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VLC Media Player for Linux




VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

Download VLC media player for Ubuntu Linux
Open Synaptic (System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager). In Settings -> Repositories, make sure you have a "universe" repository activated.

Search for vlc and install it. You should also install vlc-plugin-esd, mozilla-plugin-vlc (and libdvdcss2).

VLC media player for SUSE Linux x86 and x86_64
In order to install VLC on a SUSE Linux/openSUSE, you have several options (besides downloading and installing the RPMs manually).



The instructions here are to be followed using YaST, the native SUSE/openSUSE Package manager, which exists in all versions. For SUSE 10.3, use the one click installer.

VLC media player - MKV Player for Debian GNU/Linux

VLC media player - MKV Player for Mandriva Linux x86
To install the latest VLC packages, add the following sources for your Mandriva version.

VLC media player - MKV Player for Familiar Linux
A feed for Familiar Linux version 0.5 and 0.6 is available at the URL http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/ipkg-feed/armv4l to get VLC easily. There are packages available for Familiar Linux Gtk+ and GPE.
Packages upto VLC version 0.4.4 support Familiar Linux version 0.5.
Packages from VLC version 0.4.5 onwards support Familiar Linux version 0.6.

VLC media player - MKV Player for Red Hat Linux
Unofficial packages for RHEL 4 and RHEL 5, x86 and x86_64. Use Dag wieers to have 0.8.6 for those versions!

VLC media player - MKV Player for Linux Slackware
Unofficial packages: Per Allansson (click here for packages changelog) build a tgz for VLC 0.8.5: VLC 0.8.5 (9.1MB)

VLC media player - MKV Player for ALT Linux
ALT Linux Sisyphus (unstable). Sisyphus packages repository always contains one of the latest versions of VLC (stable branch or svn trunk, depending on trunk usability/state).

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MKV Player for Windows

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  • Solution Guide
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    What extensions is matroska using?
      - .mkv : Generally video files, as well those containing audio ( movies ) or video only
      - .mka : audio only files, can contain any supported audio compresion format, such as MP2, MP3, Vorbis, AAC, AC3, DTS, PCM and soon MPC ( musepack )
      - .mks : a so called 'elementary' matroska stream containing any subtitles stream

    Matroska
      1. Designed to hold any type of codec. (Audio, Video, Subtitle, etc)
      2. Designed for editability.
      3. Purposely flexible design.
      4. Well documented portions, others in process.
      5. Initial design is to support presentation container features such as Chapters, Tags, AudioGain, Menus, etc.

      Will Matroska be streamable? Yes, but low bitrate streaming like streaming Vorbis, will always be better in Ogg. This is because their design is for different purposes.