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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?

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Vivek Ratan
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  • have you check to see if the movies are playing in windows correctly. If that is true, then install vlc and right on the file, select vlc player.. comeback to give us feedback.. – saviour123 Mar 29 '17 at 13:59
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    You can install additional codecs for proprietary formats: `sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras`. –  Mar 29 '17 at 14:13

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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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