mplayer2 software package provides next generation movie player for Unix-like systems, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install mplayer2
mplayer2 is installed in your system.
Make ensure the mplayer2 package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep mplayer2 *
You will get with mplayer2 package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Video |
| Package | mplayer2 |
| Version | 2.0-701-gd4c5b7f-2ubuntu2 |
| Description | next generation movie player for Unix-like systems |
| Sub Section | Video |