If you are having problems with multimedia look here.

[ski_phreak]

This guide still works well, even in Mint KDE(4) with that ^*$! flash-player/AMD64/nvidia mess.

There's only two changes I noticed.

icedtea-gcjwebplugin is now replaced with icedtea6-plugin
and
libk3b2-extracodecs is not needed (for KDE4 at least) so I just removed it.

youtube and apple trailers are playing fine again!

Full install code below:

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sudo apt-get remove gnash gnash-common libflashsupport mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla && sudo apt-get install alsa-oss faac faad flashplugin-nonfree ia32-libs ia32-sun-java6-bin icedtea6-plugin liblame0 libtunepimp5-mp3 libxine1-ffmpeg non-free-codecs openjdk-6-jre unrar kmplayer gecko-mediaplayer


[craiglewis139]

Hi. I have just replaced Ubuntu with Linux Mint. I used to be able to play DVD iso files with VLC Player, having purchased a dvd player program from the Ubuntu Software Center. I am now trying to do the same thing under L-Mint. My problem is that I am getting an encryption error message. I tried the terminal script that is on the link, but got a number of file not found errors. Where can I go from here? Thanks in advance.

[highball58]

Sorry if I sound a little sad, but Mint Julia was working pretty good. Not perfect, but pretty good. I waited for this release, but now I have problems, mostly with scrolling and sound. This sticky is not much help to Mint 13 Maya. It's for Ubuntu, but I'm hooked on Mint. Essentially, my problem lies in the fact that my sound is not very stable now, sometimes on, sometimes not on. Speakers, but no headset, headset but no speakers. Sometimes both, but not usually. I've updated my system a lot, fooled around with Pulse and Gnome Alsa Mixer, tweeked, used one or the other. I'm not sure how to get my system back up to operating speed again, or if I even can. Any way I can get reliable sound back? Scrolling marble mouse is another post!

[d_knuckle]

I like to watch the linux action show from jupiter broadcasting---in firefox using the stock multimedia sources for mint lisa lxde video jerks terribly--same video from same source using xbmc plays great...does the xbmc use different codecs than lisa comes with or what.If I could get the playback in a browser like it does in the media manager I would not need xbmc.

[pgmer6809]

The commands given in the link referred to do not work on my Maya system.
The reason is that the original poster was posting for the benefit of Ubuntu users.
so he used the term $(lsb_release -cs) in his cmd line.
On LInux Mint 13 that returns the value 'maya'.
The value you want is: 'precise'. (i.e the Ubuntu name for 12.04).

So you will have to modify the cmds he gave to hardwire 'precise' without the quote marks (for Maya release) wherever it says lsb_release -cs
and so forth.

pgmer6809

[j paul]

mint newby
i tryed it and the respons was
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2013-01-13 14:31:08 ERROR 404: Not Found.