Ubuntu – How to play mp4 movie on the ubuntu OS

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I recently downloaded a movie in MP4 format. It is not playing in VLC player. The player shows the message:

You are missing codec pack to play this movie.

I searched for the codec pack but I didn't find any. What should I do to play these type of files on my ubuntu 14.04 LTS?

I have downloaded many packages such as ubuntu-restricted-extras, popcorntime & ffmpeg but none of them works.

Best Answer

This command in a terminal should do:

sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras

(As already explained by David Foerster, but this should be an answer, not a comment.)