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How to: play rmvb in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)

Saturday, November 3, 2007 12:21:23 PM

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If you want to play rmvb in Ubuntu you have to do some easy steps, which i regularly forget about, so here is a description which will help me (and possibly you) to remember how it works.
One thing you should note is, that you will have to install non-free Components.

Only things needed should be a player like mplayer and the non-free package w32codecs.

Before you can install the last one you will have to add the medibuntu repository to your list:

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

now add the gpg key:

wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update

Now install my favorite rmvb player:

sudo apt-get install mplayer

and finally the codecs:

sudo apt-get install w32codecs

To start playing from the console just write something like this:

gmplayer video.rmvb

Note:
This applies to the current release of Ubuntu, 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon).
Anything you might need to know about doing this on another version should be found there:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

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Comments

Anonymous # Wednesday, January 9, 2008 5:02:09 PM

Alshaimaa writes: Million thanks dear for this article.. as i was searching for a while how to play rmvb on ubuntu... now i tried your how to.. but unfortunately i got this error in the terminal "Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation:" Then it listed some packages to install.. and i used the synaptic package manager to install them all...and repeat installing Mplayer... but again it gave me the same error... Could you please told me why it doesn't work? Many thanks in advance... Peace..

Anonymous # Thursday, February 28, 2008 6:53:10 AM

icewalker writes: Many thanks man :)

Anonymous # Wednesday, April 2, 2008 8:35:33 PM

Jimmy writes: thanks;)

Anonymous # Thursday, April 3, 2008 5:53:22 PM

Piyush writes: Thankx man for the article. Mine worked perfectly after I followed these steps. I am gonna post a link to this tutorial on my blog too. Cheers ! Piyush (piyushspace.blogspot.com)

Anonymous # Saturday, May 24, 2008 10:02:30 PM

koko writes: thanks a lot and for other tutorial visit http://share-ubuntu.blogspot.com/ :)

Anonymous # Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:31:46 PM

malaybuntu writes: at last i can play rmvb files in my ubuntu thanks a lot....

Anonymous # Monday, July 14, 2008 11:29:25 PM

Marconi Poveda writes: Thanks Dude... I tried in Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) and worked just fine. Great job.

Anonymous # Friday, July 18, 2008 8:14:12 PM

from mexico writes: hey thx for the tutorial its very useful

Anonymous # Friday, August 15, 2008 10:07:09 PM

Anonymous writes: if you're using 64 bit you might want sudo apt-get install w64codecs instead of sudo apt-get install w32codecs I did. ... PS your captcha is broken I had to switch browsers to get it to display.

Anonymous # Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:41:47 AM

GHOST writes: U R THE BEST THNX VERY MUCH

Anonymous # Thursday, November 6, 2008 3:36:49 PM

neonazzer writes: Thanx a lot bro,..

Anonymous # Sunday, January 25, 2009 3:07:10 AM

Viroslash writes: Finaly I can see movies... Thank you. Works great!