jaunty: no BBC sound

Sascha Güthling guethling at googlemail.com
Mon May 4 19:17:36 UTC 2009


On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi at gmx.de> wrote:
> D. R. Evans wrote:
>
>>
>> 1. Why would I need the windows media player plugin to listen to a Real stream?
>
> Well, because my firefox describes this plugin as follows:
> Gecko Media Player 0.9.4 Video Player Plug-in for Quicktime,
> _RealPlayer_ and Windows Media Player streams using MPlayer....
> But, honestl<, I do not know which plug-in plays BBBc, it just plays...
>>
>> 2. Which package contains that plugin (I couldn't find it)? I'll gladly try
>> it (if it's not installed already; I haven't installed/uninstalled any
>> different plugins than I had in intrepid; maybe I already have it installed)
> This is easy to find out just have a look at your firefox addons.
>
>>
>>   Doc
>>
>> PS FWIW, I'm running 64-bit. That may or may not make a difference (usually
>> I'm confident that it doesn't, but browser plugins seem to be the one place
>> where it often seems to matter).
>
> As I am using 32bit, maybe other 64-bit people can confirm that your
> link works or not?
>
> Eberhard
>
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64bit Kubuntu here doesn't work either. I had helix-player installed
together with mozilla-helix-player. It didn't work. Mozilla-mplayer
wants to install 26 other packages as dependencies!?! Why??? I only
want the plugin, not the whole player. I refuse!

Cheers
Sascha




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