Install VLC 2.0.7 Media Player in Ubuntu

VLC media player (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG, DivX/Xvid, Ogg, and many more) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. However in recent years it has also become a extremely powerful server to stream live and on demand video in several formats to our network and the Internet.

Features:

• Simple, fast and powerful media player.
• Plays everything: Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams.
• Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed:
• MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3...
• Runs on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix...
• Completely Free, 0 spyware, 0 ads and no user tracking.
• Can do media conversion and streaming.
• More info.

What's new in this release:

• Input: Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
• Input: Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted playlist files
• Decoders: Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
• Encoders: Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
• Muxers: Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
• Video output: Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
• Translations: Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian BokmÃ¥l, Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations.

To install VLC in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install vlc