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Mike Peterson
Asked: 2019-05-11 04:08:53 +0800 CST

How do I install MPlayer and MEncoder in Ubuntu 18.04.2?

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I am trying to make use of OGMrip, a dvd encoder. I get an error every time that states I need to install MEncoder. How do I go about doing that?

I have tried updating and this does not resolve the issue. Do I need to manually download something from the terminal? Also this program is dependent on ogmtools mplayer mkvtoolnix oggenc lame and faac.

I am not sure if I have these packages. How can I tell?

mplayer mencoder dvd-backup 18.04

1 Answers

  1. Most of the program packages are in the repository universe.

    faac is in the repository multiverse.

    I did not find any package oggenc, but the package vorbis-tools contains the program oggenc.

    So the following command line should work, when you have the repositories universe and multiverse. Universe is already there when you have installed Ubuntu.

    sudo add-apt-repository multiverse
sudo apt update
sudo apt install ogmrip

    If ogmrip is not fixing its dependencies, you can help it by installing the following packages,

    sudo apt install mplayer mencoder mkvtoolnix vorbis-tools lame faac

    A general way to install several multimedia tools is to install the meta-package 'restricted-extras'.

    sudo add-apt-repository multiverse
sudo apt update
sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras
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