So, now that Ubuntu is up and running, it’s time to be productive and listen to music or watch some movies!
- Adding MP3 Support to Totem Movie Player/RhythmBoxUnder Application | Add/Remove… Once there, click the Advanced button. Next, you will need to access the Settings | Repositories menu and check the “Community maintained (Universe)” items as well as the “Officially supported Restricted copyright Community maintained (Universe) Non-free (Multiverse) items. Altogether, I checked 4 boxes. Click Close, and then click the Reload button. Next, click the Search button and type “gstreamer.” Mark gstreamer…plugins-ugly. Finally, click Apply – click for details.
- Adding divx (AVI) support… at a prompt, type: install gstreamer…-ffmpeg