Seif Attar wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > | BBC, Sky, ITN all suck big time. Try watching Al Jazeera, there's always > | something fairly important or interesting on there, and no > | "entertainment news" (a contradictory term in itself). > I like the jazeera news (I get it from the Sky News package), it helps > give a different view on things and covers more international news, I > like BBC as well, but there are some things jazeera covers that BBC > never mentions (unless a briton was involved). i just wanted to try > al-jazzera online now, while I am at work (windows machine) and I > needed to install real player plugin, tried to do it from firefox, it > failed, tried to do it manually and I had to register to real player all > the non-sense, vnced to my machine at home, tried it from there on > ubuntu, and I guess it works (saw mplayer run but no video, maybe a vnc > thing). those restriced and extra packages in the repos, I think they > make it easier to get plugins and codecs for ubuntu that it is for windows!
I use the gxine plugin for Firefox (gxineplugin in the repos) which works well for the free stream, the mplayer plugin should work as well. They have a flash-based stream as well but it's only 100 minutes free viewing before you have to subscribe. Regards, Tom -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/