Best Media Players for Ubuntu Linux
For all Ubuntu lovers, I have gathered a list of best media players for Ubuntu and how you can install them.
1. VLC Player:
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player supporting most audio and video formats (H.264, Ogg, DivX, MKV, TS, MPEG-2, mp3, MPEG-4, aac, …) from files, physical media (DVDs, VCD, Audio-CD), TV capture cards and many network streaming protocols. It can also convert media files, transcode and act as a streaming server over unicast or multicast and IPv4 or IPv6. It doesn’t need any external codec, program or codec pack to work. To install, just run the command line in Terminal.
sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-pulse mozilla-plugin-vlc
Once installed, you can find it in Applications > Sound & Video > VLC Media Player.
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2. Banshee
Banshee is a free open-source media player for Ubuntu which enables you to play audio and video files. It supports many portable media players including Apple iPod, G1 etc. You can sync you portable player and organize and create playlists. It used Helix and GStreamer multimedia platform for encoding and decoding various media formats, including Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and FLAC. To install Banshee, type the following command in the Terminal
sudo aptitude install banshee
3. MPlayer
Mplayer is a media player that runs on many operating systems including Ubuntu. It plays most of the available formats including MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV and even H.264 movies.
To install MPlayer, just type the following command in the Terminal
audo apt-get install mplayer
Once its installed, you can find it in Applications > Sounds and Video > MPlayer Movie Player
4. Rhythmbox
Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple’s iTunes. It is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media framework.
To install Rhythmbox, type
sudo apt-get install rhythmbox
5. Songbird
Songbird is a free open source media player which works on many operating systems and is highly customizable. It play most of the known media formats such as MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, Apple Lossless and WMA. Its comes with many other great features which can be very useful for people who try to customize players according to their needs.
To install Songbird, unrar the file by typing the following command:
tar -xvf Songbird_1.2.0-1146_linux-i686.tar.gz
Go to the extracted folder and type :
Sh songbird
And it will start the installation wizard. All you have to do is follow the instructions and it will be installed
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6. QuodLibet
Quodlibet is a media player written in Python language which allows the users to design and organize their library the way they want to.
To install it, type the following command in Terminal:
sudo apt-get install quodlibet
7. Beep Media Player:
The Beep Media Player (BMP) was a free audio player, based on the XMMS multimedia player. It supports all the media formats supported by XMMS. It looks more or less like winamp and also supports its skins.
To install BMP, type the following command in the terminal:
sudo aptitude install beep-media-player
