{"id":9392,"date":"2019-10-02T15:35:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T15:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9392"},"modified":"2019-10-02T15:35:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T15:35:33","slug":"install-multimedia-codecs-ubuntu-19-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/10\/install-multimedia-codecs-ubuntu-19-10\/","title":{"rendered":"One Command to Install MultiMedia Codecs in Ubuntu 19.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/upgrade-ubuntu245.png\" alt=\"Ubuntu 18.04\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6103\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Due to legal reason, Ubuntu does not have multimedia codec installed out of the box, though they are available in the universe repositories.<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re going to play music or video via the default media players (Rhythmbox and Totem), it prompts to install the decoder:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/miss-mediacodec-600x346.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"346\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/miss-mediacodec-600x346.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/miss-mediacodec-450x260.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/miss-mediacodec.jpg 724w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And <code>Ubuntu Software<\/code> pops up with a list of software packages after clicked the button.<\/p>\n<p>For those don&#8217;t want to be interrupted again, or you don&#8217;t know which to install, simple run following single command in terminal.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.)<\/b> Open terminal either via <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> or by searching for &#8216;terminal&#8217; from application menu. When it opens, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password for sudo prompts and hit Enter. Run <code>sudo apt update<\/code> first if required<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/restricted-extras-600x114.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"114\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/restricted-extras-600x114.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/restricted-extras-450x85.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/restricted-extras.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The command will install gstreamer, ffmpeg, dvd reading and navigation libraries, mesa and intel video acceleration drivers, and other most required software libraries.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mediacodecs-600x386.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"386\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mediacodecs-600x386.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mediacodecs-450x290.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mediacodecs.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to legal reason, Ubuntu does not have multimedia codec installed out of the box, though they are available in the universe repositories. When you&#8217;re going to play music or video via the default media players (Rhythmbox and Totem), it prompts to install the decoder: And Ubuntu Software pops up with a list of software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1463,1506],"class_list":["post-9392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-audio-codec","tag-media-codec"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}