Thursday, August 20, 2009

Installing Banshee media player and ffmpeg video converter

Previous: Audio support fixed

With audio working, I went ahead and installed support for watching videos.

I started Firefox and went to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/. There, I installed the Video DownloadHelper add-on. Then I installed ffmpeg (video converter) and Banshee (media player) from a command line:
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install banshee
Smooth as silk, no problems, no extra steps. Done. Lovely!

One less reason to boot into Vista. That in itself is like a cool drink of water on a hot day.

Next: Ubuntu: No love for Kodak printers

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