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Howdy,

I am writing this post because so many people are asking me about it.
I will not invent anything new here, i will just make a general tutorial that will fix 80% of your audio/video problems.

Please understand that i do not guarantee 100% success result, because it all depends on the hardware you have.

Before digging in complicated stuff, lets first try to install the Medibuntu packages.

Some of these packages include the libdvdcss package from VideoLAN and the external binary codecs package (commonly known as w32codecs) used by MPlayer and xine.

Step 1:
Add Medibuntu to your system’s list of APT repositories.
For ubuntu 7.10

For ubuntu 8.04

Now add the GPG Key:

Step 2:
Install the libdvdcss2 package.
This package is used to play encrypted DVDs, more information about it here

Step 3:
Installing Non-Native Media Formats.
These media formats includes but are not limited to: wmv, mp3, .mov, .rm etc…

For i386 (use this if you are not sure)

For amd64

For ppc

This is it, restart your PC now and try to play some music. If you still cannot hear the beat continue reading this post.

mmm… I see you are still having problems ? Lets try to do more complicated stuff.
What we will do now is recompile the alsa drivers

Step 1:
Lets download them first.
We need to get: alsa-driver, alsa-lib and alsa-utils.
You can download the latest releases from here:

• alsa-driver: ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/
• alsa-lib: ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/
• alsa-utils: ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/utils/

Step 2:
Untar these packages.
You can untar them using GNOME or by typing this line of code in terminal

Note: dont forget to replace xxx by your version number.

Step 3:
To configure/install alsa utilities we need the following package.

Step 4:
Installing alsa

In the alsa drivers folder type:

In the alsa Lib folder type:

In the alsa utilites folder type:

Restart your PC and cross your fingers

Hope I helped you in a way.

// Jo

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