How To Install UMplayer on Ubuntu-18.04

To Install UMplayer on Ubuntu-18.04


Umplayer is a cross platform multimedia player application. It’ s available for all major operating systems i.e. Linux, Microsoft Windows, MacOS.It’ s supports all audio and video media file formats like AVI, MP4, MP3, WMV, MPEG&hellip etc&hellip


Installation

Update the system repository

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/flexiondotorg/youtube-dl-gui/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease                              
Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu bionic InRelease        
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
Hit:6 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

Download the Umplayer package using wget command

root@linuxhelp:~# wget http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/pool/apps/u/umplayer/umplayer_0.95-1~getdeb2_amd64.deb
--2018-06-06 02:27:40--  http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/pool/apps/u/umplayer/umplayer_0.95-1~getdeb2_amd64.deb
Resolving archive.getdeb.net (archive.getdeb.net)... 144.76.200.19
Connecting to archive.getdeb.net (archive.getdeb.net)|144.76.200.19|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://mirror.lagoon.nc/pub/getdeb/ubuntu/pool/apps/u/umplayer/umplayer_0.95-1~getdeb2_amd64.deb [following]
--2018-06-06 02:27:42--  http://mirror.lagoon.nc/pub/getdeb/ubuntu/pool/apps/u/umplayer/umplayer_0.95-1~getdeb2_amd64.deb
Resolving mirror.lagoon.nc (mirror.lagoon.nc)... 202.22.158.243, 2404:2a00::243
Connecting to mirror.lagoon.nc (mirror.lagoon.nc)|202.22.158.243|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2357950 (2.2M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ umplayer_0.95-1~getdeb2_amd64.deb’ 

umplayer_0.95-1~getdeb2 100%[===============================> ]   2.25M  --.-KB/s    in 0.07s   

2018-06-06 02:27:53 (33.6 MB/s) - ‘ umplayer_0.95-1~getdeb2_amd64.deb’  saved [2357950/2357950]

Install the umplayer application using gdebi

root@linuxhelp:~# gdebi umplayer_0.95-1~getdeb2_amd64.deb 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done
Requires the installation of the following packages: i965-va-driver liba52-0.7.4 libaacs0 libass9 libavcodec57 libavformat57 libavutil55 libbdplus0 libbluray2 libbs2b0 libchromaprint1 libcrystalhd3 libdca0 libdirectfb-1.7-7 libdvdnav4 libdvdread4 libenca0 libfaad2 libgif7 libgme0 libgsm1 libmad0 libmng2 libmpeg2-4 libopenal-data libopenal1 libopenjp2-7 libopenmpt0 libpostproc54 libqt4-dbus libqt4-declarative libqt4-network libqt4-script libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-mysql libqt4-xml libqt4-xmlpatterns libqtcore4 libqtdbus4 libqtgui4 libsdl1.2debian libshine3 libsnappy1v5 libsndio6.1 libsoxr0 libssh-gcrypt-4 libswresample2 libswscale4 libva-drm2 libva-x11-2 libva2 libvdpau1 libvorbisidec1 libx264-152 libx265-146 libxvidcore4 libzvbi-common libzvbi0 mesa-va-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers mplayer qdbus qt-at-spi qtchooser qtcore4-l10n va-driver-all vdpau-driver-all 

complete front-end for MPlayer
 Qt Mplayer front-end, with basic features like playing
 videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support
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Setting up libqt4-declarative:amd64 (4:4.8.7+dfsg-7ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libqtgui4:amd64 (4:4.8.7+dfsg-7ubuntu1) ...
Setting up qt-at-spi:amd64 (0.4.0-8) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package umplayer.
(Reading database ... 179717 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack umplayer_0.95-1~getdeb2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking umplayer (0.95-1~getdeb2) ...
Setting up umplayer (0.95-1~getdeb2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...

After installing the application you can access the application from the menu

Umplayer application

The version of umplayer

With this, the method to install UMplayer on Ubuntu-18.04 comes to an end.

Tag : Ubuntu
FAQ
Q
how to use nvidia vdpau decoding for umplayer video player in linux?
A
Run the following command,

# mplayer -vo vdpau and -vc ffh264vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau -ao alsa file.mp4
Q
How to use media buttons for mplayer?
A
put the following line in ~/.mplayer/config:



input=file=/home//.mplayer/pipe
Q
WHERE TO GET WIDOWS PACKAGE ?
A
https://en.softonic.com/download/umplayer/windows/post-download?sl=1
Q
What can UMPlayer do?
A
UMPlayer boasts a wide array of options to create an excellent user experience when watching videos or listening to music. Besides the basic tools to play local files, VCD and DVD, UMPlayer c
Q
UMPlayer supported formats
A
Audio: AAC, AC3, AIFF, APE, DTS, FLA, FLAC, M4A, MKA, MP1, MP2, MP3, MP+, MPA, MPC, MPP, NSA, OGG, SHN, SPX, TAK, TTA, WAV, WMA, WV Vídeo: 26I, 3GP, ASF, AVI, BIN, DAT, DivX, DV, EVO, FLV, IS