On Sunday 10 February 2008 16:28:12 Jerry McBride wrote: > On Sunday 10 February 2008 01:04:28 pm Matthew R. Lee wrote: > > On Sunday 10 February 2008 15:00:38 Ian Lee wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > It's a flash based player mplayer wont work > > > > I can watch the videos without any problem with konqueror, it appears to > > launch an embeded version of kmplayer. > > Saludos > > Matt > > That makes sense as it's the "kde frontend" for mplayer. I had some real > problems with kmplayer and mplayer not playing nice. Kmplayer was sending > commandline parameters that the latest versions of mplayer didn't > understand. Try the realplayer plugin ans see if it works. > > -- > > > From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride
I can use realplayer aswell, I use it to stream BBC radio, though it works better if you click launch as a stand-alone player, the embeded version tends to skip a bit -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
