VLC Player download and Install for Ubuntu

VLC is the most popular media player , it is free and open source player. VLC is available for Ubuntu, Fedora Windows and other Operating Systems including Mac.VLC is a free and open source cross platform multimedia player which  plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

Ubuntu is now very user friendly operating system,  which is having almost all open source application a desktop user need, and VLC is one of them, more  are like Nero, Video Downloader, Team viewer, services like mysqlDB, Tomcat 

Install VLC in Ubuntu
Open a terminal and run the following commands.
At First update your repository to install the latest version.
$sudo apt-get update

Once  updation  is completed use the below command.

$sudo apt-get install vlc

To Install VLC browser plugin  in Ubuntu

$sudo apt-get install browser-plugin-vlc

To start go to Dash home and type VLC

If you successfully installed VLC will start and you can play your media.

Alternatively you can install from Ubuntu Software Center.