“Today’s post is a change from the
‘Adventures with open source apps on Linux; I had planned (that
will now become Part 3 in the series). In this post I’ll be
covering how to add multimedia support to Ubuntu.“The inspiration to cover this topic again (last time I covered
this was in relation to Ubuntu 7.04 and using Automatix) is down to
TalkBack regular pjotr123 (a regular who has made some excellent
contributions to Linux-related posts made on this blog) who made
two posts that concisely covers the topic. I was going to cover
multimedia support in passing but given the email I’ve received
asking about multimedia support in Ubuntu (not everyone reads the
TalkBack … I know, I know, they should, but
what can I do?) I’ve decided to give this stand-alone
coverage…”