VLC Media Player is my favorite media player of all time, and I highly recommend it to everyone. You might have noticed when you try to play many video files in Ubuntu, it will ask you to download codecs. Codecs allow the computer to read certain filetypes, in order to figure out the information and display it to you correctly. Many of these codecs are not installed initially in Ubuntu because they are proprietary (owned by a company or certain people), and want to collect fees for including it in any commercial products. Mostly all of these are free for private use, there is NEVER a time you will need to pay for a codec (since you are a layman, and we are using Linux after all).
VLC Media Player will most likely play any video file you can throw at it (which is the reason I mostly recommend it, you will never have to install a codec again), with a pretty minimalist interface, decently low memory usage, and it works on many different Operating Systems (yes, yes, even the dreaded Windows).
In order to install VLC through the GUI, all you have to do is System -> Administrator -> Synaptic Package Manager, and search for VLC. Choose the files vlc, vlc-plugin-esd, and mozilla-plugin-vlc.
If you want to install it through the command line, you may type this (as always, when using sudo, it will ask for your password in order to gain administrator priveleges in order to install a program):
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-esd mozilla-plugin-vlc
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