Open a terminal in Ubuntu by searching for it in the menu or using the terminal keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+T. In any case, you can install the package using command line and it’s very simple. I find it surprising that the software center doesn’t list Ubuntu Restricted Extras. Please read this article to learn more about various Ubuntu repositories. You’ll have to use multiverse repository, the software repository specifically created by Ubuntu to provide non-open source software to its users. Since these software are not open source and some of them involve software patents, Ubuntu doesn’t install them by default. The ubuntu-restricted-extras is a software package that consists various essential software like flash plugin, unrar, gstreamer, mp4, codecs for Chromium browser in Ubuntu etc. The good thing is that Ubuntu provides a single package to install all the essential media codecs: ubuntu-restricted-extras. But you’ll still have troubles with audio media files and flash player. VLC one of the best video players for Linux and can play almost any video file format.

If you have just installed Ubuntu or some other Ubuntu flavors like Kubuntu, Lubuntu etc, you’ll notice that your system doesn’t play some audio or video file.įor video files, you can install VLC on Ubuntu.

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