xVid and DivX on Ubuntu (Linux)

Posted by Jamsi in Linux on March 28th, 2006 | 9 responses

Looking to install Xvid or Divx on Ubuntu? Forget downloading source packages and compiling, simply grab VLC! (Applies to windows users too, how groovey is that?!?)

For Ubuntu users
Open up the file /etc/apt/sources.list in your favourite text editor and add the following lines.


deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy universe
deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy universe

Save the file, then back at the terminal type


apt-get update 
apt-get install vlc

And your done ! VLC will be added to the gnome menu under “Sounds and Video”.

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9 Responses to “xVid and DivX on Ubuntu (Linux)”

  1. rustic says:
    November 11, 2006 at 6:59 am

    Outstanding post.

    The same applies for edgy, just making the appropriate changes in your /etc/apt/sources.list

    Great source, great find.

    Thanks, mate.

  2. Fred says:
    November 12, 2006 at 8:44 am

    I Get this, any idea ?
    Im totally new in linux by the way!
    Thx in advace for any information!

    froyd@froyd-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install vlc
    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree… 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 resolve the situation:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    vlc: Depends: liba52-0.7.4 but it is not installable
    Depends: libdbus-1-1 (>= 0.36.2) but it is not installable
    Depends: libgnutls11 (>= 1.0.16) but it is not installable
    Depends: libmpeg2-4 but it is not installable
    Depends: libxosd2 (>= 2.2.13) but it is not installable
    E: Broken packages

  3. udens says:
    January 15, 2007 at 1:27 am

    Thanks a lot!!

  4. Mike says:
    February 10, 2007 at 11:00 am

    I’m getting the same error as Fred. Can anyone help out?

    Thanks

  5. Alex says:
    February 11, 2007 at 6:19 pm

    Hi.
    Thank you for the the info it work well on the video side but i cant get any sound.I have sounds on the computer but i dont get sound when i play the files
    MP3 or divx

  6. bhasi says:
    February 24, 2007 at 2:02 am

    I too get the same erros as Fred. Can anyone help?

  7. bhasi says:
    February 24, 2007 at 3:41 am

    Go through this link for help, this link has good information to install VLC

    http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html

  8. m says:
    January 21, 2008 at 10:44 am

    VLC is the best out there, open source to, but there are still some weird bugs in the Linux versions of the VLC player.

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