where do i find codec or converters for OS LINUX?

Question

My bf asked me to get him codec or converters for linuxbut I'm having difficulty finding them.
Doesn't help that I'm not too positive what I'm looking for =P

Can any of you point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

If you are using Ubuntu there is the Ubuntu Restricted Extras package https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats



This can be found in the Synaptic Package Manager or open a Terminal and submit the following command



sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras





LUg.

Answer 2

Look, I generally use mplayer for all my video needs. It comes by default with many distros but you can also download it from:



http://www.mplayerhq.hu.



If you have it on your system, surf over there and look at their codecs packages. There is one called "all" which is exactly what it says. Whatever your distro, as suggested above, you can find it in some repository for it. (for debian add:



deb http://debian-multimedia.org lenny main



to /etc/apt/sources.list file. And substitute the name of the Debian distribution or "testing" or "unstable" for lenny).



Once I get the codecs installed in Mplayer my other players, be they kaffeine or totem, seem to know exactly where to find them. So see if mplayer is installed, try to get the codecs from your distro for that, if that fails, try to install the mplayer codecs directly.

Answer 3

It depends what Linux distribution he is using. Different distros have different repositories for the codecs.



Ubuntu has its own restricted software repository. (enabled by default in Ubuntu)



For Fedora go to http://rpm.livna.org/



In Open SUSE you should enable the Pacman repo for codecs and download from there.