media players and browser plugins, KDE 4.3

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 19:20 +0100, Mark Greenwood wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 Sep 2009 15:25:10 O. Sinclair wrote:
> > O. Sinclair wrote:
> > > O. Sinclair wrote:
> > >> Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
> > >>> Hi there.
> > >>>
> > >>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 13:46, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>> Tried that, installing
> > >>>> w32codecs
> > >>>> that is. No luck whatsoever,
> > >>> Because w32codecs is not what you need :) You need to install the
> > >>> kubuntu-restricted-extras package, that should do the trick. And, of
> > >>> course, restart KDE so the sound engine can load the codecs.
> > >> after reinstallation of kubuntu-restricted-extras the browser tell me:
> > >> xine-plugin: no mrl found in playlist
> > >>
> > > 
> > > The picture is one of mixed success: If I try to play BBC World Radio in 
> > > Firefox or Arora I get the above error and nothing but silence. The 
> > > media selector also claims I have Realplayer but not Windows Media 
> > > installed.
> > > 
> > > If I try Konqueror I get "sent off" to Kaffeine and there it works.
> > > 
> > > If I instead try Swedish Radio on www.sr.se all works as expected and 
> > > both formats are reported as existing...
> > > 
> > 
> > added the links if anyone cares to try
> > BBC World Services:
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/schedules/internet/wsradio_today.shtml

I just dnloaded the BBC iPlayer Desktop which installs Adobe Air.
Listening just fine now. It's crystal clear. The install painless for
Ubuntu/Kubuntu :) Ric