What codecs do you install on Linux?

Question

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In some distributions, codecs are already pre-installed in the system, in others they are installed automatically at the installation stage. In other distributions, codecs need to be installed separately, and even the VLC player supplied with the system does not play many formats.
And what codecs for multimedia playback do you install?

Answer 1

Codecs are in most cases the same everywhere and come from libav , they are available out of the box in most distributions. For ubuntu, there is also a package ubuntu-restricted-extras , it has extended codec support, perhaps there is something similar for other distributions.
vlc itself initially has a lot of its own codecs and it eats almost everything out of the box, but if it suddenly fails, you can try mpv .

Answer 2

None, I work on Linux. More precisely, something was installed by mplayer, something by vlc, something by a Gnomish video player, I don't remember what it's called. I didn’t set anything on purpose, mplayer eats everything for me.