Installing Win32 Codecs on Linux
The following is an example way to install the “all” pack as root and will work on Ubuntu and Fedora.
cd /tmp
wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20100303.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf all-20100303.tar.bz2
su -c 'mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/codecs'
su -c 'cp all-20100303/* /usr/local/lib/codecs'
rm -rf /tmp/all-20100303*