some reason. I'm not sure if this is a difference between the vlc code, or a difference in the way displays get handled in X vs. Windows.
- seuaniu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3"just works straight out of the box"
LMFAO
Really, I use both Linux and windows, and that is the most inaccurate comment I've ever seen. Go get a stock WinXP disc. Install windows. Try to open up any of these types of files:
.doc
.xls
.ppt
.wpd
.pdf
any file without a filename extension, no matter what format it really is.
.avi (divx)
The only things that windows comes with that Linux doesn't (and that depends on the distro, but since this is an ubuntu thread, we'll talk about that) is java, flash (and you can bet that both of those will need to be updated right after install anyway), and .wmv support.
There are so many areas where Linux is light-years ahead of windows in terms of functionality, it isn't even funny. Realistically, all we're missing is driver support for lots of devices. Add that, and Windows doesn't have anything, with the one exception of Exchange support, and you have to fork out for MS Office for that. - se1zure, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1umm.. If I buy a DVD, then I wanted the special features on it too...
- bigtomrodney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah but VLC is built on FFMPEG. I'm a big fan of VLC on Windows but it doesn't cut it as well on Linux imho. Xine and Mplayer both offer better performance along with an array of better interfaces.
- outoforder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0VLC rocks!
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