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.