What is the best free codec for linux?

Question

i am running the latest version of ubuntu

Answer 1

The best way is to enable Ubuntu Restricted Extras. Here is the official Ubuntu Restricted Extras Documentation https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats



There are two ways you can install them. Go to the Synaptic Package Manager and search for Ubuntu Restricted Extras or Open up the Terminal and submit the following command



sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras



This package contains a whole host of Media codecs.



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Answer 2

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A good solution is KLite Codec Pack, a collection of audio/video codecs. I fixed my issues with videos and audios with this package. Free Download here http://bitly.com/1kl9DqB

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Answer 3

I have Mplayer installed in all my machines. And the mplayer codecs will handle everything at all. I'm putting off installing realplayer on my gentoo box (though I'm gonna) because mplayer handles both rm and ram files (the downside is if it has a choice between a wmv file and a ram file it chooses the wmv files and I prefer realplayer formats). So if you have universe in your sources.list file and you haven't installed mplayer, mencoder and ffmpeg, do so. Get the mplayer codecs and you will actually find that your other programs can be configured to use them.