Questions tagged [medibuntu]

A now defunct package repository that contained restricted media software and codecs.

Medibuntu

The repository was taken offline in 2013 with the following announcement:

The end of Medibuntu

Medibuntu is going down.

The project is not really needed nowadays, except for one package: libdvdcss. This package is now maintained by Jonathan Riddell at Blue Systems. It is available in a repository hosted by VideoLAN. [...]

^{From gpocentek's blog}

Where to find...

libdvdcss is now hosted at videolan.org.
Components of w32codecs/w64codecs are still hosted at the MPlayer project site.

Notable questions

I can't install libdvdcss - script not finding medibuntu, How to get DVD playback?

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The Medibuntu Project has come to an end - what do I do now?

The Medibuntu Project has come to an end: what do I do now? How do I find packages on my system which came from medibuntu? The previous question seems to list medibuntu packages explicitly - is there a way to query the package database by the…

medibuntu

asked Oct 11 '13 at 15:37

sds

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Is Medibuntu needed - or even desirable?

Recently I started having a problem when checking for updates: the process stalled for several minutes while connecting to the medibuntu site. This happened every time. (Mysteriously, this only happened on one of my two computers.) Getting tired…

medibuntu

asked Dec 05 '11 at 19:05

Kelley

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