Colin McCarthy wrote: > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:52 PM, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> After months of trying I have finally got my little brother, who is in >> his seventies, to join the 21st century and he has installed Ubuntu 8.04 >> (no newfangled stuff like 8.10 for him) along with his XP. Now, big >> brother is inundated with questions most of which, fortunately, I can >> answer. However, now I am stumped, he wants to listen to BBC radio on >> the BBC website, something I do not do. I have tried Google but am >> mightily confused so could some kind person suggest somethings he might >> try, please. >> >> Norman >> >> > > Hi Norman. > I have just listened to Radio 2 successfully online with FireFox 3 on Ubuntu > 8.10. (It also worked on 8.04). > I enjoy listening to Malcolm Laycocks show on a Sunday night. > http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00f941q > I like the old time music, but I guess to you and your brother it's just > 'music' :-) hehehehe > > All I can think of that you need to listen to it is Flash, which you can get > here http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
That might well work, however, if it does not do the trick, keep us informed? I listen to the bbc regularly so I can look up my various notes if necessary. It is possible that w32 codecs are in the story and I note I use mplayer I think as a plugin for mozilla firefox too because bbc audio uses realmedia (as in RealPlayer) streams. -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 Linux user #360648 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
