Howto install VLC media player 1.1.0 in Ubuntu lucid/karmic/jaunty

 VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
It doesn’t need any external codec or program to work.

VLC Features
Free, Open Source and cross-platform
Independant of systems codecs to support most video types
Live recording
Instant pausing and Frame-by-Frame support
Finer speed controls
New HD codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0, …)
New formats (Raw Dirac, M2TS, …) and major improvements in many formats…
New Dirac encoder and MP3 fixed-point encoder
Video scaling in fullscreen
Install vlc media player 1.1.0 in ubuntu lucid/Karmic
Open the terminal and run the following commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:c-korn/vlc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc

Install vlc media player 1.1.0 in ubuntu Jaunty
First edit /etc/apt/sources.list file

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

add the following line
For Jaunty Users

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/vlc/ubuntu jaunty main

For intrepid users

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/vlc/ubuntu intrepid main

Save and exit the file
Install GPG key using the following command

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 7613768D

Update sourcelist using the following command

sudo apt-get update

Install vlc using the following commnd

sudo apt-get install vlc mozilla-plugin-vlc

Using VLC
Open VLC from Applications--->Sound & Video--->VLC media player

Privacy screen click ok

VLC 1.1.0 screen

Version details