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On 04/12/2007, Roger Bowden <creekfella@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I may be duplicating my thanks to Mike and Darren for their advice - I am > not sure if I sent a reply or deleted it! had a senior moment there!!! > Anyway, I will use VLC as suggested. > Thanks again > Roger > > On 04/12/2007, Darren Foster <darren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> As I cannot play the audio/video streams on, say, the BBC or ITV > websites > > >> with the supplied players (ubuntu 7.1), I tried to download this Linux > > >> version from ' > > >> > http://www.real.com/realcom/R?href=http%3A%2F%2Fforms%2Ereal%2Ecom%2Freal%2Fplayer%2Fdownload%2Ehtml%3F > > >> f%3Dunix%2FRealPlayer10GOLD%2Ebin' using the Firefox > > >> browser. It just hangs there claiming to be 'done'. > > >> Any idea what I'm doing wrong? > > >> Thanks > > >> Roger > > > > Hi Roger, > > > > Can i recommend VLC Player. So far i have not found anything it cant play > > and it simply works out of the box. very easy to set up and very very > good. > > > > http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ > > > > Works with most flavours of linux, windows and mac :-) > > > > -- > > Darren Foster > > The Computer Geek! > > www.darrenfoster.co.uk > > darren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > 07881 805523 yikes- bad idea - publically available mailing list > > > > Thank me here :- > http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/registry/wishlist/3UV16BF5MTAS6 > > > > This email is intended for the recipient only. If you receive this in > error > > please delete from your system and notify us accordingly. Our messages are > > scanned for viruses but we accept no liability for any viruses which may > be > > transmitted with this message. > > > cant be beat, esp if you just want to view everything using only open-source (BTW you cant do this with mplayer - you need win32 codecs) one piece of advice vlc depends heavily on ffmpeg, so if you follow dev of that you may need to build a statically linked version of vlc But of course if you dont there is no issue -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html