Enable Flash support on Ubuntu 15.04. Install FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer on Ubuntu 15.04 and enable support for H.264 and Flash videos on Ubuntu Systems. In addition to this, Opera users can also enable the H.264 and Flash support in their browser.
FFmpeg is a multimedia framework which comes with the ffmpeg tool for converting multimedia files.It can be used for transcoding, streaming and playing multimedia contents – auido and video files.
FFmpeg multimedia framework contains libavcodec, libavutil, libavformat, libavfilter, libavdevice, libswscale and libswresample which can be used by applications. FFmpeg comes with an in-built ffmpeg tool for converting multimedia files. It also includes ffserver, ffplay and ffprobe used for transcoding, streaming and playing multimedia contents.
Here’s how to install the FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer on 32 bit/64 bit Ubuntu systems.
Install FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer on 32 Bit Systems
Run the following commands in Terminal to install FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer on 32 Bit Systems:
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise universe"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gdebi
wget archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg/gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg_0.10.13-5_i386.deb
sudo gdebi gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg_0.10.13-5_i386.deb
sudo sed -i '/precise/d' /etc/apt/sources.list
Install FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer on 64 Bit Systems
Run the following commands in Terminal to install FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer on 64 Bit Systems:
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise universe"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gdebi
wget archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg/gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg_0.10.13-5_amd64.deb
sudo gdebi gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg_0.10.13-5_amd64.deb
sudo sed -i '/precise/d' /etc/apt/sources.list
For Opera users, run the following commands in Terminal to enable the H.264 and Flash support in Opera browser:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable pepperflashplugin-nonfree