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In Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx", the universe, multiverse and restricted repositories are activated by default. For installing Multimedia files you need to add medibuntu repositories. Run the following in command mode it will add medibuntu repositories in your sources list $ sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list $ sudo apt-get --quiet update $ sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring $ sudo apt-get --quiet update Now you can Install non-free-codecs $ sudo apt-get install non-free-codecs It will enables your system to support for MP3 and various other audio formats, unrar. Java runtime environment, Flash plugin, Microsoft fonts, w32codecs etc! You can install more codecs and DVD Support by using $ sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2 libxine1-ffmpeg gxine mencoder It will help you to run DVDs, AVI files and other mpeg codecs. Now Install Famous VLC player ...

You can find many applications for windows to play many kind of codecs. Some of the windows applications are windows media player, real player, vlc, mplayer Ubuntu equivalent : vlc, mplayer, helix player To have Ubuntu playing all kinds of stuff, you need to install many codecs. Add the new repository and update your system. $ sudo wget  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1402212/karmic.sources.list  --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/full.list $   sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 2EBC26B60C5A2783 0DA7581859566E92 D739676F7613768D 43BB102C405A15CB 6AF0E1940624A220 2ED6BB6042C24D89 632D16BB0C713DA6 A6DCF7707EBC211F F9A2F76A9D1A0061 5A9BF3BB4E5E17B5 A040830F7FAC5991 FA3A1271 7FB8BEE0A1F196A8 0CC1223EE2314809 7889D725DA6DEEAA 28A8205077558DD0 2D79F61BE8D31A30 6E871C4A881574DE 66D5C734F6EFB904 DCF9F87B6DFBCBAE 2A8E3034D018A4CE F0876AC9 978228591BD3A65C 6298AD34413576CB FC6D7D9D009ED615 4FEC45DD06899068 2A423FD95416E75D $ sudo apt-get upd...