podcasts on CNN

[Nigel Henry]

On Friday 08 May 2009 20:38, J. Michael Morse wrote:
> 8.04
> Firefox 2.0.0.17
>
> I was browsing CNN's website and tried to watch one of its podcasts.  I
> get a "plugin not found" error.  The error, video/x-m4v, has something
> to do with Quicktime.  Is it safe to assume that I have to install
> Quicktime to view the videos on podcasts on CNN?  It seems odd to me
> that CNN would require a proprietary format like Quicktime in order to
> view their videos.
>
> When I type in apt-get install quicktime, I get a "couldn't find
> package" response.  What is the Linux equivalent?
>
>
> Mike

Hi Mike.

You'll need to install mozilla-mplayer, which will give you a bunch of 
plugins, including a quicktime one. It will pull in quite a few deps 
including mplayer.

It will come from the medibuntu repo, so if you havn't got that installed, you 
will have to set that up first.

Nigel.