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Is there a website to check all media codecs?

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i've installed ubuntu on the notebook of my sister and want to make sure that all media codecs work, so that she can surf on the internet and download media and everything will work.

with media codecs i mean stuff like:
flash,
mpeg,
avi,
quicktime,
real,
mp3,
wma,
ogg,
m3u,
all kind of stream codecs.

Wondering if there is such a site on the web.

Thanks in advance

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answered 2 Years ago altybol · Accepted Answer

Ubuntu should be setup so that when a media type is first-played then Ubuntu will guide the user to install the appropriate codecs via the internet (if they are not already installed). Installing the two ubuntu-restricted-* packages from the Ubuntu Software Centre or command-line should be sufficient:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-addons ubuntu-restricted-extras

I'm sorry that I don't know of a test site with media samples, but perhaps we should set one up to help Ubuntu users? (The snippets would have to be legally free/libre before they could be hosted, which is going to be much harder to acquire unless they are encoded specifically for the purpose).