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I have some movies in windows media player format. I would like to play these movies on Ubuntu, But these files are not playing in VLC on Ubuntu OS. What should I do?

Zanna
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Vivek Ratan
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You have to install the ubuntu-restricted-extras package using apt or Synaptic. Just copy and paste sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras. This will also install Adobe Flash for Ubuntu.
These packages can't be included with a fresh Ubuntu install since they are technically "proprietary" and cannot be distributed by any company besides the owner. (Not Canonical)

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You can use VLC to play WMV files.

To install it, open a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T and type:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc
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Dadep
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