Many people dislike the fact that Ubuntu comes with little support for media files. This happens because many of the usual media formats for Windows or Mac have proprietary codecs, and Ubuntu doesn't come with them by default.
There is a repository with lots of media packages. To gather support for almost every usual media format, first add the Medibuntu repository to you software sources:
$ sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
If you don't use Hardy Heron, replace the word hardy for gutsy, feisty or whatever is your distro. Then, install the packages:
$ sudo apt-get install alsa-oss compizconfig-settings-manager faad flashplugin-nonfree gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse gstreamer0.10-pitfdll liblame0 msttcorefonts sun-java6-fonts sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin unrar w32codecs
That's it, after the installation you should have support for all your media files. Have a nice sunday!
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