Wednesday 22 February 2012

How to install or update VLC 2.0 media player in Ubuntu

If you are using VLC media player in Ubuntu then there is an update in VLC. VLC player released its 2.0 version on their ppa repositories. There is two ways to install VLC player in your Ubuntu. First you add their ppa yo your software sources by the this instruction. Or you can add it from terminal, for that you have to enter the following commands in terminal.






For install VLC 2.0 enter the following commands.


   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/vlc
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install vlc




And for upgrading from its lower version enter the following commands.


   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/vlc
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get dist-upgrade




Apart from that in VLC 2.0 many new features and support for many new codes are included. And one new experiment for Blu-Ray is there so it can play Blu-Ray also but as it experimental, some problems are there for Blu-Ray.

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