by In this tutorial, we explain how to correctly install VLC media player on Ubuntu Linux.
This tutorial is part of a series of tutorials on how to properly setup a computer for doing machine learning and computer vision. In this tutorial, we explain how to install VLC media player in Linux Ubuntu. VLC Media Player is a free and open-source media player program that can play a wide variety of audio and video files. In our future video tutorials on computer vision and machine learning, we will use VLC to play generated videos that are outputs of computer vision and machine learning algorithms. The YouTube tutorials accompanying this webpage tutorial are given below.
Besides explaining how to install the VLC player, we also explain how to set up the VLC player to be the default video player in Linux Ubuntu. First, open a new terminal and type this
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgradeThen, to install the VLC player, type this
sudo apt install vlc