> On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 11:31 +0100, Ted wrote:
>
>> A friend has been using a computer I installed Feisty on and asked me to
>> install it on his..
>> I installed it but cannot get mplayer or realplayer to work..When I
>> goto the bbc news and lick on a vid mplayer starts to connect and the
>> tells me "stopped" If I alter preferences to use realplayer
>> f/fox crashes with no error messages...If I try Konq it too crashes...I
>> have tried using automatix
>> on a clean install to get the codecs etc but still no joy..It will play
>> vids and youtube clips though..
>> I have also tried using pclinuxos and Mepis but all show the same
>> symptoms....
>> I am running out of ideas and he is thinking abt going back to win 2k
>> Any ideas appreciated...
>> Regards
>> Ted Wager
>> Linux user..
>>
>>
>
> first step, remove anything automatix has done, it just causes problems,
> breaks systems and gives support people a big headache. not supported
> and please do not use it :) .
>
> Second step, e-mail the bbc to compain about their web service being
> bias towards propiatary systems when we have free formats available for
> them to use :)
>
> typically at the bottom of a video stream it has 'open in a standalone
> player' you could try copying that link into a standalone realplayer and
> playing from there.
>
>
Thanks for the reply...I did try without Automatix several
times...Automatix was a last resort..
As to the complaint to the bbc I cannot reaally do that as I have no
problem on my home computer with either mplayer or realplayer..It is
just on my friends box where I am having problems..
Hi,
I had similar problems with realplayer in firefox running Kubuntu feisty which were resolved by installing the media player connectivity add-on to firefox. This effectively opens all media links in the programme that it is intended for. Eg, from the BBC website if I click on a newsclip it appears with an icon. If I click on the icon, it opens realplayer and plays the clip in realplayer with no problems. It might be worth a go if nothing else works.
All the best,
Tim
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