VLC Media Player 0.9.2 Ubuntu Installation

Posted on September 20, 2008 by AllForLinux.com • 6 Comments

Recently, I just found that VideoLAN team has released their new VLC media player 0.9.2 Grishenko. I saw at their official website that this new software has a lot of new feautures for media player and streaming. VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Installation:
The installation is pretty easy, you need to put some unofficial package for ubuntu 8.04 , in the future of ubuntu 8.10, vlc will be available in the official ubuntu repositories.

Here is the installation method for ubuntu 8.04:

1. If you already had installed the VLC media player inside your ubuntu, remove it by typing:

sudo apt-get remove vlc

2. Add a new repositories: Open System > Administration> Software Sources > Third-Party Software. Click the “add” button to add a new repositories and paste this code:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/ubuntu hardy main
(Ubuntu 7.10 coming soon)
3. Close the software sources and reload the repositories(it will be prompted after you closed the software sources)

4. Install VLC! By typing: sudo apt-get install vlc

That’s all! You can play almost all of the video format like MPEG4, WMV, FLV, and OGG.

Other linux installation, you can visit this site for more information about the installation.
*Update:
Almost forgot, here are some free TV streaming service for indonesian visitors, you can watch RCTI, SCTV, Metro TV, and transTV(for streaming, click file menu->and open network stream):

1. RCTI: rtsp://202.58.181.185/broadcast/rcti
2. SCTV: rtsp://202.58.181.185/broadcast/sctv
3. Metro TV: mms://202.171.25.216/metro
4. Trans TV: mms://202.171.25.216/transtv

Enjoy! Please share if you have more information with other TV stations streaming service by posting a new comments!

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6 Responses to VLC Media Player 0.9.2 Ubuntu Installation

  1. Anonymous says:
    September 21, 2008 at 11:30 am

    V.N Article! Finally, a fresh look for VLC media player. Love it! Can you give us more information about the other streaming services?

  2. peter fields says:
    September 21, 2008 at 1:05 pm

    This is all very well, but the repo doesn’t have a signed key. Which means it is completely worthless. You people are SO irresponsible – do you EVER give a second’s thought before giving “advice” to others ?

  3. Van Der Noch says:
    September 21, 2008 at 1:14 pm

    Hm… I managed to installed it properly. There’s some probability that the repo signed key is the same with the ppa.launchpad.net key. Thx for the tutorial! You still need to put some repositories signed key, newbie might get confused with this.

  4. jonathanhotono says:
    September 21, 2008 at 2:43 pm

    @peter fields & van der noch: There's no GPG key needed! Just add like I told you and it will run as smooth as a silk! For peter fields: I always have a second thought before giving some advice and I always tested it before post it to know the fact behind those software. However, thank you for the suggestion and criticism. I really appreciate that.

  5. John says:
    September 22, 2008 at 5:45 am

    Well.I managed to installed this vlc correctly without any problem. Seemed to be there’s no GPG key needed after all. Thx for the tutorial.

  6. Kyle Brandt says:
    October 3, 2008 at 9:12 pm

    Doesn’t seem to work for Gutsy as your post indicates.

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