Commons:Mediehilf/Unix

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Help pages for playing media files on Commons

To play sound and video files

Browser support

The latest versions of Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera are able to play sound files and videos without any additional codecs or software.

Requirements

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Most Linux distributions have something included that will play Ogg Theora - check for any of the above applications.

Download video codec

Now you may have to download the Ogg Theora codec for videos. However, as most modern distributions and media-players have the Ogg Vorbis codec pre-installed, you may not have to download this.

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If it is not you can download the Ogg Theora codec here. Download the file of your choice and install it with your package manager.

Do you have additional questions, or did you encounter problems? Ask here.

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