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This screencast comprehensively details how to play media (movies and DVDs) in Ubuntu. In this screencast we cover:-

• Playing DVDs
• Adding codecs automatically
• Playing video embedded in a browser
• Installing Flash Player plugin
• Installing Miro video platform

Ubuntu Month of Screencasts is a mad plan concocted by the Screencast Team to produce one full length screencast per day for the whole of one month. That month is September 2007.

The goal is that each video will go into one subject in some depth, to help educate new users about Ubuntu. We will cover a wide range of topics which should answer some questions that new users to Ubuntu often ask. We aim to go into enough detail to be interesting, hopefully without being baffling or boring.

We can of course not go into infinite detail on every topic, there are limits to our time and resources. So don't expect these to teach kernel hacking or C programming, but there should be enough information to get a new user from "zero to hero" in one month. That's the goal anyway.

Each screencast will be made available through the Ubuntu Screencast site in three sizes and two formats (OGG and Flash). The screencasts are licensed under the permissive Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License, so you're free to modify, pass on, sell or otherwise distribute them so long as the attribution to us stays intact.

Update: We now have feeds which work in popular podcasting clients. Use the links in the box on the top right "MoS2007 Podcast Feeds" with your favourite podcatcher. This has so far been tested with hpodder and miro (previously known as democracyplayer.

Update: We are behind schedule, but still plan to put out 30 screencasts, although they won't all be finished by the end of September. We are hoping they will all be available before Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) ships in October.

This screencast details how to use SAMBA to share files between computers.

This screencast deals with the basics of printing under Ubuntu.

This video shows where and how to get an ISO image of an Ubuntu installation CD, check it for errors and then boot from it.

This screencast shows how to install Ubuntu on a system that already has Windows installed.

This video covers the settings which can be changed to personalise the Ubuntu desktop.

This screencast shows how to configure Evolution to receive and send email. It also goes through some of the basic functions of Evolution including calendar, tasks, and of course mail.

Distribution: Ubuntu
Version: 6.10 (Edgy Eft)
Architecture: Any

This screencast shows how to connect to IRC using GAIM.

Distribution: Ubuntu
Version: 6.10 (Edgy Eft)
Architecture: Any

This screencast shows how to install and use XChat-Gnome to connect to IRC, join and leave channels and chat.

Distribution: Ubuntu
Version: 6.10 (Edgy Eft)
Architecture: Any