Due to Ubuntu’s policy about non-free formats, by default this OS comes with no support to media like MP3 (which can be required to deal with FFmpeg) and DVD, Flash Player or Java. That being said, you can still get support of these features by installing third party package.
Installation
Open terminal of your choice and depending on your OS version, type:
- for Ubuntu:
sudo
apt-get
install
ubuntu-restricted-extras
- for Kubuntu:
sudo
apt-get
install
kubuntu-restricted-extras
- for Xubuntu:
sudo
apt-get
install
xubuntu-restricted-extras
- for Lubuntu:
sudo
apt-get
install
lubuntu-restricted-extras
Miscellaneous
To be able to play DVDs, install libdvdread4
package:
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh
This is it.