Install VLC 2.0.6 Media Player in Ubuntu 13.04/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 14/13
VLC media player (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG, DivX/Xvid, Ogg, and many more) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. However in recent years it has also become a extremely powerful server to stream live and on demand video in several formats to our network and the Internet.
Features:
VLC media player (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG, DivX/Xvid, Ogg, and many more) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. However in recent years it has also become a extremely powerful server to stream live and on demand video in several formats to our network and the Internet.
- Simple, fast and powerful media player.
- Plays everything: Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams.
- Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed:
- MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3...
- Runs on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix...
- Completely Free, 0 spyware, 0 ads and no user tracking.
- Can do media conversion and streaming.
- More info.
- Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
- Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
- Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
- Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
- Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
- Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
- Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
- Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
- Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
- Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
- Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
- 3rd party codecs updates
- Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
- Translation Updates: New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
To install VLC in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
That's it
Source: videolan
