Linux is famous for its open-source nature, but sometimes you just need to use proprietary drivers or codecs. Here's how to do so on many of the top Linux distros. A typical Linux system is largely ...

In response to the growing demand for proprietary multimedia codecs on the open-source Linux platform, multimedia software development company Fluendo has released GStreamer codec plugins that provide ...

Which video player/codec pack do you recommend? I just grabbed VLC and Mplayer, and VLC worked better, while Mplayer crashed on some divX. How does one relate windoze codec packs to codecs in Linux?

Here’s how you can add third party codecs to Ubuntu 12.04 for MP3, flash, Microsoft fonts, and DVD playback. There are two ways to do this: 1. The easiest way is to choose to add these extras when you ...

Linux Mint is one of the most popular desktop distributions around. And one of its most appealing features was that it shipped with multimedia codecs. But that practice will end with Linux Mint 18, ...