How to Play Rmvb Files In Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)

Ubuntu Logo Linux jaux.netIf you experienced this topic earlier, you know that it’s tough to solve. Playing Real video format files (e.g. rmvb files) is still a problem in Ubuntu 8.04, but don’t worry, it’s now much easier than before.

So, here we go:

  1. Follow the official instruction to install all the restricted formats:

    sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
  2. Install MPlayer:

    sudo apt-get install mplayer
  3. Download MPlayer binary codecs package from here.
  4. Install MPlayer binary codecs package: (Note: the package name may differ from yours.)

    tar xjvf essential-20071007.tar.bz2
    sudo mkdir /usr/lib/codecs
    sudo cp essential-20071007/* /usr/lib/codecs

At this point, you should be able to play rmvb files now. In case you still can’t, install libstdc++5 as follow:

sudo apt-get install libstdc++5

Bonus: I highly recommend you to give SMPlayer a try. You can get SMPlayer by:

sudo apt-get install smplayer

Comments

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    THANK YOU kind jaux sir.

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    I made that but it still not working??!!

    it’s my fist visit

    sweet blog

    :)

    regardes

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    Michael said June 26, 2008, 6:01 pm:

    thank you.

    it works for me…

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    thank you.

    it works for me…

    Cool!

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    nice one, that last bit (sudo apt-get install libstdc++5) was the bit i needed. no idea what it is or what it does but apparently i needed it.

    cheers

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