Multimedia Codecs and Tools for Ubuntu

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

Multimedia On Ubuntu

Ubuntu is very rich when it comes to playing multimedia formats like videos, music, photo editing, video editing etc . The default music player for Ubuntu is Rhythmbox music player for playing Videos the default is Movie Player .. But You would find some other cool Multimedia programs like Banshee,Amarok,VLC etc.

Multimedia Codecs

But before i start introducing some of the cool multimedia tools available for the Ubuntu Linux Desktop lets start by first installing important codecs that would make it possible to play many of the popular Multimedia formats on our ubuntu Linux box. ( Ubuntu Ships with only free and open source software. hence some popular formats like mp3,avi,mp4 wont work out of the box. because their are not free and open source format. but you are allowed to  install the codecs to play these extra formats.)
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17.12.2008 Guides, Ubuntu View Comments

New Look for My Blog

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Decided to give my blog a new look. since its mostly a guide oriented blog i wanted something easy on the eyes and that would not make my post crammed. i hope its cool i would appreciate feedbacks

07.12.2008 Uncategorized View Comments

Upgrade / Downgrade your Dell Bios On Ubuntu

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Updating or Downgrading your Bios is pretty straight forward on Ubuntu. Ok maybe not as straight forward as double clinking to install. But not that difficult all the same.

for this guide we will be using the commandline. But that should not scare you, i have tried to make the guide as easy as possible. first we open Terminal /Application/Accessories/Terminal
Now since we will be running every command as root(as administrator), we sould need to become an admin. so that we wont need to been adding sudo infront of every command. so first copy and paste this in terminal
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07.12.2008 Dell M1330, Uncategorized View Comments

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