Ah - it appears that if I copy the weblink, then open it in Realplayer, I can successfully view the videos.
The question is, how do I get firefox to launch realplayer as the standalone player instead of mplayerplug-in? Jeff -----Original Message----- >From: Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Feb 10, 2008 1:12 PM >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo > >On Sunday 10 February 2008 12:48:44 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote: >> Has anyone had any luck viewing videos on news.bbc.co.uk using gentoo? >> >> I have Firefox and mplayerplug-in installed, however I cannot view videos, >> either with the embedded player or the standalone. >> >> Jeff > >Works here. Running Gentoo, firefox and the realplayer plugin. When you click >on a video, in the next box click on stand-alone player and use realplayer. >Takes a while for the stream to start, but once it does it's ok... > >-- > > >From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride >-- >gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
