Ubuntu: Ms Font & Media Codec

Ubuntu: Ms Fonts & Multimedia codecs Installation

First step is to install the Microsoft Fonts. This can be done in one easy command line.

Sudo apt-get install msscorefonts

Now that the Font are up and running, the second step is to install the multimedia codecs.
Most tutorials show how to install the gstreamer plug-in , but I had a lots of problem with.
Some video doesn’t play and some crash the whole system!
Before going further in the installation process, make sure to update you /etc/apt/source.conf with those repositories

## MAIN REPOSITORIESdeb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main restricted universe multiversedeb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main restricted universe multiverse
## MAJOR BUG FIX UPDATES
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-updates main restricted universe multiversedeb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
## SECURITY UPDATES
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security main restricted universe multiversedeb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security main restricted universe multiverse
## BACKPORTS
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-backports main restricted universe multiversedeb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

To download the the codecs and installing them , open a consol prompt a type the following commands.

wget http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/libd/libdvdcss/libdvdcss2_1.2.9-0.0_i386.deb
wget http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/w/w32codecs/w32codecs_20060611-0.0_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i w32codecs_20060611-0.0_i386.deb libdvdcss2_1.2.9-0.0_i386.deb
sudo apt-get install lame sox ffmpeg mjpegtools mpg321 vorbis-tools
sudo apt-get install totem-xine libxine-extracodecs
sudo apt-get install mozilla-mplayer

You are up and running, you can now play any media file found over the net.
Playing .wma and .wmv is not a problem anymore.

Ubuntu (Egdy Eft) 3D Desktop – Not Compiz or Beryl

You can do some nice effects whiteout using Compiz or Beryl.

It use the 3DDesktop available in the Ubuntu Repositories.

CLI INSTALLATION: apt-get install 3ddesktop

Very easy to install.

Digg it if you like it !

Kubuntu with beryl

Kubuntu + aiglx + nvidia drivers + beryl = sweet water effect The water effect look very nice. digg it if you like it ! 

[Video] Compiz (Beryl-Project) for linux !

This guy run compiz on a 4 year old computer …. can you believe that ?

cpu: 2.4 ghz
video card: Nvidia 6600 GT
RAM: 512 megs

sabayon 3.26 live dvd

Hey I just found this video on youtube showing sabayon 3.26 live dvd in action.
I thought to share it with you

Post a comment about this sabayon video

Rock with sabayon

[video] Ubuntu Beryl Matrix 3D Desktop

Wow that is a real desktop.

3D Desktop TouchScreen and XGL on Linux!

It is really impressive …..I should get a setup like that very soon

[Video] Debian Startup Scripts

Learn how to make startup scripts with Debian based distribution. (including Ubuntu).

Ubuntu …easy

Folks !

Yesterday I installed Ubuntu 6.10.
Honestly I didn’t tought that will be so easy !!!!

First I really like the concept of LiveCD install.
The installation process is entirly made by GUI. I would not mind if it wasn’t. It’s just to have. Any newbies should me able to make the installation.

The video card was automatically detected and installed. The drivers are working just fine !

What’s really impress me is the network stuff. I can see my Windows2k server and I didn’t done any special configuration.

For the now Ubuntu rock. !