Install the Full Proprietary Codecs Pack in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal!

To be honest, Ubuntu is not for everyone. It's has a way of its own while doing "things" but from a "user-friendly" point of view, it is one of the most easiest to use nonetheless!.

Also when comparing with Fedora Core, etc... installing a full proprietary codecs in Ubuntu is one of the easiest things to do too.

So after installing the Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, as usual you must've found out that, the Totem player Front-end simply can't play some multimedia files (well, most of the known codecs).

In that case, you can simply open your Terminal and enter the below command which will install a full codec pack that'll let you play a lot of proprietary codecs such as mp3, avi, mpeg1/2 (DVDs) and many more.

Here's the command.

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

But this codec pack won't allow you to play original DVD movies that are encrypted by default. So again use the below commands to enable "that one" as well :P. 

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/natty.list –output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring
sudo apt-get update 

sudo -s
    apt-get install libdvdcss2
    cd /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/
    ./install-css.sh

That's it, enjoy!.