You don't need any special sources, just add universe and multiverse to your existing dapper, dapper-updates, and possibly dapper-security, I just add all three because I doubt that it would be harmful to me to do so, in any circumstance.
<br><br>I don't have any third party repositories, and I don't think I have trouble playing media files ( I could be wrong... but I do download a lot of clips and whatnot, and I don't recall any issues)<br><br>I suggest installing the packages mozilla-mplayer, libxine-extracodecs, and
<a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats#head-6c942d1939d97331f96e42b63774003fde7daed5">w32codecs</a>. I think those are enough to handle everything, but I might be forgetting something. If you like to use totem, I would also get totem-xine, but this is optional. If you use totem-gstreamer, then you'll want to install a bunch of gstreamer plugin packages too.
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