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And when it comes to playing multimedia, the market is dominated by proprietary codecs. Although it used to be worse in the past (not that long ago) but thanks to fast internet connections and wizard type GUIs... now you can easily install any software via easy to use graphical utilities or using terminal commands.
But, what if your Linux (Ubuntu in this example) PC does not have an internet connection?. How can you install those multimedia codecs then?. Well, luckily there are offline installers which can come in really handy in those situations.
So, if you have installed Ubuntu 10.10 and looking for an offline multimedia codec pack which lets play almost any type of audio/video files... then this is how you install it.
1. Get the zipped file from here first.
2. Then double click on it and extract it to a desired location (Gnome desktop for instance).
3. Now, inside the extracted folder look for a file called "install.sh" and double click it.
4. Then from the following prompt, choose "run in Terminal" (or it'll automatically launch depending your Nautilus configurations), the installation is automatic and will require the "sudo" password. Once it's done you'll be notified with a message saying "now you can close the terminal window". Then close your terminal window.
Now you should be able to play almost any type of audio/video files such as AAC, MP3, H.264, H.263, .WMV are just a few to name. This installer also installs other proprietary utilities such as Adobe flash players as well.
Make sure to keep a copy of the downloaded zipped archive and use it whenever you need to install multimedia codecs on a PC than runs Ubuntu 10.10 (only) when you don't have an internet connection!.
9 comments:
thanx a lot... i was looking just for this.
@Aravind,
Glad it helped! :D.
Is it available for UBUNTU 11.04.
@ Tony,
I'm afraid I can't find it for Ubuntu 11.04... although you could create your own offline codec pack in Ubuntu using the apt-get cache... but it's not "automated" as this pack :(. Sorry about that.
May you please make a version for ubuntu 11.04. I have no internet connection on my ubuntu machine so installing via one of the terminal options is impossible.
@Nchima,
Well my friend I no longer use 11.04 (using the 11.10) but luckily you can still get an offline codec pack using the below link. Big thanks goes to the Ubuntu Forum users ...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=5a3da567bb41bd6986181d54a618db14&t=1477045
OR you can just use the below link to direct download the pack
http://www.mediafire.com/file/qcm0wzkv59wjn6m/Ubuntu-Restricted-Extras-Offline-Installer-11.04.tar.gz
Good luck.
Thank you, I will try this on my 10.10, can this work on other versions below 10.10??
how to do it in ubuntu 13.10?
i need the offline installer...
thank you.
@ Anonymous,
Hi,
I don't know if there is a package for Ubuntu 13.10 (you can try 'Googling' it). That said, I did write an article on my WordPress site that you can follow for creating one by your own.
http://www.hecticgeek.com/2012/06/offline-multimedia-codec-pack-ubuntu-linux/
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