How to easily enable H.264 video support in Ubuntu 14.04

Firefox already supports H.264 videos, but unfortunately gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg on Ubuntu is an additional copyright restricted program, so it does not support H.264 videos. Therefore, you will install the Gstreamer ffmpeg plug-in to watch the H.264 video.

In this article, I suggest you download gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg *. They are installed through the gdebi deb package, but the gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg package can also be installed through some third-party PPA sources, so it is easy to install.

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Ubuntu 14.04 system:

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All you need to do is add the PPA to your system, update the local storage index, and install the gstreamero.10-ffmpeg package. Run the following command:

Sudo add-apt-repository ppa: mc3man/trusty-media

Sudo apt-get update

Sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg