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===== mplayer & Codecs installieren (Hardy Heron 8.04) =====

MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4,DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It has many MX/SSE (2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using XAnim’s and RealPlayer’s binary codec plugins, and Win32 codec DLLs. It has basic VCD/DVD playback functionality, including DVD subtitles, but supports many text- based subtitle formats too. For video output, nearly every existing interface is supported. It’s also able to convert any supported files to raw/divx/mpeg4 AVI (pcm/mp3 audio), and even video grabbing from V4L devices. 

=== Install Mplayer in Ubuntu Hardy Heron ===

You need to add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list file or you need to make sure you have enabled Universe and multiverse repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list file
<code>sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list</code>
Make sure you have the following two lines save and exit your file
<code>deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy universe multiverse
 deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy universe multiverse</code>
Now you need to run the following command to update the source list
<code>sudo apt-get update</code>
Install mplayer using the following command
<code>sudo apt-get install mplayer</code>
if you want to open mplayer just type
<code>gmplayer</code>

or

You can Open from Applications—>Sound&Video—> Mplayer Movie Player

=== Install libdvdcss2 and w32 video codecs in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) ===

Support for WMV, RealMedia and other formats has been bundled into the w32codecs package. This package is not available from the Ubuntu repositories due to licensing and legal restrictions.

For Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Users run the following command
<code>sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list</code>
Then, add the GPG Key using the following commands
<code>sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring
sudo apt-get update</code>

**For i386 Users install Codecs using the following command**

<code>sudo apt-get install w32codecs libdvdcss2</code>

**For amd64 Users install Codecs using the following command**
<code>sudo apt-get install w64codecs libdvdcss2</code>

Using above download locations you can install most of the mutimedia codecs for ubuntu.
=== Mplayer Plugin for Firefox ===

If you want to install Mplayer with plug-in for Mozilla Firefox run the following command
<code>sudo apt-get install mozilla-mplayer</code>