Install libdvdcss and w32 video codecs in Debian and ubuntu

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w32codecs this is a package of codecs needed to play multiple formats, notably DivX. (disponible. Maintainer: MirSPCM)

libdvdcss is a highly portable library for accessing and unscrambling DVDs encrypted with the CSS system. It is part of the VideoLAN project and is used by VLC and all other open source DVD players such as Ogle, xine-based players and MPlayer.

Installing w32codecs in Debian

#wget http://www.debian-multimedia.org ... 060611-0.0_i386.deb

#dpkg -i w32codecs_20060611-0.0_i386.deb

Installing liddvdcss2 in Debian

#wget http://www.debian-multimedia.org ... -0sarge0.0_i386.deb

#dpkg -i libdvdcss2_1.2.9-0sarge0.0_i386.deb

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Installing libdvdcss2 and w32 video codecs in Ubuntu

Support for WMV, RealMedia and other formats has been bundled into the w32codecs package. This package is not available from the Ubuntu repositories due to licensing and legal restrictions.

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list file and enter the following repositories

$sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/ dapper free non-free
deb-src http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/ dapper free non-free

deb http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/freecontrib/ dapper free non-free
deb-src http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/freecontrib/ dapper free non-free

$sudo apt-get update

$sudo apt-get install w32codecs libdvdcss2

If you want to download and install .deb packages you can download and install

$wget -c http://packages.freecontrib.org/ ... 0611-1plf1_i386.deb

$sudo dpkg -i w32codecs_20060611-1plf1_i386.deb

$wget -c http://packages.freecontrib.org/ ... .2.9-1plf4_i386.deb

$sudo dpkg -i libdvdcss2-dev_1.2.9-1plf4_i386.deb

You can download Any harware Architecture from Here

Using above download locations you can install more most of the mutimedia codecs for debian and ubuntu