VLC media player - "the cross-platform media player and streaming server"

"VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. " - VLC Official Website.

It is an open source, free software media player written by the VideoLAN project. The latest version is VLC Media Player 0.9.9.

To install VLC in Ubuntu.

Open Synaptic (System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager). Search for vlc and install it. You should also install vlc-plugin-esd, mozilla-plugin-vlc (and libdvdcss2).You must make sure you have a "multiverse" repository activated.

Screen shots of VLC