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| ||<tablestyle="float:right; font-size: 0.9em; width:40%; background:#F1F1ED; margin: 0 0 1em 1em;" style="padding:0.5em;">'''Contents'''[[BR]][[TableOfContents]]|| | ## NOTE: ANY AMD64 GUIDES YOU CREATE FROM SCRATCH SHOULD BE LINKED IN THE FORMAT: AMD64/YourPageName ON THIS PAGE! |
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| The aim of this page is to consolidate the various AMD64-related pages in one place in the hope that it is useful for fellow AMD64 users. Most of the general information will be linked from here like ../AMD64/PageName. For the differences between 32 bit and 64 bit, please see ["32bit_and_64bit"]. | ||<tablestyle="float:right; font-size: 0.9em; width:40%; background:#F1F1ED; margin: 0 0 1em 1em;" style="padding:0.5em;"><<TableOfContents>>|| The aim of this page is to consolidate the various AMD64-related pages in one place in the hope that it is useful for fellow AMD64 users. For the differences between 32 bit and 64 bit, please see [[32bit_and_64bit]]. |
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| The following technique is a painless way to integrate proprietary 32 bit binary plugins into your Ubuntu Feisty AMD64 bit installation. It is accomplished without the complexity of establishing a 32 bit chroot environment and includes the Flash, RealPlayer, Java 1.6, Mplayer and Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-ins. | Installing 32 bit Firefox and 32 bit binary plugins into your Ubuntu AMD64 bit installation can now be accomplished without the complexity of establishing a 32 bit chroot environment. This guide includes details on installing the popular multimedia plug-ins including Flash, Realplayer, Java 1.6, MPlayer and the Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in. |
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| [:AMD64/FirefoxAndPlugins: FirefoxAndPlugins] | See [[AMD64/FirefoxAndPlugins]]. |
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| Support for WMV, RealMedia and other formats can be found in the w64codecs package (w32codecs for 32-bit Ubuntu). However, this package is not available in the Ubuntu repositories for legal reasons but can be obtained from the Medibuntu repositories. | NOTE: w64codecs only contains a handful of realplayer codecs and does not fully replace w32codecs. If you need to play a format only supported by w32codecs, you will need to install w32codecs to /usr/lib32 and use a 32-bit version of mplayer (or an alternate method for running 32-bit apps, such as a chroot or virtualbox). |
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| First you need to add the Medibuntu GPG key to your system, add the repositores to your sources.list file and update your available package lists: {{{ sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/feisty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - sudo aptitude update }}} Now you can install w64codecs: {{{ sudo aptitude install w64codecs }}} === Other Codecs and Software === There are a few other packages which will make your mulitmedia experience on Ubuntu much more satisifying. To install these codecs and additional software, simply update your package list as decribed [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu here] (and also above) and then execute the following command in a terminal: {{{ sudo aptitude install totem-xine libdvdcss2 acidrip brasero gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse banshee libxine-extracodecs }}} |
=== Cinelerra === To compile Cinelerra for video editing see [[AMD64/Cinelerra]] |
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The aim of this page is to consolidate the various AMD64-related pages in one place in the hope that it is useful for fellow AMD64 users. For the differences between 32 bit and 64 bit, please see 32bit_and_64bit.
Firefox and Plug-ins
Installing 32 bit Firefox and 32 bit binary plugins into your Ubuntu AMD64 bit installation can now be accomplished without the complexity of establishing a 32 bit chroot environment. This guide includes details on installing the popular multimedia plug-ins including Flash, Realplayer, Java 1.6, MPlayer and the Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in.
Multimedia and Codecs
W64codecs - W32codecs Replacement Package
NOTE: w64codecs only contains a handful of realplayer codecs and does not fully replace w32codecs. If you need to play a format only supported by w32codecs, you will need to install w32codecs to /usr/lib32 and use a 32-bit version of mplayer (or an alternate method for running 32-bit apps, such as a chroot or virtualbox).
Cinelerra
To compile Cinelerra for video editing see AMD64/Cinelerra
Virtualization
For a guide on how to install VMWare Server on AMD64 please see VMware/Server/AMD64.