By default if you want to run some multimedia apps like music, song, video, flash player etc, you need to install the codecs and flashplayer plugins first. Here's the common codecs that recommended to install.
Open terminal then install with pacman:
Here's some snapshot.
Music player (audacious), runing mp3 file :
Flash player on the browser (mozilla firefox):
For another media like DVD, VCD, FLV player, etc, you can try it by yourself.
Enjoy multimedia on archlinux.
Open terminal then install with pacman:
#pacman -S a52dec faac faad2 flac jasper lame libdca libdv libmad libmpeg2 libtheora libvorbis libxv wavpack x264 xvidcore gstreamer0.10-plugins
Then done, you will be able to run flash player, music player, video player, and so on. But you also need install media player, there are vlc player, mplayer, audacious, etc. For video and music only.
$sudo pacman vlc audacious
Here's some snapshot.
Music player (audacious), runing mp3 file :
Flash player on the browser (mozilla firefox):
For another media like DVD, VCD, FLV player, etc, you can try it by yourself.
Enjoy multimedia on archlinux.